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His mentor declared him a "natural killer," and after successfully completing several assassinations, Columbus--known as "Silver Bear" to the Russians--tracks his next target, Speaker of the House Abe Mann, who back in the 1970s was involved with Columbus's prostitute mother.
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Elaine Zimmerman, on a cruise with her two friends and fellow divorcees Jackie and Pat, is ready to concede that the vacation is a success when she meets the handsome Sam Peck, but when she inadvertantly learns that a hit-man is on board who has been hired to murder someone's ex-wife, suddenly everyone is suspect.
4) The Target
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Will Robie volume 3
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English
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"The next blockbuster thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, featuring assassin Will Robie"--
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"As soon as he began publishing fiction more than three decades ago, Charles McCarry was recognized as a spy novelist of uncommon gifts" wrote Charles Trueheart in The Washington Post. Tears of Autumn, McCarry's riveting novel of espionage and foreign affairs, was a major bestseller upon its first publication in 1975. Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and featuring Paul Christopher,...
6) F/X
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Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2000, c1986
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English
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Rollie Tyler, the best special effects artist in Hollywood, is hired by the Justice Department to stage the assassination of an important underworld witness. After the illusion is pulled off successfully, Rollie himself is pinned for the murder. Double-crossed and now hunted by those who hired him, the New York City Police Department, and the mob, Rollie learns that he can trust no one, and that the only thing that can save his life is his unequaled...
7) Warlord
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Alex Hawke, a British-American M16 counterterrorism operative, is pulled out of the drunken stupor he has been in since the death of the woman he loved, when he receives a call from Prince Charles who needs his help finding an assassin who is threatening the royal family.
9) 11/22/63
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
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When English teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past he decides to use it to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination.
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Grand Central Pub
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2010
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English
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Jason Bourne, nearly killed in an ambush in Indonesia, assumes a new identity and recommences his quest to learn who he really is, but when an American passenger jet is shot down over Egypt by what appears to be an Iranian missile, he joins a global team, led by Soraya Moore, to investigate the attack and possibly prevent another world war.
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Bennett Robert Jackson volume 3
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Broadway Books
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[2017].
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English
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Revenge. It's something Sigrud je Harkvaldsson is very, very good at. Maybe the only thing. So when he learns that his oldest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, has been assassinated, he knows exactly what to do--and that no mortal force can stop him from meting out the suffering Shara's killers deserve. Yet as Sigrud pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, he begins to fear that this battle is an unwinnable...
14) Ha'penny
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Tor
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2007
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English
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Scotland Yard's Inspector Carmichael is called in to investigate the bombing death of a popular actress and stumbles upon a plot to kill Hitler and England's Prime Minister.
15) The Free Fishers
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Birlinn Limited
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[2012]
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English
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"In this classic thriller by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps , an English professor is drawn into a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. When Anthony Lammas, minister of the Kirk and Professor of Logic at St. Andrews University, leaves his hometown for London on business, he little imagines that within two days he will be deeply entangled in a web of mystery and intrigue. But he's no ordinary professor. His boyhood allegiance to a brotherhood...
17) Wetwork Repair
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Permuted Press
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[2019]
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English
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"A thrilling and troubling tale of murder, espionage, shadowy schemes, and a looming threat to America... First, a highly respected expert on Iran and Saudi Arabia is killed in his home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. -- with a warning note left at the crime scene by the highly professional killers. Shortly thereafter, an up-and-coming NSA official who has worked on FISA cases and Middle East issues is murdered. A second warning note is left. How...
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From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been fourteen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful. But now, Beecher White discovers a killer in Washington, DC who's meticulously recreating the crimes of the world's most famous assassins: John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald. But what's scariest of all is what all four assassins have in common.
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2017]
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English
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A Creole woman's secrets about the Kennedy assassination lure a detective from Colorado to the Louisiana swamps in search of the truth. In the wake of an earthquake, the mummified body of Antoine Ducane, a Creole member of the Louisiana underworld, is exhumed from the rubble of the Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel. Before he disappeared decades ago, Ducane claimed to know the truth of JFK's assassination-and its link to the president's own covert anti-Castro...
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