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81) Night owl
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pulled out of retirement when someone sabotages an innovative aerospace project, Brad Tasker, drawn into a dangerous conspiracy-and a string of suspicious deaths, is targeted by assassins and, with no one to trust, must adapt to a new game of espionage or die
82) Tomás Nevinson
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Thou shalt not kill". Even Hitler? Javier Marías explores the question in this novel
83) The amber crown
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1904
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Accused of murdering the king, Valdas, Captain of the High Guard, goes on the run, while Mirza, a healer-witch, is given a task by Valdas' dead king, and Lind, the clever assassin responsible for the king's death, faces a traumatic past to have a future
85) Gunmetal gray
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
After five years on the run Court Gentry is back on the inside at the CIA. But his first mission makes him wish he had stayed on the outs when a pair of Chinese agents try to take him down in Hong Kong. His hunt for answers takes him to his old friend, Donald Fitzroy, who is being held hostage by the Chinese. Fitzroy was contracted to find Fan Jiang, a former member of an ultra-secret computer warfare unit. The first two kill teams Fitzroy sent to...
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Series
Starblade chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In his job as the county's spook seventeen-year-old Thomas Ward is used to battling boggarts, witches, and other creatures of the dark. But now he and his apprentice, Jenny, must team up with former rivals and enemies to fight the evil Kobalos warriors intent on destroying the county. The fight has cost the life of a strong ally, Grimalkin the witch assassin. Determined to end the war with the demons, Tom leads Jenny and Alice to Pendle for one last...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
When Sybella accompanies the Duchess to France, she expects trouble, but she isn't expecting a deadly trap. Surrounded by enemies both known and unknown, Sybella searches for the undercover assassins from the convent of St. Mortain who were placed in the French court years ago. Genevieve has been undercover for so many years, she no longer knows who she is or what she's supposed to be fighting for. When she discovers a hidden prisoner who may be of...
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Series
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English
Description
"The world's largest bounty has just been placed upon America's top spy. His only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to the truth. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous mission ever - one that has already claimed the lives of the people closest to him, including his new wife - he's going to need help - a lot of it. Not knowing whom he can trust, Harvath finds an unlikely ally in Norwegian...
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Series
W.A.R.P volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever
91) Death sworn
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Ileni is losing her magic. And that means losing everything she has ever known. Exiled to teach sorcery to assassins hidden deep within the mountains, she expects no one will ever hear from her again. The two previous tutors are dead, and the elders deemed her expendable. Yet as Ileni unravels the mystery surrounding her predecessors' deaths, she'll uncover threatening secrets that have been kept for decades. Even her dangerous new love may not be...
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Series
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English
Description
"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon - a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption - now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life - all the time wrestling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[2007], ©1999
Language
English
Description
An embittered ex-CIA agent, Michael Osbourne is drawn into the troubled peace of Northern Ireland when his father-in-law, ex-Senator Douglas Cannon, is appointed ambassador to Britain and becomes the target of ruthless assassin Jean-Paul Delaroche
94) Divine justice
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Known by his alias, 'Oliver Stone', John Carr is the most wanted man in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men who hid the truth of Stone's past and kept him in the shadows were finally silenced. But Stone's freedom has come at a steep price, the assassinations he carried out have prompted the highest levels of the United States Government to unleash a massive manhunt. Meanwhile, with their friend and unofficial leader in hiding, the members...
95) Quarry's blood
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When a true crime novelist announces he's the subject of her next book, Quarry, a professional hitman, must journey into his bloody past to settle old scores as killers come out of the woodwork bent on revenge
Author
Series
Allies and assassins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Jared inherits the throne of Archenfield after his older brother, Prince Anders, is murdered. He relies on the twelve officers of the court to advise him but soon suspects one of them could be responsible for his brother's death and vows to hunt down the killer, who may be after Jared as well"--
97) ONE MINUTE OUT
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Series
Gray Man thrillers volume 9
Language
English
Description
"Is it ever the wrong time to do the right thing? That's the question the Gray Man faces in the latest explosive novel from New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney. I am Court Gentry. In my time, I've seen plenty of bad stuff. Some things worse than others, but nothing that can match this horror show. I was on a simple mission in Bosnia. A bad guy needed to be put down; in and out, no problem. But then I stumbled across a nightmare-a room full...
98) Fixit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, together again, must track scant clues through L.A.'s perilous landscape as Grace's predicament grows more uncertain. A complication arises in the form of Winnie Hando,...
99) Blade breaker
Author
Series
Realm breaker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
"Dom, a grieving immortal, strives to fulfill a broken oath. Sorasa, an outcast assassin, faces her past when it returns with sharpened teeth. Valtik, an old sorceress, summons a mighty power. And Corayne, a pirate's daughter with an ancient magic in her blood, steps closer to becoming the hero she's destined to be. Together they must assemble an army to face Queen Erida and Taristan's wicked forces. But something deadly waits in the shadows, something...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When her foster brother's suddenly not-dead relative comes back into the picture, Gin Blanco, who wields potent Ice and Stone elemental magic, finds herself on the outside looking in until she discovers that this sudden interloper is planning something that could destroy them all
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