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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
Living a life of luxury, Ripley attends a party thrown by Jonathan Trevanny and overhears the host making critical comments about Ripley's fashion sense. Enraged, Ripley immediately plots his retaliation. This comes via his former business partner Reeves. Reeves seeks out Ripley's help in finding an unrecognized assassin to kill a Russian gangster, and Ripley suggests he talk to Trevanny. Trevanny reluctantly accepts the offer and the situation quickly...
3) The Target
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The next blockbuster thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci, featuring assassin Will Robie"--
Author
Series
Language
English
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.
5) 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...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Provides an account of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, discussing how actor John Wilkes Booth and his fellow Confederate sympathizers hatched their murderous plot, and following the ensuing manhunt, trials, and executions of the conspirators.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
Burbank, Calif
Language
English
Description
Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon travel to England to find out who killed Chon's father. The killer steals the Chinese Imperial Seal that Chon's father was protecting. While they are in England, they stumble upon a conspiracy to murder the entire British royal family. Only with the help of Chon's beautiful, but deadly sister, can the trio stop the assassination and return the Imperial Seal to its rightful owners.
10) Red rabbit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
It is very early in Jack Ryan’s career—so early that he has not yet even become an analyst for the CIA. But a series of nasty encounters with an IRA splinter group has brought Ryan to the attention of the CIA’s Deputy Director and his British counterpart. They offer him his first job as a freelance analyst, and he readily accepts. Debriefing a high-level Russian defector, however, he comes across an unbelievable plot: top Soviet...
Author
Series
Bennett Robert Jackson volume 3
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Recounts in gripping detail the brutal murder of John Fitzgerald Kennedy--and how a sequence of gunshots on a Dallas afternoon not only killed a beloved president but also sent the nation into the cataclysmic division of the Vietnam War and its culture-changing aftermath.
15) 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.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A minute-by-minute account of the 1981 assassination attempt on the fortieth president reveals how close he came to dying, in a report that pays tribute to the individuals who saved his life and oversaw national security throughout the crisis.
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