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1) Toxic prey
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When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon
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"Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor have been separated for five months following their last assignment, a dangerous mission in Venezuela to locate and detain an infamous Army deserter. Now, in Berlin, they are reunited and tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and...
3) Fire strike
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Oregon files volume 17
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"When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon...
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The most sinister terrorists won't be sneaking through our borders from the Middle East. They're already here. This is the untold story about the silent, yet extremely dangerous threat from the Muslim establishment in America? An alarming exposé of how Muslims have for years been secretly infiltrating American society, government, and culture, pretending to be peace-loving and patriotic, while supporting violent jihad and working to turn America...
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"From a smattering of ominous right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, to the shocking January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, America has seen the culmination of a long-building war on democracy being waged by a fundamentally violent and antidemocratic far-right movement that unironically calls itself the "Patriot" movement. So how did we get here? Award-winning journalist David Neiwert--who has been following the rise...
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Jack Ryan, Jr volume 13
Jack Ryan Jr volume 13
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 16
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 10
Jack Ryan Jr volume 13
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 16
Jack Ryan Jr. novel volume 10
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To stop an unseen enemy from destroying the Campus, Jack Ryan Jr. is led to the South China Sea where he, after a midair collision serves as a flash point, must put the pieces of a conspiracy together to stop the world's two remaining super powers from going to war
Jack Ryan Jr. is in a world of trouble. When a benign surveillance operation takes a deadly turn, Jack finds himself locked in a struggle with an unseen enemy bent on destroying the Campus....
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Al Queda's war on America did not start on September 11, 2001. Just ask the Diplomatic Security Service.
It was on February 6, 1993, that the United States was first attacked on its own soil by foreign terrorists. A zealous band of Middle Easterners, holy warriors determined to punish the U.S. for its supposed transgressions against Islam, packed over a ton of home made explosives into the back of a rented van. They drove their bomb across the Hudson...
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From Accomplice to Evil: "The world is simmering in the familiar rhetoric and actions of movements and regimes-from Hezbollah and al Qaeda to the Iranian Khomeinists and the Saudi Wahhabis-who swear to destroy us and others like us, and we are repeating the errors of the recent past. Like their 20th-century predecessors, they openly proclaim their intentions, and carry them out whenever and wherever they can. Like our 20th-century predecessors, we...
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This collection of essays explores the formation and normalisation of fear in the context of war and terrorism.
Freedom from fear is a universal right and fundamental for human well-being. People often look to governments, humanitarian agencies, and other institutions to further this aim. However, this book shows that these organisations often use the same logic of fear to monitor, control, and contain human beings in zones of violence.
This...
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This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that 'suicide-bombings' are motivated by a nihilistic hatred of life, this book argues that it is more helpful to examine such violent agency through the concept of 'sacrifice'.
Through a unique look at the way 'sacrifice' is used in the Arabic language, this book offers penetrating insights into jihadi thought....
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Based on his first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin shows the real threats we face-from nuclear attack to homegrown terrorism. Pushed out by the White House for refusing to sugarcoat its failures, Ervin candidly discusses the circumstances of his departure. He takes the reader inside the decision-making councils of this newest department of the U.S. government, and...
13) Deadly Games
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If, if the world did not have the words "if and what if", what would become? Then, a lot of things that people regret will happen? Yang Xiao, a newspaper reporter, steps into a bathing hotel he has never been to before because of a thought, and is unexpectedly involved in a horrible unsolved case, which, like a domino effect, leads to other unbelievable encounters. The girl whose head has been cut off appears in his office; a beautiful subordinate...
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Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice?
Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, we will never end armed conflict. As violent insurgencies continue to erupt across the globe, we need people who will brave the depths of the Sri Lankan jungle and scale the heights of the Colombian mountains, painstakingly tracking down the heavily armed and dangerous leaders of these terrorist groups in order...
15) The Fund
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U.S. defense intelligence operative Kate Molares is investigating a suspicious international money trail.
Her instincts place her at the center of a plot involving a terrifying new kind of terrorism-financial terrorism- perpetrated by a suave, handsome Middle Eastern hedge fund mogul. His goal is to wreck the West by bringing the global economy to its knees.
Kate's mission takes her from the defense intelligence command center on the outskirts of...
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This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way.
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda's creation almost twenty years ago, and sketching its global mutation, Mohamedou explains that there is a cogent strategy to Al Qaeda's actions. He shows that the 'war on terror'...
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Europe is facing an unprecedented and growing terror threat as homegrown extremists inspired by jihadis and an Islamic State squeezed by the West are desperate to attack outside the 'caliphate'. Terrorism in Europe: In the Crosshairs, examines this extreme threat to Europe through a collection of articles by journalists of The Independent.
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Fear is born of truth! Before the sensible and reasonable rumors, perhaps the more unbelievable truth!
In front of the sensational psychic things, often hide the most beautiful side of the beast.
In the pursuit of the truth, Mu Shen Yu and other members of the spooky case team have been willing to risk their lives many times to solve one mystery after another to recover the truth of reality. But the truth may be more unbelievable and hard to believe...
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The Secret...The ultimate weapon, a sleek silver missile that carries no warhead, just a doomsday system that will launch every nuclear device in the U.S. arsenal. No overrides. No counter-commands. No stopping it.
The Terrorists...Desperate men, driven over the brink by a government they feel betrayed them, have taken over the Omega Missile system, stated their demands, and are ready to push the button that will kill us all.
20) Hunting Hunter
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The disappearance of the police eight years ago and the blood at the crime scene eight years later leads to a chase between the real killer and the police.
The murder case is a series of fame, the pursuit of excitement, or to kill to silence, or just a life and death gamble, TA in order to clear their own sin, do not hesitate to use other people's lives to do scapegoat, was pushed off a high building cold body, hidden in the refrigerator remains,...
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