Fiction - Thrillers - Espionage

An action book. The wife of a scientist is kidnapped to force him to direct development of an illicit satellite. A retired CIA agent tries to help but is captured and mistaken for the scientist.Author: Donald MandichISBN-10: 075964067XISBN-13: 9780759640672Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2001Pages:...

Encounters is a curated collection of six contemporary short stories set across three continents. The stories reflect disparate adventures in a globalized, rapidly changing world: a young couple discovers the luxurious allure of Monte Carlo's Grand Casino, a woman from San Francisco reveals an...

Author: Louis J. CalabreseISBN-10: 1587210657ISBN-13: 9781587210655Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1999Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.08w x 0.91d

"A high octane thrill ride!" - San Francisco Chronicle on Paranoia Joseph Finder's New York Times bestseller Paranoia was hailed by critics as "jet-propelled," the "Page Turner of the Year," and "the archetype of the thriller in its contemporary form." Now Finder returns with...

Doug Fain scores again with another fast paced, intriguing novel of the professional organizations that orchestrate the demonstrations and political shenanigans that rip at the fabric of American democracy. Doug takes you into the persuasive organizing campaigns where idealistic students are duped into joining...

Play a country song backward after your wife has left and what do you get? In Saul's case it was a new career and the opportunity to visit the Antarctic. With luck, he would find a permanent companion and a place he could call...

Author: Barry V. VossISBN-10: 1585000825ISBN-13: 9781585000821Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1997Pages: 572Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.06w x 1.51d

Encounters is a curated collection of six contemporary short stories set across three continents. The stories reflect disparate adventures in a globalized, rapidly changing world: a young couple discovers the luxurious allure of Monte Carlo's Grand Casino, a woman from San Francisco reveals an...

Author: C. Fred AlfordISBN-10: 0595100775ISBN-13: 9780595100774Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2000Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.41d

INSPIRED BY ACTUAL HISTORICAL EVENTS A semi-historical espionage-thriller tale of Japan's atomic bomb project in World War II, with recently declassified details from the actual Japanese atomic projects It's 1945. War rages on in the Pacific. Island-hopping, the United States and her Allies are...

"A Dangerous Element" is based on current events. Through the eyes of a former combat pilot who knows how to work the system, the story will transport readers beyond the Iranian borders into their nuclear weapons development and uncover a top-secret weapon developed by...

"The high-octane action scenes make this a must-read for military thriller fans." --Publishers Weekly Direct Fire brings the war on terror to America. A powerful banker, gunned down in cold blood. A military family, senselessly slaughtered as they sleep. A key general, kidnapped from...

One financial terrorist in prison, Two City bankers dead, And ... a $350 trillion banking scandal called LIBOR.The suspicious suicide of two high-profile City bankers brings former QC Nancy Wu and Inspector Jonathan Pole together again in an investigation that implicates the UK government,...

Winston Churchill has a "Secret Circle" of specially trained spies who are answerable only to him. Kirsteen Craig, a young nurse who shows her bravery during a London bombing raid, is recruited by Churchill and trained to go into occupied France to try to...

A cop. An ex-FBI agent turned private eye. His contact within the Bureau. An anti-capitalist activist. A shady financier and his right-hand man. A biker gang. The brother of a murdered woman, seeking vengeance. A software program that can capture subjects' entire lives on...

Stephen Coonts and William H. Keith's Deep Black: Death Wave continues the bestselling technothriller series. Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility....

In June 2011, September was weeks away, and the full dread of the approaching anniversary hadn't yet settled on New York City's residents. But from One Police Plaza to the FBI's grim headquarters in Washington, D.C., the top brass harbor a rumbling in the...

ALASKA TRANSIT tracks Anchorage Policewoman Sasha Kulaeva and her detective partners as they attempt (with only moderate success) to stem the tide of heroin flowing into Alaska from Russia. They manage pretty well on their home turf, Anchorage. But when Sasha has to take...

Author: Irving ShulmanISBN-10: 0595144853ISBN-13: 9780595144853Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2001Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.04w x 0.64d

From the author of The Covenant of the Flame and The Fifth Profession. Brendan Buchanan is an undercover intelligence operative who has impersonated more than 200 people in the last eight years. But now his multi-personality occupation threatens to destroy him.Author: David R. MorrellISBN-10:...

WHEN PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE... In 1959, nine hikers of the Dyatlov expedition perish while crossing a remote mountain range in the Soviet Union. More than sixty-five years later, the circumstances surrounding their deaths remains a mystery. In 1995, Julie Sigler is killed in...

8 Seconds to Midnight takes the reader on a non-stop thrill-ride that begins with the clandestine transfer of nuclear material from a secure Pakistani army installation thirty miles north of Islamabad to a group of radical Islamists bent on the destruction of the West....

A kidnapped girl. A ruthless criminal who preys on the innocent. Two killers who will stop at nothing to bring him down.Former assassin Leine Basso was supposed to be in sunny LA, watching the first class of operatives graduate from the new anti-trafficking academy....

