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The Farseer trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Language
English
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This is the sequel to the highly successful 'Assassin's Apprentice', which sees family betrayal, treachery and assassination in the six Duchies.
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Series
Farseer Trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Keystone. Gate. Crossroads. Catalyst. Fitz is about to discover the truth about the Fool's prophecy. Having been resurrected from his fatal tortures in Regal's dungeons, Fitz has once more foiled Regal's attempts to be rid of him. Now, back in his own body, and after months of rehabilitation, Fitz begins the painful and slow process of learning the ways of a man again. Under the watchful eye of Burrich, old King Shrewd's Stablemaster, Fitz must learn...
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A Doc Savage Thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, 'Meed', is demanding. She?s also his captor. Savage emerges from their intensive training sessions physically and mentally transformed, but with no idea why he?s been chosen, and how he?ll use his fearsome abilities. Then his first...
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Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Before Burke, before Cross, Andrew Vachss created Wesley: a ruthless assassin who would stop at nothing to take out his targets. A BombBuilt in Hell is Wesley's story. � While doing extended time for killing a fellow prisoner, Wesley meets Carmine Trentoni in a New York state prison. Carmine's life sentence hasn't cut him off from his outside sources, and he sees great potential in Wesley to carry out his revenge, and carry on his lucrative business....
5) The Target
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Series
Will Robie volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The President knows it?s a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. Together, Robie and Reel?s talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are...
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Throne of Glass volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Celaena Sardothien is a daredevil assassin with unrivalled fighting skills. After a year's hard labour in the salt mines of the kingdom of Endovier, Celaena is offered her freedom on one condition - she must fight as handsome Prince Dorian's champion in a contest sponsored by the king.
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7) Hellbent
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Series
Orphan X Thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
To some he was Orphan X. Others knew him as the Nowhere Man. But to veteran spymaster Jack Johns he was a boy named Evan Smoak. Taken from an orphanage, Evan was raised inside a top secret program designed to turn him into a deadly weapon. Jack became his instructor, mentor, teacher and guardian. Because for all the dangerous skills he instilled in his young charge, he also cared for Evan like a son. And now Jack needs Evan's help. The Orphan program...
8) Dodgers
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When East, a low-level lookout for a Los Angeles drug organisation, loses his watch house in a police raid, his boss recruits him for a very different job: a road trip - straight down the middle of white, rural America - to assassinate a judge in Wisconsin. Having no choice, East and a crew of untested boys - including his trigger-happy younger brother, Ty - leave the only home they've ever known in a nondescript blue van, with a roll of cash, a map...
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Chosen of Nendawen volume 3
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Hweilan went into the Feywild a girl focused on avenging her family's death, and emerged a brutal killer. Nendawen the Hunter has anointed her his Hand in destroying the demonic and undead forces of his nemesis--the murderer of her family--Jagen Ghen. But while she managed to survive long enough to become the Hand of the Hunter, the war with Jagen Ghen has just begun. And while she is hunting them--they are likewise hunting her. It will take every...
10) The guilty
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Series
Will Robie volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Special Agent Will Robie gets the call to make his first visit home since he was a teenager, it's because his father, the local judge, has been arrested for murdering a man who came before him in court.
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Series
William Shakespeare Thriller volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When he's caught out by one ill-advised seduction too many, young William Shakespeare flees Stratford to seek his fortune. Cast adrift in London, Will falls in with a band of players - but greater men have their eye on this talented young wordsmith. England's very survival hangs in the balance, and Will finds himself dispatched to Venice on a crucial embassy. Dazzled by the city's masques - and its beauties - Will little realises the peril in which...
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Series
William Shakespeare Thriller volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
All is not well in Venice. Threatened daily by Papal assassins, William Shakespeare and his close friends Oldcastle and Hemminges are increasingly isolated - the lies that have protected them so far beginning to wear thin. His companions want desperately to leave, but Will is tied to the city - his lover, the beautiful Isabella, is growing ever more sick. As tensions reach breaking point, their company is forced to split ... Once more full of swaggering...
13) Heir of fire
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Throne of Glass volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Lost and broken, Celaena Sardothien?s only thought is to avenge the savage death of her dearest friend: as the King of Adarlan?s Assassin, she is bound to serve this tyrant, but he will pay for what he did. Any hope Celaena has of destroying the king lies in answers to be found in Wendlyn. Sacrificing his future, Chaol, the Captain of the King?s Guard, has sent Celaena there to protect her, but her darkest demons lay in that same place. If she can...
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The Lady Penitent volume 3
Publisher
Wizards of the Coast
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Is it the end for the Lady Penitent? Is it the end for Lolth? Lolth has come out of hibernation with a plan that may seem too ambitious even for her, and to pull it off she'll need the help of a drow who's betrayed her at least once already-a drow she's transformed into the demonic Lady Penitent. The shocking conclusion to a trilogy that will change the Forgotten Realms world forever. From the Paperback edition.
15) Queen of shadows
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Series
Throne of Glass volume 4
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Bloodthirsty for revenge on the two men responsible for destroying her life, and desperate to find out if the prince and his captain are safe, Celaena returns to Rifthold, the seat of so much evil. She has accepted her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen. But before she can reclaim her throne, there are dark truths to learn and debts to be paid. Aelin must stay hidden beneath her assassin's hood and draw on her mortal strength as Celaena...
16) The Russian
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Michael Bennett volume 13
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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As Detective Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil ... Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his long-time love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces their presence in the city with a string of murders. All of the victims are young women. And each has been killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome. Tasked with working alongside the FBI, Bennett uncovers multiple cold-case homicides...
17) Dirty war
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Spider Shepherd volume 19
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The target - The Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose. The only man who can stop them? Dan 'Spider' Shepherd. But Shepherd's reputation is also on the line - he helped get one of the jihadists into the UK during the final days of the War in Afghanistan. Now he has to track down the man whose life he once saved. But the assassins aren't lone wolf killers - someone much more devious is pulling their strings. And...
18) In deep water
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Series
Cat Connolly volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Good intentions can be deadly ... A missing girl. A case that's personal. A contract killer on Irish soil. Cat Connolly is back at work. Struggling to adjust to physical and mental scars, her workload once again becomes personal when her best friend Sarah Jane goes missing. Sarah Jane's a journalism student, the daughter of a decorated war correspondent, but what could she be working on that could lead to her disappearance? And how deadly will it...
19) Bullseye
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Series
Michael Bennett volume 9
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
As the most powerful men on earth gather in New York for a meeting of the UN, Detective Michael Bennett receives intelligence warning that there will be an assassination attempt on the US president. Even more shocking, the intelligence suggests that the Russian government could be behind the plot. Tensions between America and Russia are the highest they've been since the Cold War, but this would be an escalation no-one could have expected. The details...
20) Fear no evil
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Series
Alex Cross volume 29
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Dr Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness - where they will be the prey. They?re not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they?re attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years. Darkness falls. The river churns into rapids. Shots ring out through the forest. No backup. No way out. Fear no evil.
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