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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
As the USSR collapses, thousands of nuclear warheads may end up in the wrong hands in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of War.
Jake Grafton has been promoted to deputy director of a new US intelligence agency—and the stakes of his commission are higher than ever before. With the Soviet Union on the brink of dissolution, a vast nuclear arsenal is suddenly ripe
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Full Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and-unknown to those who lived there-tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium.It's...
3) Odessa sea
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 24
Language
English
Description
A desperate attempt in 1917 to preserve the wealth and power of the Romanov Empire. A Cold War bomber lost with a deadly cargo. Mysterious deaths on the Black Sea linked to modern day smugglers of nuclear materials. At the center of it all is Dirk Pitt and his team from NUMA. As the danger escalates, there's only one man who can avert catastrophe. From London to Washington, from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the action never stops, as Pitt races...
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union came within scant hours of nuclear war–and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons.
In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms...
In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s unprecedented arms...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
When an eminent scientist makes a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research only to have the lives of his family threatened if he does not give his technology to the Iranian regime, Sean Dillon, Afghan war hero Sara Gideon and the rest of their team embark on a daring rescue mission that rapidly spins out of control.
Series
Mission impossible film volume 6
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
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Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Book 1 in the best-selling 3-book espionage and spy thriller series that has sold 700,000 copies!
"Rosenberg is the go-to novelist for Christian political fiction."
—Publisher's Weekly
The Twelfth Imam is the first novel of a new political thriller series by Joel C. Rosenberg, the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Last Jihad series. Rosenberg takes you inside a world few will ever enter....
"Rosenberg is the go-to novelist for Christian political fiction."
—Publisher's Weekly
The Twelfth Imam is the first novel of a new political thriller series by Joel C. Rosenberg, the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Last Jihad series. Rosenberg takes you inside a world few will ever enter....
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"After hunting down a rogue spy as part of an elite CIA counterespionage unit, Garrett Kohl returns home to Texas in hopes of settling down and carving out a normal life. While learning the ropes of fatherhood, falling deeper in love with his high school crush, and rebuilding his wildfire ravaged cattle ranch, he is approached in secret by an engineer working at a nearby nuclear weapons plant, who is in desperate need of his help. Utilizing a unique...
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Series
A Mitch Rapp novel volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Washington D.C. is turned upside down when the director of the CIA is found dead and a controversial successor is named, and the Middle East is sent to the brink of war when Israel learns Saddam Hussein is about to enter the nuclear arms race.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor tells the thrilling true story of the most important female spy in history: an agent code-named "Sonya," who set the stage for the Cold War. In 1942, in a quiet village in the leafy English Cotswolds, a thin, elegant woman lived in a small cottage with her three children and her husband, who worked as a machinist nearby. Ursula Burton was friendly but reserved, and spoke English with...