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"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 13
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In this 13th Reacher novel, the former military police major and notorious drifter Jack Reacher grows suspicious of a fellow subway passenger as their train approaches Grand Central Station in New York City. As a shady situation develops, Reacher debates between intervening to save surrounding lives or avoiding the predicament in order to save his own. He confronts a suicide bomber on the nearly deserted Manhattan subway car--a confrontation that...
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For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD's Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter -- but...
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Jammer Davis thrillers volume 1
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With its revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, the C-500 had become the freight airframe of choice. Until a routine delivery goes horribly wrong.
Falling like a stone from six miles up, a brand new C-500 crashes in central France, killing the two pilots aboard. When French officials take over this highly public investigation, they call in the best there is: Frank 'Jammer' Davis. A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Davis is part of the NTSB's...
5) The deep sky
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of...
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This work is a narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror. In December 2009, a group of the CIA's top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking...
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"Ex-Army Ranger sniper Rafe Hendrix leads the Secret Service detail of President Wyetta Johnson. Rafe and Wyetta became close when they served together in Afghanistan and he saved her life during a recon misadventure that cost her a leg. The President's wife visits a D.C. private-school classroom, and Hendrix is on sniper duty when a suicide bomber heads toward the First Lady. Hendrix disobeys a direct order, and an unthinkable disaster unfolds. Though...
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"He's a cop trying to stop a serial bomber. And she'll stop at nothing to clear her own name. When a deadly bomb goes off during a climate change debate, librarian and event coordinator Jackie Santoro becomes the prime suspect. Her motive, according to Detective Avery Wick: to avenge the suicide of her prominent father, who was accused of crimes by a city councilman attending the event. Though Avery has doubts about Jackie's guilt, he can't exonerate...
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David Gold novels volume 1
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"Someone is setting off fire bombs in Chicago. They claim the violence won't stop unless authorities release Hassan Al-Shahid, a graduate student whose plan to set off a bomb at the Art Institute was thwarted by Chicago homicide detective David Gold and his then-partner, Paul Liszewski. It cost Liszewski his life and put Gold in the hospital. Later, as Gold accepts an award on the steps of the Art Institute, a car bomb explodes across the street...
11) Horses of God
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A fictional account of the lives of the men responsible for the suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003.
Ten year-old Yachine and his thirteen-year-old brother Hamid live in the slums. Hamid works hard to support his family, but eventually gets in with the wrong crowd and goes to prison. After years in jail, Hamid returns home an Islamic fundamentalist. He persuades Yachine and his pals to join him. Their spiritual leader trains them and one day...
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"Special Agent Vera Taggart walked away from a promising career as an artist to join the FBI...Taggart's first assignment is a decades-old cold case centered on a cult of suicide bombers known as the Sons of Elijah who believe they've been reborn hundreds of times, going back centuries. It seems like a low-risk assignment until a bomb tears apart a crowded Chicago restaurant. The Sons of Elijah have returned--and now it's up to Taggart to stop their...
13) Explosive force
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Just before the K-9 training center explodes, reporter Heidi Jenks spots the bomber--and now he wants her dead. While military explosives expert First Lieutenant Nick Donovan doesn't trust journalists, it's his duty to protect Heidi. And with a killer circling closer, he and his bomb-sniffing K-9 are all that stands between Heidi and someone planning to silence her for good.
14) Ted K: Unabomber
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An exploration of Ted Kaczynksi's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.
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"A haunting account of the sixteen years when a young Jamie Gehring and her family lived closer than anyone to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. As a child in Lincoln, Montana, Jamie Gehring and her family shared their land, their home, and their dinner table with a hermit with a penchant for murder. But they had no idea that the odd recluse living in the adjacent cabin was anything more than a disheveled man who brought young Jamie painted rocks as gifts....
17) The war within
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A would-be suicide bomber has a crisis of conscience after most of the other members of his cell are arrested.
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With its propulsive drive, vividly realized characters, and profound observations about soul and society, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Susan Choi's novel is as thrilling as it is lyrical, and it confirms her place as one of the most important novelists chronicling the American experience.
Lee is a math professor at a second-tier university in the Midwest. When a mail bomb goes off in the office of the star computer scientist next door, Lee
...19) Blown away
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When an explosion jolts the city of Boston, bomb squad expert Jimmy dove is pulled out of an early retirement and into the most harrowing work of his career.
20) A common man
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Ben Kingsley stars as a seemingly average citizen who plants five powerful bombs in different locations around a major city and threatens to detonate them unless his demand is met: The release of four of the most deadly international terrorists from government prisons. But in an urban jungle already torn apart by fear, what could be the real motive behind a cunning madman's ultimate plan? Ben Cross co-stars in this explosive action-thriller about...
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