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The Shadow Thriller volume Book 2
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In 2088, the world is in chaos as a powerful weapon, Command, is unleashed and Lamont Cranston, also known as The Shadow, and his small group of allies must race to stop the end of the world.
2) Cross down
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Alex Cross volume 31
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For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...
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After an explosion rocks Becca Klein's bakery and kills one of her customers, she teams up with the victim's son to find justice. Though estranged from his father, Englischer Luke Snyder is compelled to help the Amish woman uncover why his father died. But ruthless killers believe Luke's father gave Becca something they want, and they'll stop at nothing to get it. Can Luke keep Becca safe until they discover the truth?
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Though it defies consensus, between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts. Attracting impressive support from citizens that helps separate regimes from their main sources of power, these campaigns have produced remarkable results, even in the contexts of Iran, the Palestinian Territories, the Philippines, and Burma. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of these...
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Al Qaeda is the most dangerous terrorist movement in history. Yet most people in the West know very little about it, or their view is clouded by misperceptions and half-truths. This widely acclaimed book fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of al Qaeda-the origins, leadership, ideology, and strategy of the terrorist network that brought down the Twin Towers and continues to threaten us today.
Bruce Riedel draws on decades of insider experience-he...
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WAR. It will happen again. We must be ready.
Sober words from Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a man who has made the unvarnished truth his specialty. And there's one eternal truth that Americans are in danger of forgetting: the most important weapon in any geopolitical conflict is the will to win.
And we must win.
In this powerful manifesto, Dr. Gorka explains the basic principles that have guided strategists since Sun Tzu penned The Art of War in the sixth...
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In the November of 2020, a business tycoon was reelected as president of the United States. California responded by seceding from the United States and forming the Democratic Republic of California. Now the fledgling California government is embroiled in a domestic insurgency. The new president of California must form an army to put down the freedom fighters backed by the United States. These are the stories of the patriots, opportunists, and pacifists...
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Al Queda's war on America did not start on September 11, 2001. Just ask the Diplomatic Security Service.
It was on February 6, 1993, that the United States was first attacked on its own soil by foreign terrorists. A zealous band of Middle Easterners, holy warriors determined to punish the U.S. for its supposed transgressions against Islam, packed over a ton of home made explosives into the back of a rented van. They drove their bomb across the Hudson...
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In The Martyr's Oath, Stewart Bell, Canada's most respected journalist covering terrorism, tells how Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a teenaged Canadian, was selected by the Al Qaeda leadership to coordinate a powerful attack in Southeast Asia that would have led to more destruction than 9/11. There is no better way to understand how Western youth are being drawn to terrorism than to read this story of the rise of a new generation of terrorist.
10) Hunting Hunter
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The disappearance of the police eight years ago and the blood at the crime scene eight years later leads to a chase between the real killer and the police.
The murder case is a series of fame, the pursuit of excitement, or to kill to silence, or just a life and death gamble, TA in order to clear their own sin, do not hesitate to use other people's lives to do scapegoat, was pushed off a high building cold body, hidden in the refrigerator remains,...
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A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter Taylor In 'Talking to Terrorists' Peter Taylor takes us on a personal journey, quoting from diaries written at the time, as he reveals what it was like to come face-to-face with IRA terrorists and Islamic jihadis. What are terrorists really like? How do states counter them? And should governments talk to them? Drawing on more than 35 years of reporting terrorism, Taylor asks...
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Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leaders, activists and guerillas, Aspinall reveals how the Free Aceh Movement went from being a quixotic fantasy to a guerilla army in the space of a generation, leading...
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This book controversially argues that Al Qaeda has clear aims, and that the only way to defeat it is to engage with its arguments in a serious way.
Since the publication of the first edition in 2006, Mohamedou has brought the text right up-to-date. Starting with Al Qaeda's creation almost twenty years ago, and sketching its global mutation, Mohamedou explains that there is a cogent strategy to Al Qaeda's actions. He shows that the 'war on terror'...
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Fear is born of truth! Before the sensible and reasonable rumors, perhaps the more unbelievable truth!
In front of the sensational psychic things, often hide the most beautiful side of the beast.
In the pursuit of the truth, Mu Shen Yu and other members of the spooky case team have been willing to risk their lives many times to solve one mystery after another to recover the truth of reality. But the truth may be more unbelievable and hard to believe...
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Should governments talk to terrorists? Do they have any choice?
Without doing so, argues author Jonathan Powell in Terrorists at the Table, we will never end armed conflict. As violent insurgencies continue to erupt across the globe, we need people who will brave the depths of the Sri Lankan jungle and scale the heights of the Colombian mountains, painstakingly tracking down the heavily armed and dangerous leaders of these terrorist groups in order...
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Europe is facing an unprecedented and growing terror threat as homegrown extremists inspired by jihadis and an Islamic State squeezed by the West are desperate to attack outside the 'caliphate'. Terrorism in Europe: In the Crosshairs, examines this extreme threat to Europe through a collection of articles by journalists of The Independent.
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Based on his first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin shows the real threats we face-from nuclear attack to homegrown terrorism. Pushed out by the White House for refusing to sugarcoat its failures, Ervin candidly discusses the circumstances of his departure. He takes the reader inside the decision-making councils of this newest department of the U.S. government, and...
19) The Fund
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U.S. defense intelligence operative Kate Molares is investigating a suspicious international money trail.
Her instincts place her at the center of a plot involving a terrifying new kind of terrorism-financial terrorism- perpetrated by a suave, handsome Middle Eastern hedge fund mogul. His goal is to wreck the West by bringing the global economy to its knees.
Kate's mission takes her from the defense intelligence command center on the outskirts of...
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Kiki Russell is the hottest sniper in the U. S. Army. She has been hurting the extremist so badly they have put a bounty on her head. When that fails to stop her, they send a team to the United States to murder her family. She returns to the U. S. and along with her friend from Afghanistan, Nick Sabino, they embark on a program to hunt down the killers.
Using unconventional methods for interrogation, they move up the ladder from the actual killers...
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