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On a quest to settle a score with the man who destroyed his life, Boyd Halverson robs a bank and takes a hostage, in the new novel from the author of The Things They Carried.
"At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” He revealed a Temptation .38 Special....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
5) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people is thrown together, including American opera star Roxanne Coss, and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Alan Partridge, the famous local radio DJ and TV host, finds himself at the center of a siege, when a disgruntled fellow DJ decides to hold their station hostage after learning that he's getting fired when the new owners decide to convert the station to talk radio.
8) Deadlock
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a criminal seeking revenge takes hostages at a power plant with a group of mercenaries, an ex-soldier must come to the rescue.
9) Shock wave
Publisher
Crimson Forest
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
10) Captive
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Brian Nichols, on the run as the subject of a city-wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's bestselling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.
11) Submergence
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
Series
Publisher
Warner Classics
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
13) Non-stop
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a Category Five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
15) American siege
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When a doctor is taken hostage by a group of outlaws searching for a missing woman, a sheriff tries to handle the situation before the FBI arrives.
16) Hard hit
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Korean
Description
While driving his children to school one morning, a bank manager receives a call demanding a ransom and claiming that a bomb will go off if anyone exits the car.
17) Heist
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When their attempt to rob a casino goes awry and a shootout ensues, Vaughn and Cox are forced to flee on foot and hijack city Bus 657 and take passengers hostage. Now, in a high speed chase, Vaughn will not only have to outwit the police, but he will have to contend with Pope's maniacal right hand man, Dog, in order to make it through the day alive.
19) Submergence
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two people meet and fall in love but have to separate as each one of them faces a dangerous mission: one as a Secret Service agent tracking down suicide bombers, another as a bio-mathematician participating in a deep sea diving project.
20) Suddenly!
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The small town of Suddenly is invaded by professional assassin John Baron and his henchmen. Taking a local family hostage, Baron sets up vigil at the second-story window of the family's home. Baron is hoping to become "someone" by killing the President.
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