The Shooters (Presidential Agent Novels)

By W.E.B. Griffin

A key DEA agent has been abducted via drugrunners. up to the scoop angers Presidential Agent Castillo, he thinks there’s no means he might get permission to rescue the guy. yet Castillo’s wrong—the President himself orders Castillo to do something it takes to convey again the agent...anything other than get stuck.

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Night Over Water

By Ken Follett

September 1939. England is at battle with Nazi Germany. In Southampton, the world’s most opulent airliner—the mythical Pan Am clipper—takes off for its ultimate flight to impartial the US. Aboard are the cream of society and the dregs of humanity, all fleeing the struggle for purposes in their own…shadowed by means of a risk they don't know exists…and heading immediately right into a hurricane of violence, intrigue, and betrayal….

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If I Were You (Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Stories Collection) (English and English Edition)

By L. Ron Hubbard

Family pleasant Un-Adult-A-rated fun!  Does dimension matter?  is greater larger? That’s no small query to Tom Little—the circus midget with vast dreams. 

 
Tom could be king of the midgets, yet he’s received a long way grander ambitions—to develop into the muscleman on the most sensible, the ringmaster.  Now, drawing on a few darkish old secrets and techniques and mystic texts, he’s approximately to get his wish.  think a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, buying and selling up right into a physique like Burt Lancaster’s.  Then think paying the largest expense of all…. 

Assuming one other man’s identification, Tom discovers he should also tackle his sins, money owed, and enemies.  He can be dwelling large—but now there are those that have the desire to make him pay for the large man’s sins.

Throughout his younger lifestyles Hubbard used to be involved and intrigued via mysticism and magic.  From an outdated Blackfoot Indian medication guy in Montana to the final dwelling magician descendant of Kublai Khan in China, from the Chamorro natives of Guam to voodoo monitors in Haiti, he absorbed details and perception anyplace he could—putting all of it to incredible use in tales like this.

additionally contains The final Drop, an stunning story of a brand new York bartender who mixes a few very magical drinks—to remarkable effect.

 “Wonderfully wonderful ... first-class audio caliber, gifted performers, nice sound effects.” —School Library Journal

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The Fall of the Governor, Part 2 (The Walking Dead: The Governor Series, Book 3)

By Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga

The fourth ebook and epic finale to Robert Kirkman's big apple instances bestselling sequence: The strolling lifeless: the autumn of the Governor – half Two!
The strolling useless unique novel sequence, set within the universe of Robert Kirkman's iconic comedian booklet, involves a shattering end with The Fall of the Governor – half Two. From co-authors Kirkman, writer of the Eisner Award-winning comedian in addition to government manufacturer of AMC's blockbuster television sequence, and Jay Bonansinga, Stoker Award-finalist and across the world acclaimed writer, comes this attractive finale to their bold chronicle of human survival amid the plague of undead, which started with The strolling lifeless: upward thrust of the Governor.
In Rise of the Governor, uber-villain Philip Blake journeyed from his humble beginnings at once into the darkish center of the zombie apocalypse, and have become the self-proclaimed chief of a small city known as Woodbury. In The street to Woodbury, an blameless tourist named Lilly Caul wound up within the terrifying thrall of Phillip Blake's twisted, violent dictatorship inside of Woodbury's ever tightening barricades. In The Fall of the Governor – half One, Philip Blake eventually printed himself to be the real monster that he's, and the conflict traces have been drawn among the Governor and the determined, beleaguered population of a close-by prison.
Now, in The Fall of the Governor half Two, the Governor's darkish trip reaches its surprising, heartrending end. In a curler coaster finale, warfare breaks out, all the plot strains from the former 3 novels converge, tensions boil over into unthinkable mayhem, and the darkish destinies of these few left status are sealed in a sequence of wonderful twists.

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Damnation Road Show (Deathlands Book 62)

By James Axler

HELL ROAD

In the ruins of a nuke-shattered the USA, each guy, girl and baby of the apocalyptic frontier makes a dangerous trip to the long run. yet there's a fork that divides the trail towards humanity reborn…and the line deep into the hell that's Deathlands. Ryan Cawdor made his selection in the past, during this barbaric new international that conspires opposed to hope.…

MONSTERS, MUTIES AND FREAKS

Eerie remnants of pre-Dark occasions linger a century after the nuclear blowout. yet a touring highway convey supplies new desiring to the be aware chilling. Ryan and his warrior crew have witnessed this carny's handiwork within the ruins and sufferers of unsuspecting villes. Even dealing with large odds does not anything to discourage the partners from not easy this wandering loss of life service provider and a military of circus freaks. And not anyone is familiar with steel-eyed monster from the previous is getting ready a personal act that may supply Ryan megastar billing.… within the Deathlands, all you get is a one-way ticket.

