Catalog Search Results
1) Colonia
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
A woman attempts to escape an evil, torturous cult run by a Nazi in order to rescue her boyfriend and overthrow a terrifying military regime. Inspired by shocking true events!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Summary
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.
4) Implicated
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
When Ann's new boyfriend Tom asks her to babysit his boss's young daughter Katie, she is happy to help out. But Ann's happiness is soon shattered when she realizes she and Katie are only pawns in Tom's kidnapping plot which spirals dangerously out of control.
Summary
An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
7) Snatched
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Summary
When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results.
8) Extraction
Formats
Summary
When a terrorist group kidnaps retired CIA field operative Leonard Turner, his son, Harry Turner, launches his own unsanctioned rescue operation. While evading highly skilled operatives, deadly assassins, and international terrorists, Harry finally puts his combat training to the test.
10) Hounds of love
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
In the mid 1980's, seventeen-year-old Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realizes she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
Summary
In 1983, a group of childhood friends pulled off the crime of the century: kidnapping one of the richest men in the world, the heir of the Heineken beer empire. The shocking capture, by gunpoint in broad daylight on the streets of Amsterdam, resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for a kidnapped individual. It was truly the perfect crime, until they got away with it. Based on a true story.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Formats
Summary
When the president is kidnapped by a terrorist who seizes control of the White House (Secret Service Code: Olympus), disgraced former presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team rushes to respond, they must rely on Banning's insider knowledge to save the president and prevent an even greater catastrophe.
13) Direct contact
Pub. Date
2009
Summary
Imprisoned ex-special forces officer Mike Riggins can earn his freedom from a Russian prison if he rescues a kidnapped woman.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Summary
While high up in the mountains, a group of climbers finds an eight-year-old girl who is terrified, dehydrated, and unable to speak a word of English. Alison, the leader of the group, convinces the others to help her rescue the girl. But when they attempt to bring her to safety they become involved in a kidnapping plot and soon must fight for their lives.
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Summary
Pistachio Disguisey is a mild-mannered waiter whose life is about to change. A criminal mastermind kidnaps his parents and is forcing his father to steal priceless treasures from around the world. His grandfather informs him he is descended from a long line of disguise artists and now it's up to Pistachio to save the day.
19) Her stolen past
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
Faith is all a Johns Hopkins medical student has left when she returns home and discovers a birth certificate of a kidnapped baby in her late mother's closet.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
The world's most glamorous amateur sleuths are back for more mystery, fun and danger in the third thrilling season. In 20 captivating cases ranging from kidnapping and robbery to industrial espionage and murder, romantic jetsetters Jonathan and Jennifer Hart risk life, limb and lifestyle to solve the most unsolvable of crimes.