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Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 19
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English
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"Someone has taken a shot at the president of France in the City of Light. The bullet was American. The distance between the gunman and the target was exceptional. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? Very few, but John Kott--an American marksman gone bad--is one of them. And after fifteen years in prison, he's out, unaccounted for, and likely drawing a bead on a G-8 summit packed with enough world leaders...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 18
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English
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"Never go back--but Jack Reacher does, and the past finally catches up with him. Never Go Back is #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child's new novel of action-charged suspense starring "one of the best thriller characters at work today" (Newsweek). Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 21
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English
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It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom -- an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: a Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 8
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English
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Once upon a time, consummate loner Jack Reacher was a military police investigator. When Jack is called to investigate the death of an Army general in a North Carolina hotel, he discovers a conspiracy that is far more than a mere scandal.
6) Persuader
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Jack Reacher novels volume 7
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English
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Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place-without family-without possessions-without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble-big, violent, complicated trouble-finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once-not ever. But some unfinished business has now found Reacher. And Reacher is a man who hates unfinished...
7) Without fail
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Hired by the Secret Service to test their shield around the new vice president of the United States, ex-military cop Jack Reacher discovers that a team of assassins is already planning a hit on the vice president.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 26
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English
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Digging graves had not been part of my plans when I woke up that morning. Reacher goes where he wants, when he wants. That morning he headed west, walking under the merciless desert sun - until he came upon a curious scene. A Jeep has crashed into the only tree for miles around. A woman is slumped over the wheel. Dead? No, nothing is what it seems. The woman is Michaela Fenton, an army veteran turned FBI agent trying to find her twin brother, who...
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Paramount
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English
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Based on Lee Child's bestselling novel Never Go Back, finds the itinerant problem-solver accused of murder, and learning that he may have a child he has never met.
"Critics were snotty in 2012 when Cruise first played Reacher, because the 5'7" actor is not the six-five, 250-pound bruiser of Lee Child's novels. Get over it. The admirably defiant star brings his own agility and quick wit to the role."--Rolling Stone
"Competent but routine suspense."--Boston...
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Jack Reacher novels volume 9
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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".
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Richard Hannay adventures volume 1
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I snapped the switch, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the far corner which made me drop my cigar and fall into a cold sweat.' When Richard Hannay is warned of an assassination plot that has the potential to take Britain into a war, and then a few days later discovers the murdered body of the American that warned him in his flat, he becomes a prime...
12) Cold pursuit
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A prominent ambassordor is killed in Washington, D.C. and hours later his stepdaughter vanished in the mountains of New England. Can Secret Service agent Jo Harper and Elijah Cameron, with his military training and mountain rescue experience, find the missing teen. Elijah believes she may be on the run.
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Love Inspired
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"Lillie Beaumont's dark past has just turned up on her porch, fatally wounded. The dying words of the man imprisoned for killing Lillie's mother suggest hidden secrets. Criminal Investigations Division special agent Dawson Timmons agrees. He has his own motive for seeking the truth, and it gives Lillie every reason to doubt him. But even as they reluctantly begin to face painful secrets together, Dawson fears that a murderer is waiting to strike again....
14) The last post
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BBC
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Widescreen version.
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English
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War and romance collide in the sweltering heat and political unrest of 1960's Aden--a port city in today's Yemen--where the British Royal Military Police battle local militia in an intense struggle to control the strategically important port. The officers know only too well that a lapse in luck or judgment risks death. But do they know what their wives are risking at the local country club, where the swinging '60s are in full swing?
15) Primal force
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St. Martin's Press
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St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
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English
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Jori Garrison trains dogs for Warrior Wolf Pack, which provides service animals for disabled veterans. Four years ago, she was wrongly convicted of a crime--thanks to her no-good ex- fiance. Now she just wants to live her life in peace with her beloved dogs. No men, no complications. But it's hard to play it cool when a lethally hot male is on her tail--and the attraction is fierce, mutual, and dangerous. Lauray "Law" Batisse is a Military Police...
16) Uniform justice
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Atlantic Monthly Press
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First American edition.
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English
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This internationally best-selling novelist has captivated fans throughout the world with her ever adroit, big-hearted Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti. The Guardian raved that Leon's Brunetti series is crime writing of the highest order: powerful, relevant, and all too full of human failings. As Uniform Justice opens Brunetti is called to investigate a parent's worst nightmare: A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide,...
17) The Presidio
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Paramount Pictures
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Widescreen ed.
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English
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Lt. Col. Caldwell (Sean Connery) and Police Inspector Jay Austin (Mark Harmon) don't like each other, because Caldwell helped run Austin out of the military police a few years back. Now, they must team up to solve a brutal murder.
18) Urban warriors
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Within recent years, the formerly bright line separating U.S. military operations from domestic police work has become increasingly blurred. From Waco to the WTO protests, weaponry and tactics once reserved for the battlefield have been used in police operations on U.S. soil. "Urban Warrior" investigates the debate over the use of military tactics in law enforcement, and looks at the impact this trend is having on American civil liberties. The program...
19) The breed
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
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English
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An FBI agent and his synthetic-blood sucking vampire partner are assigned to track down a renegade human-blood sucking vampire who is determined to trigger a war between the "breeds". Neither men easily fits into the other's world and they must work together in order to restore harmony.
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Full frame.
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English
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Witness panicky Peter's first prostate exam; see lovable Lois jump into bed with Bill Clinton; watch miserable Meg get a crappy job at the local superstore; hear crazy Chris sing in a goth band; follow boozing Brian all the way to Iraq and back; and glimpse smitten Stewie as he hooks up with a very young old flame.
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