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1) Wild fire
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John Corey novels volume 4
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"Detective John Corey of The lion's game, Plum Island, and Night fall returns in a new novel about a conspiracy to detonate nuclear bombs in two American cities, setting off a world war of unimaginable proportions"--Provided by the publisher.
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John Puller volume 1
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Combat veteran John Puller, now working as an investigator for the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, tries to solve the murder of an Army man and his Pentagon contractor wife in their isolated rural home.
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Gideon Crew novel volume 2
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A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
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A nuclear bomb destroys a major city killing thousands of Americans and exposing many more to radiation poisoning. Sean Falcone, national security advisor, is tasked with identifying and tracking down the attackers. Although powerful forces within the capital point the finger at Iran, Falcone discovers an astonishing secret hidden deep within the upper echelons of Washington's elite--but who will believe him?
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2010
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Set in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United States, The Malacca Conspiracy is a bone-chilling tale of terrorism on the high seas, of political assassination and nuclear brinkmanship. And for Zack and Diane-your favorite JAG characters from Don Brown's popular Navy Justice Series-a story of hope for a longstanding romance that is now or never. When a dastardly plot is hatched in the Malaysian seaport of Malacca to attack civilian oil tankers...
6) Trust no one
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Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terroristb2s someone Nick has never heard ofb2shas seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person hegasll talk to is Nick, promising...
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c1998
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Into each of his bold thrillers, best-selling author Steve Martini packs fast-moving action and convincing characters. Critical Mass is his chillingly realistic tale of nuclear terrorism and a deadly plot to destroy the American way of life. While updating the database at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, nuclear fission expert Gideon van Ry discovers two Russian nuclear devices are missing. As he searches for the unstable components,...
10) Liberty
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Learning that a terrorist network has obtained easily transportable nuclear weapons and is being aided by an American traitor with access to the highest levels of government, Jake Grafton is given orders by the president to stop an attack. On a quiet park bench in Manhattan--just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center--spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear...
11) Assassin's code
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Joe Ledger novel volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
"When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran, the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe and Echo Team into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for blood. Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows...
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Eric Steele novel volume 1
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[2018]
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"The first in a new military thriller series from the NYT bestselling author of Outlaw Platoon"--
Eric Steele is in an elite clandestine unit known simply as "the Program". Steele is on assignment in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon is stolen. Soon it becomes clear that the perpetrators are from Steele's past and the geopolitical events take a personal turn.
13) Fallout
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Op-center volume 22
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"As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes...
14) Vendetta
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Catherine Ling volume 5
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With his dying breath, Carl Venable, head of the CIA task force on terrorism and Jude Brandon's final link to terrorist ringleader Max Huber, gives Brandon a mandate: to keep his daughter, Rachel, safe at any cost. But Rachel Venable has a shocking, twisted past of her own, one that comes rushing back after her medical clinic in Guyana is attacked by Huber - the same man who murdered her father and kept her imprisoned for months. Brandon and Catherine...