Fast-Paced, High Action - May 2024 - FVRLLike this list

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• Angels & Demons

  Brown, Dan, 1964-

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  Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Flag

  Ricciardi, David,

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  After years of relative calm, the threat from Somali pirates has increased exponentially. When a few American ships get taken, U.S. authorities become determined to find the source of this new danger. Jake Keller has a plan. It is unconventional,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blacktop Wasteland

  a Novel

  Cosby, S. A.,

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  Like Ocean's Eleven meets Drive , with a Southern noir twist, S. A. Cosby's Blacktop Wasteland is a searing, operatic story of a man pushed to his limits by poverty, race, and his own former life of crime.

• Drowning

  A Novel

  Newman, T. J.,

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  With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family's desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them--against impossible odds.

• Dune

  Herbert, Frank,

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  Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides--who would become known as Muad'Dib--and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition mankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

• Gale Force

  Laukkanen, Owen,

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  For all lovers of maritime adventure comes an electrifying thriller of treachery and peril on the high seas featuring a dynamic new heroine, from multi-award-nominated suspense star Owen Laukkanen.

• Hour of the Assassin

  a Novel

  Quirk, Matthew,

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  In this electrifying thriller from the author of The Night Agent now on Netflix, a former Secret Service agent who is framed and on the run discovers how far some men will go to grasp the highest office in the land--a propulsive political thriller…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Odyssey

  a Thriller

  Rollins, James, 1961-

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  To save the world and our future, Sigma Force must embark on a dangerous odyssey into an ancient past whose horrors are all too present in this page-turning thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins that combines cutting-edge…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• No Exit

  a Novel

  Adams, Taylor,

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  A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.

• No Traveller Returns

  a Novel

  L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988,

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  Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas.

• North of Laramie

  Johnstone, William W.,

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  This is the story of Buck Trammel. Hunted by outlaws. Fighting for justice. Marked for death. This is how legends are born . . . Live Free. Read Hard.

• The Rage of Dragons

  Winter, Evan,

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  Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.

• Savage Son

  a Thriller

  Carr, Jack, (Joint pseudonym)

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  In this third high-octane thriller in the "seriously good" (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Terminal List series, former Navy SEAL James Reece must infiltrate the Russian mafia and turn the hunters into the hunted.

• The Sentinel

  Child, Lee,

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  Jack Reacher is back! The "utterly addictive" ( The New York Times ) series continues as acclaimed author Lee Child teams up with his brother, Andrew Child, fellow thriller writer extraordinaire.

• Stone Cross

  Cameron, Marc,

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  Readers looking for pulse-pounding action and a nail-biting adventure need not look any further than this new thriller from the author of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series...

• Throne of Glass

  Maas, Sarah J.,

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  After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The White Road

  Lotz, Sarah,

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  Ignoring the warning signs of mental trauma, and eager to capitalize on his new internet fame, Simon latches onto another escapade that has that magic click-bait mix of danger and death: a trip to Everest. But up above 8000 feet, in the infamous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wrath of Poseidon

  Cussler, Clive,

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  Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo come up against an old enemy while searching for a treasure that has been lost for centuries in this exciting adventure in the bestselling series by the Clive Cussler, Grand Master of Adventure.