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Jack Ryan volume 9
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2014
Description
President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known. A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears ? including antiterrorism specialist John Clark ? to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he?s right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny. If they succeed, the world as we...
2) Strangers
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Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Annie and Steve are from different worlds. She is a wife and mother, he is a wealthy executive with a stream of broken relationships in his wake. They do not know each other exists until one morning, on a shopping expedition, they become victims of a bomb blast, thrown together to fight for their lives.
3) The trap
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Publisher
Indigo
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A young man who went to Syria to join ISIS returns to Britain to go undercover for MI5, while his family are forced to hide their identity.
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Publisher
Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Jonathan Powell draws on his own experiences negotiating peace in Northern Ireland and talks to all the major players from the last thirty years - terrorists, secret agents and intermediaries - exposing the subterranean world of secret exchanges between governments and terrorist organisations to give us the inside account of negotiations on the front line.
6) Stormbreaker
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Alex Rider volume 1
Description
When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, 14 year old Alex Rider becomes involved with MI6 and has to complete his dead guardian's mission.
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Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2019
Description
In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged Muslims around the world to come join the caliphate. Having witnessed the brutal oppression of the Assad regime in Syria, and moved to fight for justice, thousands of men and women heeded his call. At the heart of this story is a cast of unforgettable young women who responded. Emma, from Germany; Sharmeena from Bethnal Green, London; Nour...
8) Crisis
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Luke Carlton volume 1
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Introducing Luke Carlton - ex-Special Boat Service commando, and now under contract to MI6 for some of its most dangerous missions. Sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself caught up in the coils of a plot that has terrifying international dimensions. Hunted down, captured, tortured and on the run from one of South America's most powerful and ruthless drugs cartels and...
9) Secret asset
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Liz Carlyle volume 2
Description
MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings have been taking place at an Islamic bookshop. She feels instinctively that a terrorist cell is at work and when she reports this to the Director of Counter Terrorism, a surveillance operation is immediately put into place.
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Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pub. Date
2016
Description
'You Will Not Have My Hate' is an extraordinary and heartbreaking memoir about how Antoine, and his baby son Melvil, endured after Helene's murder. With courage, moral acuity, and absolute emotional honesty, he finds a way to answer the question, how can I go on?
11) Trouble makers
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Publisher
Andersen Pr
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A teenager discovers her deceased mother's terrorist roots when a series of terrorist attacks in her local area drives her to delve into her family's past.
12) Terror cops
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A Metropolitan police officer's thrilling and terrifying account of fighting terrorism.
14) Ark Angel
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Series
Alex Rider volume 6
Pub. Date
2015
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Alex Rider gets involved in a plot to blow up the Pentagon and only he can divert a major disaster.
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Following the killing of Osama bin Laden, polls showed that Americans were more anxious about terrorism than they were before his death. The new front in the War on Terror is the 'homegrown enemy', domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United States, the UK, and across Europe. Based on several years of research and reportage from Dallas to Dewsbury, this text presents...
16) Hunter killer
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Series
Pike Logan volume 14
Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2020
Description
They're one step ahead. They're killing his team. He's coming for them. The Taskforce were once apex predators, an unrivalled hunting machine that decimated those out to harm the USA, but they may have met their match. While Pike is preparing to join the team on a counter-terrorist mission in South America, a friend is killed in South Carolina. The authorities believe it was an accident, but Pike suspects the attack was meant as a message to him....
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Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Americans in the 21st century are aware of the many forms of terrorism. The deadliest scenario would be a terrorist group exploding a nuclear device in an American city. Graham Allison, one of America's leading experts on nuclear weapons and national security, presents the evidence for two provocative, compelling conclusions.
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Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Assassination has been dramatised by literature and politicised by infamous murders throughout history, and for Robert Baer, one of the most accomplished agents ever to work for the CIA, it's a source of endless fascination. Over several decades, Baer served as an operative, from Iraq to India and beyond. In this book, he takes us on a wildly entertaining narrative adventure through a history of political murder, interweaving his first-hand experience...
19) High pressure
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As temperatures soar across Europe during the hottest summer for forty years, a series of hoax terrorist attacks is generating panic in London. Then a bus blows up on Oxford Street and the hoaxes have suddenly become real. Student Brioni O'Brien has been desperately trying to contact her older sister since she unexpectedly returned early from travelling, so when Marissa's bag is found near the site of the explosion, she fears the worst. Teaming up...
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Seven Dials
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the terrorist who detonated the bomb at the Manchester Arena on the night of 22nd May 2017. Her best friend Nell, who she'd been linking arms with at the time, was tragically killed, but Freya - thrown forward by the blast - somehow survived. She suffered 29 separate injuries, was in a coma for five days, in a wheelchair for three months and there wasn't a part of her body that didn't suffer the effects...