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Looking for something thrilling to read with a fast-moving plot, larger-than-life characters and intrigue?

Book CoverPatriot Games  by Tom Clancy
On a visit with his family in London, Jack Ryan stumbles into an attempt by a new Irish revolutionary group to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales and their eldest son.

 


Book CoverCode of Honor  by Harold Coyle
After being forced to choose between an action that will save her troops and obeying a senseless order by a frightened and arrogant general, Captain Nancy Kazak finds herself being court-martialed.

 


Book CoverThe Charm School by Nelson DeMille
Gregory Fisher, a young American tourist on vacation in Russia, stumbles across a secret camp where Russians are being taught how to imitate Americans

 

 
Book CoverThe Day After Tomorrow  by Allan Folsom
In Paris, Paul Osborn recognizes the man who murdered his father and then tries to kill him only to become entangled in an international conspiracy involving a sinister cabal

 


Book CoverVertical Run by Joseph R. Garber
Davis Elliot is having a bad day at the office. Everyone he meets wants to kill him (literally) and now he has to find out why




Book CoverHonor Bound  by W.E.B. Griffin
In World War II Argentina, a pro-Nazi government is allowing a neutral ship to resupply the Germans. Clete Frade and two special agents travel to Buenos Aires to blow up the vessel while Clete also tries to persuade his estranged father, an Argentine colonel who may be plotting a coup, to support the Allies.

 

Book CoverHigh Flight  by David Hagberg
Ex-CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey is hired by a major airline company, which has developed a next generation supersonic jetliner, to find out who is behind a takeover attempt.




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Assumed Identity  by David Morrell
Ex-secret agent Brendan Buchanan receives a coded plea for help from a past love. Teaming up with a tenacious reporter, Brendan begins a desperate search for the woman.

 

 
Book CoverMount Dragon  by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Scientist Guy Carson is transferred to Genedyne’s elite desert facility, Mount Dragon, where he quickly discovers that genetic research can be deadly.

 


Book CoverArea 7 by Matthew Reilly
In the Nevada desert, Lt. Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield escorts the President to super secret Area 7, where rogue Air Force Commander Caesar Russell waits to launch his master plan for control of the world.