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"Will Robie es un asesino altamente cualificado, el hombre al que el gobierno de EEUU recurre para eliminar a los peores enemigos del Estado, verdaderos monstruos que podrian llevarse por delante las vidas de miles de inocentes. Nadie puede igualarlo, salvo quiza Jessica Reel, otra asesina profesional igualmente peligrosa que ahora se ha pasado al lado oscuro y tiene en la mira a otros miembros de la Agencia. Para detener a uno de los suyos, el gobierno...

Alex, nearly thirteen, flees with his grandfather across snowy Europe to escape the human and mechanical assassins that pursue them, trying to retrieve a powerful object.

"In the latest thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series, Court Gentry is sent on a mission by a person he doesn't trust to snatch a target he can't stand from the clutches of Russian assassins he can't defeat... and those are the upsides of the job. Alex Velesky is in a world of trouble. He has the key that can unlock the truth behind a web of illicit payments the Russians have spread around the globe. The money is used...

"Teen assassin Boy Nobody is sent on a mission to assassinate the head of a domestic terrorism cell, but his mission turns up more questions about his job than answers"--

"Pull three people out of prison -- a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy. What could possibly go wrong? In the sequel to Clockwork Boys, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys. But the secrets they're keeping could well destroy them, before the city even gets the...

Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A--the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile. To avoid prison, Signal signs on for a secret program for 18-and-under Class As and is whisked off to an abandoned sleep-away camp, where she and seven bunkmates will train as assassins. Yet even...

Gender fluid Sallot Lean is a thief who wants nothing more than to escape the drudgery of life as a highway robber and get closer to the upper-class, and the nobles who destroyed their home. Sal auditions to become a member of The Left Hand, the Queen's personal assassins, named after the rings she wears, in order to infiltrate the court and get revenge. But the audition is a fight to the death filled with clever circus acrobats, lethal apothecaries,...

Seeking his fortune in sixteenth-century London, young wordsmith William Shakespeare joins a band of players before he is dispatched to Venice on an assignment that renders him the target of Catholic assassins and a shadowy killer.

Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan where she's hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything--not just her own past and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side, and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps...

This book "is told out of chronological order, and follows three main interrelated stories [in which] hitwomen Egypt & Asia & Persia arrive at an apartment to retrieve a briefcase for their boss ... Warning: there will be blood"--Publisher marketing.