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"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
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A hired assassin killed Richard Barton's younger brother. While wading through his own grief, Richard's parents pressure him to find this killer and bring closure to the family tragedy. To do so Richard must walk a dark path and join a criminal organization.
It takes months of violent tests and trials for Richard to finally get inside as part of the team. As an ex-soldier, Richard thinks he's witnessed the worst of humanity, but he's wrong. The...
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In the novel 'The Bomb-Makers' by William Le Queux, readers are transported to a world of espionage and intrigue, where even the most innocent-looking people could be harboring dark secrets. The story begins in a dingy restaurant in Soho, where Theodore Drost and his friend Ernst Ortmann are discussing the danger posed by Theodore's daughter Ella. As a rising star in London's revue scene, Ella has unwittingly become involved with a group of bomb-makers...
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Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
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2015.
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When he is forced by his estranged mother, the enigmatic leader of the cultish Church of the Sanctified Assembly, to represent the Playa Vista Bomber, attorney Parker Stern must uncover the truth about recent terrorist attacks, which are surprisingly linked to his own past.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 15
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon.
First there was THE ENGLISH ASSASSIN.
Then there was THE ENGLISH GIRL.
Now comes THE ENGLISH SPY . . .
Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled readers with seventeen thoughtful
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A British Army bomb-disposal expert goes undercover to try to identify the source of the bombs being used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Pray for Us Sinners, a thrilling novel by New York Times bestseller Patrick Taylor… In Belfast in 1973 the Troubles are raging. Two Ulstermen. Two sides. On one, British Army bomb-disposal officer Marcus Richardson; on the other, Davy MacCutcheon, Provisional IRA armourer who has been constructing...
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1000 Years for Revenge is a groundbreaking investigative work that uncovers startling evidence of how the FBI missed dozens of opportunities to stop the attacks of September 11, dating back to 1989. Award-winning journalist Peter Lance explains how an elusive al Qaeda mastermind defeated the entire American security system in what the author calls "the greatest failure of intelligence since the Trojan Horse." Threading the stories of FBI agent Nancy...
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Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing wife, Sugar, a vicar's daughter, and his job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their closest friends are an Anglo-Irish couple, a banker who was Sugar's childhood flame and his alluring diplomat wife, Alison. But Marty is a man divided. While his father fought with the British Army...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 Ursula Kuczynski was a mother, housewife, novelist, expert radio technician, spymaster, courier, saboteur, bomb maker, Cold Warrior, and secret agent. She was responsible, in part, for maintaining the balance of power between East and West and preventing nuclear war by stealing the science of atomic weaponry from one side to give to the other.
10) Surviving Alaska
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A crash landing. A perilous storm.
And a killer on their trail.
Injured after a deadly explosion, officer Natasha Greene is determined to hunt down the bomb maker in the Alaskan wilderness with her K-9 partner. But when the small plane she charters crashes, Natasha becomes the fugitive's target-with only pilot Ian Dalton as backup. Now to survive, she must evade armed killers and a treacherous storm…and trust a man who's keeping a secret.
11) To kingdom come
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When a bomb destroys the Special Irish Branch of Scotland Yard, all fingers point to the increasingly brazen factions of Irish dissidents seeking liberation from English rule. Volunteering their services to the British government, Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn set out to infiltrate a secret cell of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known as the Invisibles. Posing as a reclusive German bomb maker and his anarchist apprentice, they are recruited for...
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"For Balthazar and his family of thieves, stealing a statue during the annual celebration of the god Karanis was just a good bit of fun...or a way to stick it to the governor who murdered his parents. And yeah, the small fortune in reward doesn't hurt--even if his boss also hired the mysterious Queen of Days to join the crew as "the weapon of last resort..." Whatever that means. But Bal doesn't know the ceremony isn't simply empty words and dusty...
13) Go Slow
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IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When she was just a kid, Rose Campbell's mom constantly told her to "Take things slow." Now, as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist, Rose takes the advice to heart. One misstep, and boom-somebody dies. But lately, every day feels exactly the same: IEDs are found in the same locations. Rose's team finds the bombs. They disarm them. Then they move on to the next one. But Rose knows better than to get impatient--because that's exactly what the...
14) Punch Drunk
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As long as you're breathing, you're still in the fightErin O'Reilly has been walking a dangerous line. In order to save her lover, smooth-talking gangster and former bomb-maker Morton Carlyle, she's been pretending to be a dirty cop. Her efforts have worked well-too well. Evan O'Malley and his underlings are convinced Erin is a criminal just like them. But that means, by the unwritten code of the underworld, she's now fair game.The O'Malley family...
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The search for a friend's killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed.
The EOD-explosive ordnance disposal-community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American...
16) High dive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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A tale inspired by the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing assassination attempt on the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet is told from the perspectives of an IRA bomb maker, a former star athlete-turned-hotel manager, and the manager's teenage daughter.
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The first in-depth book that sheds light on Canada's elite warriors who operate in the shadows. In 2001 the Canadian government sent elements of the elite Joint Task Force 2 counter-terrorist unit to Afghanistan to assist the United States in its global war on terror as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Withdrawn a year later, JTF 2 returned to Afghanistan in 2005 to once again assist the Americans with the desperate struggle in the shadows to capture...
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Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth and success. They have saved lives, not only by providing nourishment, but also as part of the charcoal filers in First World War gas masks. It was coconuts that triggered the mutiny on the Bounty, and coconuts that saved the life of the man who went on to become the 35th President of the United States....
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As one of al-Qaeda's most respected scholars and bomb makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself. His job was already one of the most dangerous in the world. But what the others didn't know was that he was working undercover for MI6.This is the story of a young Muslim determined to defend his faith, even if it meant dying for the cause, the terrible disillusionment that...
20) Mambo
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Frank Pagan series volume 3
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In international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong's pulse-pounding thriller, the hunt for a ruthless bomb maker takes Frank Pagan to Cuba and into the midst of a startling conspiracy Gunther Ruhr, a.k.a. the Claw, is a terrorist responsible for hundreds, possibly thousands, of deaths. A passenger jet, a busload of soccer players, and an entire hotel full of tourists have all been targets of his extravagant, almost artistically designed explosions....