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Jake Grafton novels volume 9
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When the U.S.S. America, the latest and most intricate nuclear submarine, is stolen, Admiral Jake Grafton investigates and soon learns that whoever is masterminding this operation means business when missiles are launched.
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Pub. Date
c2003
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The enemy from within . . . Iranian-born British Commando Major Ray Kerman was a rising star in the SAS -- until he abruptly switched loyalties while on a mission in the Middle East. Fanatically determined to employ his brilliant talents and training in the destruction of those he once swore to protect, he is now General Ravi Rashood, leader of the world's most vicious terrorist organization -- and he has found his ultimate weapon: Barracuda 945....
5) Backflash
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Parker thrillers volume 18
Pub. Date
[1998]
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Master thief Parker finds himself in desperate straits when things go wrong during a robbery aboard a gambling casino on the Hudson River.
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Hector Cross novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
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Hazel Bannock is the owner of the Bannock Oil Corporation, a major oil producer with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's yacht is hijacked by pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen-year-old daughter, Cayla, is--and the kidnappers are demanding a crippling twenty billion dollar ransom.Complicated political and diplomatic considerations make it impossible for the world's major powers to intervene, so when...
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Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 4
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Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gun-running operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
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Sigma Force novels volume 4
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From the depths of the Indian Ocean, a horrific plague has arisen to devastate humankind-unknown, unstoppable... and merely a harbinger of the doom that is to follow. Operatives of the shadowy covert organization Sigma Force, Dr. Lisa Cummings and Monk Kokkalis search for answers to the bizarre affliction aboard a cruise liner transformed into a makeshift hospital. But a sudden and savage attack by terrorist hijackers turns the mercy ship into a floating...
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Courtney novels volume 9
Pub. Date
1997
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Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal sail off for adventure on their fighting ship, "Lady Edwina," patroling the waters off South Africa in wait for the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company.
10) The Devil's Sea
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Dirk Pitt volume 26
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In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
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A Vanessa Michael Munroe novel volume 4
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[2014]
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Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gunrunning operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
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Zachary Chasteen mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
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A luxury cruise runs afoul of a terrorist plot in the less than stellar fourth entry in Morris's Edgar-nominated series featuring jack-of-all-trades Zack Chasteen (after Bermuda Schwartz). Chasteen, a former pro football player and ex-con who now runs a Florida palm tree nursery, and his eight-month pregnant significant other, travel magazine owner Barbara Pickering, are among the high-class crowd aboard the Royal Star, making its inaugural voyage...
15) Outlaw
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[2013]
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While conducting top-secret negotiations aboard a tanker in the South China Sea, the U.S. Secretary of State and the foreign ministers of China and India are kidnapped, and the tanker they are on is hijacked. The 'Sons of Prophecy' take responsibility and issue an ultimatum: If their demands are not met in seven days, the three will be beheaded live on the Internet. President Sands calls in former CIA operative and master thief Robin Monarch and convinces...
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Kurt Austin adventures volume 20
Pub. Date
[2023]
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On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken, the men say, by baffling lights that circled the ship....