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Vintage
Pub. Date
1997
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For Charlotte Emory, leaving her husband seems to offer the only way out from her mundane everyday life. But Charlotte is about to escape in a way she never expected, as a young bank robber takes her hostage, and they head south for Florida.
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Hesperus
Pub. Date
2003
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When a select party of American and English tourists board the Korosko in search of eastern magic, they are ill prepared for what is to follow. Taken hostage by Islamic fundamentalists, they encounter the ultimate in cross-cultural experiences - one that leaves them fearing for their lives.
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Pub. Date
2016
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London is under siege. Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in nine different locations around the city, and are ready to die for their cause. Their mission: to force the government to release jihadist prisoners from Belmarsh Prison. Their deadline: 6pm today. But the bombers are cleanskins, terrorists with no obvious link to any group, and who do not appear on any anti-terror watch list. What has brought them together on this...
4) Hostage
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Orion
Pub. Date
2012
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When a store robbery goes horribly wrong the teenage gang who perpetrated the crime make a run for it. Hotly pursued by the police, they crash into the suburban home of an accountant and take the family hostage. Soon the mafia are on the scene.
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As a teenager, Sarah D'Villez famously escaped a man who abducted and held her hostage for 11 days. The case became notorious, with Sarah's face splashed across the front of every newspaper in the country. 17 years later, Sarah's attempt to build a normal life for herself in London has failed. When she hears of her kidnapper's impending release from prison, fearful of the media storm that is sure to follow, she decides to flee to rural Wales under...
8) Hope to die
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Detective Alex Cross is in a state of despair. Thierry Mulch, a psychotic genius and ruthless killer, is holding Cross's family hostage. Driven by hatred and a thirst for revenge, Mulch is threatening to kill them all, and break Cross forever. But Cross is fighting back, aided by his foster daughter Ava, who has recently returned to the fold after a chance encounter with Cross on the mean streets of town. He follows the leads wherever they take him,...
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Welbeck
Pub. Date
2023
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Northern Afghanistan, 2012: an international crisis is about to erupt. A group of NGO workers have been kidnapped by local insurgents and are now hidden in a winding mountain region. After attempts to negotiate a deal with the bandits fail, and with the lives of the hostages hanging in the balance, there is only one option ... SAS and Navy SEALs are sent in to find and free them. 'The Rescue' is the action-packed story of their attempts to save the...