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Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known for his brilliant tactics and for taking only "righteous" assignments. But when he gets caught he is offered a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul must pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place in Berlin and hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst -- the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament.
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Michael Osbourne novels volume 2
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Daniel Silva's first two novels, The Unlikely Spy and The Mark of the Assassin, have placed him securely in the company of the world's leading writers of literate and insightful spy fiction. In The Marching Season, the reluctant hero of The Mark of the Assassin, Michael Osbourne, now an embittered ex-CIA officer, is pulled into the troubled peace and politics of Northern Ireland after the treaty between Protestants and Catholics has supposedly taken...
3) Mind game
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GhostWalker Nicolas Trevane sets out to rescue Dahlia Le Blanc, a government operative with astonishing telekinetic talents, from her secluded residence in the Louisiana bayou. Nicolas's mission is fraught with danger. Not only is Dahlia emotionally unstable (she can make objects go up in flames when she's particularly upset), she's also been targeted by a traitor who has hired mercenaries to kill her. As Nicolas and Dahlia evade their pursuers and...
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Alex Rider adventures volume 10
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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770L
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Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
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Farseer trilogy volume 2
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"Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as king's assassin, but is left little more than a cripple. Battered and bitter, he vows to abandon his oath to King Shrewd and to remain in the distant mountains. But love and events of terrible urgency draw him back to the court at Buckkeep, and into the deadly intrigues of the royal family. Renewing their vicious attacks on the coast, the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out villages and demented victims...
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Eric Steele novels volume 3
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"When Eric Steele gets a call that a fellow Alpha is in serious trouble, he rushes to Paris. But it's too late - Ron Raines, Alpha Six, is dead, the victim of a brutal stabbing. While on leave in the City of Light, Raines had met an attractive art historian who lured him to his death. Before she vanished, the mysterious woman left a warning for anyone from the Alpha Program who might follow her. One of the best and most effective warriors in the U.S....
8) The Reapers
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Private detective Charlie Parker returns in this story of assassins who have targeted one of their own.
When his friend, a former member of an elite assassin organization, is abducted by a vengeful adversary, Charlie Parker and his associates set out to find him, in a case that forces Charlie to test the boundaries of his ethics.
9) The killer
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Victor the assassin volume 1
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After a routine job turns into a fight for his life, professional killer Victor races across Europe to find out who bought his services and why they now want him dead, a trip that causes him to stumble into an international conspiracy that spans four continents.
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James Bond series volume 13
Best of James Bond volume 13
[James Bond volume 13
James Bond books volume 13
Best of James Bond volume 13
[James Bond volume 13
James Bond books volume 13
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James Bond, agent 007, has been brainwashed by Soviet captors into becoming the tool of Russia's K.G.B. to perpetrate an act of treachery--against the British Secret Service. In this adventure, he and his adversary, Francisco Scaramanga, meet in mortal combat in that pleasure paradise, the island of Jamaica. (Publisher)
11) Grave mercy
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His fair assassin volume 01
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
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850L
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In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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As his rock band tours Italy, eighteen-year-old Perry says a reluctant "bonjour" to Gobi, his former exchange student/Lithuanian assassin, who enlists his help on a justice-dispensing rampage all over Europe.
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In Berlin, two former French intelligence agents hire Klaus Reiner, a ruthlessly effective hit man, to eliminate an American industrialist vacationing in southwestern France. Reiner easily locates his target in the small village of Taziac, but the hit is compromised when three innocent people are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Inspector Paul Mazarelle finds the case complicated by the arrival of the victims' daughter, a New York City district...
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A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sergeant Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret-even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon-a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors' signal. Now he's been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate for US...
15) The neighborhood
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For most of the citizens of Hidden Refuge, it's an ordinary Friday night in an ordinary American town. But when men claiming to be police officers show up at their doorsteps in the middle of the night, ordering them to evacuate for their own safety, it's only the beginning of a long, dark night that will prove to be anything but ordinary. Because, unbeknownst to most of its residents, Hidden Refuge contains something that very dangerous men want very,...
16) Red sister
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Book of the Ancestor volume 1
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At the Convent of Sweet Mercy, young girls are raised to be killers. In some few children the old bloods show, gifting rare talents that can be honed to deadly or mystic effect. But even the mistresses of sword and shadow don't truly understand what they have purchased when Nona Grey is brought to their halls. It takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist, but there is much more for Nona to learn than the arts of death....
17) The sisters
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In what Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called "the plot of plots," Robert Littell has created the CIA "legends" Francis and Carroll, dubbed "The Sisters Death and Night" by their cohorts. But few know what these enigmatic and extremely dangerous operatives do. They plot-and they're plotting the perfect crime. They've located the perfect pawn-the Potter, the exiled ex-head of the KGB sleeper school-and, with artful deception, the Sisters...
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Black Widow (Margaret Stohl) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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HL 580L
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Natasha Romanov, called the Black Widow, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D, rescues a young girl from Ivan, the man who once trained her as an assassin--and eight years later she is called upon to protect the teenager Ava has become from a threat from the past--and possibly from S.H.I.E.L.D itself.
19) Time of attack
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Special Agent Jericho Quinn faces off against an elite group of terrorist assassins and a strange plaque of disease outbreaks.
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