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Jack Palms starred in one hit Hollywood action flick. Now everyone thinks he's still that guy. If he tries to lead the life, will he get burned? Or will he find out he can still act the part?
An old friend from LA calls with a proposition-to show some Czech high rollers a VIP time-and Jack goes in for the payday. When his friend is murdered, Jack dives straight into the heart of San Francisco's...
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From former Lonely Planet author J.M. Porup comes this gritty South American noir...Rats ate his baby daughter while he partied in a disco. Now Horace "Horse" Mann is a drugged-out expat teaching English to criminals in Lima, Peru. Oh, and doing the odd favor for the CIA.When his Agency contact, Pitt Watters, goes missing, Horse's desperate efforts to find his only friend lead him to a Buddhist ashram on the shores of Lake Titicaca. There Horse uncovers...
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The cold war is over, the Soviet Union has collapsed, and other than terrorism, SAR's, global warming, weapons of mass destruction, street gangs, a volatile stock market, ethnic cleansing, and those 3 punk kids down at the food court that keep hassling everybody, the world has enjoyed decades of peace.
But now a new peril has emerged that threatens to shake the safety of the planet to its very foundation. From behind the tattered remnants of the Iron...
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À l'ombre de la cordillère des Andes, la bête immonde a survécu...
Samuel Atlan possédait la capacité de se souvenir de tout. Un cas rare d'hypermnésie, selon les médecins. Une mémoire sans faille, à l'exception d'une seule: Samuel ne se rappelait rien de ce qui précédait le jour o on l'avait trouvé, à l'âge de sept ans, errant au bord d'une route. Quand son passé refait surface de la plus singulière des façons, il se retrouve...
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Houston, 1940
Benjamin Wade is a laid back private investigator whose jobs are so mundane that he doesn't even carry a gun. He thought his latest job was going to be easy.
He thought wrong.
Hired by beguiling Lillian Saxton to find a missing reporter with knowledge of her brother's whereabouts in war-torn Europe, Wade follows a lead and knocks on a door. He gets two answers: bullets and a corpse.
Now Wade must unravel the truth about the reporter's...
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Et si l'histoire avait, comme les hommes, un destin ?
Alors qu'une crise climatique sans précédent ébranle les fondements de la société civile et amène les militaires aux portes du pouvoir, Aléonore Pétronius, officier des services secrets, est chargée de traquer un tueur qui vient d'assassiner la famille du docteur Thirel. Deux ans auparavant, ce même meurtrier avait sauvagement exécuté le frère d'Aléonore. Le passé du médecin...
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It was the sort of day you remembered. Where you were when you heard and what you were doing; who you turned to and who you telephoned.
This is not 22 November 1963, but now. This is 'Kennedy's Ghost', a nerve-shredding thriller of kidnap, conspiracy and assassination.
Former SAS man Dave Haslam is hired to negotiate the release of a top banker being held to ransom in Italy. In America, Deputy Director Brettlaw of the CIA has dark reasons of his...
8) The List
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Detective Jack Dantzler always believed his father was killed by a sniper in Vietnam. Dantzler's world is rocked when a stranger shows up and informs him that his father died in Laos, and was killed by the CIA. Dantzler asks the stranger how he can uncover the real truth. The stranger tells Dantzler there is only one man who can help him-the legendary assassin called Cain. Dantzler contacts Cain, and Cain agrees to help. But when a U.S. general is...
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May 1997. Election night. Blair's New Labour is predicted to win with a landslide. It feels like a new start for everyone, the grey days of sleaze are over. There's a new hope that things really are about to get better.
But not for Aidan. He's a reporter whose life and career are going nowhere, relegated to a backwater job within the paper, existing on a diet of fast food and with virtually every day starting with a stinking hangover. He's clinging...
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Le capitaine Leclech devra affronter ses ennemis au mépris de sa vie.
Après Frères du vent, vendu à plus de 4000 exemplaires, le capitaine Leclech, chef de groupe au GIGN, est de retour. Cette fois, il doit assurer la protection de Willy Milpurrurru - romancière, Aborigène, et féministe convaincue - qui est menacée de mort. Rien ne se passe comme prévu et c'est en plein bush australien, au cté des « Hommes vrais », que le super...
