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Angels & Demons

Dan Brown · 572 pages

When a world-renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared on to the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati. a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their most hat

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Scorpia

Anthony Horowitz · 368 pages

Still reeling from the terrible discovery he has made about his father, teenage MI6 superspy, Alex Rider, is determined to find out more. Travelling to Italy, he manages to infiltrate the glamorous world of Claudia Rothman, beautiful society hostess and member of the international criminal organization, Scorpia. She reveals that Alex's father was murdered by MI6, in an operation masterminded by He

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Alert

James Patterson, Michael Ledwidge · 400 pages

New Yorkers are not easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly: why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI's Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility--but they're as good at concealing their identities as they are at wreaking havoc. I

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Zero Day

David Baldacci · 448 pages

John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia

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French Twist

James Patterson, Richard DiLallo · 160 pages

"Gorgeous women are dropping dead at upscale department stores in New York City. Detectives Luc Moncrief and Katherine Burke are close to solving the mystery, but looks can be deceiving"--Back cover.

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Private Games

James Patterson, Mark T. Sullivan · 442 pages

"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, is providing security for the 2012 Games in London. Hours away from the opening ceremony, Private investigator Peter Knight gets called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A member of the Games organizing committee has been killed - in a crime of precise calculation and execution." -- Back cover

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High Heat

Lee Child · 48 pages

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State of Fear

Michael Crichton · 680 pages

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Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk · 208 pages

A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the base

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Killer Chef

James Patterson, Jeffrey J. Keyes · 134 pages

Chef and police officer Caleb Rooney searches for a murderer who kills by poison at top New Orleans restaurants.

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End of Watch

Stephen King · 448 pages

A suspenseful closing volume. Brady Hartsfield, the Mercedes killer, returns to diabolically drive his victims to suicide in this last installment, starring the ever more winning Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney.

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Black & Blue

James Patterson, Candice Fox · 144 pages

A beautiful young woman is found murdered on a river bank, and Detective Harriet Blue is convinced she's the next victim of the worst serial killer Sydney has seen in decades. But the more Harriet learns, the more she realises this murder is not what she first thought. And her own life might be tangled up in the case.

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Sahara

Clive Cussler · 572 pages

1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from en

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The Athens Solution

Brad Thor · 224 pages

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The Callsign

Brad Taylor

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The Medical Examiner

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro · 125 pages

A woman checks into a hotel room and entertains a man who is not her husband. A shooter blows away the lover and wounds the millionairess, leaving her for dead.

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Heist

James Patterson, Rees Jones · 144 pages

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113 Minutes

James Patterson, Max DiLallo · 141 pages

Molly Rourke takes the law into her own hands following the murder of her son.

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The Shut-In

James Patterson, Duane Swierczynski · 144 pages

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The Sleepwalker

Robert Muchamore · 330 pages

An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345 people dead. Crash investigators suspect terrorism, but they're getting nowhere. A distressed 12-year-old calls a police hotline and blames his father for the explosion. It could be a breakthrough, but there's no hard evidence.

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The Dolls

James Patterson, Kecia Bal · 146 pages

The Dolls are perfect lovers, perfect companions, perfect killers. Investigative reporter Lila Wallace has covered many crimes of passion in 10 years. But nothing will prepare her for the dark secrets of ... The Dolls.

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The Lazarus Vendetta

Patrick Larkin · 409 pages

Smith is ordered to find the truth behind an anti-technology movement that may be responsible for killing thousands during a protest at a nano-technology research facility.

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NYPD Red 2

James Patterson, Marshall Karp · 416 pages

"NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach

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Malicious

James Patterson, James O. Born · 144 pages

When his brother is charged with murdering the husband of the woman he is rumored to be involved with, Navy SEAL dropout Mitchum must expose the truth. When Mitchum's brother Nathaniel is charged with murder, he swears he didn't kill anyone. But word on the street is that Nathaniel was charged with the victim's wife. Mitchum will break every rule to expose the truth-- even if the truth destroys t

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