Frederick Forsyth
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From master storyteller Frederick Forsyth-best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File-comes this collection of five suspenseful gems.
Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in "The Veteran" (read by Patrick Macnee). In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in "The Art of the Matter" (also read by Macnee)....
2) The cobra
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English
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Deveraux used to run Special Ops for the CIA, before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now the President has asked the man they call the Cobra to do anything he requires to destroy the cocaine industry. No rules, no questions asked. Just do it...
3) The Afghan
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English
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British and American intelligence is pitted against the nearly inpenetrable Al Qaeda terrorism network.
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xviii, 344 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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When an elderly German Jew commits suicide, he leaves behind a diary that eventually falls into the hands of eager young journalist Peter Miller. In its pages, Miller reads descriptions of inhuman cruelty, torture, and remorseless mass murder committed during World Warr II by SS captain Eduard Roschmann -- now known as the "Butcher of Riga" and a wanted fugitive. Horrified, Miller vows to hunt down Roschmann and bring him to justice. But Roschmann...
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xii, 286 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Ten short stories of men and women at hazard in the toils of danger, passion, and intrigue. The themes of the stories move from London to Dublin, from the Island of Mauritius to the coast of Spain. Five of the stories are set in Ireland.
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xviii, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"--
He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war; the Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him. And that's just for starters. Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue...
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vii, 454 pages ; 19 cm
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The Jackal, a killer at the top of his profession, unknown to any secret service in the world, has a contract to kill French president Charles de Gaulle, one of the world's most heavily guarded men. As the minutes count down to the final act of execution, it seems that there is no power on earth that can stop the Jackal.
16) The Odessa file
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1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1963, in Hamburg, Germany, a diary falls into the hands of freelance newspaperman Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga, Latvia. Miller's personal manhunt to track down Roschmann leads him into the very heart of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the...
17) Love never dies
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The year is 1907. It is ten years after the Phantom's disappearance from the Paris Opera House. He has escaped to a new life in New York, where he lives among the screaming joy rides and freak-shows of Coney Island. In this new electrically charged world, he has finally found a place for his music to soar. All that is missing is his love - Christine Daae. Now one of the world's finest sopranos, Christine is struggling in an ailing marriage to Raoul....
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1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Story of a cold, suave British assassin hired by the French OAS to kill General Charles de Gaulle. Nameless and faceless, the killer, known by the code name of Jackal, relentlessly moves toward the date with death that would rock the world. The tension mounts as the methodical preparations of the Jackal are paralleled with the efforts of the police to uncover the plot, which gives the story non-stop, edge-of-your-seat suspense.