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Doc Ford novels volume 19
Language
English
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Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
2) Home free
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 20
Language
English
Description
The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, the president of the United States, Martine Connor.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed one by one, the masked gunman says on-screen, unless the police will admit that they faked the death of the legendary superhero called the Kingfisher and helped him to give up his defense of the city thirty years ago. Retired reporter Marcus Waters made his name as a journalist covering the enigmatic superheros five years of cleaning up Chicagos streets....
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English
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives...
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Language
English
Description
After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent family taken hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
Author
Publisher
Insight Editions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A delightful Christmas storybook for adults based on the action-packed Die Hard movie All John McClane wants for Christmas is to reunite with his estranged family. But when his wifes office holiday party turns into a deadly hostage situation, he has to save her life before he can get home in time for Christmas! The unconventional fan-favorite movie Die Hard is now an illustrated storybookcomplete with machine guns, European terrorists, and a cop whos...
7) Ambulance
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
9) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Leading politician and bestselling author Newt Gingrich has teamed with novelist Pete Earley to create a gripping thriller to which Gingrich brings his unparalleled understanding of Washington's corridors of power. The greatest nightmare for the free world today would be a Master Terrorist hiding somewhere, coordinating radical Islamic groups at the highest level around the globe. In DUPLICITY, this invisible hand overseeing havoc plays a major...
Author
Series
Paul Janson novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-covert-ops soldier Paul Janson and his sharpshooting partner, Jessica Kincaid, set out to rescue the wife of an oil executive who has been kidnapped by Somali pirates.
12) 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.
14) Black butterfly
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With a serial killer in the shadows of a remote Colorado town, down-on-his-luck writer Paul invites drifter Jack to his isolated cabin where Jack's increasingly violent behavior brings both men's secrets to light.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the days after the Civil War, a solitary rider travelled the open frontier--but he wasn't alone, for Death seemed to travel with him. Or maybe it was the Devil himself who gave him the lethal pistol shot that earned him the name 'Death's Acolyte.' And when the stranger with the scarred face, who calls himself Ken Casey, rode into the peaceful Texas town of Wardell, maybe peace--for his own ravaged soul--was all he wanted. But in Wardell, all hell...
16) 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.
17) 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.
18) Wolf rising
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Series
Language
English
Description
When he rescues teacher Selena Rosa from a hostage situation, werewolf SWAT Officer Jayden Brooks realizes he has finally found his life mate, only to discover that she is on track to become an omega—a violent breed—and must pull her back from the edge.
19) Girl on a plane
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"This is a fictionalized story based on the amazing real life experiences of Miriam Moss, a fifteen year old English school girl who was held hostage on a plane hijacked by the Palestinian Liberation Front in 1970"--
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English
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A boy visits a library on his way home from school. An old man takes the boy hostage and forces him to memorize a large number of books. The boy eventually realizes that the man plans to absorb the information he's memorized by eating his brain. With the help of a strange girl and a man dressed as a sheep, the captive devises an escape plan.
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