Frederick Forsyth
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English
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"In northern Virginia, a secret agency named TOSA (Technical Operations Support Activity) has one mission: to track, find, and kill those so dangerous to the United States that they are on a short, very close-held document known as the Kill List. Now a new name has been added: a terrorist of frightening effectiveness called the Preacher, who radicalizes young Muslims living abroad to carry out assassinations. Unfortunately for him, one of his targets...
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"From Frederick Forsyth, the grand master of international suspense, comes his most intriguing story ever--his own"--
He was the RAF's youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war; the Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him. And that's just for starters. Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue...
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Series
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English
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A professional assassin is hired to kill De Gaulle. The plot is traced against a modern background of French politics as the killer evades his would be captor.
The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man. One man with a rifle who can change the course of history. One man...
5) The fox
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English
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Former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Adrian Weston is awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call from the prime minister. Her news is shocking: the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA have been hacked simultaneously, their seemingly impenetrable firewalls breached by an unknown enemy known only as "The Fox". Even more surprisingly, the culprit is revealed to be a young British teenager, Luke Jennings. He has no agenda, no secrets,...
6) The cobra
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English
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What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires,...
8) The Afghan
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English
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British and American intelligence is pitted against the nearly inpenetrable Al Qaeda terrorism network.
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English
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With the help of the woman who had originally freed him from torment, the Phantom of the Opera escapes by ship to America to begin a new and secret life that leads him to power and wealth, until a mysterious death-bed message transforms his life once again.--
10) Icon
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Pub. Date
[1996]
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English
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Jason Monk's mission is to stop Komarov from becoming the next president of Russia and to prepare the way for an icon worthy of the Russian people.
11) The negotiator
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Pub. Date
[1989]
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391 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Quinn, the negotiator, is called in to resolve the plot to keep the U.S. President from signing a U.S.-Soviet disarmament treaty.
12) The deceiver
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Pub. Date
1991.
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English
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McCready, chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, offered his choice of two positions--an obscure administrative job or early retirement, is not afraid to press the CIA to the explosion point to convince them their prize defector is a double agent.
14) The shepherd
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Pub. Date
1976.
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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A routine flight on Christmas Eve turns into a nightmare for an R.A.F. jet pilot when his plane's electrical system, radio, and compass break down.
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Pub. Date
1984.
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389 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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The plot reveals a Soviet plan to control England and destroy NATO by swaying the popular vote in England's election. The plan is to detonate a small nuclear device near an American base in Britain by a Soviet undercover agent, thereby ensuring a anti-nuclear sentiment.
16) The dogs of war
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[1974]
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408 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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An English-born mercenary is hired by a ruthless mining magnate to topple the dictator of a platinum-rich West African country.
17) The Odessa file
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Pub. Date
[1972]
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xi, 337 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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An elderly Jewish man's diary leads a newspaperman on a manhunt to track down members of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the world.
19) The Odessa file
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1999.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1963, in Hamburg, Germany, a diary falls into the hands of freelance newspaperman Peter Miller. The diary documents the unspeakable crimes perpetrated by SS Captain Eduard Roschmann, commandant of the notorious wartime deathcamp at Riga, Latvia. Miller's personal manhunt to track down Roschmann leads him into the very heart of ODESSA, a powerful secret organization formed by the SS to protect and re-establish its fugitive members throughout the...
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[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The year is 1907. It is ten years after the Phantom's disappearance from the Paris Opera House. He has escaped to a new life in New York, where he lives among the screaming joy rides and freak-shows of Coney Island. In this new electrically charged world, he has finally found a place for his music to soar. All that is missing is his love - Christine Daae. Now one of the world's finest sopranos, Christine is struggling in an ailing marriage to Raoul....
