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2) Nimitz class
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
©1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An American aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea is sunk by a nuclear torpedo with the loss of 6,000 hands. The U.S. retaliates with an attack on an Iranian submarine base, but as Lieutenant Commander Billy Baldridge discovers the real culprit is a lone Iraqi submariner, a far more elusive terrorist.
Author
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of an AL Qeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor, who, on orders from Osama Bin Laden, directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on 9/11/10, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown by an incompetent...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Samuel Carver, a man hired to make "accidents" happen, is back in a new adventure that takes him from the war rooms of Washington, D.C., to the merciless Arctic peaks of Norway and from the palaces of the French Riviera to the war-torn countryside of Kosovo.
Author
Publisher
Times Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A leading strategist opens our eyes to the greatest terrorist threat of all-and how to prevent it before it's too late
Americans in the twenty-first century are keenly aware of the many forms of terrorism: hijackings, biological attacks, chemical weapons. However, rarely do we allow ourselves to face squarely the deadliest form of terrorism, because it is almost too scary to think about-a terrorist group exploding a nuclear device in an American...
9) The unit
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world gone mad, one ordinary, suburban family must find a way to survive. But each member of the Sharpe family must struggle in their own way. -- Publisher.
10) Blink of an eye
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a nuclear bomb flattens a major American city, national security advisor Sean Falcone is charged with identifying the attackers, but if his sources are incorrect, it could mean inciting war with the entire Muslim world.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates 'Ghost Protocol'. Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency's name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on his mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know. Includes bonus...
12) Made in China
Author
Publisher
Page Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
13) The third magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge/A Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
444 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Arthur Blessing discovered he was the reincarnation of King Arthur at age 10, destined to reclaim his throne and begin a new golden age, people started trying to kill him. Now eight years later, the teenager is still on the run. Arthur and his friends are stationed in the American Midwest, armed with plenty of protection. After all, a team of resurrected Knights knows a thing or two about combat. But nothing can prepare Arthur for what lies ahead....
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
349 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the United States, The Malacca Conspiracy is a bone-chilling tale of terrorism on the high seas, of political assassination and nuclear brinkmanship. And for Zack and Diane---your favorite JAG characters from Don Brown's popular Navy Justice series---a story of hope for a longstanding romance that is now or never. When a dastardly plot is hatched in the Malaysian seaport of Malacca to attack civilian oil...
15) Gideon's corpse
Author
Language
English
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 386 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recruited on a clandestine mission to thwart the transfer of nuclear warheads into rogue hands, covert operative turned A-list movie star Ty Hunter uses all his skills as a spy, soldier, and actor to match wits with an enigmatic billionaire.
17) The peacemaker
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a nuclear bomb goes missing in the former Soviet Union, a diplomat and a Special Forces Colonel join forces to avert disaster.
18) The genius club
Publisher
Cloud Ten Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven geniuses, with IQs over 200 are brought together by a terrorist on Christmas Eve to try and solve the world's problems in one night. It's a cat and mouse battle of intellectual superiority with a mad genius who wants to detonate a nuclear bomb in Washington D.C. A 3-word password has to be uncovered.
19) Unthinkable
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent and a Special Operations interrogator must force a terrorist suspect to divulge the locations of three nuclear weapons that are set to detonate somewhere in the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
351 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Rogue Warrior travels to India to help supervise security arrangements for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, he and his team find themselves up to their skivvies in terrorists of all types-Pakistanis. But, it's not just the Games that are being targeted for disruption-Demo Dick and his young bucks uncover a plot to steal all seventy nuclear warheads the Indians have amassed for war against the Pakistanis.
Rogue Warrior must overcome various...
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