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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller
A post 9-11 America sees a wave of suicide bombings by the members
of the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization, who have slipped through
the cracks and remain in the country. The Federal Government,
facing the pressures of political correctness and dissent amongst
enforcement means, has its hands tied. President Dobson leans on
his old friend Todd Fox, who is a professor at the University of
Virginia.
Fox, already in the planning stages with an intelligence shadow
known as Jefferson, commissions a collection of hand-picked
students at the University. This collection, known as "the
Liberators," moves in an expeditious manner to train, mask and
prepare for surgical operations aimed at rooting out the remaining
Al-Qaeda cells in the country, and freeing America of the festering
explosions of evil.
By 1933, life in Vienna is in chaos. The Nazis have taken over
just north of the border; the rail workers are threatening to
strike, and the economy is in shambles. Jean Louis Stein has
completed his engineering studies, but jobs are scarce. Worse yet,
his mother has not heard from his brother Franz in nearly two
years. Frantic, she asks Jean to travel to the United States to
search for him. Jean has no choice but to agree-he will do anything
to stop his mother from crying-but his decision is about to lead
him into a trap between two warring worlds.
Jean's ship docks in New York as the threat of war looms in the
distance. After he finally connects with Franz, it is not long
before his world turns dark once again-his mother has been captured
and placed in a concentration camp along the Danube River. Through
a network of operatives, Jean is soon coerced into spying for the
Germans in order to keep his mother alive.
But as World War II breaks out and pandemonium envelops both the
United States and his homeland, Jean is forced to make a
life-altering decision once again.
The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world
order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our
time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of
Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband
Justin. When Justin sets out on a personal odyssey to uncover the
mystery of her death, what he finds could make him not only a
suspect among his own colleagues, but a target for Tessa's killers
as well.
A master chronicler of the betrayals of ordinary people caught in
political conflict, John le Carre portrays the dark side of
unbridled capitalism as only he can. In The Constant Gardener he
tells a compelling, complex story of a man elevated through
tragedy, as Justin Quayle -- amateur gardener, aging widower, and
ineffectual bureaucrat -- discovers his own natural resources and
the extraordinary courage of the woman he barely had time to love.
Growing up in a family of eight in an Irish neighborhood ghetto in
Boston, Massachusetts, is not an easy life. Cody realizes early on
that a kid from this neighborhood can only become a priest, a cop,
or a criminal. Cody chooses the latter. He quickly adapts to living
on the streets. He desires the life of a criminal and is mentored
by some of the most reputable gangsters known around Boston.
A career criminal, Cody pleads guilty to murder in the second
degree and enters one of the harshest maximum correctional
institutions in the country. But incarceration doesn't stop Cody;
he adjusts easily to prison life. During his sentence, he escapes
twice and commits several murders. With assistance from other
inmates, he's accused of forming execution squads to maintain
power. He helps organize a prison takeover while plotting to commit
more murders. Death has been his best friend all of his life.
Cody has other friends in some strategic positions within the
Massachusetts justice system. He's not the average man nor is he
the average criminal. Although Cody never had a problem escaping
prison, he realizes that he can never escape his past.
Jason Bourne tackles a global media conspiracy and a murderous tech
giant in the latest electrifying entry in Robert Ludlum's New York
Times bestselling series. Jason Bourne has faced many killers
before, but none as dangerous as the assassin Lennon. Lennon's
trail leads Bourne from Iceland to New York and then to Washington
D.C. - and the body count rises with each deadly encounter. Bourne
believes Lennon has a shadowy new employer called the Pyramid. The
only clue to the group's agenda is a young German woman, murdered
in D.C., but the woman's entire identity turns out to be a lie.
Finding the truth may be Bourne's only chance to catch Lennon - and
uncover the conspiracy behind the Pyramid. But the chase comes with
high stakes. Bourne's former lover, journalist Abbey Laurent, is
digging into the mystery too, and Abbey will soon be in the
assassin's crosshairs. Bourne will need every bit of his tradecraft
and his genius for mayhem to take down his biggest threat yet.
Praise for Brian Freeman's Bourne books: 'Bourne fans will hope for
an encore from this talented author' Publishers Weekly 'A treat for
fans of the late Robert Ludlum' Kirkus Reviews
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Junk
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Michael Goodwin
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R593
R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
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Martin Stallworth is a black man trying to make it on Wall Street.
