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1) Dead Land
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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST
"A proper hero for these times . . . To us, V.I. is perfect." — THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Sara Paretsky's gloriously kick-ass private eye, V.I. "Vic" Warshawski, is back . . . in a political-rot thriller that's the definition of perfection in the genre." — THE WASHINGTON
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A pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller involving corruption, secrets, and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media.
"A twisty, nonstop conspiracy thriller that only has one gear: high! The Network delivers."-Andrew Gross, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
"This is mandatory reading for any thriller aficionado."-Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling Author
A shadowy group is manipulating society-and they've only just begun.
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The clock is ticking
Fearsome Gray Box operative Gideon Stone is devoted to his work and his team. He's never given reason to doubt his loyalty...until he's tasked with investigating Willow Harper, a beguiling cryptologist suspected of selling deadly bio-agents on the black market.
He knows she's innocent. He knows she's being framed. And he knows that without him, Willow will be dead before sunrise.
Thrust into the crossfire of an insidious international...
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It Starts with a Murder ... Will It End with a Coup?
Stephen Coonts, master of suspense, has captivated readers around the world by writing thrillers ripped from the nation's headlines.
His newest, The Russia Account, pits CIA officer Tommy Carmellini against a murderous international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia to the highest reaches of the Kremlin and the halls of Congress-perhaps...
6) Impyrium
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"Two unlikely allies confront a conspiracy that is even bigger and more sinister than they imagine in this high-stakes fantasy"--
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As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past . . .
Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South-to spy for the Union Army.
Malcolm...
9) Dead Lions
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London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their careers. The "Slow Horses," as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op
badly, or got in the way of an ambitious colleague. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle-not unusual in this line of work. One thing these failed spies have in common, though, is they all want to be back in...
10) The inner circle
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A young archivist working in the National Archives and his childhood crush accidentally happen upon a priceless artifact--a 200-year-old dictionary that once belonged to George Washington--hidden inside a desk chair. Eager to discover why the President is hiding this important national treasure, the two soon find themselves entangled in a web of deception, conspiracy, and murder that will reveal the most well kept secret of the U.S. Presidency.
13) The hypnotists
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Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.
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U.S. Marine veteran Mason Hackett has tried to convince himself that what happened 15 years ago--the people who died, the lives that were ruined--doesn't matter. But when he suddenly sees the face of a dead friend and gets a mysterious email about a CIA operation gone bad, he begins a search for the truth. A search that leads him to Eastern Europe, international arms dealers, and a covert war.
16) Storm
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Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war.
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Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice
18) The runaway king
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Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
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When King Jaron returned to Carthya he brought with him a device that supposedly shows the way to a great treasure, but now everything is going wrong: Castor, the son of an old enemy, is conspiring against him and wants the throne for himself, his fiancée, Imogen, seems to have turned against him, and the Prozarian Monarch has invaded his kingdom and taken Jaron's castle--but Jaron has a lot of experience at hiding and escaping, and he is not willing...
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"Jessie Archer faced down death to prove her dedication to Athena, the elite organization of female spies she works for. Now she’s back on the team, in time to head to Pakistan to take down the man whose actions spurred Athena’s founders to create the secretive squad. But his connections spread farther than anyone knew, and when a girls’ school in Mumbai is bombed, a shadowy far-right organization reveals itself—and its...
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