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J. B. Collins novel volume 2
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"The president of the United States . . . is missing. WIth these words, New York Times journalist J. B. Collins, reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert. The leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically injured, Jordan's king is fighting for his life, and the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured. As the U.S. government faces a constitutional crisis and Jordan...
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c1999
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A biological weapon is developed by the U.S. Army to kill specific ethnic groups. It is discovered by microbiologist Stacy Richardson while investigating the death of her husband, also a microbiologist, who is said to have committed suicide while working on the base. Lots of people want the weapon to remain a secret and Stacy's discovery puts her life in danger.
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In 1932 Shanghai, exposed national spy Rosalind Lang must rescue fellow spy, Orion, whose memories of Rosalind were wiped, and find a cure to a dangerous chemical weapon before it lands in the hand of foreign invaders.
Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she's been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she's barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course...
Pub. Date
c2010
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Contains eleven essays that offer different perspectives on issues related to biological and chemical weaponry and warfare, discussing the threats of terrorists, the risk of a bio-terrorist attack, off-shore dumping sites for chemical weapons, biological weapons being tested on citizens, and related topics.
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[2021]
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Black Flags, the harrowing story of America's mission in Syria: to find and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and defeat ISIS--only to lose control of both In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. Concerned that Assad might resort to chemical weapons, President Obama warned that any such use would cross "a red line," warranting an American military response....
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[2018]
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Israeli spy, Ari Ben-Zion, haunted by the death of his son, is recalled to Jerusalem after a failed attempt to bring a mole back to Israel alive. Unsure how many of its operatives have been exposed, the Mossad assigns Ari to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist out of Syria. While in Damascus, Arib2ss loneliness is relieved by Kim, a young American photographer. Within days of his arrival, his mission goes wrong, and to survive, Ari reaches out...
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David Slaton novel volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
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"In a Syrian palace, the presidents of Russia and Syria undertake a clandestine meeting. No staff or advisors are permitted in the room. No records are kept. By necessity, however, there are two witnesses: the interpreters. The Russian, Ludmilla Kravchuk, returns to her hotel room burdened by what she has heard. When her Syrian counterpart is murdered before her eyes, Kravchuk fears she is next and goes into hiding in Syria. The CIA gets word of the...
8) Lethal agent
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Mitch Rapp novel volume 18
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An unprecedented and terrifying bioterrorism plot threatens to kill millions in the midst of a divisive presidential election in this new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series. A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina's victory in the Falkland's War thanks to their development of "psychopigments." Created as weapons, these colorful chemicals can produce almost any human emotion upon contact, and they have been embraced in the US as both pharmaceutical cure-alls and popular recreational drugs. Black market traders illegally sell everything from...
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Pub. Date
2008
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Presents a discussion of pioneering chemists, including Fritz Haber, Marjorie Wrinch, and twelve others who helped bring the science into modernity with their ideas, inventions, and techniques related to pesticides, nuclear chemistry, and other advances related to moral and society issues during WWII.
11) Train man
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A terrorist sabotages bridges over the Mississippi as a military train heads west with a shipment of chemical weapons. FBI agents Hush Hanson and Carolyn Lang set out to catch him before disaster strikes. By the author of Zero Option.
