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Killing Eve novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.
Author
Series
Trono de cristal volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 12
Language
English
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Description
While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
Author
Series
Publisher
B, Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
"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...
5) Impostors
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Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
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Language
English
Description
"They live in the shadows, Jack and Jill, feuding twins who can never stop running. From earliest memory they've been taught to hide, to hunt, to survive. Their prowess is outdone only by Clare, who has always been mentor first and mother second. She trained them in the art of espionage, tested their skills in weaponry, surveillance, and sabotage, and sharpened their minds with nerve-wracking psychological games. As they grew older they came to question...
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"On his way to visit an inmate at a Texas prison who has promised him information, Detective Dave Robicheaux stops off at an amusement park to watch a teenaged Elvis-like rock-and-roller from his hometown of New Iberia named Johnny Shondell playing to a crowd of swooming young girls. One of them is another New Iberia teenager named Isolde Balangie. The Shondell and Balangie families are longtime rivals in the New Iberia criminal underworld. Yet Johnny...
9) Godsgrave
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Series
Nevernight chronicle volume 2
Language
English
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The second thrilling installment of the award-winning Nevernight Chronicle, from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff. In a land where three suns almost never set, a ruthless assassin continues her quest for vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
11) A safe house
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Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 61
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is looking forward to some quiet time in New York City, until he is asked to transport precious, top-secret cargo across the Atlantic. Taking on the challenge, Stone flies off unaware of what--or who--he is bringing with him. But his plans to lie low are quickly spoiled when a dangerous dispatcher tracks down Stone and his tantalizing mystery guest, intent on payback--and silencing anyone who poses a threat. From the English countryside...
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Brotherband chronicles volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Hal, his Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan have freed the twelve Araluens sold into slavery. Returning to Araluen, Gilan is given a new mission by King Duncan: protect his daughter's life. Princess Cassandra has survived one attempt on her life already, and now whispers of a second attempt have reached the kingdom. A deadly sect known as the Scorpion Cult is thought to be behind the assassination threat. The Brotherband again teams up with Gilan...
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Series
Blood on snow volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.
14) Seeker
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After years of brutal training for what she thinks is the noble purpose of becoming a Seeker, Quin Kincaid, fifteen, learns that she will be using the ancient artifacts and sacred knowledge as an assassin.
15) Disruptor
Author
Series
Seeker trilogy (Arwen Dayton) volume 3
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"War is on the horizon, and Quin and Shinobu have been separated. They must find each other, and possibly ally themselves with John and Maud, to stop the sinister plans to eliminate Seeker families begun generations ago."--
Author
Series
Bear Logan volume 1
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ripple Effect is author L.T. Ryan's first novel in the Noble series told from Riley "Bear" Logan's point of view. One shot. One kill. A simple plan. A simple operation. But it doesn't take much to throw off the assassination of an corrupt U.S. Senator in a foreign country. Can Riley "Bear" Logan and Jack Noble fight through the waves before a traitor gets to them first?" -- Provided by publisher.
17) Deep cover
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Series
A Brady Hawk novel volume Book 2
Publisher
Green E-Books
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
The United States' top assassin Brady Hawk returns to attack a covert operation that's funding the terrorist group Al Hasib. Deep in the jungles of Sierra Leone, Sefadu Holdings is making a mint by funneling diamonds to Al Hasib in order to fund its terrorist operation. However, when the secret black ops group Firestorm learns about it, Hawk is dispatched to squash the illegal dealings. While Hawk is battling nefarious forces abroad, his handler Alex...
18) Oath of loyalty
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Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
"With President Anthony Cook convinced that Mitch Rapp poses a mortal threat to him, CIA Director Irene Kennedy is forced to construct a truce between the two men. The terms are simple: Rapp agrees to leave the country and stay in plain sight for as long as Cook controls the White House. In exchange, the administration agrees not to make any moves against him. This fragile d�etente holds until Cook's power-hungry security adviser convinces him that...
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Series
John Milton novels volume 3
Publisher
Black Dog Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn't want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British...
20) Drone
Author
Series
Gift volume 2
Publisher
Marc Stapleton
Pub. Date
©2023
Language
English
Description
After a cataclysmic end to his time as a freedom fighter, Kris finds himself captured, blindfolded, and awaiting a bullet. He comes to believe this may be it - his end is near - only to discover his kidnappers are fellow Americans. It's soon revealed that the CIA has monitored him for a while, and after quickly learning of his misdeeds in Aljarran, they capture him before the nation's warring factions can, only to throw him in a black site prison....
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