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1) F/X
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2000, c1986
Language
English
Description
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...
3) The Target
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"The next blockbuster thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, featuring assassin Will Robie"--
4) 11/22/63
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When English teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past he decides to use it to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former Justice Department operative Cotton Mather foils an attempt to assassinate President Danny Daniels in Manhattan, and finds himself at odds with the Commonwealth, a secret society of pirates dating back to the American Revolution that wields unstoppable power thanks to a clause written into the U.S. Constitution.
7) Extreme prey
Author
Series
Prey volume 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of is--until they find they have a shadow: an armed man intent on killing the governor. and anyone who gets in the way"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Trenton, New Jersey's favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he's out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in.
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Series
Language
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.
10) The conspirator
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
13) Red
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
14) Warlord
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Alex has a horrible premonition: is the sniper's strike only the beginning of a larger attack on the nation? It isn't long before his fears explode into life, and the nation plunges into a full-blown Constitutional crisis. His ingenuity, his training, and his capacity for battle are tested beyond limits in the most far-reaching and urgently consequential case of his life. As the rule of law is shattered by chaos, and Alex fights to isolate a suspect,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Reporter Nick Daniels, interviewing a notorious baseball player at Lombardo's Steak House in New York, witnesses the murder of a mob lawyer and in the confusion captures a key piece of evidence that puts him on the most-wanted lists of the Italian and Russian mafias, the media, and the NYPD.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
As his ex-wife, Jenn, is about to marry a Dallas real-estate tycoon, Jesse isn't too sure his relationship with former FBI agent Diana Evans is built to last. But those concerns get put on the back burner when a major Boston crime boss is brutally murdered. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Jesse suspects it's the work of Mr. Peepers, a psychotic assassin who has caused trouble for Jesse in the past.
20) The Silver Bear
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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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