Follett, Ken
Summary: "Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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Summary: "A complex, scary thriller ... sobering."--Kirkus Reviews
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Mitch Rapp has worked for a number of presidents over his career, but Anthony Cook is unlike any he's encountered before. Cunning and autocratic, he feels no loyalty to America's institutions and is distrustful of the influence Rapp and CIA director Irene Kennedy have in Washington. Meanwhile, when Kennedy discovers evidence of a mole scouring the Agency's database for sensitive information on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Abandoned by other international leaders, Jack Ryan alone counters the threat posed by Russian president Valeri Volodin. This isn't the first time that the dictator has threatened world peace, but this time he's playing a very nuanced game moving chess pieces around the board while isolating Ryan from the rest of the international community. Fortunately, Jack Ryan, Jr. and the rest of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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Summary: "'Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.' So says Pauline Green, president of the United States. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of a world war are a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004
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Summary: White House staffer Joan DaCosta finds herself drawn to her Navy SEAL liaison, Lt. Mike Muldoon. As tension mounts between them, a far more sinister danger is lurking. Now, to protect their commander in chief, Joan and Muldoon must not only risk their hearts, but their very lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2006
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Summary: "An attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top secret government facility buried deep underground--but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: U.S. President John Merrill is hosting Russian President Dimitri Suslev at a glittering state dinner to celebrate a new economic pact. As the after-dinner toasts begin, the two leaders, their wives, and scores of prominent guests become violently ill. Merrill and Suslev, along with the other stricken guests, are rushed to the nearest hospital. As Secret Service agents struggle to secure the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midnight Ink 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLHiaasen, Carl
Summary: "Carl Hiaasen's Squeeze Me is set among the landed gentry of Palm Beach. A prominent high-society matron--who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES--has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: A New England newspaper editor fights to destroy the fascist dictatorship established by President Berzelius Windrip in this work that prophesies the coming of totalitarianism in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet Classics 2005
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Summary: Traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president after the death of his eleven-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2017
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Summary: "For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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Summary: When U.S. intelligence reports there's something going on in Russia, President Jack Ryan and his youngest daughter, Katie, determine the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, and the race is on to find its location and decide if it poses a threat to the continental U.S..
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "A shadowy billionaire uses his fortune to further his corrupt ambitions. Now he's ready to implement his most ambitious plan of all. There's only one force standing in his way--President Jack Ryan. How do you compel a man like Ryan to bend? He's faced down everything from the Russian navy to cartel killers. It will take more that political headwinds or media disfavor to cause him to turn from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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Summary: The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a US President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018
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Summary: In the midst of burgling a lavish mansion belonging to a prominent billionaire, Luther Whitney, an aging crook, is shocked to find the President of the United States in a lustful embrace with the billionaire's wife. However, when the president becomes violent with his lover, prompting Secret Service agents to murder her in cold blood, Luther finds himself running for his life. Now, to clear his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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Summary: "Father Pat West, S.J., was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. As young men, they worked together at the CIA, but their lives diverged when West felt the call to the priesthood. Decades later, Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: "The White House is the home of the President of the United States, the most guarded, monitored, closely watched person in the world. So how could a U.S. President vanish without a trace? And why would he choose to do so? An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company/Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: It's the height of the Palm Beach charity ball season. When a prominent high-society dowager suddenly vanishes during a swank gala, and is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. Kiki Pew was an ardent fan of the Winter White House resident just down the road, and a founding member of the POTUSSIES, a group of women dedicated to supporting their President. Never one to miss...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2020
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Summary: "What if a political party in disarray turned to a man to lead them with no political background? What if a country torn apart by ideology turned to a man whose charisma belied a complete lack of governing experience? What if a country elected a President based not on qualifications, but on hope? Would this man lead the country into a new era of fortune and prosperity? Or would he lead them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polis Books, LLC 2019