As a junk bond salesman with the investment bank Whorman Skeller
& Co., he has a chance to prove his worth when the firm plans
to launch a major high yield bond deal for a satellite
communications company called Lodestar. Because Lodestar has
important connections to the US Department of Defense, Martin and
the other junk bond salespersons know their jobs are on the line if
they don't sell the deal. Their desperation to do so leads to an
act of espionage and murder. Martin somehow finds himself as the
accused perpetrator of both. Both the cops and a gang of Chinese
thugs under the command of a rogue hedge fund trader are hot on his
trail. "Junk" combines a satirical send-up of a typical investment
bank with elements of a fast-paced thriller. While the narrative
action is riveting, Goodwin's characterizations and descriptive
writing attain the level of serious literary fiction.
At the end of the Cold War, Jack Cash finds himself sitting in a
prison with no hope of parole. It appears that this super spy and
international bounty hunter's days of intelligence gathering are
over. Nicknamed Parthian Stranger by his inmates, Jack spends his
days trying to figure out how to escape the prison where he has
been hidden for the last twenty years. Everything is about to
change for Jack when he awakens one morning to discover he is alone
in the penitentiary. With no guards in sight, Jack makes his way up
the prison walls and out to freedom. Now on the run, Jack is in a
fight for his life and will stop at nothing-even if it means
murdering anyone who gets in his way. But after he meets Sara
Sanders, a victim of a stalker who enlists his help, he has no idea
that the CIA is closing in an attempt to help him. Suddenly the
life of a Parthian Stranger turns in an unexpected direction that
leads him straight into a dangerous situation where he must pull
out all the stops to not only save his own life, but also the lives
of others.
"The gray haired tramp was on the run. It took only seconds for the
younger man to reach out, knowing his grasp would pull the ghost
rider down, but just as his glove latched onto a bony shoulder, the
phantom traveler twisted free. With incredible agility, he hit an
open boxcar, and like some strange insect disappeared inside. Curly
was right behind him, climbing into darkness. Suddenly, there was a
scraping, banging sound as the cargo door opened on the other side
of the train. For one split second, Curly saw the billowing of a
ragged shirt as the hobo jumped into light and was gone. By the
time Curly reached the sunlit opening, the train lurched forward
and he grabbed instinctively to the side of the sliding door. As
the locomotive pulled its hanger-ons out of the station, the gypsy
looked for his ghost but he had vanished. It would be an easy drop
to the ground, only a short walk back to the depot and home."
In all wars the battles sometime continue long after the last shots
are fired; when the veteran's return home forces a family to
glimpse the trials of war through the haunting memories and alien
behavior of their loved one. branch, fully expecting to serve his
tour of duty as a domestic counterintelligence agent stationed in
the Boston area. However, a personality clash with his boss rapidly
resulted in his assignment to the recently formed Phoenix Program
and into a lair of C.I.A. operatives and covert action in Vietnam.
quickly propelled him to a sleep deprived, delusionary, fatal act
that would demand a cover-up of his deed and his clandestine
evacuation to hospitals in Vietnam and Japan. with cold
indifference, and Scott decided to bolt the door on his memories
and remain mute on his time in 'Nam. The gnawing digestion of his
wartime participation haunted him for ten more years until the day
he received a startling phone call; leading to a shocking
re-acquaintance. As a result of this meeting, Scott's discovery
ended years of tormented speculation, but left in its wake a raft
of thought provoking and bone chilling conclusions
'A fast-paced, keenly observed, savage indictment of deceit and
betrayal through the corridors of Washington, with electrifying
surprises right up to the last page!"
-"-Saul Zaentz, producer of 'The English Patient," 'Amadeus," and
'Unbearable Lightness of Being""
'Unrelentingly suspenseful!"
-"Chicago Tribune"
'Deft characterizations. Karman knows how to build suspense. If a
political thriller is your meat and potatoes, this fast-paced novel
is for you!"
-"Newsday"
'An unusually lively political thriller."
-"Publishers Weekly"
'Karman has the gift. Like watching the sharpest big-screen
thriller you can imagine."
-"Cleveland Plain Dealer"
Stolen from his mother at an early age and trained at the Compound,
Adam's abilities and skills are developed and honed until he
becomes the perfect field operative. He is able to play any role
and become whomever the Agency needs him to be. Until one day when
a small band of desperate people recruit him to help find a group
of genetically enhanced individuals that can visually decode other
people's thoughts. Adam not only discovers his parents were part of
the experiment but unearths the true nature behind the Agency. As
he battles to stop it from destroying more lives, he struggles to
comes to terms with his own past involvement. Adam soon realizes
that evil cannot be excused even if it is for the greater good.
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Laura B. Wright
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R766
Discovery Miles 7 660
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