An awards ceremony for valor is disrupted by terrorists, masquerading as policemen. As a result, the reluctant hero John Deal gets kidnapped -- along with the First Lady of the United States.
Action and adventure fiction
- Author:Standiford, Les.Summary:
- Author:Standiford, LesSummary:
John Deal is no hero–he just happens to be in the right place at the right time, cruising in the Gulf of Mexico when a group of Cuban refugees are tossed overboard in a smuggling operation gone awry. Then, presidential politics,...
- Author:Scott, KieranSummary:
An action-packed, edge-of-your-seat novel about a teen who, when backed into a corner, fights back, from the author of What Waits in the Woods Kaia has been on the run her whole life. The daughter of professional assassins, she knows...
- Author:Patterson, James, Sullivan, Mark T.Summary:
At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. Chris had taken a secretive personal leave and hadn't spoken to anyone from the office in days. The Private team retraces his footsteps to the cases he was investigating before...
- Author:Bradley, Arthur T.Summary:
How do you make sure your candidate becomes president of the United States' You make sure he's the only candidate left alive ... The leadership of the free world is about to be decided, and not by votes. A cabal of powerful...
- Author:Olsen, KarenSummary:
Promesse à un jaguar est le récit initiatique de Jacob, un enfant bègue, constamment menacé par la brute de l'école jusqu'au jour où il apprend à se défendre, et de Balam un jeune jaguar constamment menacé par les chasseurs et...
- Author:Leonard, ElmoreSummary:
The feds want Miami bookmaker Harry Arno to squeal on his wiseguy boss. So they're putting word out on the street that Arno's skimming profits from "Jimmy Cap" Capotorto--which he is, but everybody does it. He was...
- Author:Roanhorse, RebeccaSummary:
Best-selling author Rick Riordan welcomes indigenous fantasy writer Rebecca Roanhorse to his imprint with this thrilling adventure about a Navajo girl who discovers she's a monsterslayer. Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has...
- Author:DeMille, NelsonSummary:
Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and taken a job following Russian diplomats working at the UN Mission. But Corey realizes something the US government doesn't: the all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia.
- Author:Norton, AndreSummary:
Three siblings search for a mystical sword and unearth family secrets in this adventure novel. Returning to "Pirate's Haven," their ancestral home in the Louisiana bayou country near New Orleans, is something of an...
- Author:Hanson, Ed, Doman, Mary KateSummary:
These traditional reads are brimming with spirited characters and positive values—but with a little extra excitement and bite, so hold on to your hats! Written expressly for the middle grade struggling reader, the series does not...
- Author:Drake, RaelynSummary:
When a girl wakes up in a virtual reality fantasy video game, she's sure this must be a mistake. She's not a gamer and she doesn't want to be here. Whether she likes it or not, she's now Em3ra1d_with_3nvy, one player...
- Author:Norton, AndreSummary:
After suffering defeat in the Civil War, a young man struggles to establish his identity and begin life anew in a raw and unsettled land. In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as...
- Author:Chambers, BeckySummary:
What is the purpose of a space fleet that has reached a habitable world? Is there a reason to maintain a way of life that is no longer necessary? The Exodus' remaining passengers must decide.
- Author:Tullson, DianeSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Libby didn't want to go on a year long sailing adventure with her mother and her stepfather, Duncan, and she isn't about to let them forget it. Traveling through the Red Sea, Libby causes them to be late and make a...
- Author:Mills, KyleSummary:
The #1 New York Times bestselling series returns with Mitch Rapp racing against the clock to take down Russia's ailing leader before he invades the Baltics. When Max Krupin--Russia's leader--discovers that his kidney cancer...
- Author:Cameron, MarcSummary:
A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts...
- Author:Baldacci, DavidSummary:
Amos Decker and his FBI partner Alex Jamison are approached by the first person Decker ever arrested for murder back when he was a young detective, a man who still maintains he never committed the murders. Could Decker have made a...
- Author:Lim, ElizabethSummary:
What if Mulan had to travel to the Underworld? When Captain Shang is mortally wounded by Shan Yu in battle, Mulan must travel to the Underworld, Diyu, in order to save him from certain death. But King Yama, the ruler of Diyu, is not...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Greg is an avid sailor. On a solo trip off the rugged coast, he stumbles upon a family of desperate refugees stranded in a lifeboat. The family convinces Greg to help them, and keep their existence secret. When his plan begins to...