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Renowned theater critic John Lahr created a bold reworking of Richard Condon's political thriller, updating the action to the 1990s while retaining the core premise of a brainwashed war hero who's programmed to become an assassin. Kelsey Grammer stars as Raymond Shaw in this co-production with Chicago's Shattered Globe Theatre, starring the original cast.
Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Guest Suites Chicago in March 1996.
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22) The black widow
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 16
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Bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another spellbinding international thriller—one that finds the legendary Gabriel Allon grappling with an ISIS mastermind. Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin described as the most compelling fictional creation "since Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond" (Rocky Mountain News), is poised to become the chief of Israel’s secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his...
23) Back blast
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2016.
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Returning to Washington to uncover the truth about why the CIA betrayed him, former elite agent-turned-Gray Man Court Gentry discovers that the case is still very much under discussion and that he has stumbled onto a secret that powerful enemies will kill to keep.
24) Bullseye
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Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again. Stepping directly into the line of fire, the president of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations...
25) Blood of elves
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Into a tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witches of the world have been waiting. Ciri, the granddaughter of Queen Calanthe, the Lioness of Cintra, has strange powers and a strange destiny, for prophecy names her the Flame, one with the power to change the world: for good, or for evil.
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Paul Madriani novels volume 12
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While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
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"Kate Rees, a young American markswoman, has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris with a dangerous assignment--assassinate the Führer. Wrecked by grief after a Luftwaffe bombing killed her husband and infant daughter, she is armed with a rifle, a vendetta, and a fierce resolve. But other than rushed and rudimentary instruction, she has no formal spy training. Thrust into the red-hot center of the war, a country girl from rural...
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Spademan volume 1
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Working as a hit man on the ravaged streets of New York City after a dirty bomb is unleashed on Times Square, Spademan takes an assignment to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist only to discover that his mark holds a shocking secret and that his client hides a more sinister agenda.
29) Cruel beauty
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Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
30) Four dead queens
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Keralie is the best pickpocket in all of the kingdoms of Quadara, but when she steals a "comm disk" and realizes a royal murder plot is afoot, she must learn who to trust and fast.
31) Saving faith
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A plot by the CIA to blackmail members of Congress into giving the agency more power. For the plot to succeed, a beautiful Washington lobbyist has to be killed, but a detective comes to her aid and they turn the tables on the plotters.
32) A draw of kings
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Staff and the sword volume 3
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"In the stirring conclusion to THE STAFF AND THE SWORD fantasy epic, after the king's death Illustra faces threats both inside and outside its borders. Will the next king be revealed in time to save their world?"--
33) Burn
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 7
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2014.
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At last, Detective Michael Bennett and his family are coming home to New York City. Thanks to Bennett, the ruthless crime lord whose vengeful mission forced the Bennett family into hiding has been brought down for good. Back in the city that never sleeps, Bennett takes over a chaotic Outreach Squad in Harlem, where he receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. With...
34) A cast of stones
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Staff and the sword volume 1
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2013
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"Drunkard Errol Stone has to shape up fast when his hunt for the next glass unwittingly merges with a dangerous quest to save his kingdom"--
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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
36) Orphan X
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2016.
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"The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He's also a man with a dangerous past. Chosen as a child, he was raised and trained as part of the off-the-books black...
37) Fool's quest
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"After nearly killing his oldest friend, the Fool, and finding his daughter stolen away by those who were once targeting the Fool, FitzChivarly Farseer is out for blood. And who better to wreak havoc than a highly trained and deadly former royal assassin? Fitz might have let his skills go fallow over his years of peace, but such things, once learned, are not so easily forgotten. And nothing is more dangerous than a man who has nothing left to lose"--...
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Mighty Greyboar, the world's greatest professional strangler, is dissatisfied with his lot in life. The work is steady and the pay is good, but what, he wonders, is the point of it all.
But when he learns that there is a Supreme Philosophy of Life, Greyboar the Strangler is Born Again! Still, just how can a professional man in good standing pay the bills with all this philosophical exploration getting in the way.
That's what his hard-headed agent...
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 2
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2013.
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Beatrice Lockwood, one of the intrepid ladies of Lantern Street, is in the middle of a case when her past comes back to haunt her. A former spy for the Crown has come out of retirement - after a disastrous case that left him scarred and needing a cane - to hunt down his sister's blackmailer. Beatrice is his chief suspect. But when he realizes that she is not the villain he seeks, they set out to find the real extortionist together.
40) Shatter city
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Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 2
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2019.
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Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father. When a rebel uprising strands her in Pas, and the city comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
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