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Retrouver un carnet manuscrit comme seul espoir de sauver sa peau...
Professeur à l'université de Memphis o il enseigne le journalisme, Paul Krueger se prépare à savourer des vacances méritées en compagnie de son chat George W. lorsqu'il reçoit une étrange invitation à se rendre à Zurich.
D'abord séduit par l'élégance cossue de la ville suisse, Paul découvre rapidement qu'une partie de son passé relève d'une véritable escroquerie...
12) Sensei
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A modern-day ronin is traveling across the country systematically murdering martial arts masters in ritualized combat. Connor Burke is a part-time college teacher with a passion for the martial arts. His brother Micky, an NYPD detective, calls him in to help with the investigation. Connor calls for additional help from his teacher, master warrior Yamashita Sensei. Burke begins to follow the trail of clues that stretches across time and place, ultimately...
13) Kage: The Shadow
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In the seemingly trackless waste of the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, a coyote cross border smuggler is found dead, another victim of the escalating violence on the southwest border.
At the same time, a mysterious best-selling writer's death deepens the controversy surrounding his works.
Rumors surround the late Elliot Westmann, with dark hints of mystic vendettas and a confrontation with an assassin sent to punish Westmann for violating a code...
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Chie Miyazaki is wild and spoiled-the pampered child of a cadet line of the Imperial house of Japan. When she disappears in the United States accompanied by a slick Korean boyfriend, it sets off alarms among elite officials in Japan's security apparatus.
The Japanese want the problem solved quietly, so they seek out Connor Burke, prize student of Sensei Yamashita. Burke suspects that he's being used, but he accepts the assignment out of honor for...
15) Dukkha Reverb
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If you're going to fight bad guys, you might as well make them really mad at you!
A few weeks ago, I had a good life-I was a respected Portland police detective and successful martial arts instructor. Then I shot somebody-then I shot two more people. It changed everything. Into this chaos stepped a man and an enchanting Vietnamese woman. Turns out he's my father who I thought was dead, and she's-wow. We got to know each over coffee and, oh yeah,...
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[Japan] An intelligence analyst is murdered on temple grounds.
[Manila] Two embassy guards go missing and a bizarre execution video is discovered by a special-forces team.
[New York] Martial arts expert Connor Burke is hired as a consultant for an elite US Army training program.
[Mindanao Philippines] A young Japanese ethnographer from Harvard University is kidnapped by a terrorist cell of Abu Sayeff.
A renegade martial arts Sensei known as the...
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In the course of a single week, everything Sam Reeves believed in, everything he knew, everyone he trusted, all would be put on the line. For a family he never knew he had.
Detective Sam Reeves, a 34-year-old martial arts instructor, has a solid fifteen-year record as a good police officer with the Portland Police Department. For the first time, Sam is forced to take a life in the line of duty and despite the findings of "good shoot" he struggles...
18) Deshi
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Asian scholar and black belt artist Connor Burke labors as a deshi-a student under the tutelage of a master warrior- a practice that draws him into the execution-style murder of a Japanese businessman in Brooklyn. Connor's brother, an officer in the NYPD, enlists him to decipher the strange calligraphic writing left by the victim at the crime scene. The enigmatic message leads Connor to the lethal samurai heritage of a mysterious martial arts sensei,...
19) Dukkha Unloaded
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Detective Sam Reeves is barely seated in a cab when he learns that during his two-week trip in Southeast Asia, hate crimes have rocked his city of Portland, including one very brutal lynching. As the crimes continue, thousands of fearful protestors march the streets, clashing with police and demanding more be done to put an end to the escalating violence!
Reassigned to the Intelligence Unit following his "bad shoot" several months ago, Sam is quickly...
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A doctor in 1965 Miami is embroiled in international intrigue in this thrilling adventure from the author of the Duncan Maclain Mysteries.
In 1960, Dr. Antonio Carrillo fled Havana for freedom in Miami. Now, five years later, Tony works as a resident internist at the local VA hospital, and one hot summer day, he receives a phone call from a young woman who needs his help. A yacht pulling into Miami's harbor has rescued an ill man from the water. When...
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