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1) Firing point
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. A first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too late....
Author
Language
English
Description
For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD's Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter--but...
4) A pure heart
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters--their divergent fates and the secrets of one family. Sisters Rose and Gameela Gubran could not have been more different. Rose, an Egyptologist, married an American journalist and immigrated to New York City, where she works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gameela, a devout Muslim since her teenage years, stayed in Cairo. During the aftermath of Egypt's revolution, Gameela is killed in a suicide bombing....
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xviii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Understanding the phenomenon of suicide bombing in Iraq is vitally important for U.S. national security, foreign policy in the Muslim world, and the war on terrorism. This study draws extensively on open-source intelligence and papers of record, primary sources from insurgent groups including online documents and videos, and interviews with U.S. servicemen who have served in Iraq. It examines the history of suicide bombing in Iraq and many other countries,...
7) Midas
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
East End Harbor cop Justin Westwood is drawn into an investigation of the link between a series of terrorist attacks.
8) The siege
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Martial Law edition ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Islamic militants unleash terrorism by blowing up in a bus in Brooklyn. FBI Terrorism Task Force chief Anthony Hubbard investigates. Agents track a suspect through Brooklyn, while Hub teams with Middle East expert and NSA operative Elise Kraft. After the FBI wipes out three Arabs in a Brooklyn apartment, an explosion in a Broadway theater is followed by attacks on a school and the FBI headquarters. When the President declares martial law, neo-fascist...