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The American

Andrew Britton · 408 pages

CIA agent Ryan Kealey has no time to wrestle his demons. Former U.S. soldier Jason March, one of the world's deadliest assassins and Ryan's former protege, is now working with a powerful terror network whose goal is nothing less than the total annihilation of the United States.Ryan puts together the pieces of a terrifying puzzle. With the fate of the country resting on his shoulders, he finds hims

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True Believer

Jack Carr · 485 pages

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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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Patriot Games

Tom Clancy · 503 pages

It is fall. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets, historian, ex-Marine and CIA analyst Jack Ryan is vacationing in London with his wife and young daughter, when a terrorist attack takes place before his eyes. Instinctively, he dives forward to break it up, and is shot. It is not until he wakes up in the hospital that he learns

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The Bourne Supremacy

Robert Ludlum · 679 pages

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I Am Pilgrim

Terry Hayes · 612 pages

"The astonishing story of one man's breakneck race against time . . . and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in the blistering heat of a Saudi Arabian public square. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a remote mounta

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The Survivor

Vince Flynn, Kyle Mills · 400 pages

Top secret data has been stolen from the CIA, and the only man who knows its hiding place is dead. CIA operative Mitch Rapp must race to find the classified information in this blistering novel that picks up where The Last Man left off in Vince Flynn's New York Times bestselling series. Joseph "Rick" Rickman, former boy wonder at the CIA, stole a massive amount of top secret and hugely compromisin

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Eye for an Eye

Ben Coes · 440 pages

Earning powerful international enemies for his role in thwarting a series of terrorist attacks, Dewey Andreas is targeted for assassination after uncovering a high-level intelligence asset.

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State of Emergency

Marc Cameron · 416 pages

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The Insider Threat

Brad Taylor · 417 pages

When ISIS plans an attack no one anticipates, one that cannot be defeated by an airstrike, Pike Logan and the Taskforce are America's only hope.

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Without Sanction

Don Bentley · 373 pages

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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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Enemy of the State

Kyle Mills · 400 pages

After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. When the king's own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the US president suspects that the Saudis never intended

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True Faith and Allegiance

Mark Greaney · 742 pages

"The #1 New York Times-bestselling series is back with the most shocking revelation of all. After years of facing international threats, President Jack Ryan learns that the greatest dangers always come from within... It begins with a family dinner in Princeton, New Jersey. After months at sea, U.S. Navy Commander Scott Hagan, captain of the USS James Greer, is on leave when he is attacked by an ar

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Tier One

Brian Andrews, Jeffrey Wilson · 391 pages

John Dempsey's life--as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper--is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice. -- amazon.com

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Dead or Alive

Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwood · 848 pages

Jack Ryan, Jr. and his Campus colleagues John Clark and Ding Chavez, go after a vicious terrorist mastermind--the Emir--and they will bring him in ... dead or alive.

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Games of State

Jeff Rovin · 512 pages

In the newly unified Germany, old horrors are reborn. It is the beginning of Chaos Days, a time when Neo-Nazi groups gather to spread violence and resurrect bad dreams. But this year, Germany isn't the only target. Plans are afoot to destabilize Europe and cause turmoil throughout the United States. Paul Hood and his team, already in Germany to buy technology for the new Regional Op-Center,

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The Bourne Dominion

Eric Van Lustbader · 421 pages

Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources and needs the help of his longtime pal General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy agency. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil: to prove his worth and value he must kill Bourne.

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The Last Days

Joel C. Rosenberg · 472 pages

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The Kill Artist

Daniel Silva · 432 pages

"Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemies. But when his wife and son fell victim to the danger that accompanied him everywhere, Gabriel quit and devoted himself to the work of art restoration, an occupation that had previously been a cover for his secret assignments. Now Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, needs Gabriel's parti

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The End Game

Catherine Coulter, J.T. Ellison · 450 pages

"FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE-- Celebrants of the Earth-- a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries across the country. While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about a possible bombing plot, the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey explodes. Nicholas and Mike race to the scene and bar

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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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The Killing Ground

Jack Higgins · 392 pages

The master of suspense returns, with a chilling novel of modern terrorism and revenge.For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known.The man he stops at Heathrow Airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Ras

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Nomad

James Swallow · 533 pages

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