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The Teeth of the Tiger

Tom Clancy - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Book

A man named Mohammed sits in a caf in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance,...
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The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgensterns Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

William Goldman - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Here William Goldmans beloved story of Buttercup, Westley, and their fellow adventurers finally receives a beautiful illustrated treatment.. A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts - The Princess...
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The Outcasts: A Novel

Kathleen Kent - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A taut, thrilling adventure story about buried treasure, a manhunt, and a woman determined to make a new life for herself in the old west.It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner,...
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Top Secret

W E B Griffin - Putnam
Format: Print book

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War - and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley Jr. is spotted and recruited for a new enterprise that will eventually...
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The Dealer and the Dead

Gerald Seymour - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"The three British masters of suspense, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and John le Carre, have been joined by a fourth-Gerald Seymour." -New York TimesThe Dealer and the Dead is the newest heart-pounding thriller from international bestselling author Gerald Seymour, the "best...
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The Swede: A Novel

Robert Karjel - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A Swedish security agent is summoned to interrogate a terror suspect held by the FBI in this sophisticated, fast-paced thriller - but the prisoner isn't the only one with something to hide.At a remote military base in the Indian Ocean, the FBI is trying to get a prisoner to confess....
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Barely Legal

STUART WOODS - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

In this nonstop thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington series, the protg will become the hero as Herbie Fisher gets caught in a web of deceit, corruption, and greed.Under the tutelage of Stone Barrington, Herbie Fisher has transformed from...
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Forever and a Day: A Novel

ANTHONY HOROWITZ - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James...
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Serpent: A Novel from the NUMA Files

Clive Cussler - Pocket Books
Format: Audiobook

From the classic novel Raise the Titanic! to Flood Tide, Clive Cussler and his fictional alter ego Dirk Pitt have earned legions of fans worldwide. Now, the author of numerous consecutive bestsellers unleashes a hero for the next millennium in an electrifying new series of unrelenting...
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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson - Bantam Classics
Format: Paperback

Masterfully crafted, Treasure Island is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas - an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But above all,...
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The Deep Zone: A Novel

James M. Tabor - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover

In this gripping debut thriller from James M. Tabor, a brilliant and beautiful scientist and a mysterious special ops soldier must lead a team deep into the Earth on a desperate hunt for the cure to a deadly epidemic. When she was unjustly fired from a clandestine government laboratory,...
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Certain Jeopardy

Jeff Struecker - B & H Group
Format: Paperback

Six American men live behind a protective faade, their real work hidden from neighbors and friends. Different in countless ways, they are intimately the same in one: at any moment their lives can be altered with a phone call, and their actions may change the world.They are Special Ops....
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The Associate

John Grisham - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

If you thought Mitch McDeere was in trouble in The Firm, waituntil you meet Kyle McAvoy, The AssociateKyle McAvoy grew up in his father's small-town law office in York, Pennsylvania. He excelled in college, was elected editor-in-chief of The Yale Law Journal, and his future has limitless...
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