This fourth thriller (after The Ninth Buddha) by a pseudonymous British author confirms his rising reputation as a literary writer of well-researched espionage tales. In 1968 in Jerusalem, a tomb is discovered that contains the bones of Jesus, his "brother" James, and their mother,...

The New York Times Best Seller "A blazing debut."--Tom ClancyThe United States and Soviet Union are at the brink of war. Fearful of US plans for an anti-missile defense system that could defeat a USSR first strike, the Soviet General Secretary, the conservative successor...

When three covert operatives are killed while investigating the kidnapping of a congressman's daughter, John Drake is called in.Driven by personal demons, he is determined to deliver his own brand of justice. As Drake tracks the most powerful enemy he has ever faced, an...

Riley Fitzhugh, former Hollywood private detective turned US Navy lieutenant, is recruited by the OSS for temporary duty as a naval spy in Morocco during the planning for Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa. Riley's assignment is to kidnap a French river...

He is a secret IRA operative. He is one of the most successful City banker in London ...Now he is accused of murder.Henry Crowne's case seems decided from the very beginning. His Irish background, financial terrorist connections and City reputation inexorably tilt the scales...

In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend...

Author: Gary LapergolaISBN-10: 1479726095ISBN-13: 9781479726097Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2013Pages: 204Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

The secret is out: Mary Jane Clark is one of the most exciting novelists in America today. Do You Want to Know a Secret? is an unabashed, edge-of-the-seat, page-turning stunner. - Dan Rather Secrets can really kill your career. Beautiful New York TV anchorwoman...

Author: Ron ShinkmanISBN-10: 059512450XISBN-13: 9780595124503Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2000Pages: 300Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.74d

After being exiled to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1964 at the age of six, Alex Bell has managed to put his parents' tragic death behind him and lead a somewhat normal life. In 1991, Alex is working as a high...

Mark Burnell's Chameleon features international spy Stephanie Patrick in a thriller continuing her story from The Rhythm Section, a major motion picture from the producers of the James Bond film series, starring Blake Lively and Jude Law. Lisbeth. Bourne. Eve. Stephanie. What do you...

"Raw emotion, nonstop action, and relentless pacing makes Backlash another one-night read from Brad Thor." --The Real Book Spy #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most gripping thriller yet! In ancient texts, there...

Jack Tate wants his old life back. Five years earlier he'd been shunted out of MI6 and into a British Intelligence backwater, where instead of running high level East German agents he's reduced to snooping night-after-night on trade unionists and minor public officials...none of...

Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity.--The New YorkerRong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited into Unit 701: a top-secret...

First in a new series from New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown, featuring U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nick Flynn on the hunt for Russian commandos in the mountains of Alaska.After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer...

The first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carré's masterful creation George Smiley. "Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards."George Smiley is...

Kathy Doe, a retired naval officer, works for a US agency in South Florida responsible for solving crime. Kathy meets Sarah Sandling, a University of Miami professor in the College of Medicine while working out at the local gym. Sarah studies plants to determine...

It's the summer of 1992 and a painting by the great seventeenth century Italian artist, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, is discovered in the basement of a church in Messina, Italy. Is it an original painting that has been lost over the centuries or is...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A]nother instant classic." --The Real Book Spy "The undisputed master of blending geopolitics with spycraft...a thriller aficionado's dream." --The Providence Journal The new Cold War is about to go hot. #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Quinn Colson series comes a noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history. San Francisco, September 1921 Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his...

Author: Kenneth R. TolliverISBN-10: 1403393125ISBN-13: 9781403393128Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/06/2003Pages: 428Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.26h x 5.06w x 1.06d

An all-new 24 adventure by New York Times bestselling author Dayton Ward, 24: Trial by Fire. Receiving 73 Emmy Award nominations over eight seasons, 24 revolutionized the format of TV dramas on a global scale. Before London... Before CTU... Before the clock started ticking......

What would you do if your daughter was kidnapped and given only a week to live?Lauren Pennington is celebrating her junior year abroad when life comes to a screeching halt. At Munich's Hofbr uhaus, she engages in an innocent flirtation with a charming stranger...

With this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse--mathematical genius and young Captain in the...

A 40-year cover up of JFK's assassination by the US government is described in this fictional, Hitchcockian thriller of actual events. The reader can identify and connect-the-dots of who, why, and what in this controversial novel. Written by an author who secretly researched and...

MI5 Officer Liz Carlyle returns in a powerfully suspenseful, psychologically riveting thriller to diffuse a terrorist plot. As plans get under way for a Middle East peace conference at the Gleneagles resort in Scotland, MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle is summoned to a meeting...

Bishop returns, and this time its personal. When Bishop's former mentor threatens to instigate a nuclear war, the MI6 agent dives headlong into a deeply personal mission where nothing is quite what it seems. Racing across China with enemy hounds snapping at his heels,...