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21) Exocet
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Two British agents must prevent a devastating weapon from falling into enemy hands. In the hotly contested Falkland Islands, an underground struggle rages between Argentinean agents seeking to buy black-market Exocet missiles and the British officials who will do anything to stop them. British intelligence dispatches two operatives to prevent the spread of the state-of-the-art weapons, and the odds are stacked against them. Tony Villiers and Gabrielle...
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Three classic international-bestselling thrillers featuring IRA gunman Liam Devlin. In The Eagle Has Landed, the inspiration for the film starring Donald Sutherland, an audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of World War II. In November 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: Abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler...
23) Storm Warning
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Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning is the latest installment of the Agatha- and Anthony-award-winning Chesapeake Crimes series. This volume features tales by:
Donna Andrews
Timothy Bentler-Jungr
Shaun Taylor Bevins
Carla Coupe
Maddi Davidson
Linda Ensign
Barb Goffman
Kim Kash
Adam Meyer
Alan Orloff
KM Rockwood
Lauren R. Silberman
Marianne Wilski Strong
Art Taylor
Robin Templeton
24) The Savage Day
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A mission to reclaim a fortune in gold leads a man into the hair-raising heart of a terrorist underworld. Simon Vaughan's life of adventure and arms trafficking came to an abrupt end the day the police threw him into a jail cell in Greece. But then the British Army comes calling with an offer he can't refuse. In exchange for his freedom, Vaughan must recover a bounty of gold stolen by the IRA in Belfast, and extinguish the organization's ruthless...
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An ex-con must save Northern Ireland from a violent cabal, before the nation is plunged into chaos Former IRA operative Martin Fallon has survived prison, the bottle, and a police pursuit that sent him running the length and breadth of Ireland. As Fallon turns forty years old, the IRA needs his help again, this time to break Patrick Rogan, the leader of IRA Ulster, out of prison before he is executed. But not all is as it seems. When a newly freed...
26) The Iron Tiger
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On the eve of China's invasion of Tibet, a veteran pilot is enmeshed in a fierce struggle for survival Before the sun can set on Jack Drummond's career as a pilot in the British Navy, he must complete one final flight-a weapons drop over Tibet to aid guerilla fighters in their border dispute with the Red Chinese. But before he can complete the job, his plane and supplies are burned, stranding him in the Himalayas. Now, with his plane grounded,...
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The "engrossing follow-up" to the New York Times–bestselling author's classic WWII spy thriller, The Eagle Has Landed (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Germany, 1943. As an increasingly isolated and insane Hitler pursues his hopeless war, betrayal and treachery reach the highest levels of the Third Reich. German intelligence knows that SS colonel Kurt Steiner survived "Operation Eagle," the bungled assassination attempt on Winston Churchill,...
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From acclaimed thriller writer Jack Higgins-the story of a young man, just out of the army, embarking on his next great adventure as a writer, teacher, and legendary lothario Oliver Shaw leaves the army as a young man eager to embrace the possibilities that life on a British military base in Germany have denied him. He intends to be a writer, a man with a passionate existence, whose triumphs-and failures-will make his life and work great. And he...
29) Touch the Devil
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In the shadow of the Cold War, two rugged IRA veterans must crush a ruthless mercenary before his deadly scheme can bring Europe to its knees Terrorist-for-hire Frank Barry has been wreaking havoc in Germany and France with backing from the KGB. His next mission might be his deadliest, as Barry plans to steal a state-of-the-art missile and sell it to the highest bidder. Only Barry's longtime rivals, retired IRA gunman Liam Devlin and his ally...
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Two pilots venture into the heart of the Amazon to save the lives of two nuns held hostage by a savage tribe Locals call it the Rio das Mortes - the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river's deadly reputation, pilot Neil Mallory agrees to fly supplies to outposts there in hopes of making enough money to buy his passage back to England. But when he and fellow pilot Sam Hannah discover a...
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A gunrunner's hunt for a fortune in gold leads to a life-and-death struggle in Communist China Mark Hagen's streak of bad luck left him broke, despondent, and barely able to eke out a living smuggling guns in Macao. But things begin to look up when Hagen gets a lead on a bounty of gold, lying untouched at the bottom of a lagoon in the marshes of southern China. Unfortunately for Hagen, he's not the only one after the sunken treasure, and the race...
32) To Catch a King
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A bartender and nightclub singer are thrown into the midst of a treacherous Nazi plot in war-torn Lisbon. As the Nazi war machine prepares to invade England, Hitler plots to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor while they travel in Portugal, and install them as puppet monarchs under the thumb of his fascist regime. But when an American bartender and a young Jewish nightclub singer catch wind of the scheme, they set out to derail the Nazi conspiracy....
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One man's race to recover a hidden treasure becomes a struggle for survival against a violent criminal underworld Hugh Marlowe spent five years in prison thinking only of the fortune he'd stashed away before being thrown behind bars. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't the only one. Now the worst of London's gangsters and criminals are after Marlowe and his hidden bounty. And in order to leave behind his life of lawless abandon, Marlowe must outwit...
34) Passage by Night
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In the shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a deep-sea diver out for revenge must thwart a deadly terrorist conspiracy Harry Manning fled Cuba for the Bahamas to escape the chaos of the Revolution; to find solace in a bottle of rum and comfort in the arms of his girlfriend, Maria. But when Cuban terrorists bomb a plane in which Maria is traveling, Manning's quest for a separate peace gives way to a thirst for vengeance. To take down the terrorists,...
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A veteran agent goes undercover to stop a wave of prison escapes orchestrated by a sinister criminal network A mysterious man known as the Baron is the mastermind behind a spate of daring jailbreaks that have set the British Intelligence Service on edge. Only Paul Chavasse, a brilliant operative who can think like a criminal, can prevent the escape of another of Britain's most dangerous inmates. Chavasse must pose as a prisoner and win the trust...
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Framed for a grisly murder, one man must descend into London's criminal underground to uncover the truth behind a deadly conspiracy When a young woman approaches Matt Brady from the shadows of the London night and invites him to accompany her back to her London apartment, it seems like a dream. But the next morning he awakes to a nightmare: the woman's body lies dead on the floor, and the police are hauling him off to prison for a murder he did not...
37) Confessional
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A rogue terrorist in Northern Ireland prepares for his final deadly strike - to assassinate the pope. Trained by the KGB, the assassin known as Cuchulain has been wreaking havoc throughout Northern Ireland for over two decades, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Now he has set his sights on his most audacious target yet: the pope. Desperate to stop the terrorist, British Intelligence enlists an enemy Irish gunman, Liam Devlin, to accomplish what...
38) The Keys of Hell
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Super-spy Paul Chavasse – one of Jack Higgins's most extraordinary heroes – embarks on a mission to Albania, only to find himself at the centre of a deadly double-cross, fighting for his life. It's a trip that agent Paul Chavasse will never forget. His destination: the isolated republic of Albania on the Adriatic coast, at a time when the regime is at its most repressive and the people live in daily fear of the ruthless secret police. His job:...
39) Solo
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A father's quest for vengeance draws him into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a veteran assassin Piano virtuoso John Mikali's flair as a musician is matched only by his skill as an assassin. The trail of bodies he's left in his wake is proof. But when he kills a young woman while fleeing from a murder scene, the woman's father, a special forces soldier in the British military, vows to avenge his daughter's death. Now, both men are locked in...