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41) Men of war
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Mercenary Nick Riley (Lundgren) and his team of ex-Special Forces soldiers are hired to cajole or intimidate the people of a South Pacific island into signing over the rights to their country's jade to a multi-national corporation. Enraptured by the beauty of the tropical paradise, Nick is torn between loyalty to his employers and his new found feelings of kinship with the natives
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor US soldiers. The shooters were private forces working for a mercenary company: Blackwater USA, the world's most secretive, powerful, and fastest growing private army.
A largely untold facet of the
...43) Sign wave
Author
Series
Aftershock novels (Andrew H. Vachss) volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a calculating predator threatens his loved ones, mercenary soldier Dell attempts to track down a killer who possesses an uncanny talent for disguise.
44) Fire strike
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 17
Language
English
Description
"When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon...
45) Suicide mission
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Former CIA agent and soldier of fortune "Wild Bill" Elliott thought he was done with impossible missions. But that was before a group of Islamic fanatics teamed up with a Mexican drug cartel to establish a terrorist training camp on America's southern border--and Elliot is tapped by the government to wipe out their base. To do this Elliott recruits a squad of hardened lifers plucked out of the U.S. maximum security prisons--a terrifying collection...
46) Hard kill
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a billionaire tech CEO hires a team of mercenaries to protect a lethal piece of technology, the security expert and his team must race against the clock to protect the fate of the human race.
47) Don't know Jack
Author
Series
Hunt for Jack Reacher volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been a while since we first met Lee Child's Jack Reacher in Killing Floor. Fifteen years and sixteen novels later, Reacher still lives off the grid, until trouble finds him, and then he does whatever it takes, much to the delight of readers and the dismay of villains. Now someone big is looking for him. Who? And why? Hunting Jack Reacher is a dangerous business, as FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are about to find out. Otto and...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Author of numerous best-sellers - including the epic chronicle of the Battle of Thermopylae, Gates of Fire - Steven Pressfield delivers novels of unmatched historical accuracy. In The Profession, Pressfield taps his considerable well of military knowledge to craft a piece of speculative fiction set in 2032. With corporate and private powers wielding their own military forces, an exiled American general plans to return to the U.S. and claim the presidency...
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
State secrets: Secret Service agent David Goddard never expected to spend his Christmas surveilling the president's cousin but now he wonders is it her secrets that fascinate him ... or Holly herself?
The five days of Christmas: Morgan Trayhern's toughest mercenary, Colt Hamlin, is looking to lie low this Christmas, but he may just have a change of heart when his matchmaking boss puts him in the path of Montana's prettiest widow
51) Vanguard
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Covert security company Vanguard is the last hope of survival for an accountant after he is targeted by the world's deadliest mercenary organization.
52) Get back Jack
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar's off-the-books assignment leads them to the surviving members of Jack Reacher's elite military unit. Five years ago, Reacher sorted and destroyed a team of arms dealers in Lee Child's Bad Luck & Trouble before he moved on. But he made mistakes. Now, his bad luck and trouble legacy plunges Otto and Gaspar into the minefield of a grudge war between Reacher's fearless old friends and chilling new enemies....
53) Golden Buddha
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew are hired by the US government to free Tibet from Chinese control...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
54) The 355
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
CIA agent Mason 'Mace' Brown joins forces with a rival German agent, a cutting-edge computer specialist and a Colombian psychologist when a top-secret weapon falls into the hands of a group of mercenaries. Together, the four women embark on a breakneck mission to save the world while staying one step ahead of a mysterious figure who's tracking their every move.
Publisher
4Digital Media Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Scientists at a top-secret government research facility are conducting experiments to resurrect a dinosaur using prehistoric DNA which goes wrong when the terrifying T-Rex grows at an accelerated pace. The government hires a squad of mercenaries to lead a search and destroy mission. It's man against the most vicious beast of all time, and neither will survive while the other is alive.
Author
Series
Dragonback volume 3
Publisher
Starscape
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jack and the dragon warrior Draycos face a diabolical and ruthless intergalactic slavemaster when Jack attempts to penetrate secret computer files about the cold-blooded underworld while posing as a slave.
57) Cuba
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2002.
Language
English
Description
Robert Dapes is a cynical mercenary who comes to Cuba at the request of one of Batista's most corrupt functionaries, General Bello. Surrounded by volatile guerilla fighters and the human vultures present at all coups, he must come to terms with himself and his shifting views.
59) Darkness
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu's infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning--but what she doesn't see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there's a sole...
60) Don't tempt me
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
WHO IS SHE? Simon Quinn can have any woman he wants, but he prefers them jaded, worldly, and free of illusions. His life is one of danger and temporary pleasures. An Irish commoner, he has nothing more than his expertise as a lover and mercenary to recommend him and no title, property, or family to redeem him. Lysette Rousseau is a deadly beauty who can seduce or betray with equal skill. She should be just the sort of woman Simon entertains, but something...
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