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1) Balthazar
Author
Series
Alexandria quartet volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1958
Language
English
Description
The deeply affecting second novel of the Alexandria Quartet, which boldly questions perception and the nature of contemporary love. In Alexandria, Egypt, in the years before World War II, Durrell's narrator, Darley, seeks to fully understand his sexual obsession with two women: the infamous Justine, and Melissa, a dancer. In Darley's conversations with Balthazar, a doctor and mystic, it soon becomes clear that Darley's fixation is more complex and...
3) In shadows
Author
Publisher
Mira
Language
English
Description
"Jack McCann has been in love with Shelly since they were teens. They married just out of college and right before he went to work as an undercover agent for the FBI. When he can, he slips away from his assignments to see her. Jack has been undercover on his latest case for months, investigating a weapons-smuggling business. But just as the FBI is set to make the bust, Jack's cover is blown. The last thing he feels as he crashes through a warehouse...
Author
Series
Alex Morrow novels volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to testify against a violent arms dealer, police detective Alex Morrow finds her efforts challenged by a privileged Scottish lawyer's money laundering scheme and a vengeful woman prisoner.
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A spoof on the thriller genre starring Thomas Lang, an ex-Scots Guards officer who is offered $100,000 to assassinate an industrialist. Lang, an honorable man, rejects the offer and warns the victim, only to discover the victim was the one who put out the contract. From there, laughs and thrills. By a British comedy writer, author of Jeeves and Wooster.
Author
Series
The last gunfighter series volume 22
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Frank Morgan joins forces with a daring U.S. secret agent and faces the ultimate battle for survival--before an all-out civil war explodes.
7) Liberty
Author
Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"On a quiet park bench in Manhattan - just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center - spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world....
8) Cuba libre
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Bank robber Ben Tyler agrees to participate in a scheme to run guns into Cuba on the eve of the Spanish-American war in 1898, and once there meets and falls in love with Amelia Brown, the mistress of a wealthy American planter who has enough money to keep Ben and Amelia in style for a long time, if only they can figure out how to get it.
9) Burnt sienna
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Painter Chase Malone is commissioned to paint Sienna, the beautiful wife of a powerful international arms dealer who had his last three wives murdered right after their portraits were completed.
Author
Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gun-running operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
13) 22 seconds
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 22
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"22 seconds… until Lindsay Boxer loses her badge—or her life. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There’s buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it’s...
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A biochemist is being sought by lethal forces because of his knowledge of a powerful new drug. He seeks the services of Cavanaugh, a former Delta Force operator, who specializes in creating new untraceable identities for his clients. In this case, however, a brutal attack wipes out his entire team of agents and Cavanaugh sets out to find those responsible.
15) Valdez is coming
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tricked by a wealthy landowner into shooting an innocent man, constable Bob Valdez is determined to make the landowner pay the dead man's wife for his wrongful death.
16) The warrior
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Battle-scarred soldier John Nightwalker crosses paths with Alicia Ponte, who seeks to expose her father's traitorous crimes of selling weapons to the enemy in Iraq. Together, they travel through the brutal Arizona desert, but their journey is about to take an unexpected turn.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gunrunning operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
18) Rum punch
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell's profits from Freeport to Miami. But the feds are on to Jackie--and now the aging, but still hot, flight attendant will have to do prison time or play ball, which makes her a prime "loose end" that Ordell needs to tie up permanently. Jackie, however, has other options. And with the help of Max Cherry -- an honest...
19) Black ice
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An American book translator in Paris, Chloe Underwood, longing for some excitement, gets more than she bargains for when a new assignment immerses her in a deadly world of murder and illegal arms, forcing her to go into hiding with a mysterious stranger.