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62) Snakewood
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A band of mercenaries, who once, for the right price, decimated their enemies through cunning, alchemical brews and cold steel, find themselves being hunted down and eliminated one-by-one as their genius leader goes into hiding.
63) Contrarian
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After his patron is assassinated, Counselor and Isolate Steffan Dekkard must handle political infighting and ongoing assassination attempts while uncovering who is supplying arms to insurrectionists.
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1729
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A fantastical steampunk novel of magic and machines set in an alternate 1830s London. Includes a special bonus story, "Dancing in Cinders."
65) The legacy
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When Cole Egan, a Wall Street security trader inherits a video tape disproving the official version of the JFK assassination, he thinks his financial worries are over--the papers will pay a fortune. Instead, he becomes the target of assassins.
67) End game
Author
Series
Jonathan Grave thrillers volume 6
Language
English
Description
Assassins have eliminated a Chechen scientist who's been working as a double agent for the U.S. government. The feds know who to call: Jonathan Grave and his elite rescue team. Their mission: to find the dead man's teenage son - who's on the run - with crucial information that must not fall into the wrong hands. There's only one problem: the boy;s bodyguard is a security specialist with unusual talents, and she's not giving up without a fight. Only...
68) Libra
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1988-]
Language
English
Description
A fictional speculation of the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
PI Nate Heller of Chicago is hired by the widow of Senator Huey Long, a Louisiana politician, to find out for insurance purposes whether the bullet that killed him was fired by an assassin, therefore murder, or did he die in crossfire when his own bodyguards opened fire, therefore an accident. The truth, Heller learns, is far more sinister. By the author of Carnal Hours.
Author
Series
Emperor series volume 5
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The assassination of Julius Caesar sets in motion political intrigue, epic battle, and righteous retribution throughout the ancient Roman empire as Marc Antony and Gaius Octavian marshal their forces into an avenging army on a mission to reunite all that Caesar's fall has torn asunder.
71) Disclosures
Author
Series
Publisher
Créme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When a local villain, with a past entwined with a London copper, is being targeted by a gunman, Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles take the case to protect him.
72) Dead heat
Author
Series
Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Jon and Erin Bennett, the world seems to be spinning dangerously out of control. A new dictator is rising in Iraq. China is making threatening new moves toward Taiwan. North Korean forces appear ready to strike south. Israel is feverishly trying to complete the Third Temple. Oil prices are surging. And in the wake of an horrific war in the Middle East, President James MacPherson's second term is coming to an end. Now the battle to succeed him...
73) Play dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Crm̈e de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An investigation into an incident in another Force led Colin Harpur and his boss, Assistant Chief Constable Desmond Iles, to uncover corruption in the ranks and arrest a fellow policeman who murdered an undercover officer. But there are still many questions that remain unanswered.
75) HHhH
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Tells the story Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubiš, who escaped Nazi-occupied Prague and were then recruited by the British Secret Service to carry out the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious "Butcher of Prague."
76) The golden gate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs....
77) Retribution
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On May 1, 2011, a team of twenty-four members of US SEAL Team Six swooped down on the compound of Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Their mission, code-named Neptune Spear, was to find and kill the terrorist leader. The mission was a success. Since that day, elements of the government of Pakistan have harbored a deep hatred for the SEALs who violated their sovereign territory. Now they've hired a team of German assassins to kill all twenty-four...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 1890, actor John Wilkes Booth--long presumed dead--emerged from twenty-five years of anonymity in his wilderness refuge to expose those truly responsible for the Lincoln assassination and its ensuing cover-up, to unite with the children he had never known and recover what he might of his sense of purpose and dignity."--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the evening of Good Friday, 1865, Henry Rathbone and Clara Harris joined the Lincolns in the Presidential box at Ford’s Theater, becoming eyewitnesses to one of the great tragedies of American history. In this riveting novel, Thomas Mallon re-creates the unusual love story of this young engaged couple whose fateful encounter with history profoundly affects the remainder of their lives. Lincoln’s assassination is only one part of the remarkable...
Author
Series
Story of a crime trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The first entry in a trilogy inspired by the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme traces an investigation into an unknown American's death in Stockholm that reveals a complex web of espionage and intelligence failures.
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