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Alex Cross novels volume 26
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English
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A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
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Riverhead Books
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English
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Follows the lives of four people--a baker, a young father, a sniper, and a cellist who commits to playing Albinoni's "Adagio" once a day for twenty-two days in memory of his neighbors who were killed--trying to adjust to their new daily routines in war-torn Sarajevo.
3) One shot
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English
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Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter-a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is certain something is not right-and soon the slam-dunk...
4) Cross Fire
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Alex Cross novels volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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As Detective Alex Cross contends with a D.C. sniper, FBI agent Siegel, and his upcoming wedding to Bree, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 11
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English
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From a helicopter high above the California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night...And on the streets of Portland, Jack Reacher is pulled out of his wandering life - plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends...and the people he once trusted with his life.
6) Crosshairs
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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NYC detective Michael Bennett teams up with a former Army Ranger and sniper whose long, unexplained absences from duty causes suspicions during the investigation of a serial killer.
7) Soft target
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Series
Ray Cruz novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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A follow-up to "Dead Zero" finds retired marine sergeant Ray Cruz confronting a band of terrorists who have taken over the Mall of America, where they begin to systematically execute more than one thousand hostages.
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Mercy Gunderson mysteries volume 1
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English
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On medical leave from the army, Mercy Gunderson returns home to South Dakota, which isn't much safer for her than Iraq. Arriving just after the death of her father, it is up to Mercy to decide what to do with the family ranch. When the body of an Indian boy is found on her land nobody seems to be doing anything about it, especially the local law enforcement.
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Raines of Wind Canyon volume 6
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Against the sun: It's not in bodyguard Jake Cantrell's job description to share his suspicions with his assignments. Beautiful executive Sage Dumont may be in charge, but Jake's not on her payroll. As a former Special Forces marine, Jake trusts his gut, and it's telling him there's something off about a shipment arriving at Marine Drilling International. His instinct is aroused ... in more ways than one. A savvy businesswoman, Sage knows better than...
10) Night's landing
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
Returning home means returning to danger in this immersive tale of action, intrigue, and romance.
Sarah Dunnemore has just returned to her family home in Tennessee when she gets news that her twin brother, Rob, has been seriously wounded in a sniper shooting in Central Park. She rushes to New York to be with him, only to come up against his no-nonsense partner.
Deputy U.S. Marshal Nate Winter...
11) Forced to kill
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Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is no stranger to sacrifice. Fourteen years ago, he paid a heavy price in service to his country when he was tortured to the brink of death by Nicaraguan interrogator Montez de Oca. When the FBI uncovers a mutilated corpse from a remote Utah lake, McBride must face the ugly truth that Montez de Oca is back in action and will continue to kill unless McBride can stop him.
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Series
Sniper thrillers (Jack Coughlin) volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
An American general is captured in the Middle East by terrorists who threaten to behead him within days. One strange fact: moments before he is rendered unconscious during the attack, the general notices that his captors speak American English. What's going on?
13) Rendezvous
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Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
In this tense, riveting mind game, New York Times bestselling novelist Nelson DeMille delivers a suspenseful short story in the tradition of his classic military novels The General's Daughter and Word of Honor. A band of soldiers in its last month of service in Vietnam goes out on a patrol through enemy territory only to find a female Viet Cong sniper in its path. Recounting the mission in shattering and sometimes gruesome detail, DeMille creates...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Kyle Swanson was once sniper in the Marine Corps, and is now a member of a special operations team known as Task Force Trident. Juba, a twisted mastermind and sniper, who is determined to seize control of the terrorist world from Al Qaeda, tests a new, devastating chemical weapon developed by Islamic terrorists at a British royal wedding in London, killing hundreds of people. It's Swanson's mission to hunt down Juba.
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Hawker volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A man holds twelve children hostage at gunpoint. Across the street, James Hawker dangles from a skyscraper, watching the terrorist through a sniper's scope. Hawker has a shot, and he wants to take it, but the police brass say no. By the time he gets permission, it will be far too late. The terrorist opens fire, killing two of the children before Hawker can take him out. When the smoke clears, the madman is dead, and Hawker's career is toast. No longer...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
A bush-savvy gunny and an inexperienced bureaucrat must track down and eliminate a powerful rebel leader and his Colombian drug-lord financier in the jungles of Central America.
Sergeant Thomas Beckett is teamed up with a death row inmate on a suicide mission to the Balkans. Their target is a rogue general accused of running a stealth operation that involves ethnic cleansing missions. But Beckett discovers that the government is using him as a pawn...
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Series
Reaper novels (Nicholas Irving) volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Vick "The Reaper" Harwood is an esteemed sniper with a record kill count -- 33 kills in 90 days -- when he is knocked out under mortar attack in Afghanistan. He wakes up back in the United States with little memory of what happened, his spotter and gun both unrecovered from the battlefield. Harwood has resigned himself to slowly picking up the pieces of his life, training Special Forces snipers in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and starting a promising...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
World War II threatens to engulf the globe. The beleaguered Soviets, struggling to hold back the rising German tide, face despair and defeat daily. Yet just as all seems lost, a fearless female sniper named Tat'yana Levchenko gains fame in the Battle of Sevastopol with her remarkable composure and stunning skill. Offering hope in her nation's darkest moments, she becomes a Soviet hero, and word of her beauty and prowess eventually reaches Washington,...
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Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 7
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter comes a thriller that plunges deep into the world of high-tech national security, the hearts and minds of those who kill for duty, and the latest mission for veteran sniper Bob Lee Swagger- who may have finally met the only man who can outshoot him.
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Sniper elite volume 4
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the next thrilling installment of the non-stop action Sniper Elite series from the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller American Sniper, a top secret band of elite warriors are forced to take a side in the Mexican narco wars. Bob Pope, the director of an American secret intelligence anti-terrorist program, loses contact with his most trusted operative, Navy Master Chief Gil Shannon, fearing him dead when a mission to take out a Swiss banker...