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Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise - STATE OF TERROR. STATE OF TERROR follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the secretary is tasked...
2) Silverview
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish m̌igr ̌living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns...
3) Zero day
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John Puller volume 1
Language
English
Description
War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army?s CID. So when a family with military connections is brutally murdered in a remote area of West Virginia, Puller is called to investigate, and soon suspects the case has wider implications. As the body count rises he teams up with local homicide detective Samantha Cole. As the web of deceit is revealed, it quickly becomes apparent that there?s much more to this case than they...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
John Graves is a State Department intelligence agent who made his name on the front lines of the Cold War. Since then, he?s been transferred to domestic work, and his love for the job has withered away. All that sustains him is the hunt for John Wright-a crazed millionaire who is about to unleash the greatest domestic threat Graves?s agency has ever faced. When seven mobsters rob a U.S. Army train in the middle of the Utah desert and make off with...
5) Retribution
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Series
A Will Parker Thriller volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A shattering debut thriller in which an unstoppable force of destruction is about to strike at the heart of America. . . The remote and impenetrable Pakistani mountains have offered refuge to the worst enemies of civilization since the time of Alexander. Now, the world faces a new challenge. Reared from birth to harbor a seething hatred, a lone man is about to unleash a firestorm that will rage for centuries. And the window of opportunity to stop...
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Series
A Poke Rafferty Novel volume 5
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Edgar-finalist Hallinan?s heartrending, unforgettable fifth Poke Rafferty thriller" (Publishers Weekly starred review) set in Thailand comes to Soho Crime An accidental collision on a Bangkok sidewalk goes very wrong when the man who ran into Rafferty dies in his arms, but not before saying three words: Helen Eckersley. Cheyenne. Seconds later, the police arrive, denying that the man was shot. That night, Rafferty is interrogated by Thai...
7) One way out
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D.I. Harry Virdee volume 4
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A bomb detonates in Bradford?s City Park. When the alert sounds, DCI Harry Virdee has just enough time to get his son and his mother to safety before the bomb blows. But this is merely a stunt. The worst is yet to come. A new and aggressive nationalist group, the Patriots, have hidden a second device under one of the city?s mosques. In exchange for the safe release of those at Friday prayers, the Patriots want custody of the leaders of radical Islamist...
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Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A gripping, unsettling mystery with a classic feel for fans of Agatha Christie. Haunting and exquisitely written. Part intricate mystery and part ghost story. This book will stay with me for a long time' Anna Mazzola The drive leads past the gate house and through the trees towards the big house, visible through the winter-bared branches. Its windows stare down at Harkin and the sea beyond . . . January 1921. Though the Great War is over, in Ireland...
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English
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The first part of John le Carr'̌s acclaimed Karla Trilogy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy sees the beginning of the stealthy Cold War cat-and-mouse game between the taciturn, dogged George Smiley and his wily Soviet counterpart. A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been brought out of retirement in order...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
STRANGERS Annie and Steve are from different worlds and do not know each other exists until one morning, they become victims of a bomb blast, thrown together to fight for their lives. As they lie in the darkness, the hours slowly tick by. To ward off fear and death they talk of everything, and so a bond is created that binds them deeper than family, than friends, than lovers. With such strange intimacy, how can they get through the future without...
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English
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An International Bestseller - A Guardian Summer Read - An Amazon Best Book of the Month - A Goodreads Best Book of the Month - A Buzzfeed Summer Read - A Foyles Book of the Month - AHuffington Post Summer Read - A Yorkshire Post Book of the Week In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received...
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