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21) By the sword
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
"Granddaughter of the sorceress Kethry, daughter of a noble house, Kerowyn had been forced to run the family keep since her mother's untimely death. Yet now at last her brother was preparing to wed, and when his bride became the lady of the keep, Kerowyn could return to her true enjoyments - training horses and hunting. But all Kerowyn's hopes and plans were shattered when her anscestral home was attacked, her father slain, her brother wounded, and...
22) Corsair
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 6
Language
English
Description
When the U.S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA hires Juan Cabrillo to search for her. The crew locates the plane, but the Secretary of State has vanished. But what does it all have to do with a two-hundred-year-old naval battle and the ancient Islamic scrolls the Libyans seem so determined to find? The search for answers leads Cabrillo into another pitched battle at sea, this time against...
23) Highland wolf
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They call him the Wolf. The mercenary’s courage and prowess in battle are known throughout the Highlands, and with his handsome face and black-as-sin hair, he is as intelligent and deadly as the wolf he was named for...But the Wolf is also Claray's betrothed. Thought to have been killed as a child, he’s been in hiding all these years. Now he’s determined to earn enough coin to rebuild his home, reclaim his birthright, and honor his marriage...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur. At fifty years old, he’s been living off the grid for over half his life. He’s never had a real job, never paid taxes, never been in a committed relationship. A good-natured henchman with a complicated and lonely past and a passion for LSD microdosing, he spends his time hopscotching across state lines in his beloved camper van, running sometimes shady...
25) Aftershock
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Retiring to a seacoast village after a life in various war zones, French Foreign Legion-trained mercenary Dell and military nurse Dolly foster local teens before the shooting of a popular boy reveals a brutal rite of passage imposed on vulnerable girls.
26) 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.
28) Sign wave
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
Author
Series
The World of Nightwalkers volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When two enemies--one old and one new--join forces, the Bodywalkers face the ultimate threat, and two Bodywalkers must confront the attraction and desire that binds them together while saving their people and the mission.
Author
Series
Paul Janson novels volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Reformed from his days of covert operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. These former operatives then form a network of support for Janson when it comes to his other job -- Janson also takes on independent assignments. For a fee, he'll use his skills to...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Speculative fiction novel set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089, after residents have discovered how to survive with biological nanotech. Cyber Mage, the teenager moonlighting as a hacker, crosses paths with mercenary Djibrel and together they seek out the fate of the Djinn, a magical super race of genies"--
32) Oath of gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
The final book in "The Deed of Paksenarrion" trilogy finds Paks waiting to fulfill her destiny to be a palladin by serving as an ordinary soldier in the Duke's company, where her growing powers alert her that evil forces are closing in on the Duke.
Running away to become a soldier rather than marry the man her family had chosen for her, Paksenarrion, a sheep farmer's daughter, becomes a legendary heroine to her people.
33) Winter road
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Circle - a thousand miles of perilous forests and warring clans. No one has ever tamed such treacherous territory before, but ex-soldier Teyr Amondsen, veteran of a hundred battles, is determined to try. With a merchant caravan protected by a crew of skilled mercenaries, Teyr embarks on a dangerous mission to forge a road across the untamed wilderness that was once her home. But a warlord has risen in the wilds of the Circle, uniting its clans...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
State secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin but now he wonders is it her secrets that fascinate him ... or Holly herself?
The five days of Christmas: Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this Christmas, but he may just have a change of heart when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow.
35) 1356: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bringing to life the violence, action and heroism of the battlefield, this brilliant recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 follows a severely outnumbered English army as they, through the ingenious planning of Edward the Black Prince, defeated the French and captured the Poitiers and French King John II.
On September 19, 1356, a severly outnumbered English army faced off against the French at the Battle of Poitiers. But what seemed like...
36) Heaven's queen
Author
Series
Paradox volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible. The sensible plan would be to hide and wait for things to blow over, but Devi's never...
37) Honor's knight
Author
Series
Paradox volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life. But even though Devi's not actually looking for it -- trouble keeps finding her. She sees things no one else can, the black stain on her hands is growing, and she is entangled with the cook she's supposed to hate. But when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Alex Marlow and Ripple Creek Security's best personal security detail return to action. This time, they really don't like their principal, World Bureau of State Minister Joy Herman Highland-a highly-placed bureaucrat with aspirations to elected office. Even worse, Highland's assistant wants to publicize every movement and action for her boss's pending campaign, which is anathema to good security. With a person of this status, it's not a case of someone...
39) Juggernaut
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Iraq, 2005. Seven mercenaries hear an enticing rumor: somewhere, in the swirling desert sands, lies an abandoned Republican Guard convoy containing millions of pounds of Saddam's gold. The mercenaries form an unlikely crew of battle-scarred privateers, killers and thieves, veterans of a dozen war zones, each of them eager to make one last score before their luck runs out. After liberating the sole surviving guard member from U.S. capture, the team...
40) Fortune's pawn
Author
Series
Paradox volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"When professional mercenary Deviana Morris took the security guard job aboard the Glorious Fool, all she wanted was a fast route into the Devastators --- the elite league of armored fighters entrusted with the most important duty on her home planet of Paradox. But this security job isn't just twelve-hour patrols, armor-polishing, and whiskey. The supposedly-cursed Captain Caldswell keeps sending Devi and her partner into unimaginably dangerous situations....
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