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Eccentric genius Walter O'Brien and his team of brilliant misfits continue to be the last line of defense against the complex, high-tech threats of the modern age as they solve extreme, life-threatening cases, including a global extinction event, a nuclear missile launch on U.S. soil, and even the perils of geniuses trying to start a family.

As intelligence officers Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrie's hands.

"A shocking novel of violence, love, faith, and loss, as a young woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea"-- Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall meet in their first month at prestigious Edwards University. Phoebe is a glamorous girl who blames herself for her mother's recent death. Will is a misfit scholarship boy waiting tables to get by. What he knows for sure is that he loves Phoebe....

When the president is kidnapped by a terrorist who seizes control of the White House (Secret Service Code: Olympus), disgraced former presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team rushes to respond, they must rely on Banning's insider knowledge to save the president and prevent an even greater catastrophe.

An exploration of Ted Kaczynksi's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.

The Weathermen. The Symbionese Liberation Army. The FALN. The Black Liberation Army. The names seem quaint now, when not forgotten altogether. But there was a stretch of time in America, roughly between 1968 and 1975, when there was on average more than one significant terrorist act in the country every week, and the FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground, dedicated to the violent overthrow of the American...

"Casino Royale (2006)The definitive cinematic spy series gets back to the basics, with Daniel Craig as a younger, grittier James Bond. Newly given double-0 status, the British agent's first assignment takes him on a global hunt for notorious terrorist financier Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), leading to a poker table showdown at Montenegro's Casino Royale where the stakes are life and death. With Eva Green, Jeffrey Wright, and Judi Dench as M. 144 min....

Two superpowers face off at the top of the world. Between them stands one man—his name is Breed.The Marshal Zhukov, a Russian submarine, has sunk without a trace. The Americans know where the wreck lies, the Russians don’t.Anya Stein is running an operation to salvage the submarine and its hypersonic cruise missiles. The Spider, a top secret research vessel, will lift the wreck from the floor of the Greenland Sea.Everything goes according to plan…...