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A body on the tracks. A teenage terrorist. A mysterious wish-granting machine. The world's worst private detective. The second volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading is chock-full of mystery, intrigue, and nefarious activity. Featuring some of the best writers around, and compiled by certified guy Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: Thriller is a pulse-pounding collection of brand-new short stories, each one guaranteed to keep you riveted until the...
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Ready to stay up all night? Everybody's favorite assassin is back with a vengeance in this high-octane can't-put-it-down espionage thriller.
Espionage. Deception. A nation on the brink of war....
Just when former assassin Leine Basso thinks she's free from the business of murder and deception, a desperate call from a friend drags her back into the dark world of espionage and arms dealers.
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It was the perfect summer job-until it turned into her worst nightmare. Bridgett is enjoying an idyllic summer as the nanny for Leo, the son of Paul and Emily Cooper-a famous actor and renowned charity founder. Not only is she generously compensated to care for Leo at the couple's Seattle waterfront estate, she develops a special bond with the little boy. In addition to the financial perks of the job, Bridgett has fallen into a summer love affair...
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A secret agent in Prague faces love, death, and a crisis of conscience in this gripping international thriller.
Herbert Biely, aged hero of the Prague Spring, stands poised to reunite the Czech and Slovak Republics years after the Velvet Revolution. But other parties have their own agendas and plans for the fate of the region. A shadowy collective exists that will do anything to preserve the status quo.
Peter Lowe's mission is to prevent...
Herbert Biely, aged hero of the Prague Spring, stands poised to reunite the Czech and Slovak Republics years after the Velvet Revolution. But other parties have their own agendas and plans for the fate of the region. A shadowy collective exists that will do anything to preserve the status quo.
Peter Lowe's mission is to prevent...
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America never leaves a soldier behind. Almost never.
After a failed black ops mission in the dark days of the Afghanistan War, desert tribesmen return a wounded American soldier. After months of rehabilitation for a broken back and a damaged spirit, Phil Pfeiffer returns to civilian life as a private detective tracking cheating spouses and bail jumpers.
When a philandering husband goes missing, however, nothing is right with the investigation or...
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Jeremy Logan volume 6
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"Like millions of people around the world, Jeremy Logan (famed enigmalogist, or investigator of unexplained things) has grown to rely on his incredible new tech device. Made by Chrysalis, the global multibillion dollar tech company, the small optical device connects people in a stunning new way, tapping into virtual reality for the first time on a wide scale. And yet, when Logan is summoned by Chrysalis to investigate a disturbing anomaly in the massive...
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What will Gretel do when her old life collides with her new?
Gretel Koch is doing her best to curb her stealing ways, but when the Purple Promise, a rare 22 carat purple diamond, is on display offered for sale to the highest bidder, the temptation is almost greater than she can bear.
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"Would you deny this a dream if I told you?" When the lines between dreams and reality merge, what is real? And what would you wish wasn't real?
Told through the first person perspective of an unpredictable and suspicious narrator, Chris Brennan. The journey begins in the very near future, in a small town lost between the spaces. When things take a drastic turn, forcing the characters to abandon their rhythmic lives, they now have to fight for their...
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In this pulse-pounding thriller, a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica—to camp beneath the legendary midnight sun—becomes a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to follow their prey to the ends of the earth.
"Midnight is a clever mystery, a twisting page-turner, and a blistering adventure." —Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End
THE SUN NEVER...
"Midnight is a clever mystery, a twisting page-turner, and a blistering adventure." —Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End
THE SUN NEVER...
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Avery Keene volume 2
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"Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling a conspiracy that took down the President of the United States. But as the sparks of impeachment hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before...
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Two teenage girls on the run with fake IDs and a beater car…what could go wrong?
Emmy has always been impulsive. She is no longer a minor and has aged out of foster care. When her best friend, Amber, is the target of a perverted uncle who lives in the basement of her group home, they plan her escape.
They head for Canada, where Amber will be safe, and the foster care system can no longer control their lives. When they come across a whitewater...
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They’re only children…
From the criminal underbellies of Little Odessa and New York’s Chinatown, Noah Reid rescues two groups of young girls caught in human trafficking. As illegals, it’s up to Noah to protect them from their terrible options: deportation or sexual slavery.
One of the depraved masters is a brutal Russian mob leader. The other, the steroid-fueled son of a Triad leader Noah took down. He wants not only the girls but the family...
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From the bestselling author of The Social Affair and her comes a mind-bending thriller that's soaked with raw sensuality, as an investigator's search takes a wicked turn when he meets a beautiful and provocative woman.
Ali is a sex therapist-slash-guru, famous for the work she does helping others find pleasure. The problem is Ali can never quite find it for herself. Her life's work makes nothing taboo, nothing off-limits. And she's tried everything...
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She dreams of a happy future. When her past roars back with a vengeance, she'll find herself trapped in a brutal nightmare. Sam Harker is finally free. Having escaped her controlling handlers, the talented assassin wages a secret one-woman war against the corrupt private intelligence firm. But when the sinister organization ambushes the trained killer and her unsuspecting lover, she's forced to use her deadly talents to go dark… As her man demands...
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For fans of Lee Child, Elmore Leonard, and James Patrick Hunt.
Years ago, police detective Kevin McClain was captured and tortured when he was an airborne ranger in Somalia. Now, years later, the mutilation murder of a homeless man brings back a flood of unpleasant memories. At the same time, FBI agent Felicia Knight is busy tracking down a terrorist cell purportedly set to strike in our nation's capital on the eve of the presidential election.
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