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1) The hit
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world.
2) The target
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 3
Description
Earl Fontaine, a terminally ill Alabama death row prisoner, plans one last killing that will personally affect Robie and his fellow agent, Jessica Reel. Meanwhile Evan Tucker, the head of the CIA, recommends Robie and Reel for a mission to assassinate a foreign leader.
3) The Jackal
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--is out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all...he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
Author
Series
Throne of glass novels volume Prequel
Description
In these five prequel novellas to "Throne of Glass," feared assassin Celaena embarks on daring missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and avenge tyranny.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
The New York Times bestselling Orphan X returns - just when Evan Smoak thinks he's done, his deadliest job yet pulls him back Into The Fire... Evan Smoak lives by his own code. Once he was known as Orphan X. Trained as an off-the-books government assassin and spoken about only in whispers, Evan Smoak was one of the most talented - and most feared - men in the Program. But he broke free and reinvented himself as The Nowhere Man, a figure shrouded in...
Author
Series
Silver bear thrillers volume 1
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Description
The intense psychological portrait of a hitman-the anti-Jason Bourne-as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA. He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him, but only for his excellence in his craft. Perhaps he was even born for it.
"A natural killer," his mentor-a middleman named Vespucci-said he was. He proved it with his first professional hit: a Fifth Circuit Court judge in Boston, executed with a sheet of Saran Wrap in the stairwell of her...
8) Orphan X
Author
Series
Evan Smoak thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
""Orphan X is the most gripping, high-octane thriller I've read in a long, long time. Hang onto your seat because Gregg Hurwitz will take you on a dizzying ride you'll not soon forget!" -Tess Gerritsen The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It's said that when he's reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he's no legend. Evan Smoak is a man with...
9) Gone
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit. Detective Michael Bennett once managed to put Perrine behind bars, the only official in the US ever to accomplish that. But now Perrine is out, and he has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone...
10) Le samouraï
Series
Criterion collection volume 306
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A steely hitman hired to kill a nightclub owner discovers that the man he is working for has marked him for death.
11) Hellbent
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
Evan Smoak was trained as an assassin, then disappeared and dedicated himself to helping the desperate. But this time, the man needing help is the one who raised and trained him, the only father Evan has ever known.
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 1
Formats
Description
A seraph offers contract killer Toby O'Dare a chance to save rather than destroy lives. Carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear, O'Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation.
13) The Reapers
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When his friend, a former member of an elite assassin organization, is abducted by a vengeful adversary, Charlie Parker and his associates set out to find him, in a case that forces Charlie to test the boundaries of his ethics.
16) The killing kind
Author
Series
Michael Hendricks novels volume 1
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A former covert operative for the U.S. Army, Michael Hendricks becomes a hitman who only kills other hitmen, until he winds up a target himself.
17) The mechanic
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Arthur Bishop is an assassin with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and he is the best in the business. But when Harry, his mentor and friend, is murdered, Bishop wants those responsible dead. After Harry's son approaches him with the same vengeful goal, Bishop takes the impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. However, deceptions will surface, and those...
18) Lady Snowblood
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
A young girl is raised to be an assassin after her father is killed by a band of criminals and her mother vows revenge; Lady Snowblood is sentenced to death for her crimes, but is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to work for them.
19) The client
Publisher
Regency
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray disc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mark Sway, an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hit man will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him but never imagines she'll...
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Description
Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose deskbound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Follow these two women, equally obsessed with each other, as they go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
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