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Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning is the latest installment of the Agatha- and Anthony-award-winning Chesapeake Crimes series. This volume features tales by:
Donna Andrews
Timothy Bentler-Jungr
Shaun Taylor Bevins
Carla Coupe
Maddi Davidson
Linda Ensign
Barb Goffman
Kim Kash
Adam Meyer
Alan Orloff
KM Rockwood
Lauren R. Silberman
Marianne Wilski Strong
Art Taylor
Robin Templeton
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Classic adventure from the undisputed master of action and adrenalin-pumping suspense. When a plane crashes in the icy Greenland desert with no passengers on board, and no means of identification, Joe Martin is hired to fly to the scene of the crash by the insurance company involved and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot. But the routine mission spirals into hair-raising suspense when a priceless batch of emeralds are added to the mystery, and...
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From the first name in heart pounding thriller fiction.
Ellis Jackson woke up hugging a twelve-bore shotgun. In the next room, his mistress and his best friend lay naked on the bed, their heads blown to pulp. Back in England at last, Ellis Jackson had finally cracked.
Active combat, a Viet Cong prison camp and the callous treachery of his lover and interrogator, Madam Ny, had taken their toll. Ellis Jackson was out of his mind. Or was he?
Maybe it...
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From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed: An IRA hit man tries to walk the razor's edge when he finds himself the odd man out. In these edge-of-your-seat international thrillers, Jack Higgins introduces his profoundly conflicted and deeply flawed IRA hero, Martin Fallon, trapped in a life of violence and fighting for redemption. Cry of the Hunter: After joining the IRA, Martin Fallon shot up the ranks in the fight against...
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The death of a gangster draws super-spy Paul Chavasse into a breathtaking adventure on the high seas - an unforgettable tale from one of the true masters of modern thriller writing, the bestselling author of Midnight Runner and The Keys of Hell. Caught in the nets of a local fishing boat, the body of gangland boss Harvey Preston is dragged from the English Channel, wrapped from head to toe in heavy chain. British intelligence suspects a connection...
6) Bad company
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Wartime secrets threaten to topple a President - in the heart-stopping new adventure featuring Sean Dillon, from the incomparable Jack Higgins - bestselling author of Midnight Runner. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his diary to a young aide, Baron Max von Berger. Over the years, von Berger has used his inheritance to become one of the richest men in the world, developing a secret alliance with the Rashid family - long-time foes...
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An electrifying novel of blood, vengeance, and international intrigue from the New York Times -bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed. As a high-powered Wall Street lawyer, Sarah Talbot believed her world was comfortable and secure -- until her beloved stepson was found dead of a drug overdose in Paris. Her initial grief is compounded when she learns that his body was used to transport heroin by an unstoppable European cartel. Trained by British...
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When British intelligence receives a recording of terrorist voices during an Afghanistan ambush in which several soldiers and a medical team were killed, Sean Dillon is put in charge of an ensuing investigation to hunt down the attack's traitorous European commander.
A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve...
10) Dark justice
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A fabulous contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure. When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history. It appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon...
12) A darker place
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Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."
14) Luciano's luck
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Lucky Luciano is slipped out of prison during World War II as a part of an effort to get the Italian peasantry to revolt against the Nazi German occupiers and aid the invading American units.
15) Solo
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Dr. Katherine Riley is in love with two men who are determined to destroy each other, a top international hit man and the soldier who is pursuing him.
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At the height of the Cold War, a renegade submarine threatens to ignite Europe in all-out war The French submarine L'Alouette prowls deep beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, its crewmembers eager to spill blood in the service of their frenzied nationalism -- regardless of the cost. And only one man can stop them. That man is Neil Mallory, former lieutenant colonel of the British Special Air Services and Korean War hero. Can Mallory and his...
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An imprisoned IRA soldier sets out to make a daring heist-with the fate of Northern Ireland's Republican cause resting in the balance Seven years ago, Sean Rogan's dedication to the Irish Republican Army landed him in a high-security prison. When the organization needs his help again, Rogan stages a daring jailbreak, determined to intercept an armored truck and deliver its payload to IRA leader Colum O'More. But the IRA of years past is long...
18) Night of the Fox
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On the verge of the D-Day invasion, a covert British operative must race against the clock to rescue a stranded soldier and secure Allied victory In May of 1944, shipwrecked American Colonel Hugh Kelso washes up on the shore of Nazi-occupied Jersey with a valuable secret. As one of the few men with knowledge of the impending invasion of Normandy, Kelso must be protected at all costs. Enter Henry Martineau, a British operative charged with the dangerous...
19) The Iron Tiger
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A pilot's struggle for survival against both nature and man from the international bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed and The Midnight Bell. Jack Drummond has always flown by his own radar. After getting drummed out of the British Navy, he's made a rough-and-tumble living flying wherever the money takes him. But after one last weapons drop to Tibetan guerillas fighting the Communist Chinese, he's ready to hang up his wings. Unfortunately,...
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An action-packed adventure set in the unforgiving and uncharted Amazon from the New York Times -bestselling author of The Midnight Bell. Neil Mallory thought life was interesting as a bush pilot, flying mail and supplies around the Amazon rain forest. Then, after a bad crash, his life was saved by Capt. Sam Hannah, who all but hijacked him as a junior partner in what could barely be called a business. Only then did life get really interesting. Flying...