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Matt Helm volume 23
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People are vanishing without a trace. And the disappearances are getting closer to home – the next likely target is Mac, Matt Helm’s shrewd old boss. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Helm follows two beguiling and treacherous women, who lead him all the way to his ancestral home – Scandinavia. With a coup from within the agency, and a terrorist threat from without, it’s clear that nobody can be trusted.
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In Israel and Palestine, as religious and political tensions boil, people's lives touch each other, weaving a tangled web of passion, violence, intrigue, and manipulation.
In the spirit of The Cartel, The Little Drummer Girl, and I Am Pilgrim, Alberto Mansur's debut thriller offers a bracing, wide-angle portrait of the fence dividing Israel and Palestine, the most controversial border on earth. It follows a diverse cast of characters as they fight...
3) The Risen
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"My name is Donald, and I may have been one of the fallen before, but I will become one of the risen." With new threats rising every day, the survivors struggle to find somewhere safe to stay.
Along the way, allies become enemies and answers are uncovered that rock the foundations of who they are.
As the world continues to change around them, they realize it is not who they were, but what they become that matters the most in their frightening new...
4) The Forsaken
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"Life was funny about certainty; he knew it liked to prove people wrong. It most certainly had proven him wrong more times than he could count." As the world continues to change around them, new friendships are forged, answers are found, and lives are lost as the survivors’ journey deeper into treacherous areas.
New dangers rise each day, and the survivors find themselves faced with only one conclusion... Sometimes the end of everything they knew...
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Pisces Moon: The Dark Arts of Empire is a sweeping critical analysis of Western colonialism, its foundational beliefs in militarism, patriarchy, Christianity, and white supremacy; and its destructive impact on the nations of Southeast Asia and, ultimately, America.
Valentine focuses on the "dark arts" of empire: the black bag of CIA covert operations, including bribery, right-wing coups, assassinations, disinformation, and intimate relationships with...
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The Prime Minister's pregnant, superstar mistress is murdered by a criminal financier with an assassination plan that will bring down Government and Monarchy in one deadly, catastrophic afternoon. Beautiful camera girl, Henri Fox, has been kidnapped, taken bound and gagged down the river Thames. Guy Royce, the PM's laconic personal security cop, must find her and the assassin quickly-and eliminate him. His kill chase will take him from 10 Downing...
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Mike Hammer mysteries volume 26
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"Winter 1964. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Mike Hammer's partner (both in life and the PI business), Velda Sterling, learns her father is not who she thought he was. Seeking to uncover her true, troubling heritage, Velda and Mike travel to Phoenix, Arizona--and sunny Dreamland Park, where retired law enforcement officers protect and corral notorious criminals held under Witness Protection. Mike and Velda find themselves swept...
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An incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as primitive, in order to destroy those same oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression.
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When a Chinese military plane explodes in a fireball before her lens, life for street photographer Henrietta Fox gets dangerous.
Five murders across Europe, each victim found dead with an exotic, lop-eared Sumxu cat, animals considered extinct for 300 years. Only Henri Fox knows why-and that knowledge could kill her. To survive she must pursue a madman across China with partner, Cass Farraday, but the hunters soon become the prey.
Desperate and...
11) Shortcut
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For fans of Andy Weir's THE MARTIAN and PROJECT HAIL MARY, from the first editor of THE MARTIAN.A mathematical genius. A formula that speeds up space travel called SHORTCUT. His loving wife. When Laura Maxx disappears after an attack that leaves Jason Maxx in the hospital, his only goal is to find her and bring her back. Then he gets a message from Voyager One: Laura is alive. In space. To get her back, he'll do whatever it takes-even taking on government...
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When tabloid camera girl, Henri Fox, pictures a Hollywood megastar making love on the back seat of a stretch limo, the star's father, a ruthless Bogota emerald mine owner, must bury his daughter's scandalous snapshot-and Henri Fox with it. He enlists the aid of left-wing FARC guerrillas forcing the US President to join the hunt. Henri Fox is in mortal danger and will have to survive them both in a chase from London via Madrid to the notorious Boyaca...
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Michael Kohlhaas seeks justice. His wife is murdered, his property confiscated, and his servants abused. All of his attempts of seeking legal ramifications are thwarted, but Kohlhaas will not stop until he gets retribution-even if he has to stand alone against bureaucracy.
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In the shadows of war and history, the mirror between man and monster breaks …
From the haunted hills of Roman Britain to the sewers of occupied Warsaw … in the bloodied streets of Revolutionary Paris, and the anarchy World War II Shanghai … out of the wilds of America, India, Africa and Europe … down the long savage darkness of the centuries, monsters have fed upon us. They are shapeshifters, vampires, sorcerers and spirits-things named...
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Fascinating "What If?" stories from Hugo and Nebula award-winning masters of altnerate history!
What would the world be like if Teddy Roosevelt had fought in World War I? If the space race started during World War II? If Joseph McCarthy had been elected President? These and other questions are answered in this collection of alternate histories. As these stories suggest, the world as we know it might have turned out different than it is today, if...