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Jack Reacher novels volume 13
Language
English
Description
In this 13th Reacher novel, the former military police major and notorious drifter Jack Reacher grows suspicious of a fellow subway passenger as their train approaches Grand Central Station in New York City. As a shady situation develops, Reacher debates between intervening to save surrounding lives or avoiding the predicament in order to save his own. He confronts a suicide bomber on the nearly deserted Manhattan subway car--a confrontation that...
4) Walking dead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
It's a new beginning for bodyguard Atticus Kodiak. Dead to the world, no longer hunted, he has lived with his common-law wife Alena for more than a year in a small town in the Republic of Georgia. But when their new neighbors are brutally murdered, leaving behind their son, it falls to Atticus to rescue him. To do so, he must enter a web that takes him from Russia to Istanbul and that stretches from Dubai to Las Vegas. But what troubles Atticus the...
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Series
Language
English
Description
For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD's Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter -- but...
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
" ... suicide bombing has played a significant role in terrorist activity ... examination of the psychology behind suicide bombing ... Interviews with an Israeli Army senior intelligence analyst, a kamikaze pilot survivor, two failed suicide bombers, and several victims ... "--Container.
9) Paradise now
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Arabic
Description
The story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions.
10) For my father
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
עברית
Description
Tarek, a young Palestinian man blackmailed into a suicide mission in TEl Aviv, is given a second chance at life when the fuse on hisexpolsive vest fails to detonate.
11) Making of
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Arabic
Description
Twenty-five year-old Bahta has no job, no degree and no prospects. His one passion is breakdancing, but even that outlet is repressed by the police who regularly harrass him. Bahta attracts the attention of a group of fundamentalists, who decide to recruite him into the violent and dangerous world of terrorism. The group wants to use him as a suicide bomber.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In Dying for Heaven, Georgetown scholar and advisor to the defense community Ariel Glucklich explains the religious motivation of terrorism. This provocative work of political science argues that the very best qualities of religion-its ability to make people feel good and bring them together-are in fact its most dangerous. Glucklich, author of Sacred Pain and Climbing Chamundi Hill, offers a new understanding of religion and provides a vision for...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A rogue American Special Forces unit schemes to smuggle $35 million worth of heroin into the United States, and all that stands in its way is border patrol agent Jack Robideaux, an ex-homicide cop with a hidden agenda. Taking on suicide bombers, sadistic torturers and traitorous officials on both sides of the border, Jack shows no mercy as he single-handedly attempts to destroy the cartel.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A startling look at the deepest, darkest secrets that terrorists pray you'll never know.
For decades, experts from the most powerful governments and prestigious universities around the world have told us that suicide bombers are psychologically normal men and women driven by a single-minded purpose: self-sacrifice. As it turns out, this claim originated with the terrorist leaders themselves, who insisted that they would never recruit mentally unstable...
Author
Series
Jammer Davis thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
With its revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, the C-500 had become the freight airframe of choice. Until a routine delivery goes horribly wrong.
Falling like a stone from six miles up, a brand new C-500 crashes in central France, killing the two pilots aboard. When French officials take over this highly public investigation, they call in the best there is: Frank 'Jammer' Davis. A retired U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Davis is part of the NTSB's...
20) Heroes proved
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2032, America is supposedly safe from terror, Iranian nuclear weaponry is no longer a threat, and the United Nations' treaties and technologies are keeping the peace. Then a suicide bomber targets Houston, Texas and a famous physicist is kidnapped. The ensuing search by a decorated U.S. Marine war hero and veteran of special ops, not only places the physicist's family in grave danger, but exposes an even more ominous threat to the country,...
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