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Assassination Fiction Audiobooks Carmellini, Tommy (Fictitious character) Fiction Grafton, Jake (Fictitious character) Fiction Iraq Politics and government 2003- Fiction Iraq Social conditions 21st century Fiction Maritime terrorism Fiction Political corruption Fiction Presidents Pakistan Fiction Strategic rivalries (World politics) FictionBova, Ben
Summary: "Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVHanif, Mohammed.
Summary: What really caused a C120 aircraft carrying the Pakistani leader General Zia ul Huq to tumble out of the sky on August 17, 1988? Was it mechanical failure? Could it possibly have been the result of human error? Was it perhaps the CIA brass taking a risky gambit? Some have said it had something to do with an old blind woman's curse, or the moral of that ancient proverb about star-crossed lovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HANModesitt, L. E.
Summary: "Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party. When a respected Landor Councilor dies of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MODCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MODCoonts, Stephen
Summary: A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Coonts 2013Makiya, Kanan
Summary: "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016