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Fallen Angel

Wayne Stinnett · 284 pages

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Those in Peril

Wilbur Smith · 385 pages

An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.

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Phantom

Ted Bell

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Kraken Rising

Greig Beck · 462 pages

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Beyond the Ice Limit

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 446 pages

That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now... With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever d

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Meg

Steve Alten · 361 pages

From book jacket: On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists--Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehisto

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The Navigator

Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos · 442 pages

Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. Their first victim is a crooked antiquities dealer, murdered in cold blood. Their second very nearly is a UN investigator who, were it not for the timely assistance of Austin and Zavala, would now be at the bottom of a watery grave.Wha

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Flood Tide

Clive Cussler · 530 pages

Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt" - in a masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high seas and the Mississippi River that can only enhance his status as the grand master of adventure fiction. The coin of the realm for the wealthy, insatiably greedy Chinese smuggler who is Dirk Pitt

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Detachment Bravo

Richard Marcinko, John Weisman · 402 pages

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Primeval

David Lynn Golemon

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The Thief

Clive Cussler, Justin Scott · 412 pages

On the ocean liner Mauritania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize busi

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The Jungle

Clive Cussler, Jack Du Brul · 409 pages

To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China ... a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ... a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar ... for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together -- leading to the greatest

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Cibola

David Wood · 264 pages

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The Man With the Red Tattoo

Raymond Benson · 292 pages

When a British businessman and his family are killed in Japan by a virulent form of West Nile disease, James Bond suspects a mass assassination. Investigating with the help of beautiful Japanese agent Reiko Tamura and his old friend, Tiger Tanaka, Bond searches for the killers and the one known survivor. Bond's discoveries lead him to believe that two powerful factions controlled by the mysteri

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Blood Vengeance

David Leadbeater · 270 pages

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The Storm

Clive Cussler, Graham Brown · 420 pages

When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover a plot targeting millions of victims.

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The Emperor's Revenge

Clive Cussler, Boyd Morrison · 464 pages

"Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA to track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer"-- When a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corpora

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Rogue Wave

Christopher Cartwright · 361 pages

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Vulcan's Forge

Jack Du Brul · 372 pages

It begins deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, where a nuclear bomb strikes at the fiery hot heart of the earth. Churning, spewing boiling lava, a volcano rises with unnatural speed from the ocean floor -- the source of a new mineral that promises clean, limitless nuclear power.It continues in hot spots around the globe: Hawaii, where a secessionist movement is about to turn violent and the American ar

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Dr. Quake

Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir

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Colonel Sun

Kingsley Amis · 255 pages

The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency... until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all professional aids, Bond fa

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Black Rain

Graham Brown · 528 pages

Covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw leads an expedition into the deepest reaches of the Amazon in search of a legendary Mayan city. Assisted by a renowned university professor and protected by a mercenary named Hawker, her team journeys into the tangled rain forest--unaware that they are replacements for a group that vanished weeks before, and that the treasure they are seeking is no mere

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Goldfinger

Ian Fleming · 318 pages

A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked. And a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal, useful lessons are learned.

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Meltdown

Andy McNab, Robert Rigby · 248 pages

Fourth in a gripping, action-packed sequence of thrillers about Danny and Fergus Watts, from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab, and Robert Rigby, veteran of many successful TV screenplays. Ideal for adventure-seeking readers.A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to a

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