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2) Crossfire
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Extreme measures volume 2
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FBI special agent Julianna James is a top-notch negotiator who has never lost a hostage. Surely, she can manage to take care of her much younger sister, Dottie, who showed up unannounced to live with Julianna while she finished her senior year of high school.
A former sniper with the 75th Ranger Regiment, Clay Snyder left the army after a tragic incident that he can't get past. Now he's working as a high school resource officer until he can figure...
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The bestselling author of Demolition Angel and L.A. Requiem returns with his most intense and intricate thriller yet.
As the Los Angeles Times said, Robert Crais is “a crime writer operating at the top of his game.” His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers. Hostage...
As the Los Angeles Times said, Robert Crais is “a crime writer operating at the top of his game.” His complex heroes and heroines, his mastery of noir atmosphere, and his brilliant, taut plots have catapulted him into the front rank of a new breed of thriller writers. Hostage...
4) Third degree
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Pregnant with another man's child, Laurel Shields and her children are held hostage in their home by her husband, who is distraught over an IRS audit. As the police siege begins, she fears that her secret will be revealed.
5) Shot caller
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NYPD Negotiators volume 2
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"On Rikers Island, tensions always run high, especially in the Enhanced Supervision Housing unit. The ESH is home to Rikers' most dangerous offenders, many of them members of rival street gangs. When Gemma Capello and her team get word of an uprising at the ESH, they know how much is at stake. Gemma also has her own unresolved feelings to deal with - this is the first case she and Detective Sean Logan have worked"--Publisher.
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Thea Paris novels volume 2
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International kidnap expert Thea Paris is escorting two former child soldiers on a plane flying from Africa to London when the Boeing Business Jet is hijacked and forced to land on a deserted airstrip in the Libyan desert. Behind the skyjacking is a former nemesis who makes a strange demand for the return of the hostages.
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At Mississippi's sole remaining women's reproductive services clinic, a gunman bursts in and takes its patients and staff hostage. The stories that brought these individuals to the clinic vary, from a woman awaiting cancer screening results to a protestor hoping to catch the clinic in a scandal that could be used in a pro-life campaign. Then there is the police hostage negotiator, whose daughter is also trapped inside the facility, and the gunman...
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Just as the medical examiner is about to begin an autopsy the corpse opens her eyes and is rushed to hospital where she murders a security guard and takes hostages, including pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. While the medical examiner and Jane's FBI agent husband work together to discover the killer's identity, federal agents move in. They soon discover that Jane holds the key to the killer's identity.
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Anglesey crime thriller volume 1
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"Three years ago, DCI Laura Hart was the top Hostage and Crisis Negotiator for the Greater Manchester Police. Then her husband was kidnapped. Despite her best efforts to reason with the criminals, he was brutally murdered. Now living on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, Laura is slowly healing. Then she gets a call: armed drug dealers have seized a tourist boat - and her ten-year-old son Jake is on board. There's no other negotiator available, and the...
10) Breaking
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"A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate into civilian life."--www.imdb.com.
11) Beirut: Beyrouth
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"Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind"--From www.imdb.com.
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Thea Paris novels volume 1
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Kidnap-and-rescue negotiator Thea Paris' worst nightmare comes true when her father is kidnapped and the only way to rescue him may involve an unthinkable sacrifice
Kidnap negotiator Thea Paris has spent her entire life with survivor's guilt, following an unspeakable childhood tragedy. At eight years old, she watched, frozen in fear, as her twelve-year-old brother, Nikos, was abducted from their home in Kanzi, Africa. Although he was recovered nine...
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A new original story from the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, featuring Colter Shaw.
Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living locating missing persons and collecting reward money in return. In the course of his search for a missing woman, he visits the police station in the small Kansas town of Humble, and, is pulled into a puzzling case. A man is holding a hostage in a lakeside cabin, and the Humble police...
Colter Shaw is a career "reward-seeker," making his living locating missing persons and collecting reward money in return. In the course of his search for a missing woman, he visits the police station in the small Kansas town of Humble, and, is pulled into a puzzling case. A man is holding a hostage in a lakeside cabin, and the Humble police...
14) Bridge of spies
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"During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers"--from www.imdb.com.
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