(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
1) Bel Canto
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan. From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed...
Author
Series
Reluctant heroes volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Former Navy SEAL Ian Dunn has been tasked by a mysterious government agency with rescuing two kidnapped children believed to have been taken prisoner in a South American embassy.
3) Do or die
Author
Series
Reluctant heroes volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Navy SEAL Ian Dunn went rogue in a big way when he turned his talents to a lawless life of jewel heists and con jobs, or so the world has been led to believe. In reality, the former Special Ops warrior is still fighting for good, leading a small band of freelance covert operatives who take care of high-stakes business in highly unofficial ways. That makes Ian the hands-down choice when the U.S. government must breach a heavily guarded embassy and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat-the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife....
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that claimed the life of his friend and colleague, Eric Petrosian is back in Sarajevo at the American embassy, and the specter of war once again hangs over the Balkans. The Bosnian Serb leader, who had for a time been seeking a stable peace, has turned back to his nationalist roots and is threatening to pull Bosnia apart in a bloody struggle for control . . . and behind him is a shadowy mafia figure pulling...
7) Bel Canto
Language
English
Description
Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Max-an elderly Paris bookstall owner-is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent Tom Green. Their investigation reveals that Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his grim history, or even to the mysterious old...
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan. From the bestselling author of "The Magician's Assistant" comes a marvelous novel of love, opera, and terrorism set in South America. Two couples, complete opposites, fall in love; sexual identities become confused; and a horrific imprisonment is transformed...
Author
Series
Reluctant heroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Navy SEAL Ian Dunn went rogue, or so the world has been led to believe. In reality, he's still fighting for good, leading a small band of operatives who 'unofficially' take care of high-stakes deals. The U.S. government wants Ian to breach an embassy and rescue a pair of kidnapped children. Ian's beautiful new attorney Phoebe is determined to free them, and insists she go along. Intense feelings grow between them as they gear up, and they will do...
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Hugo Marston, a former FBI agent and head of security at the US embassy in Paris, investigates the abduction of aging bookseller Max Koche, and soon the bodies of more missing booksellers are found floating in the Seine.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"The explosive inside account of the attack against the U.S. diplomatic and intelligence outposts in Benghazi, Libya. On the night of September 11, 2012, the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, Libya, came under ferocious attack by a heavily armed group of Islamic terrorists. The prolonged firefight, and the attack hours later on a nearby CIA outpost, resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the American ambassador to Libya, Christopher...
.png)