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Fail-Safe

Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler · 285 pages

The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.

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The Sum of All Fears

Tom Clancy · 914 pages

Peace may finally be at hand in the Middle East -- as Jack Ryan lays the groundwork for a plan that could end centuries of conflict. But ruthless terrorists have a final, desperate card to play; with one terrible act, distrust mounts, forces collide, and the floundering U.S. president seems unable to cope with the crisis. With the world on the verge of nuclear disaster, Ryan must frantically seek

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The Day Before Midnight

Stephen Hunter · 415 pages

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The Charm School

Nelson DeMille · 704 pages

Something very strange -- and sinister -- is going on in the Russian woods at Borodino. In a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm School, young KGB agents are being taught by American POW's how to be model citizens of the USA. The Soviet goal -- to infiltrate the United States undetected. When an unsuspecting American tourist stumbles upon this secret, he sets in motion a CIA investigation that will

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The Andromeda Strain

Michael Crichton · 294 pages

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The Day of the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth · 408 pages

In a class by itself. Unputdownable' Sunday TimesOne of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who in, the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the O. A. S., to assassinate General de Gaulle. The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his pro

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The Bourne Supremacy

Robert Ludlum · 679 pages

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Code to Zero

Ken Follett · 425 pages

Un hombre se despierta aterrorizado: sufre una especie de resaca y no tiene la menor idea ni de quién es ni de cómo ha llegado hasta estos inmundos baños públicos. Cuando encuentra un periódico descubre que es el 29 de enero de 1958, y la noticia del día es el tercer intento de lanzar el Explorer, el primer satélite espacial estadounidense. Si el lanzamiento resulta fallido una vez más, la URSS do

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Phantom Lady

Cornell Woolrich · 256 pages

From Wikipedia: "A man is first accused, and then convicted, of murdering his wife. As his execution date approaches, his friends and a sympathetic detective frantically search for his alibi, a woman with whom he'd gone to a Broadway show the night of the murder. None of the people who saw them together recall the woman.She is a phantom in a city of millions who cannot be found and does not come f

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Alas, Babylon

Pat Frank · 295 pages

A story of a group of people who rely on their own courage and ingenuity to survive in a town which escaped nuclear bombing.

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Map of Bones

James Rollins · 540 pages

The bestselling master of astonishing adventure James Rollins delivers his most relentlessly exciting page-turner to date -- a gripping and explosive novel of an ancient conspiracy to create a terrifying new world order out of the ashes of modern civilization.The crime is inhumanly cruel with horrific consequences both unthinkable and inevitable. During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany

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South of Nowhere

Jeffery Deaver · 414 pages

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Icebound

Dean Koontz · 376 pages

A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when a team of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massive explosive charge, battle the elements for survival, only to discover that one of them is a murderer.

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Firefox

Craig Thomas · 352 pages

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The Satan Bug

Alistair MacLean · 255 pages

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24 Hours

Claire Seeber · 338 pages

"Here today. Dead tomorrow? My best friend, Emily, is dead - killed last night in a hotel fire. But it was meant to be me. Now I have 24 hours to find my daughter. Before he finds out I'm still alive"--Publisher's description.

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59 Minutes

Holly Seddon · 320 pages

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The Defense

Steve Cavanagh · 320 pages

""If you're a fan of John Grisham, Scott Turow, and Brad Meltzer, then you will be a fan of Steve Cavanagh's The Defense."--Nelson DeMille, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Angel Eddie Flynn used to be a con artist. Then he became a lawyer. Turns out the two aren't that different. Former con artist turned lawyer Eddie Flynn gave up the law a year ago after a disastrous case, and he

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Black Sunday

Thomas Harris · 318 pages

When the game begins in New Orleans this Super Bowl Sunday . . . 80,000 people had better get ready to die. The Super Bowl--where thousands have gathered for an all-American tradition. Suddenly it's the most terrifying place on earth . . . Michael Lander is the most dangerous man in America. He pilots a television blimp over packed football stadiums every weekend. He is fascinated with expl

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The Zero Hour

Joseph Finder · 490 pages

When an ominous, digitally encrypted telephone call is intercepted by the NSA's spy satellites high over Switzerland, FBI Special Agent Sarah Cahill - irreverent, outspoken, a brilliant counterterrorism expert, a divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy - is urgently summoned to New York to investigate an imminent terrorist attack on lower Manhattan. Her investigation immediately turns into the d

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Siege

Simon Kernick · 448 pages

London is under attack. An unknown number of its citizens are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the luxurious Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane, demanding the government meet their requests within five hours. And at the center of it all is one man who has information so dangerous that it must be kept safe--at any price.

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State of Terror

Hillary Rodham Clinton · 495 pages

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Moonraker

Ian Fleming · 255 pages

Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate— This Is the Face of Hugo Drax, The Mystery Man Behind Moonraker. A stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain. A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent JAMES BOND in his fiendishly clever hands!!

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