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Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
2) Trust no one
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Language
English
Description
"The countdown to midnight begins on a winter dawn. Doors burst open in the Hummel family home in suburban Maryland and commandos brandishing Uzi submachine guns rush inside. As his wife and children watch in horror, Jack Hummel, the local welder, is whisked away.The reason for Hummel{u2019}s abduction soon becomes clear: A sophisticated paramilitary assault team has taken control of the nearby South Mountain MX missile site. But the launch key rests...
5) Triple
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2010], c1979
Language
English
Description
Nat, Israel's most hunted and notorious intelligence operative, must steal 200 pounds of plutonium from the Arab world. During his quest, a seductive young Lebanese beauty expresses a love that may be the bait in a deadly trap.
6) Wild fire
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On orders from Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda operative Amer al Zaroor directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown, thinks he knows how the bomb is being moved and how to find...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Income inequality and the offshore hoarding of illicit black funds have reached such extremes that the earth's democracies are in peril. The oligarchs are taking over. The People worldwide, however, are rising up, and they demand that the UN seize and redistribute all that illegal filthy lucre. But it will not be easy. The world's oligarchs will not go gentle. Mikhail Putilov, Russia's strongman; J. T. Tower, the American president, and Wahid al-Waheed,...
Author
Series
Rogue Warrior series volume 14
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When the Rogue Warrior travels to India to help supervise security arrangements for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, he and his team find themselves up to their skivvies in terrorists of all types--Pakistanis. But it's not just the Games that are being targeted for disruption--Demo Dick and his young bucks uncover a plot to steal all seventy nuclear warheads the Indians have amassed for war against the Pakistanis.
13) Fallout
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 22
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes...
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