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1) Wild Fire
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
Author
Publisher
M. Evans
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
When war breaks out between Russia and the Ukraine, a Ukrainian spy in the U.S. steals a Stealth bomber with nuclear missiles and flies to the front. What few people realize is that the spy, a U.S. pilot, is really working for the Pentagon.
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Shot out of the air in enemy territory in the middle of the greatest international crisis since the end of the Cold War, former U.S. Secret Service agent Marcus Ryker finds himself facing an impossible task. Not only does he have to somehow elude detection and capture by Russian special forces, but he must convince his own government to grant safe harbor to the one man responsible for the global mayhem--Russian double agent and assassin Oleg Kraskin....
10) Triple
Author
Language
English
Description
As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad's number-one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing 200 tons of uranium. The world's balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is nuclear holocaust.
11) Critical Mass
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A nuclear fission expert, troubled by the fact that two small tactical nuclear devices are missing from a storage facility in the former Soviet Union, sets out to find out what has happened to them.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Overview: A long-time staple of International Relations courses, this new edition continues the important discussion of nuclear proliferation, while looking at the regions and issues now at the forefront of the nuclear question. Over the past fifteen years, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons has been a staple in International Relations courses because of its brevity and crystal-clear explanations. The new edition, An Enduring Debate, continues the important...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes...
15) Dirty war
Publisher
HBO Films
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Feature film about fanatical terrorists who are planning to launch a nuclear attack with a "dirty bomb', a homemade radioactive device, in the heart of London. Every minute counts as authorities search for them in this action-suspense thriller that addresses the question: how prepared are we for the unthinkable?
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
THE DEVIL'S LIGHT tells the story of an AL Qaeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor, who, on orders from Osama Bin Laden, directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on 9/11/10, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown...
17) The Peacemaker
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When a nuclear bomb goes missing in the former Soviet Union, a diplomat and a Special Forces Colonel join forces to avert disaster.
Author
Series
John Corey volume 4
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
19) 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....
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Language
English
Description
NSA operative Charlie Dean must find a missing nuclear warhead before a terrorist group detonates it on the ocean floor in a plot to shift the earth's surface and cause world-wide disaster. The terrorists call it "God's revenge."