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1) Pygmy
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Thirteen-year-old Pygmy, a young terrorist in the United States under the pretext of being a foreign exchange student, tries to make sense of American life while plotting his attack.
2) Nimitz class
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Navy maverick Bill Baldridge decides to investigate when a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier is vaporized at sea, killing his brother and 6,000 other sailors, and he discovers that there is an undersea terrorist at work who still has one more weapon at his disposal.
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Roger Ferris, an idealistic CIA agent who has dedicated himself to preventing further al-Qaeda attacks, becomes caught up in a web of lies, deception, manipulation, and hypocrisy when he concocts an elaborate plot to find a terrorist known as Suleiman, patterned on a British scheme used against the Nazis in World War II.
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For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten Western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the West and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail.
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With tensions on its southern border threatening to ignite into war, America must look to the one man who might be able to confront the demons in the jungle...and destroy them. Alex Hawke, with theaid of brilliant Scotland Yard Inspector Ambrose Congreve, and an unstoppable force of nature named Stokely Jones, begins a river journey fraught with peril.
9) Wild Storm
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Hired to look into a recent spate of plane crashes that have killed powerful people in politics, business and religion, Derrick Storm goes up against an maniacal extremist who has created a laser with the power to shoot down planes from the ground.
10) The last patriot
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Former Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath is drawn back into his old life when he saves University of Virginia professor Anthony Nichols from an assassin's bomb in Paris and becomes involved in trying to uncover the final and startling revelation of the prophet Mohammed which, if revealed, will transform Islam.
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The harrowing story of a man with no memory--Jason Bourne--an assassin hunted by unseen armies for reasons he doesn't remember. A shooting victim, suffering from amnesia, finds himself with a Swiss bank account in the name of Jason Bourne, a professional assassin being manipulated by a top-secret American government organization to kill his arch rival, the dreaded Carlos the Jackal.
12) The Fire ship
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The freighter came like a ghost off the hazy horizon, strafed by gunfire, abandoned by her crew…and laden with explosives. Richard Mariner is aboard a new high-tech sailing vessel when he encounters the fire ship, never realizing it's only the beginning of a deadly adventure. As Mariner sails through the Indian Ocean, he learns the prize tanker in his family's fleet, Prometheus II, has been seized by terrorists in the Persian Gulf, and his father-in-law...
13) Goliath
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Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is shocked to learn that the plans for a nuclear submarine she helped design more than a decade earlier have fallen into the wrong hands and her own weapon is being used to try and destroy the world's most powerful countries.
14) 31 hours
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A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother's blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn't know what she has done wrong, but Jonas won't answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in a safe-house apartment in New York City, pondering his conversion to Islam and his experiences training in Pakistan, preparing for the violent action...
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Jason Bourne, who returns to Georgetown University to live the normal life of David Webb, starts to feel restless and is asked by his mentor, Professor Specter, to help investigate the murder of a student by the Black Legion, a Muslim extremist sect, while an operative from Central Intelligence tries to track down and kill Bourne.
17) Exile: a novel
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David Wolfe's life is as near perfect as it can get. He's a successful lawyer, about to get married, and is being primed for a stint in Congress. When he gets an unexpected phone call from a woman he'd had a brief fling with while in law school, he faces a choice. Will he, a Jew, represent a Palestinian woman accused of masterminding the assassination of Israel's prime minister and risk his career and impending marriage for a woman he's never been...
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"Susan Choi…proves herself a natural-a writer whose intelligence and historical awareness effortlessly serve a breathtaking narrative ability. I couldn't put American Woman down, and wanted when I finished it to do nothing but read it again." -Joan Didion
A novel of impressive scope and complexity, "American Woman is a thoughtful, meditative interrogation of…history and politics, of power and racism, and finally, of radicalism." (San Francisco...
19) Trust no one
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Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist| someone Nick has never heard of|has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he|ll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick...
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