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1) Lethal
Author
Language
English
Description
After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
2) Die trying
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Series
Language
English
Description
In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Edition
Bantam hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped, along with her young son, off a train-load of tourists, Miranda Price is held hostage on a remote reservation by Hawk O'Toole, a man desperate to help his people, only to find herself drawn to her aloof but tender and seductive captor.
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Series
The Cliff Fulton volume v 1
Publisher
Hydra Publications
Language
English
Description
They tried to kill a nation. Revenge and genocide, is that even possible? Walk into the arena of 'Without A Conscious...' where an unsuspecting college student is dragged into a world he never knew. Under a ruthless plot carried out in the name of progress and greed, our nation is attacked. Hindered from the truth by those in power, it's a fight for the right to survive. When Cliff finds a photo of his murdered grandmother under the door of his apartment,...
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Series
The Cliff Fulton volume v 2
Publisher
Hydra Publications
Language
English
Description
...Thought That's Thin... The Second Cliff Fulton Mystery Cliff has a secret, and everyone wants to bury him for it. Walk into the arena of a world gripped in dark secrets, where friend could be foe, and power corrupts absolutely. It is a place of misleading facts, hidden venues, and unexpected choices. When Cliff attends his grandmother's funeral, things thought buried come back to life, flames erupt, and his world is blown apart. With captives taken...
7) Worst case
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Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a kidnapper and would-be killer who is targeting not only children from New York 's wealthiest families but also the city itself.
8) Power play
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Language
English
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Description
It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a deluxe lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness and a desolate seacoast. Jake Landry is a junior executive at the Hammond Aerospace Corporation, a steady, modest, and taciturn guy with a gift for keeping his head down-and a turbulent past he prays he's put behind him. Ordered to fill in for his boss at the annual offsite, he's out of his...
9) Kidnapped
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
Italiano
Description
A gang of thieves hijack a man's car after botching their getaway from a robbery. They take a woman prisoner and command the man to drive them to safety. The man must try to cope with the bad situation he is in as well as trying to get help for a sick child that he is caring for.
10) Home free
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Series
Sisterhood series volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, the president of the United States, Martine Connor.
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Intelligence officer Amy Cornwall must use lethal tactics in open defiance of Army Command when a mysterious adversary kidnaps her family and gives her forty-eight hours to commit an unspeakable crime.
12) Word of honor
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Edition
[Crossings book club edition]
Language
English
Description
Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing?
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Publisher
Shock Rock Publishing
Language
English
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Description
A middle of the night arrival by unmarked helicopters with secret cargo from the Middle East places the facility on high alert. When the unspeakable happens and the mysterious Subject Alpha escapes with Dr. Kathryn Ryan as a hostage, the military is forced to work with Indian Affairs agent Frank Ironhorse Whitman and his team to track the dangerous creature through Crow territory. Archaeological evidence suggests their adversary is an aged old enemy...
14) Hostage
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ex-LAPD officer Jeff Talley became chief of police in a sleepy town, he thought he'd left behind the traumas of his career as a big city hostage negotiator. But when a random crime escalates into a deadly standoff, Talley finds himself thrust into a situation far more volatile than anything he could ever imagine.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House
Language
English
Description
In the Presence of My Enemies, the gripping true story of American missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham's year as hostages in the Philippine jungle, was a New York Times best seller and has sold nearly 350,000 copies. Now releasing in eBook for the first time, this updated edition contains information on the capture and trial of the Burnhams' captors; Gracia's secret return trip to the Philippines; and updates on recent events in Gracia's life,...
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Language
English
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Description
"On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage. At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in northern California. "How much is on hand, would you say?" he asked the teller. "I'll want it all." "You're robbing me?" "Not you," Boyd replied, revealing a Temptation .38 Special. Angie Bing, the teller, scraped together $81,000. Boyd stuffed...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Language
English
Description
The never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue by President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the world's most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love.
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Language
English
Appears on list
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
19) A maidens grave
Author
Publisher
Viking Penguin a division of Penguin Putnam
Language
English
Description
A schoolbus carrying eight deaf schoolgirls and their teachers breaks suddenly on a Kansas highway. They should have never stopped. Waiting for them are 3 heartless men who've just escaped from prison...each with nothing to loose.
20) Taken 2
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
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