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41) Power game
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top... When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better and run faster than the enemy,...
42) Amber morn
Author
Series
Kanner Lake volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The whole thing couldn't have taken more than sixty seconds. Bailey hung on to the counter, dazed. If she let go, she'd collapse-and the twitching fingers of one of the gunmen would pull a trigger. The rest of her group huddled in frozen shock. Dear God, tell me this is a dream … The shooter's teeth clenched. "Anybody who moves is dead. " On a beautiful Saturday morning the nationally read "Scenes and Beans" bloggers gather at Java Joint for a special...
43) One false move
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a bank robbery goes horribly wrong, leaving six people dead, con artist Melanie Starks, her seventeen-year-old son Charlie, and a paroled prisoner take an innocent author hostage and hide out in his secluded cabin in Platte River State Park.
44) Chaos
Author
Language
English
Description
"When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the rules by breaking into a mansion in the middle of the night, she skillfully circumvents alarms and outwits guards only to find herself standing in billionaire Gabe Korgan's study...busted by Korgan himself. This could cost her her job unless, in a split second, she can turn the tables and try to convince him to join her on the most important mission of her life. In a ripped-from-the-headlines plot, schoolgirls...
45) Word of honor
Author
Series
Newpointe 911 volume 3
Language
English
Description
What will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing? The answer comes in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of the hotel room where Jill Clark is staying. With a rifle barrel pointed at her temple, the young attorney suddenly finds herself the...
46) Burn
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Jenner Redwine wins the lottery, she never imagined how much it would cost her. Luckily she finds an ally-and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege in a shy, kind-hearted heiress who invites Jenner on a charity cruise. But what should have been a "Love Boat" cruise suddenly turns into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger, and Jenner finds herself taken hostage by a menacing stranger--a stranger that helps her rediscover feelings...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the President closes Guantanamo Bay, some terrorists are relocated to Hell's Gate Prison in West Texas--where a sleeper-cell of shock troops launch an assault to 'liberate' their jailed comrades. Soon after going free, they take the high school football team hostage. The team will be executed, one by one, if the terrorists' demands aren't met. Army Ranger Lucas Kincaid assembles a ragtag band of survivors and aging cons into a lethal fighting...
48) Crossfire
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"FBI negotiator Julianna James has never lost a hostage-until now. As the death toll rises and the killer's motive becomes clear, Julianna knows anyone she loves will caught in the crossfire. It will take all her courage, and the help of Former Army Ranger Clay Fox, to bring this negotiation to an end"--
FBI special agent Julianna Jameson is a top-notch negotiator who has never lost a hostage. Surely she can manage to take care of her much younger...
50) Targeted
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novel volume 12
Language
English
Description
"After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked. Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders and reporters are taken hostage...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Houston Sadler was one of the richest men in Texas, but money wouldn't get attorney Gabrielle Markham out of his life. When she showed up at his ranch, he expected her to serve him with a court order-not a newborn baby boy. After escaping from a deadly hostage situation, Gabrielle sought the one man who was guaranteed to protect her son-and had the legal right to take him away. Though their past encounters had sparked passion for all the wrong reasons,...
52) Fifty, fifty
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. But Harry's outburst at her brother's trial earns her a reassignment--to the Outback. With no choice but to leave Sam's case alone, she relocates to Last Chance Valley, population 75, where a diary found on the roadside outlines...
53) Plowing the dark
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual reality researchers race to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can become a jungle, a painting, or a vast Byzantine cathedral. In a war-torn Mediterranean city, an American is held hostage, chained to a radiator in another empty white room. What can possibly join two such remote places? Only the shared imagination, a room that these people unwittingly build in common,...
54) Normal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
He shops at your local supermarket. He drives beside you, waving to let you into the lane ahead of him. He also has an elaborate cage in a secret basement under his garage. The food he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will--one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her. This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal... and it works. Perfectly. But this time it's different...
55) Trigger warning
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Former Army Ranger Jake Rivers enrolled in Kelton College for an education, but his lack of political correctness makes him a target. When a violent gang of marauders invade the main hall, taking students as hostages for big ransom money, Jake enlists his fellow classmates to fight back" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 440 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The lights are on at the Singleton vacation home on Lopez Island, Washington, illuminating the horror within. Scott Singleton, former NFL star turned television evangelist, lies dead. The bodies of his wife and four of their five children are found on the second floor, bound, gagged, and stabbed repeatedly. The oldest daughter was shot downstairs. And the police's main suspect--the property caretaker--has disappeared. In her secluded vineyard home...
57) Hostage rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Gwen Ryland knows two things about the men pursuing her through the Rocky Mountains: they're holding her brother hostage...and they won't stop until they catch her, too. Now Gwen's life depends on the man who once broke her friend's heart--former army ranger Caden O'Callaghan. But can they figure out what the men want in time to save her brother...and Gwen?" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Embraced volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sorcha knew the mission was dangerous. Leaving the safe grounds of her brother's kingdom and parlaying with the elves across their border... well, treachery seemed at least as likely as true peace. But to support her sister, Sorcha would brave far more than the underhanded ways of the elves. Or so she thought, before she was taken hostage. Of course, her captors didn't count on her particular abilities--or on the help of the Woodsman, the mysterious...
59) Black ice
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S edition.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Four Teens. Three Henchmen. Two thousand acres of remote forest. One very bad man. And too many secrets to count. Taymond knows where we are. He knows what I look like. He knows who I care about. Which brings me to the choices. It's the same choices as it always is. Run. Hide. Fight. Nora O'Malley knows her murderous stepfather will come after her when he is released from prison, but she is prepared to do whatever it takes to protect the...