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1) 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.
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
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
Author
Series
Joe DeMarco thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Formats
Description
General Andy Banks, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is nursing a guilty conscience. Only days before an assassin's bullet winged the president and took the life of the president's longtime best friend, Banks had received a note with a dire warning: "Eagle One is in danger. Cancel Chattooga River. The inside ring has been compromised. This is not a joke." The message-on Secret Service stationery-was signed, "An agent in the wrong place." Banks...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the power struggle that followed John Hickley Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan's life. "On March 30, 1981, John Hinckley, trying to prove his love for actress Jodie Foster, attempts to assassinate President Ronald Reagan (Richard Crenna) in front of the Washington Hilton. Only 70 days into his term, Reagan takes a bullet between the heart and lung and is forced into the hospital. Meanwhile, with Vice President Bush in transit,...
10) Bobby
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Revisits the night presidential-hopeful Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in 1968. As the lives of those who were present dramatically intersect, Bobby shows how the gunshots that rang out that night forever changed the course of American history.
11) Edge of danger
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 9
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 24 cm.
12) Parkland
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
Publisher
TGG Direct, LLC
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Assassination: When veteran Secret Service Agent Jay Killian is assigned to protect the president's pampered and difficult wife, he knows she will be a handful. What he doesn't know is that assassins are out to kill her. He must use his lethal experience to shield the First Lady from danger while tracing her would-be murderer.
Messenger of death: Could a simple feud between brothers lead to the brutal massacre of an entire family? Garrett Smith travels...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on President Lincoln Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration. The...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2011
Formats
Description
Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has hunted priceless treasures and confronted ruthless adversaries around the world. Now, a grave threat to the very foundation of our country has summoned him home to America.
Publisher
Movie Classics
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Bob and Jill Lawrence are enjoying a winter holiday when Bob is told of a planned assassination in London. Fearing their plot will be revealed, the assassins kidnap their daughter Betty in hopes of blackmailing the Lawrences into silence, but Bob and Jill have other plans"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Backbeat Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
240 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Follows the day's events leading up to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman, realizing his perverse fantasy of attaining perennial notoriety, calmly fired four bullets from his Charter Arms .38 Special into the rock icon."--Dust jacket.
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 441 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov, and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are assassinated, Clarke orders Marcus Ryker and a team of CIA...
Author
Series
Divine cities volume 3
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Revenge. It?s something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to doand that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara's killers deserve. Yet as Sigrud pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, he begins to fear that this battle is an unwinnable one....
20) The matador
Publisher
distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his touch as a reliable hit-man, Julian needs Danny's help with...
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