Michael Page
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 19
Sean Dillon) volume 19
Sean Dillion thrillers volume 19
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Sean Dillon) volume 19
Sean Dillion thrillers volume 19
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A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new...
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Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure...
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"On a sunny afternoon in late June 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph's brother, an officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London with a mysterious secret document--allegedly possessing the power to disgrace England and destroy the civilized world. Now that explosive paper has vanished, and Joseph is left to wonder: How had it fallen...
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Anne Perry's bestselling Victorian novels offer readers an elixir as addictively rich as Devonshire cream or English ale enticing millions into a literary world almost as real as the original. While flower sellers, costermongers, shopkeepers, and hansom drivers ply their trades, the London police watch over all. Or so people believe. ... Early one morning, Thomas Pitt, dauntless mainstay of the Special Branch, is summoned to Long Spoon Lane, where...
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Alexander Kurbsky has gotten fed up with the Putin government, and decides he wants to disappear into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home. He has seen too many of his countrymen mysteriously die at the hands of the Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon, and the rest of the group informally known as the "Prime Minister's private army" for his escape...
7) Dark justice
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"An attempt on the life of the U.S. president during a visit to Manhattan is the first step in a plot involving the recruitment of a network of terrorists, and it is up to Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon to uncover the mastermind behind it all."--from NoveList.
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 1
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Sean Dillion thrillers volume 01
Sean Dillon) volume 1
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Sean Dillion thrillers volume 01
Sean Dillon) volume 1
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Sean Dillon is a master terrorist who has for years eluded authorities on every continent. But it is during the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein is feeling the grip of the British and American forces closing inon him, that Dillon once again re-emerges--right into the eye of Saddam's storm.
10) Sunset express
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Elvis is hired by a high-profile attorney to investigate the death of a megamillionaire's wife. The defense is basing its case on the theory that evidence was planted at the scene by a fallen star in the LAPD who could use a celebrity conviction as her ticket back to the fast track. When the people Elvis contacted begin dying, he senses something is terribly wrong.
11) Seven Dials
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Thomas Pitt, mainstay of Her Majesty's Special Branch, is summoned to Connaught Square mansion where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, the beautiful and notorious Egyptian woman Ayesha Zakhari, who falls under the shadow of suspicion. Pitt's orders are to protect -- at all costs -- the good name of the third person in the garden: senior cabinet minister Saville Ryerson. This distinguished...
12) Shoulder the sky
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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By April 1915, as Chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warefare is impartially cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. A nephew of the respected General Owen Cullingford, Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn publilc opinion against the war.
13) Midnight runner
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The murderous Rashid family were forced to pay the ultimate price for their crimes by the British Government's secret enforcer Sean Dillon and his undercover team. Yet one member of that oil-rich dynasty was allowed to live, and that could have been Dillon's fatal mistake. Kate Rashid witnessed her brothers being killed one by one, and now she has sworn vengeance. Sean Dillon, White House operative Blake Johnson, even the US President himself...their...
14) Day of reckoning
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When journalist Katherine Johnson learns too much about crime boss Jack Fox, he silences her once and for all. But he doesn't reckon with her ex-husband Blake Johnson, a former FBI agent with formidable British connections. Intent on hitting Fox where it hurts most, Blake unleashes his own deadly brand of vengeance--destroying Fox's illegal holdings from New York to the Middle East.
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Now something sinister is afoot at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the sleepy English village of Nether Monkslip. Lord and Lady Baaden-Boomethistle have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the days when the lord of the manor sprinkled benefits across the village like fairy dust. But a sudden grisly death intervenes, and the handsome vicar's talent for sorting through clues is once again called into play....
16) Pagan spring
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Spy-turned-vicar Max Tudor, reveling in his new-found personal happiness with Awena Owen, feels that life at the moment holds no greater challenge than writing his Easter sermon. With Awena away, he looks forward to a dinner that includes newcomers to the village like West End dramatist Thaddeus Bottle and his downtrodden wife Melinda. But when one of the dinner guests is found dead in the pre-dawn hours, Max knows a poisonous atmosphere has once...
17) The sign of four
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When Mary Morstan consults Sherlock Holmes on a curious mystery, he is intrigued and anxious to help her. The young governess explains that, since the disappearance of her father ten years earlier, she has received a valuable pearl each year from an unknown donor. The sender then asks to meet Mary and she realises that shes needs an escort. Holmes and Watson accompany Mary to her encounter with the stranger, who tells them a tale of secrecy, hidden...
18) In prior's wood
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Max Tudor mysteries volume 7
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When the lady of the local manor house is found dead among rumors of a suicide pact with her young lover, handsome vicar Max Tudor lends his MI5 expertise to the ensuing investigation, which is tied to the victim's far-from-bereaved husband.
19) Devil's breath
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When the body of a glamorous film star washes ashore from a luxury yacht, Max Tudor agrees to help former colleague Patrice Logan sift through numerous suspects to identify the killer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
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This mystery written 1886 is a story that marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The book's title derives from a speech given by a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, our duty is to unravel...