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81) Quarry's ex
Author
Series
Quarry novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one--by expecting trouble. What he didn't expect was ever running into her again..."--P....
82) Dark triumph
Author
Series
His fair assassin volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sybella's duty as Death's assassin in 15th-century France forces her return home to the personal hell that she had finally escaped. Love and romance, history and magic, vengeance and salvation converge in this sequel to Grave Mercy"--
83) The kill zone
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 9
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
85) The last orphan
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Evan Smoak returns in The Last Orphan, the latest New York Times bestselling Orphan X thriller -- when everything changes and everything is at risk. As a child, Evan Smoak was plucked out of a group home, raised and trained as an off-the-books assassin for the government as part of the Orphan program. When he broke with the program and went deep underground, he left with a lot of secrets in his head that the government would do anything to make sure...
Author
Language
English
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Description
German-American Paul Schumann is a brilliant mobster hitman who gets caught and is offered a deal: hunt down and kill Reinhardt Ernst, the ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament or face the electric chair. From a boarding house near the Tiergarten, a huge park in central Berlin also known as the Garden of Beasts, Schumann stalks Ernst while a Berlin police officer and the entire Third Reich apparatus search frantically for him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Behind the mask of a Maryland Insurance executive, Connor Fitzgerald has worked as the CIA's most skilled assassin. But now, as Connor follows orders to close in on the new Russian president, he discovers a far more dangerous threat. His boss, the director of CIA, is plotting against him.
89) Rain storm
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
90) The Reapers
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Private detective Charlie Parker returns in this story of assassins who have targeted one of their own.
91) Killer weekend
Author
Series
Walt Fleming novels volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years"--
95) Killing rain
Author
Series
John Rain novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker returns with a riveting work of historical fiction following the notorious John Wilkes Booth and the four women who kept his perilous confidence. The world would not look upon his like again. John Wilkes Booth--driven son of an acclaimed British stage actor and a Covent Garden flower girl, whose misguided quest to avenge the vanquished Confederacy led him to commit one of the most...
97) Hit list
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 53
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington faces down a vengeful miscreant... When Stone Barrington finds his name on a hit list, he plans to lie low until the culprit is caught. But when this foe shows no signs of stopping until his deadly objective is realized in full, Stone is left with no choice but to face the problem head-on. Armed and alert, Stone joins forces with his most savvy connections to catch the perpetrator before the next strike. But it turns out this scum...
Author
Series
Elemental Assassin volume 11
Publisher
Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gin Blanco is hard-nosed, sexy, and lethal. Nicknamed "The Spider," she's a stone elemental assassin who brings her unique mix of magic and tact to every assignment, no matter the target. There's a new drug on the streets of Ashland, and its name "Burn" sums up the potent effect it has on its users. When one of her restaurant employees is threatened by dealers of the drug, Gin steps in to set things straight...
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