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Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In an Istanbul hotel, a source warns that Iranian forces intend to kill a CIA station chief. Ex-CIA agent John Wells is called in to investigate, but before he can get very far, the tip comes true. Which means the next warning the source gives will be taken very seriously indeed. And it's a big one: a radioactive package has been put on a ship from Dubai to the United States. As the threat level jumps and the government mobilises, Wells is sent on...
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Series
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
2013
Description
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group - Covert-One. It is only activated as a last resort. When Christian Dresner of Dresner Industries unveils a device that will revolutionise the world - the Merge, a personal computer that communicates directly with your brain - army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is assigned to assess its...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015
Description
One evening in Washington DC several members of the government are kidnapped. Among them is Nick Rendel, a coding expert in charge of drone programming and strategy. He is the victim with the most dangerous knowledge, including confidential passwords and codes that are used to programme the drones. Jon Smith and the Covert-One team begin a search to recover the officials, but as the first kidnapping victims are rescued, they show signs of brainwashing....
4) Twelve days
Author
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2015
Description
John Wells and his former CIA bosses Ellis Shafer and Vinnie Duto have uncovered a false-flag operation to convince the President to attack Iran. But with no hard evidence, no one at Langley or the White House will listen. The President has set a deadline for Iran to give up its nuclear program, and the mullahs in Tehran - furious and frightened - have responded with a deadly terrorist attack. Wells, Shafer, and Duto know they have only 12 days to...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Jack Ryan has only just moved back into the Oval Office when he is faced with a new international threat. An aborted coup in the People's Republic of China has left President Wei Zhen Lin with no choice but to agree with the expansionist policies of General Su Ke Quiang. They have declared the South China Sea a protectorate and are planning an invasion of Taiwan.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
2015
Description
An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She quickly discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by hawkish military chief of staff Masao...
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Jack Ryan volume 24
Description
A growing threat from China leaves US President Jack Ryan with only a few desperate options in this continuation of the internationally bestselling Tom Clancy series. As the world shakes from seemingly disparate outbursts of terrorism, Jack Ryan prepares for a crucial negotiation with President Zhou's increasingly hostile China. But when a routine traffic stop on an isolated road in rural Texas leads to the discovery of a stolen USB stick, it becomes...
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Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The Russians don't just want to influence American elections - they want it all. Former CIA agent John Wells confronts a plot of astonishing audacity as author Alex Berenson goes beyond today's headlines to tomorrow's all-too-real threats. It was supposed to be a terrorist sting. The guns were supposed to be disabled. Then why was there so much blood? The target was the American Airlines Center, the home of the Dallas Mavericks. The FBI had told Ahmed...
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Series
Tom Wilde volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In the autumn of 1941, the war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If the tide is going to be turned against Hitler, a new weapon is desperately needed. In Cambridge, brilliant history professor Tom Wilde is asked by an American intelligence officer to help smuggle a mysterious package out of Nazi Germany - something so secret, even Hitler himself doesn't know of its existence. Posing as a German-American industrialist, Wilde soon discovers...
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Series
Jack Ryan volume 14
Description
There's a new strong man in Russia, but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The clue to the mystery lies with a most unexpected source: President Jack Ryan.
11) Digital fortress
Author
Publisher
Corgi
Pub. Date
2009
Description
When the National Security Agency's code-breaking machine encounters a code it cannot decipher, the agency calls in Susan Fletcher, its head cryptographer. She discovers that the agency is being held to ransom with a code so complex that, if it was released, it would cripple U.S. intelligence.
12) Lethal agent
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
The head of ISIS, Sayid Halabi, survived Mitch Rapp's attack on him, but while he convalesced, he plotted. Once healed, Halabi kidnaps a brilliant Yemeni microbiologist and forces him to produce anthrax. ISIS releases videos of his progress and uses them to stir up hysteria in the States in the midst of an extremely divisive presidential election. ISIS contracts with a Mexican drug cartel to smuggle the anthrax into the US, but the anthrax is really...
13) Order to kill
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Mitch Rapp is used to winning. But now the CIA operative finds himself chasing false leads from continent to continent in an effort to keep nukes from falling into the hands of terrorists. Together with friend and colleague Scott Coleman, Rapp struggles to prevent the loss of these lethal weapons, and soon it becomes alarmingly clear that forces in Moscow are hell-bent on fomenting even more chaos and turmoil in the Middle East. Rapp must go deep...
14) Red war
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018
Description
When Russian president Maxim Krupin discovers that he has inoperable brain cancer, he's determined to cling to power. His first task is to kill or imprison any of his countrymen who can threaten him. Soon, though, his illness becomes serious enough to require a more dramatic diversion - war with the West. Upon learning of Krupin's condition, CIA director Irene Kennedy understands that the US is facing an opponent who has nothing to lose. The only...
15) Adrenaline
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Sam Capra - CIA agent, loving husband, expectant father - loses everything that matters to him in a horrifying moment in London. An unknown enemy has set him up as a traitor. But that enemy has targeted the wrong man. Escaping from the CIA, Sam goes on a desperate hunt for the killer who stole his family & to save his kidnapped wife & child.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Description
After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history. The evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried. In return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. When the king's own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the US president suspects that the Saudis never intended to live up to their agreement. He decides that the...
17) Total power
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020
Description
A cyber terrorist plot pulls the plug on US power, plunging the entire country into darkness and chaos. Mitch Rapp captures ISIS's top technology expert, who reveals that he was due to meet a man who insists he can take down the entire US power grid. But Rapp's operation to seize this man fails when his target evades the trap, and then ISIS operatives help the man do what he said he would - plunge the whole of America into darkness. With no understanding...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Lebanese master terrorist Imad Mukhtar has spent the past decade picking his targets and preparing his cells for this exact moment. All he needs is approval from Iran's Supreme Council and he will strike at America's soft underbelly. With the US on high alert, the President calls on America's terrorist hunter, Mitch Rapp.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Tensions in the Middle East are simmering when Central Intelligence Agency Director Irene Kennedy pays a visit to Syracuse University, where she hopes to recruit none other than Mitch Rapp, a student who has quickly climbed up the academic and athletic ranks. At first glance, he appears like any other smart, good-looking American college kid. Under the surface, however, a tempest rages. Nine months later, after gruelling training, Mitch finds himself...
20) Time of death
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FBI agent Ren Bryce's work chasing some of the most-wanted killers in the country becomes a nightmare when family tragedy rears its head. But there's unfinished business between Ren and those she's pursuing. One of her closest friends disappears in suspicious circumstances, and suddenly Ren's biggest secrets are about to be laid bare.