David Baldacci
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.
2) Hour game
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. The tension is further increased by a second killer who is copying the crimes of the first.
3) Zero day
Author
Series
John Puller volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Evan Waller is a monster and his latest business venture could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe unless he can be stopped by two mysterious operatives who are unaware of each other's mission.
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
An unlikely witness threatens a high-level government cover-up--orchestrated by the Secret Service and a ruthlessly loyal White House chief-of-staff--of a brutal murder involving the president and his mistress.
6) Split second
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment . . . and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun.
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Author
Series
Camel Club volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Having assassinated the two men who had been inhibiting his freedom, John Carr becomes the target of a manhunt involving the highest levels of the U.S. government, prompting Joe Knox to launch an investigation that tests the resources of the Camel Club.
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Two ex-Secret Service agents must face a dark world of violence, codes, and spies at a secret CIA training camp in this #1 New York Times bestseller about a mystery that could destroy the nation.
Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians,...
Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians,...
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
10) The camel club
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.
11) First family
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
First lady Jane Cox insists on hiring private detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help when her twelve-year-old niece is abducted and the child's mother killed following a birthday party at Camp David, and while the investigators have no trouble identifying the assailant, they cannot figure out the motive for his obsession with the first family.
12) The whole truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While the head of the world's largest defense contractor conspires to gain even more riches by instigating a war, an intelligence agent reluctantly travels to keep the world safe, and a journalist receives a mysterious offer to interview the sole survivor of a recent massacre.
13) Hell's corner
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After a bomb detonates near the motorcade of the U.S. president and Britain's prime minister, British MI-5 agent Mary Chapman--along with the help of Oliver Stone, Harry Finn, Alex Ford and the rest of the Camel Club--investigates whether or not the bomber had a different target in mind.
14) Stone cold
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While trying to protect his identity from a man seeking revenge for the death of his father, Oliver Stone, a former CIA assassin, and a group of justice seekers protect Annabelle Conroy, a woman who stole millions of dollars from a casino owner in retaliation for her mother's murder.
15) The collectors
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
The Camel Club, a quartet of eccentrics dedicated to finding out what's really going on in America's government, becomes embroiled in an intriguing and dangerous mystery when the assassination of the U.S. Speaker of the House is linked to the death of the director of the Library of Congress's rare book room.
16) The winner
Author
Publisher
Warner
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A rags-to-riches deal for single mother LuAnn Tyler is deadlier than she ever could have imagined in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from David Baldacci.
THE DREAM
She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever.
THE...
THE DREAM
She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when LuAnn Tyler is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All she has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever.
THE...