When the Op-Center learns that someone is trying to send two nuclear devices that were diverted from Cuba to eastern Siberia during the Cold War to Iran, they use every asset they have to recover the weapons before they can be used.
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- Fan-favorite Eve Duncan is embroiled in a deadly game of intrigue after receiving a skull and instructions for its reconstruction, a project that reveals the story of a beautiful woman whose identical twin's life is in danger. By the…
- Investigating an alarming rise in the world's sea levels, Kurt, Joe and the rest of the NUMA scientific team uncover a diabolical plot to upset the Pacific balance of power by triggering natural disasters to displace billions of people.
- Taking a contract to abduct the mistress of a Syrian dictator to obtain any information she may possess, Court Gentry learns that the woman has given birth to the dictator's only son and that in order to secure her cooperation, he must…
- Veteran operator Pike Logan and his team embark on a high-risk search for an undercover Mossad agent only to stumble on a ruthless military coup in Africa, a situation that tests his Taskforce loyalties. By the best-selling author of Ring…
- When China overpowers America's allies, newly promoted admiral Dan Lenson struggles to buy time for the Allies in the central Pacific; while SEAL operator Teddy Oberg escapes from a brutal POW camp.
- When a boy who went missing 10 years earlier in the untamed wilderness of Minnesota is discovered, violent and uncommunicative, a language therapist harboring difficult secrets struggles to uncover what happened.
- Despite rescuing the Testament of Lucifer, Emma and Bravo Shaw must face the Fallen, including the four thrones of legend.
- After an event at which futurist Edmond Kirsch is to announce a groundbreaking discovery erupts into chaos, Robert Langdon rushes to Barcelona to locate a cryptic password that will reveal Kirsch's secret before it is lost forever.
- An explosive prequel to Casino Royale follows the mysterious demise of Agent 007 in the French Riviera underworld and the emergence of a new agent, James Bond.
- In 1830, 11-year-old enslaved child George Washington Black -- a.k.a. "Wash" -- is hired out as a manservant to Christopher "Titch" Wilde, an inventor who needs the boy's help to test his hot-air balloon. Everything goes wrong, and that's…
- A lethally clever designer of explosives tests the skills and collective strength of the highly skilled LAPD Bomb Squad. By the award-winning author of the Jane Whitefield series.
- A spy thriller set against the backdrop of the fateful Munich Conference of 1938 follows the experiences of a rising star in the British diplomatic service and his Oxford friend, a secret member of the anti-Hitler resistance, who, while on…
- An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York City home, drinking wine and spying on her neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through her window that exposes her secrets and raises questions about her perceptions of reality.
- When the president's teen-chess-prodigy son abruptly stops playing and begins to succumb to a virtually unprecedented gene mutation, Dr. Lee Blackwood tracks down the cases of two other patients, who he discovers were also gifted and who…
- Visiting a friend's family home in an economically troubled western Pennsylvania community, Amos Decker, a detective with an uncanny eidetic memory, spots suspicious lights and discovers two dead bodies with no clear indication of how…
- Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited by unspeakable crimes in New York Times best-selling author Mary Burton's throat-clutching novel of suspense. Medical examiner Faith McIntyre is called in on the case of an unconscious woman…
- After being laid off from her teaching position, Mercer Mann is approached by a mysterious woman with a generous offer to go undercover and infiltrate bookstore owner Bruce Cable's life to learn his secrets.
- Mary Daniels doesn't let anything get in the way of her job acquiring rare artifacts for her wealthy boss. But this particular obstacle--huge, hard-muscled, unashamedly masculine--is impossible to ignore. Stuck in a cramped car with Brodie…
- As the world's oil supply is vanishing and the stock market is plummeting, the NUMA team must solve a baffling historical mystery in order to save the future.
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