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The Accident Man: A Novel

By Tom Cain

Breathlessly paced, foreign in scope, and that includes probably the most fascinating heroes in contemporary fiction, Tom Cain's smashing debut surprises the reader at each flip. A mystery that explores the key of Princess Diana's loss of life, The coincidence Man imagines the guy who could have killed her. For a undeniable amount of money, Samuel Carver can set up a dying. A ruptured gasoline line, an motor vehicle crash, a fall from a window-anything may be made to appear like an twist of fate. but if Carver is decided up, betrayed, and pursued by way of the very forces that employed him, he needs to execute his so much bold feat but.

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A Purple Place for Dying: A Travis McGee Novel

By John D. MacDonald

From a cherished grasp of crime fiction, A pink position for Dying is one of the vintage novels that includes Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
 
Travis McGee’s taking his retirement in installments whereas he’s nonetheless younger sufficient to get pleasure from it. yet in the end, his cash runs out and he has to paintings. This time McGee’s lured out West to a unusually secretive assembly with a girl in difficulty, in a spot whose good looks hides a few gruesome, risky secrets.
 
“John D. MacDonald created a fabulous volume of fantastic books, every one wealthy with characterization, suspense, and a nearly intoxicating experience of place.”—Jonathan Kellerman
 
Mona is in love with a terrible, younger collage professor and married to a filthy rich guy whom she is confident is stealing from her belief fund. So she does what any self-respecting woman might do: She hires somebody to thieve her a refund so she will be able to run away with the affection of her life.
 
Travis isn’t certain he desires to aid out until eventually he sees Mona getting shot and killed out at the cliffs close to her cabin. Now he’s a lead suspect in a plot to aid her get away, and to transparent his identify, he must resolve issues. however the murders simply maintain mounting, and for Travis, even operating with Mona’s husband doesn’t appear to support issues. Will he be capable to discover the complicated plot in time to save lots of his personal skin?
 
Features a brand new advent through Lee Child

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Above Empyrean: A Novel of the Final Days of the War on Islamic Terrorism

By Bruce Herschensohn

Islamist innovative terrorists have taken over the USA of the US. hundreds of thousands of voters were killed, imprisoned, and tortured. The President is lacking, his such a lot relied on consultant, Eli Jared, is holed up in a mystery executive command heart. with no guns or any conversation with the surface international, Jared needs to determine find out how to wrest the destiny of the kingdom clear of terrorists bent on obliterating the yankee lifestyle.

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Borstal Slags (Life on Mars, Book 3)

By Tom Graham

Time to jump into the Cortina as Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt roar again into motion in a new installment of existence on Mars. 'Smell that borstal whiff, Tyler. The heady aroma of physique odour, spunk, and bunged up khazis. And that's simply the workers who paintings here.' It's time to get tooled up as DI Sam Tyler and DCI Gene Hunt locate themselves pursuing justice at the flawed aspect of the felony partitions during this 3rd intriguing instalment of lifestyles on Mars. A grisly dying, a mysterious letter, and a runaway truck at the rampage – what's it that connects them, and why does it element in the direction of the brutal regime at Friar's Brook borstal? Is Head Warder McClintock taking his obsession with regulate and punishment to murderous extremes? Or are there even darker forces at paintings amid the younger legal minds incarcerated at the back of these excessive partitions? For Sam, Friar's Brook could be excess of only a police research. What he encounters there'll tear his global aside.

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Theory and Practice of Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Frank de Boer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This Festschrift quantity has been released in honor of Frank de Boer, at the get together of his sixtieth birthday.
Frank S. de Boer is a favourite member of the learn neighborhood in formal equipment and theoretical laptop technology. a quick examine his long e-book record unearths a large niche and a flexible modus operandi with: common sense and constraint programming; deductive facts structures, soundness, and completeness; semantics, compositionality, and whole abstraction; strategy algebra and decidability; multithreading and actor-based concurrency; agent programming, ontologies, and modal good judgment; real-time structures, timed automata, and schedulability; firm architectures, choreography, and coordination; trying out and runtime tracking; and cloud computing and service-level agreements. For it slow, he additionally loved disasters, in particular in semantics, and expectantly concluded with the failure of disasters. in reality, Frank has an opportunistic method of study. instead of seeing stumbling blocks, he reveals opportunities.

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