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Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven minutes into the future, Charlie Ellison is the subject of a million dollar crowdfunded REAPR campaign on her head. Low-rated DFEND bodyguard Vita is keeping her safe for 30 days from a desperate population looking to get rich quick with a gun and a dream. After escaping a big, televised attempt on their lives and the Reapr campaign blowing past two million bucks, Charlie and Vita abandon Los Angeles for the utopian desert paradise of Las...
62) Born of shadows
Author
Series
The League volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
After she uncovers a plot to kill her mother and overthrow the royal government, Desideria must seek the help of Caillen, a smuggler with divided loyalties.
63) Gunpowder
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Activist Guy Fawkes and a group of disgruntled, persecuted provincial Catholics conspire to work together to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early seventeenth century.
64) Close call
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young woman stumbles onto a political assassination plot, but hesitates to contact police and becomes a target herself.
Sydney Ellison has lived through her share of media shaming, so when she picks up the wrong phone and stumbles on to a plot to assassinate a senator, she resists contacting the police. When the assassin tracks her down and kills her fianc�e, Sydney reluctantly enlists the aid of her estranged sister. Now she must put all she...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Fired and ditched by Charlie, Vita sets off in hot pursuit of her former client and some answers. But Charlie's not alone. She's hired a brand new bodyguard, Circe, unaware she's a killer who has been stalking Charlie since her crowdfunded assassination campaign began. As this catastrophic throuple cat and mouses it across America, feelings and knives and secrets will come out, including who started Charlie's Reapr campaign and why everyone wants...
66) The inside ring
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a bluff overlooking Georgia's untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and in the man's home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt. Even after the assassin is found dead, Andy Banks is determined to dig a little deeper. He turns...
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the events of Phantom menace, Senator Padme Amidala survives an assassination attempt as she returns to Coruscant for an important vote. The Jedi Council send Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to protect her. After tracking the assassin, Obi-Wan is sent to Kamino to continue their investigations while Anakin is sent with Amidala to Naboo. While Anakin and Amidala are falling in love on Naboo, Obi-Wan is investigating the connection...
Author
Series
The Tales of Zebadiah Creed volume 3
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
September 2022.
Language
English
Description
"Framed for a murder he didn't commit, Zebadiah finds himself in a New Orleans prison cell next to Willie Dan, a cold-blooded killer, who insists they escape together. As Zeb refuses and is sent upriver to the swamps on a chain gang to build a road for the Hydras plantation, he is thrust into a conspiracy of confederates, whose efforts to build a golden circle of slave states from Texas, Louisiana and Georgia to Cuba are just beginning to take hold....
69) The outside man
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The fight for freedom has sent Matt Drake to some of the world's most dangerous spots. This time the war is coming to his front door. Broad daylight on an Austin, Texas, street and DIA agent Matt Drake is fighting for his life against a highly trained team of assassins. Who are they? Why do they want him dead? How will he protect those closest to him? The answers will take him into some of the most dangerous spots in the Middle East and will put...
70) The interpreter
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
71) Aftershock
Author
Series
John Wallace volume 3
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Having survived the lethal Pendulum conspiracy, photographer John Wallace atones for his past mistakes. DI Patrick Bailey clings to the hope that he can, at last, return to a normal life in London. FBI investigator Christine Ash - alone and paranoid - hunts down the remaining members of the ruthless Foundation organisation. But when masked assassins strike at the heart of the UK government, a shocking new threat emerges that forces all three to reunite....
72) Absolute honor
Author
Series
Jack Absolute novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After surviving the Battle of Quebec and a long winter in the New World, Jack is ready to return to England and rejoin the 16th Light Dragoons. Aboard the slave ship Sweet Eliza, Jack befriends Red Hugh McClune, an Irish grenadier with mysterious intentions. Once in England, Jack and McClune travel to Bath, where McClune's unattached cousin, the lovely Laetitia Fitzpatrick, piques Jack's fancy.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
Retired from the CIA and now a professor at Georgetown University, Webb's life is finally his own--until he becomes the target of an assassin and is framed for the murder of his two closest associates. Fighting for his life against unseen assailants, the Bourne identity asserts itself, leaving Jason Bourne in control. Barely a half-step ahead of his nemesis and the CIA, who believes he has gone rogue, Bourne finds himself a pawn in a larger, far deadlier...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two tabloid journalists who land an interview with Kim Jong-un are recruited by the CIA to assassinate the Korean leader; a group of celebrities are faced with the apocalypse while attending a party at James Franco's house.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The last thing fugitive crime writer David Mitre expects as he's cruising along an Amsterdam canal is to be the focus of a bizarre murder attempt ... But why is he being targeted? He hasn't even done anything wrong - recently. After the would-be assassin tries again, David is rescued by Delia Delacorte, the FBI Special Agent he locked horns with in Cyprus. In return, Delia wants his help to prevent the theft of a priceless painting from the Rijksmuseum....
Author
Series
First cat in space volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Moon Queen has been poisoned--by SOUP. And with few she can trust in her own court, she and First Cat will have to journey alone to find the antidote in time. If only Loz4000 were still with them...But the once-heroic toenail clipping robot is running from his own terrible tale, and now looking for new purpose and meaning in this vast universe, taking Loz4000 far away from his friends. Unbeknownst to our trio, secret forces are working against...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mirage has returned to Coeur d'Or, triumphant in battle, and ready to claim her rightful place as the Amber Empress, and resume her tentative romance with Sunder; but the city's people are afraid and not welcoming, somebody is trying to assassinate her, the previous empress, Severine, is in a coma and not as dead as Mirage would wish, and a distant cousin Gavin d'Ars has turned up with a rival claim to the throne--and in the turmoil all her alliances...
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Death proof: A stuntman takes to the roads, stalking victims from his car.
Inglourious basterds: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by Lt. Aldo Raine, known as "The Basterds," are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
Once upon a time in... Hollywood: In 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double...
80) Hunting Hitler
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the events of July, 1944, when a party led by highly placed Nazi officers nearly killed their leader in the infamous "Wolf's Lair," where he spend 900 days directing the German war effort. The program also uncovers evidence of a top secret plot hatched in London to kill the F�uhrer.