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Savage Son: A Thriller

Jack Carr · 432 pages

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The Hard Way

Lee Child · 512 pages

In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex--military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth--and save two innocent lives--is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way.... Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electri

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The Afrika Reich

Guy Saville · 448 pages

1952. It is more than a decade since the Dunkirk fiasco marked the end of Britain's war and an uneasy peace with Hitler. In Africa, the swastika flies from the Sahara to the Indian Ocean. Gleaming autobahns bisect the jungle and jet fighters patrol the skies. Britain and the Nazis have divided the continent but now the demonic plans of Walter Hochburg - architect of Nazi Africa - threaten Britain'

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Sudden Prey

John Sandford · 400 pages

"Grabs you by the shirt from the start." (Chicago Tribune)Davenport falls prey to the purest-and deadliest-criminal motivation: revenge.

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Homeland

R.A. Salvatore · 321 pages

The strange and exotic Menzoberranzan—the great city of the Underdark, founded millennia ago by the dark elves after they left the surface world—is the home of Drizzt Do'Urden, the hero of *The Icewind Dale*. Drizzt, the young prince of one of the ruling houses, comes of age in his race's cruel and ruthless world, where the only ray of hope is his weapons master, Zaknafein, who teaches him how—

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The First Rule

Robert Crais · 308 pages

Frank Meyer had the American dream--until the day a professional crew invaded his home and murdered everyone inside. The police think Meyer was hiding something very bad, but Joe Pike does not. With the help of Elvis Cole, Pike sets out on a hunt of his own--an investigation that quickly entangles them both in a web of ancient grudges, blood ties, blackmail, vengeance, double crosses, and cutthroa

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Before They Are Hanged

Joe Abercrombie · 543 pages

Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run – if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown P

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The Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne · 500 pages

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Licence to Kill

John Gardner · 224 pages

What begins as a joyous wedding for Bond's old CIA chum, Felix Leiter, turns into a hellish nightmare--when an evil billionaire drug lord flies into town and his henchmen brutally assassinate Leiter and his bride. Now, Bond is out for blood, and he is prepared to do anything--even give up his license to kill--to avenge the death of his friends.

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The Last Mountain Man

William W. Johnstone · 228 pages

Smoke Jensen is a man on a quest for vengeance. Together with only a Navy Colt on his hip and an old mountain man named Preacher by his side, Smoke is pursuing the men who destroyed everything he knows and loves. Preacher taught him how to fight and die like a man, the men who wronged him taught him how to hate and the mountains have taught him to stand tall. But nothing can quench his thirst f

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The Losers, Vol. 2: Double Down

Andy Diggle · 144 pages

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Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan · 480 pages

Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.

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PRIMAL Unleashed

Jack Silkstone · 401 pages

In Afghanistan, 1989, a Spetsnaz platoon fought Afghan warriors in order to protect a secret. Present day: one of those former Spetsnaz soldiers survived, thrived, and is now willing to unearth and sell the secret he had once help protect to the highest bidder. PRIMAL, the elite special ops team who keeps justice in the balance, must stop the Ukranian soldier-turned-arms dealer before he unleashes

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Last Man Standing

Cindy Gerard · 323 pages

Falsely imprisoned for the murder of a Freetown priest, special operative Joe Green, who has gone vigilante to avenge his fallen brothers, escapes with the help of his ex-lover Stephanie Tompkins and together they must expose a deadly traitor in the highest level of the government.

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Swords of Exodus

Larry Correia, Mike Kupari · 520 pages

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The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt · 379 pages

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, El

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Damage Control

John Gilstrap · 464 pages

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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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Rambo: First Blood, Part II

David Morrell, James Cameron, Sylvester Stallone

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The Bourne Supremacy

Robert Ludlum · 679 pages

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Prince of Thorns

Mark Lawrence · 354 pages

After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother and leading a band of bloodthirsty thugs, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives.

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Clear and Present Danger

Tom Clancy · 760 pages

The sudden and surprising assassination of three American officials in Colombia. Many people in many places, moving off on missions they all mistakenly thought they understood. The future was too fearful for contemplation, and beyond the expected finish lines were things that, once decided, were better left unseen.

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Black Cat, Volume 01

Kentaro Yabuki · 208 pages

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Cold Vengeance

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 356 pages

"A bonding trip for Pendergast and his brother-in-law, Judson Esterhazy, turns violent. Before abandoning a mortally-wounded Pendergast, Esterhazy announces his sister, Pendergast's long-dead wife Helen, is alive"--Provided by publisher.

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