W.E.B Griffin
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Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there's been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a headless Latina turns up in the Schuykill River. Everybody assumes they're not related, but Payne can't shake the hunch that there's something more to it--and that hunch leads him far from the City of Brotherly...
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Badge of honor volume 8
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"Detective Matt Payne of the Philadelphia police department--newly promoted to sergeant and assigned to Homicide--finds himself in the middle of three major assignments."--from book jacket.
4) The berets
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Brotherhood of war volume 5
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Special Forces during the Viet Nam War.
5) Rogue asset
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Presidential Agent novels volume 9
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[2021]
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The secretary of state has been kidnapped by Islamic extremists and his only hope for survival is a reconstitued Presidental Agent team in this revival of W.E.B. Griffin's series."--
6) Black ops
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After learning of the assassination of an investigative reporter in Marburg, along with a series of attempts on other government affiliates, Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel C.G. Castillo heads the Office of Organizational Analysis in an attempt to find a link between the crimes, but quickly discovers that he is the next likely target.
7) The shooters
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Still in Argentina tying up loose ends from his investigation into the UN oil-for-food scandal, Charley Castillo is startled when a young man is marched into his office at gunpoint, caught trying to sneak through the fence. It turns out he's an American officer, a lieutenant assigned to the embassy in Paraguay. A key agent for the DEA has disappeared while trying to interdict drugs and very little is being done about it, for phony diplomatic reasons....
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Corps volume 7
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On the island of Mindanao, a man calling himself "General" Fertig has set himself up as a guerrilla leader to harass the Japanese. Army records show that the only officer named Fertig in the Philippines is a reserve lieutenant colonel of the Corps of Engineers, reported MIA on Luzon, but still, the reports filtering out are interesting, and it's Marine lieutenant Ken McCoy's mission to sneak behind the lines and find out if he's for real.
10) The hunters
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The man that presidential agent Charley Castillo and his crew are pursing for his role in the UN/Iraq oil-for-peace scandal is killed right before their eyes, although they personally don't see who was responsible. Charley suspects it's someone higher up the money chain who doesn't want their secrets revealed. Unfortunately for them, they've left just enough of a trail for Charley to follow. With carte blanche from the President to go wherever it...
11) The vigilantes
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There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much because the victims are all lowlifes. However, when vigilante groups spring up claiming credit for some of the murders, Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne hopes it isn't true. As the targets get bigger and events start moving out of control, Payne realizes that if he and his colleagues can't figure out who's behind this very soon, the violence could overtake them all.
12) Broken trust
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Badge of honor volume 13
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"The dramatic New York Times-bestselling adventure in W.E.B Griffin's Badge of Honor series about the Philadephia police force. Having investigated his share of gruesome murders, Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him - until the case of a young socialite's death lands on his desk. The Camilla Rose Morgan he'd known as a teenager was beautiful and brilliant - how was it possible she'd jumped to her death...
13) Under fire
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Corps volume 9
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In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy's report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps-and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military and civilian life are called up, many with only seventy-two hours notice. For these men and their...
14) Curtain of death
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January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first mistake, and their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded. The “incident,” however, will send shock waves...
15) Top secret
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"From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War-and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious:...
16) Retreat, hell!
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In the fall of 1950, Major Ken McCoy, operating undercover, is intent on discovering the position of his enemies before he leads Douglas MacArthur and his troops at Inchon into an ambush.
17) Death and honor
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The year is 1943, and Argentina is officially neutral, but crawling with every kind of spy, sympathizer, and military official imaginable. The hero is Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, with strong family ties to Argentina, and a lot on his hands. OSS chief Wild Bill Donovan has asked him to set up his own official-but-really-OSS airline in Argentina, using "loaned" Lockheed Lodestars and Constellations. Of even more concern are two...
18) The lieutenants
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Brotherhood of war volume 1
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"As the chaos of World War II unfolds, the lives and actions of men from very different worlds will forge the paths of their futures -- and of the war"--Page [4] cover.
19) Covert warriors
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At a Mexican roadblock, a U.S. embassy SUV is stopped at gunpoint, three of its passengers are murdered, and a fourth is kidnapped. Everything points to the drug cartels, especially when the kidnappers say they will return the hostage if a cartel kingpin is released from U.S. federal prison. But when word gets to Castillo and his group of retired spies and special operators, they have their doubts. They believe that it's a diversion-that they murders...