Catalog Search Results
2) Backflash
Author
Series
Parker thrillers volume 18
Formats
Description
The master thief, Parker, plots to rob a floating casino on the Hudson River. He puts together a team of robbers, ensures weapons are smuggled on board, and arranges for a getaway boat. The planning is meticulous, but will chance favor the enterprise?
Author
Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2001
Formats
Description
When the public launching of the country's most sophisticated nuclear submarine is followed by a violent hijacking, only Admiral Jake Grafton stands between the deadly cargo and its intended target: the nation's capital.
Author
Series
Hector Cross novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
383 p. : ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Description
An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.
Author
Series
Mack Bedford novels volume 3
Formats
Description
The Delta Solution is an action-packed novel dealing with the Somali pirates operating off the southerly reaches of the lawless East African republic on the Indian Ocean.
For the past three years, these heavily armed tribal brigands have been capturing and holding for ransom massive cargo ships, especially oil tankers, and violently demanding millions of dollars for their return. Pirating out of the tiny Somalian village of Haradheere has
...Author
Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 4
Description
Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gunrunning operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 26
Description
Tibet, 1959. A Buddhist artifact of immense important disappeared during the Communist takeover. When National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea more than sixty years later, new clues emerge to its location. But Pitt and Al Giordino are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from the Luzon Straight. A rogue Chinese military team is also after the missile-- and will stop...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 419 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request