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Edge of Danger

Jack Higgins · 279 pages

"I always return: for centuries, that had been the Rashid motto. Over the years, their British and Arab ancestries had interwoven to produce a remarkable family of warriors, as much at home under the pitiless desert sun as in the streets of London. But it is to neither of these places that the Rashids now direct their rage. It is to the United States, whose president they hold accountable for a se

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Day Zero

Marc Cameron · 432 pages

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Assassins

Mike Bond · 519 pages

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Dark Winter

Andy McNab · 419 pages

Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Qaeda lurks in South-East Asia and there, Nick Stone¹s bosses get wind of an act of terror that will dwarf even the nightmare of 9/11. When Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Bin Laden. But there are complications not least becau

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Gideon's War

Howard Gordon · 320 pages

Exposed to covert information by his work as an international negotiator, Gideon Davis is tapped by a government bigwig to chaperone a rogue agent, Gideon's brother, whose surrender is foiled by a terrorist plot involving a multi-million-dollar oil rig.

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Spy

Ted Bell · 496 pages

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The Target

Brad Taylor

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Exile

James Swallow · 456 pages

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Live Wire

Lora Leigh · 371 pages

"A hero among men, meet Captain Jordan Malone. For years he has been a silent warrior and guardian, operating independent of government protocol or oversight, leading his team of Elite Ops agents to fight against terror at all costs. A legend in the field, Jordan's true identity has remained a mystery even to his own men, until now. A magnet for one woman, Tehya Talamosi, codename Enigma, is a for

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The Assassin

Stephen Coonts · 362 pages

Rogue CIA agent Tommy Carmellini is called in by a desperate president to break up a deadly partnership between a renegade Mafia boss and ruthless al-Qaeda leader Abu Qasim, who is offering a fortune in exchange for a horrific terrorist attack on New York City.

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American Assassin

Vince Flynn · 435 pages

Follow Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first, explosive counterterrorism assignment.

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The Operative

Andrew Britton · 327 pages

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Coup d'Etat

Ben Coes · 480 pages

"Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him - forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well armed, well trained group of assassins. Meanwhile, a radical c

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Harry's Game

Gerald Seymour · 312 pages

Harry's game is one which the stakes are lethally high and where Harry holds none of the cards. A British cabinet minister is gunned down by an IRA assassin. Sent to Ireland as an undercover agent who must infiltrate the IRA to track down the killers of a British cabinet minister, Harry plays his game to a deadly timetable.

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Oath of Office

Jack Mars · 234 pages

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Full Black

Brad Thor · 382 pages

In the wake of a former U.S. President's appointment to the United Nations, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is wrongly implicated for a string of national emergencies and assassinations, a situation that forces him to race against time to uncover the real culprit.

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Support and Defend

Mark Greaney · 503 pages

"One of Tom Clancy's most storied characters, Dominic Caruso, is the only one who can stop America's secrets from falling into enemy hands in this blockbuster new novel written by Clancy's longtime coauthor. Over the course of three decades, Tom Clancy created a world alive with prescient action and remarkable individuals. In Tom Clancy Support and Defend, Dominic Caruso is presented with the dead

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The Assassins

Oliver North, Joe Musser · 526 pages

When America learns that Islamic jihadists have destroyed oil sites in Saudi Arabia, inflation hits the world's financial markets, which causes Congress to adopt a bill that allows one hundred specialists to seek and destroy the terrorists.

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The Icarus Agenda

Robert Ludlum · 683 pages

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Alpha

Greg Rucka

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Ghost Sniper

Scott McEwen, Thomas Koloniar · 416 pages

"Bob Pope, the director of an American secret intelligence anti-terrorist program, loses contact with his most trusted operative, Navy Master Chief Gil Shannon, fearing him dead when a mission to take out a Swiss banker who is channeling funds to Muslim extremists goes awry. But when an American politician and her convoy are assassinated in Mexico City by the Ghost Sniper--an American ex-military

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Spycatcher

Matthew Dunn · 418 pages

Unpredictable agent Will Cochrane must catch the world's most wanted international terrorist mastermind, who was responsible for the death of his father in Iraq twenty-five years ago, and avert an attack the likes of which the world has never seen.

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The Bourne Ascendancy

Eric Van Lustbader · 454 pages

Jason Bourne is faced with an impossible mission. He has been hired to impersonate a high-level government minister at a political summit meeting in Qatar, shielding the minister from any assassination attempts. Suddenly, armed gunmen storm the room, killing everyone but Bourne. Their target, however, isn't the minister Bourne impersonates ... it is Bourne himself.

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I Am the Mission

Allen Zadoff · 421 pages

"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"-- Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and graphic

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