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Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
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Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address. Logging on, he’s shocked to see Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who’s saved his life more than once, being tortured at the hands of a mysterious man who has a single demand: Bring me the artifact she’s asked you to keep safe. The only problem is, Malone doesn’t have a clue what the...
Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone has received an anonymous note carrying an unfamiliar Web address. Logging on, he’s shocked to see Cassiopeia Vitt, a woman who’s saved his life more than once, being tortured at the hands of a mysterious man who has a single demand: Bring me the artifact she’s asked you to keep safe. The only problem is, Malone doesn’t have a clue what the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And, every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine visits his cell. At first, her questions are mercenary: is there anyone back home who will pay the ransom? But, when Marc can offer no name, she asks him a question about his daughter that is even more terrifying than his captivity. And so, begins a strange yet increasingly comforting ritual, in which Josephine...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why.
4) The edge
Author
Series
Peak volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Fire edition.
Language
English
Description
"After allying itself with Pakistan's intelligence services and notorious terrorist group the Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP), ISIS is ready to achieve its ultimate dream: forcing the US into a clash of civilizations in the Mideast. The best way to accomplish this mission is to acquire three Pakistani nukes--then set them off in three US cities"--Amazon.com.
7) Coup d'Etat
Author
Series
Dewey Andreas thrillers volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Wanting only a peaceful, obscure life, Dewey Andreas has gone to rural Australia, far from turbulent forces that he once fought against. But powerful men, seeking revenge, have been scouring the earth looking for Dewey. And now, they've finally found him - forcing Dewey to abandon his home and to fight for his life against a very well armed, well trained group of assassins. Meanwhile, a radical cleric has been elected president of Pakistan and, upon...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A brave, timely, searingly beautiful novel from the acclaimed author of The Blind Man's Garden: set in contemporary Pakistan, the story of a Muslim widow and her Christian neighbors whose community is consumed by violent religious intolerance When shotsring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud--a fellow architect--is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Along the Afghanistan border, a CIA agent meets secretly with a distraught Arab girl. She passes him a coded message before killing herself. But before the message can be deciphered, the world spins toward war: Within hours, the president of Pakistan is assassinated, and the country's nuclear warheads go missing. Al Qaeda streams into northern Pakistan. Israel puts her combat forces on hair-trigger alert.
CIA paramilitary agent Peter Zembeic is given...
10) Omar rising
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Omar must contend with being treated like a second-class citizen when he gets a scholarship to an elite boarding schoo in Pakistan.
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