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Gideon Crew novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
2) Wild fire
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Series
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English
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"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
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Series
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English
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"North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. absolutely must respond....
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Series
John Corey novels volume 7
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young, good-looking rookie named Tess, Corey is saddled with a dead-end job running easy surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net, Tess starts acting suspiciously, and an old,...
7) Liberty
Author
Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Semi-retired Rear Admiral Jake Grafton finds himself in a race to avert disaster when a Russian spy informs him that a rogue general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islam terrorist group which plans to detonate them in the United States.
8) Nimitz class
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. Its supersonic aircraft can level entire cities at a stroke. Its surveillance gear can track every target within thousands of square miles--in the air, on the surface, and under the sea. Its crew of six thousand works night and day to keep this awesome military machine at peak performance. It's a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier,...
10) Broken arrow
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English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
11) Critical mass
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English
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Former UN arms inspector Gideon Van Ry discovers two nuclear missiles are missing from their depot in Russia. He traces them to a U.S. militia group on the Pacific Coast and Navy SEALs mount an assault to neutralize them.
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English
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"For more than one hundred years the West has failed to understand Islam" (U.S. State Department Official, 1992). This quote from the original edition of Riders of the Pale Horse introduces the story of two young Americans, a foreign-service officer and a mission volunteer who cross paths near the Afghanistan border on very different assignments and yet with a common goal: to stop nuclear materials from falling into terrorists' hands. High-stakes...
14) Fallout
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes...
16) Next
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. When a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris uses all her wiles to convince Cris to help her stop the cataclysm.
18) Broken arrow
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to be part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.
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Deep black volume 4
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Edition
Library edition.
Language
English
Description
NSA operative Charlie Dean must infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the renegade general's second plot: a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas.
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