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Warrior Class

Dale Brown · 473 pages

Air Force general Patrick McLanahan on a simple rescue operation to extract a CIA agent in Moscow must battle corrupt Russian oilman, Pavel Kazakov, who is trying to seize power so that Russia can dominate Europe.

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Night Without End

Alistair MacLean · 384 pages

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Red Storm Rising

Tom Clancy · 696 pages

Terrorists attack the USSR, they respond by attacking western Europe to replace the oil assets destroyed by the terrorists. Who will win?

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By the Rivers of Babylon

Nelson DeMille · 460 pages

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Flight of Eagles

Jack Higgins · 338 pages

A wartime thriller about two brothers, separated as boys, who find themselves on opposing sides: one, taken back home by his German mother, is a brilliant Luftwaffe pilot, while the other is an American ace flying with the RAF. From the author of ANGEL OF DEATH, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER and YEAR OF THE TIGER.

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The Savannah Project

Chuck Barrett · 325 pages

An NTSB investigator is called to Savannah to investigate what appears to be a routine aircraft accident during the St. Patrick's Day celebration. Ensuing suspicions of sabotage launch a deadly chain of events. He must elude an assassin if he is to expose the cause of the crash. Secrets surface that could bring down governments and the search for the truth draws him to Ireland and a race against t

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Wild Storm

Richard Castle · 344 pages

Hired to look into a recent spate of plane crashes that have killed powerful people in politics, business and religion, Derrick Storm goes up against an maniacal extremist who has created a laser with the power to shoot down planes from the ground.

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Under Siege

Stephen Coonts · 533 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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FireFox Down

Craig Thomas

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Squall

Sean Costello · 178 pages

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The Mullah's Storm

Tom Young, Thomas W. Young · 292 pages

A transport plane carrying a high-ranking Taliban prisoner is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan's mountainous Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible and, for the navigator and a female Army interpreter, the battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on Earth. They struggle not only against the hazards of nature, but also the Taliban stalking them, villagers

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By Order of the President

W.E.B. Griffin · 568 pages

When a leased Boeing 727 is violently hijacked from Angola and flown to parts unknown, the President turns to an outsider--Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo--for answers. A pilot, West Point graduate, and veteran of Desert Storm, Castillo has a sharp eye for the facts--and the truth behind them. In Africa, he is helped and hindered by unexpected allies and ruthless enemies, and begins to untangle a

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Hornet Flight

Ken Follett · 518 pages

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to Engla

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Code Black

Philip S. Donlay, Philip Donlay · 300 pages

When a blizzard and a terrible accident cause a power failure at Chicago's O'Hare air traffic control facility and a devastating mid-air collision, passenger Donovan Nash, a pilot with a hidden past, fights decompression, oxygen deprivation, and damaged controls to keep the plane from crashing.

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Forged in Fire

Trish McCallan · 385 pages

"Beth Brown doesn't believe in premonitions. But her recent dream feels too real to ignore: a commercial airliner is hijacked, and a handsome passenger is shot dead. Beth hasn't met the mystery man in her dream; she would never forget a gorgeous face like his. But she can't deny the bizarre connection she feels. Now awake, and unable to allow for the violence she's convinced is impending, she race

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Whirlwind

James Clavell · 1,248 pages

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Silent Enemy

Thomas W. Young, Tom Young · 292 pages

When the Afghan National Police training center in Kabul is attacked by jihadists, Major Michael Parson accompanies wounded soldiers on planes bound for Germany only to discover that several of the planes have been sabotaged.

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The flight attendant

Christopher A. Bohjalian

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Nighthawk

Clive Cussler · 480 pages

"NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate

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Razor's Edge

Dale Brown, Jim DeFelice · 448 pages

Dreamland's pilots race against time to uncover the truth about the destruction of an American aircraft over Iraq that suggests that a powerful weapon, a mobile chemical laser system known as "Razor," may have fallen into enemy hands.

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Category Five: The Hurricane-Force Novel

Philip S. Donlay · 320 pages

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Left Behind

Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins · 468 pages

Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as unusual events continue to unfold. For those who have been left behind, the apocalypse has just begun

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Thaw

Bryan Dunn · 240 pages

“Thaw is an action-packed, heart-pumping thrill ride that keeps readers on the edge of their seats.” -- Will Plyler, Mania.com Arctic bush pilot Harry McNills is minding his own business and dreaming of retiring to the Caribbean--when two scientists from Cryolabs Corporation charter his plane for a scientific expedition. The beautiful young biologist Amy Tyler and her boss, the avaricious Ha

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