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Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
112 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
The imprisoned former torturer for a defunct South American dictatorship recounts his involvement in the surveillance, torture, and assassination of a prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police.
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The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco.
Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings
...3) The sentinel
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 25
Description
When Reacher ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee, there's nothing pleasant about the place. When he spots someone walking into an ambush, the odds are four against one-- until Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently fired after a cyberattack locked up the town's data, records, information... and secrets. Rutherford wants to stay put,...
Author
Pub. Date
p1994
Physical Desc
16 sound discs (19.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldn't know that it would lead to a narrow excape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. Now he is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he can't fully remember....
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
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Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xi, 211 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism. The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware of his....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 23 cm
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Investigative journalist Lee Smith tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the commander-in-chief. While popular opinion holds that Russia subverted democratic processes during the 2016 elections, the real damage was done not by Moscow or any other foreign actor. Rather, this was a slow-moving coup engineered by a coterie of the American elite, the "deep state," targeting not only the president, but also...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false...
11) A darker place
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 16
Pub. Date
p2008
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (ca. 540 minutes.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Russia, Alexander Kurbsky is both an infamous writer and an ex-paratrooper. Disappointed with the current government, he makes plans with Sean Dillon, Charles Ferguson, and members of the Prime Minister's private army to help him disappear into the West, even though many before him have died when attempting this journey.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"A CIA analyst makes a split-second decision that endangers her country but saves her son--and now she must team up with an answer-hungry journalist she's not sure she can trust in this electrifying thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. Nothing gets by Jill Bailey. As a CIA analyst, she's in charge of investigating and vetting new sources. Sources like FALCON, who's been on the fast-track to recruitment. He says he's...
15) The keepers
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Jeffrey B. Burton's The Keepers is the next installment of the Mace Reid K9 series, featuring golden retriever cadaver dog Vira and her handler, Mason Reid. Mason "Mace" Reid lives on the outskirts of Chicago and specializes in human remains detection--that is, he trains dogs to hunt for dead bodies. He calls his pack of cadaver dogs The Finders, and his prize pupil is a golden retriever named Vira. When Mace Reid and Vira are called in to search...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxii, 433 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The law-enforcement and intelligence arms of government were placed in the service of the Democratic presidential bid and, failing that, were deployed against the incoming Republican administration with the goal of strangling it in the cradle. The media-Democrat "collusion narrative," scandalizing...
17) All the devils
Author
Series
Livia Lone novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Ten years ago, the daughter of Homeland Security Investigations agent B.D. Little vanished into thin air. So did seven other girls - the crimes all bearing the same signature characteristics. Now the disappearances have begun again. And Agent Little's efforts to investigate are being blocked by forces far above his pay grade. Desperate, he turns to Seattle sex-crimes detective Livia Lone, the most obsessive hunter of predators Little knows. Livia...
19) Double exposure
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
David Toland, a decorated Korean War veteran, is now Director of Preservation for the Library of Congress's National Film Archive. He's made it his mission to preserve what he loves most: the Golden Age of American cinema. Then CIA Agent Lana Welles drops in with a film canister that was smuggled over the Berlin Wall at great cost. The contents may prove WWII never really ended-- it just went underground. But not everyone is eager to dig up the past....
20) The last kingdom
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 17
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 451 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"King Ludwig II of Bavaria was an enigmatic figure who was deposed in 1886, mysteriously drowning three days later. Eccentric to the point of madness, history tells us that in the years before he died Ludwig engaged in a worldwide search for a new kingdom, one separate, apart, and in lieu of Bavaria. A place he could retreat into and rule as he wished. But a question remains: did he succeed? Enter Cotton Malone. After many months, Malone's protégé,...
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