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Scarecrow
by Matthew Reilly
A Marine and a scientist team up to stop a deadly virus from spreading. Fast-paced action and suspenseful plot twists keep readers on edge.
Majestic-12 , a group of the world's richest men, make up a bounty list of fifteen targets that have to be eliminated before 12 noon of October 26. Among the targets is Shane Schofield , who at that ... (Wikipedia)
Temple
by Matthew Reilly
A group of adventurers explore a mysterious ancient temple, fighting off deadly traps and challenges.
Professor William Race is a young linguist, working for NYU is approached by a retired Col. Frank Nash, a physicist from the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA , to translate a ... (Wikipedia)
Area 7
by Matthew Reilly
A group of terrorists take over a military base in Antarctica, and it's up to a lone hero to stop them before they unleash a deadly virus.
The President of the United States is visiting America's most secret military installation , Area 7. Assigned to his protective detail is Shane Schofield and his team of Marines including Gunnery ... (Wikipedia)
Ice Hunt
by James Rollins
A team of scientists and soldiers race to uncover a secret hidden in the Arctic ice before a deadly enemy finds it first.
Carved into a moving island of ice twice the size of the United States, Ice Station Grendel has been abandoned for more than seventy years. The twisted brainchild of the finest minds of the former ... (Goodreads)
Black Order
by James Rollins
A thrilling adventure across the globe, uncovering secrets of a mysterious ancient order.
Librarian's note: This is an Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN10: 0752876457 ISBN13: 9780752876450. A sinister fire in a Copenhagen bookstore ignites a relentless hunt across four continents. Arson ... (Goodreads)
Raise the Titanic!
by Clive Cussler
A thrilling adventure to find a sunken treasure at the bottom of the ocean.
In 1987, Dr. Gene Seagram leads the top-secret Pentagon program Meta Section, which secretly attempts to leapfrog current technology by 20 to 30 years. One result: the Sicilian Project, which uses ... (Wikipedia)
Inca Gold
by Clive Cussler
A thrilling journey of archaeological discovery in the jungles of Peru.
In 1532 a fleet of ships sails in secret to an island in the middle of an inland sea. There they hide a magnificent treasure more vast than that any Pharaoh would ever possess. Then they disappear, ... (Wikipedia)
Die Trying
by Lee Child
An intense thriller involving a daring mission to rescue a kidnapped woman.
While in Chicago, former military policeman Jack Reacher is helping a young woman with an injured leg with her dry cleaning when they're captured at gunpoint by three men and thrown into a car, then ... (Wikipedia)
Flood Tide
by Clive Cussler
Thrilling adventure of a daring salvage mission to rescue a sunken Civil War ship.
Following the runaway success of his first nonfiction book, The Sea Hunters, Clive Cussler returns with his legendary fictional hero Dirk Pitt" - in a masterfully crafted tale of villainy on the high ... (Goodreads)
The Judas Strain
by James Rollins
A deadly virus is unleashed, and a team of scientists must race against time to find a cure and prevent a global pandemic.
Operatives of the shadowy covert organization SIGMA Force, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift ... (Barnes & Noble)
Tomorrow, When the War Began
by John Marsden
A group of friends fight for survival in a hostile, war-torn world.
Ellie Linton goes out camping in the bush for a week with her friends Homer Yannos, Lee Takkam, Kevin Holmes, Corrie Mackenzie, Robyn Mathers, and Fiona Maxwell. They find a way into a large, ... (Wikipedia)
Echo Burning
by Lee Child
A former military man is hired for a dangerous job to protect a woman and her daughter from an abusive husband.
Jack Reacher breaks a bully's nose and finger after being repeatedly provoked in a Texas saloon, so when the bully turns out to be a local cop and shows up with three of his colleagues the following ... (Wikipedia)
Shall We Tell the President?
by Jeffrey Archer
A thrilling political espionage story of a possible assassination attempt on the President of the United States.
A Greek man, Angelo Casefikis, enters a hospital with a gunshot wound to his leg demanding to speak to the FBI. Nick Stamos, the head of the Washington field office, tasks agents Mark Andrews and ... (Wikipedia)
Meg
by Steve Alten
A deep sea thriller about a giant prehistoric shark that terrorizes a research team.
Revised and Expanded. On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal ... (Goodreads)
Thunderhead
by Douglas Preston
A gripping adventure through a dystopian future as a young couple battle to save their world.
Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery ... (Goodreads)
Reliquary
by Douglas Preston
A thrilling adventure full of unexpected twists and turns, uncovering a hidden relic with immense power.
The story picks up where the epilogue of Relic left off. Two headless skeletons are found in the Humboldt Kill. When further decapitated bodies follow, there is suspicion of a second Mbwun monster. ... (Wikipedia)
Fool Moon
by Jim Butcher
A wizard detective must solve a supernatural mystery with intrigue and danger.
After the events in, Storm Front, , Kim Delaney, whom Dresden helped to control her magical talents, asks Dresden how to create a set of three magical circles, which could be used to contain powerful ... (Wikipedia)
Relic
by Douglas Preston
Scientists investigate an ancient secret, hidden deep in the South American jungle.
In September 1987, Dr. Julian Whittlesey is leading an expedition through the Amazon Basin , in the Brazilian rainforest , in search of the lost Kothoga tribe. He hopes to prove that they still do ... (Wikipedia)
Proven Guilty
by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden, wizard detective, investigates a series of mysterious deaths at a horror convention. He uncovers dark magic and a conspiracy.
Nearly a year after the events in Dead Beat , Warden Harry Dresden attends the trial and execution of a sixteen-year-old Korean boy for mentally controlling his friends and family. After the ... (Wikipedia)
The Hunt for Atlantis
by Andy McDermott
Adventurer Nina Wilde and ex-SAS Eddie Chase search for the lost city of Atlantis, facing danger and betrayal at every turn.
Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly, Andy McDermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she has found the ... (Goodreads)
Dark Days
by Derek Landy
The world is ending, and Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain must save it from the Faceless Ones.
Valkyrie, Tanith, Ghastly and Fletcher have been searching for Skulduggery's skull for the past eleven months. While doing so, Valkyrie has been learning Necromancy with Solomon Wreath. While in her ... (Wikipedia)
Blood Rites
by Jim Butcher
A thrilling urban fantasy adventure, pitting a wizard against a powerful cult.
For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse assignments than going undercover on the set of an adult film. Dodging flaming monkey poo, for instance. Or going ... (Goodreads)
One Shot
by Lee Child
A former military investigator must solve a murder case in a short period of time.
In a small Indiana city, a lone gunman in a parking garage calmly fires into a rush-hour crowd in a public plaza, committing a massacre of five apparently random victims with six shots. The shooter ... (Wikipedia)
Terminal Freeze
by Lincoln Child
A team of scientists and soldiers discover a prehistoric creature frozen in the Arctic ice, but it's not dead. It's hungry.
The events take place in Alaska , north of the Arctic Circle . A decommissioned military base located near the fictional Mount Fear, the Mount Fear Remote Sensing Installation, is being used by a ... (Wikipedia)
Prey
by Michael Crichton
A swarm of nanorobots designed to self-replicate and evolve escape from a lab, threatening humanity's existence.
The novel is narrated by the protagonist Jack Forman, an unemployed software programmer who used to work for a company called Media Tronics but was fired and blackballed for discovering an internal ... (Wikipedia)
The Vanished Man
by Jeffery Deaver
A magician disappears during a performance, and a serial killer is on the loose. Can Lincoln Rhyme solve the case before it's too late?
The plot starts off with an introduction by Malerick, the antagonist in the story. Speaking in patter to his imaginary 'Revered Audience', he introduces the first trick he shall perform, The Lazy ... (Wikipedia)
The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
An amnesiac assassin must uncover his past and true identity in a deadly search for the truth.
The preface of the novel consists of two real-life newspaper articles from 1975 about terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, known as " Carlos the Jackal ." The story opens with gunfire on a boat in the ... (Wikipedia)
Death Match
by Lincoln Child
Detective investigates a series of mysterious deaths that leads to a complex and sinister conspiracy.
When a perfect couple commits double suicide, alarms go off in the offices of the high-tech matchmaking company. Investigation into a second couple's double suicide reveals a stunning labyrinth of ... (Goodreads)
The Dead of Night
by John Marsden
A group of teenagers band together to fight against an invading enemy in their homeland.
In the wake of losing Corrie and Kevin, and not knowing how either of them are faring in enemy territory, the group's morale deteriorates. Homer suggests the group attempt to track down Corrie and ... (Wikipedia)
Utopia
by Lincoln Child
A group of strangers embark on a mysterious journey, uncovering secrets of a strange and unknown world.
Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times ... (Goodreads)
