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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
269 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"The Lake Shore Limited" is the story of how Wilhelmina "Billy" Gertz has come to create the title's play out of emotions surrounding an imagined terrorist bombing of a Chicago train, how the play is then created anew on the stage, and how the play's performance touches and changes the lives that intersect and interweave with Billy's.
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Gideon Crew volume 2
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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.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows--until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband and daughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall’s countdown has begun.
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 1
Description
Follow Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first explosive counterterrorism assignment.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 368 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the Middle East? In this book, one of the world's leading authorities on political Islam and jihadism sheds new light on these questions as he provides a unique history of the rise and growth of ISIS. Moving beyond journalistic accounts, Fawaz Gerges provides a...
7) Stormbreaker
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Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
8) The Afghan
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"When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they instantly galvanize--but to do what? They know nothing about it: the what, where, or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Impossible, unless-- The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guanta?namo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a twenty-five-year...
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John Corey novels volume 4
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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
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Possessing unique knowledge to track down the terrorist who has just attempted to assassinate the president, renegade MI6 officer Daniel Marchant allows himself to be recruited by Moscow to investigate suspicions about corruption within the CIA.
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Series
B.A.D. series volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
ix, 404 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
As she consults with the New Orleans Police Department to bust an organized crime ring suspected of funding terrorism, a gutsy female agent from the Bureau of American Defense encounters an elusive killer who isn't at all what he seems.
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I survived volume 6
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When Lucas decides to skip school because he wants to discuss football with a firefighter friend of his father, he finds himself caught up in the terrorist attacks on New York City.
14) The panther
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
Anti-Terrorist Task Force agent John Corey and his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield have been posted overseas to Sana'a, Yemen--one of the most dangerous places in the Middle East. While there, they will be working with a small team to track down one of the masterminds behind the USS "Cole" bombing: a high-ranking Al Qaeda operative known as The Panther. Ruthless and elusive, he's wanted for multiple terrorist acts and murders--and the US government...
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Recon Academy volume 4
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When someone hacks the Federal Reserve Bank computer, the Recon Academy needs to act fast. If they don't stop the techno thief soon, the world's ecomony could crumble. But not even Ryker, the group's computer whiz, can do it alone. He'll need help from the entire team to bust this e-bandit and discover the hidden face of Fren-Z.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
viii, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for lunch, a horse-cart packed with dynamite exploded. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded in the worst terrorist attack to that point in U.S. history. Historian Beverly Gage recounts that now largely forgotten event: this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, which spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation....
18) Ark angel
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 6
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
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After the violent death of his oldest daughter during a terrorist bombing, small town college professor Alan "Woody" Woodhall finds himself standing in the cemetery where she was buried. Woody is convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn: His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved away. Yet a new life, which Woody both longs for and resists, begins with his decision to attend the trial of...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
Ever since hulking lawman Hobbs, a loyal agent of America's Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless outcast Shaw, a former British military elite operative, first faced off, the duo have swapped smack talk and body blows as they've tried to take each other down. But when anarchist Brixton gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever, these two sworn enemies will have to partner up to bring down the only guy who might...
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