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Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
One of the top Northern Ireland IRA terrorists escapes to New York where he, under a false name, lives in the house of an Irish cop who knows nothing about his real identity. Their surprising friendship and the cop's growing suspicions force the terrorist to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.
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New York City. Two in the morning. A subway car heading uptown. Jack Reacher, plus five other passengers. Four are okay. The fifth isn't. In the next few tense seconds Reacher will make a choice--and trigger an electrifying chain of events in this gritty, gripping masterwork of suspense by #1 New York Times bestseller Lee Child. Susan Mark was the fifth passenger. She had a lonely heart, an estranged son, and a big secret. Reacher, working with a...
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English
Description
New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day.
4) Devil's own
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
An Irish-American cop unknowingly brings in an IRA terrorist and tries to stop him before he destroys any more lives.
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her college sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected they'd have together: a quiet house in...
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Mike Hammer mysteries volume 14
Language
English
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"In the midst of a violent snowstorm, Mike Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archaeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath."--Blackstone Audio.
7) The island
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English
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"America is about to face the deadliest terrorist attack on it's soil since 9/11. Iran has been planning a revenge attack for years, with three goals in mind. Bring America to its knees. Assassinate the popular U.S. President J.P. Dellenbaugh. And neutralize their most successful agent, Dewey Andreas. The first pre-emptive attack against Dewey Andreas fails but it worries the head of the CIA enough that he sends Dewey out of town and off the grid....
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian partner, McClane careens wildly from one end of New York to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game. It's a battle of wits between a psychopathic genius and a heroic cop who once again finds himself having a really bad day.
9) Die Hard : 4-Film Collection: Die Hard; Die Hard 2; Die Hard With A Vengeance; Live Free or Die Hard
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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The cop they can't stop. This incredible Die Hard collection features four of the most explosively entertaining action movies in Hollywood history. Bruce Willis stars as John McClane, the tough-as-nails cop with a wry sense of humor and a nose for deadly dilemmas, from the top of an L.A. skyscraper to the streets of New York City. Wrong place. Wrong time. Right man. Yippe Ki Yay!"--Container.
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Simon Ziele mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The murder of Judge Hugo Jackson is out of Detective Simon Ziele's jurisdiction in more ways than one. It's high profile enough to command the attention of the notorious new police commissioner, since Judge Jackson was presiding over the sensationalist trial of Al Drayson. Drayson, an anarchist, set off a bomb at a Carnegie wedding, but instead of killing millionaires, it killed passersby, including a child. Furthermore, Simon's assigned precinct...
11) Ground Zero
Series
Publisher
ABDO & Daughters
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, in which two airplanes were crashed into the World Trade Center, and the rescue and recovery work that occurred afterwards.