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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a kidnapper who is murdering the children of wealthy New York families, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker discover that the killer has hatched an elaborate plot to decimate the entire city.
3) Deadlock
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dedicating her life to save priceless artifacts from being destroyed by war, Emily Hudson is captured and tormented by a sadistic adversary, and the CIA calls on mercenary John Garrett for help in Emily's rescue.
4) Lethal
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her husband Geoff, a pastor, loses his job after a scandal in their congregation, Audrey works with Geoff to resurrect a failing bakery, but their troubles grow when Audrey hits a motor scooter whose rider has disappeared.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After his successful takedown of a dangerous terrorist, Bob Lee Swagger learns that no good deed goes unpunished. Summoned to court by the United States Congress, Swagger is accused of reckless endangerment by a hardheaded anti-gun congresswoman. But what begins as political posturing soon turns deadly when the auditorium where the committee is being held is attacked.
Swagger, the congresswoman, and numerous bystanders and reporters are taken hostage...
7) Chaos
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Iris Johansen introduces a new kickass female protagonist, Alisa Flynn, a CIA agent who may be willing to go rogue if it means catching the most heartless band of criminals she's ever encountered. Alisa is aided by mysterious billionaire-genius-inventor Gabe Korgan and recurring character Margaret Douglas, an animal whisperer who brings along her beloved dog Juno to fight alongside them. Alisa is determined to rescue schoolgirls kidnapped from their...
8) The hostage
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
443, [1] p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When seventeen-year-old Nora O'Malley, the daughter of a con artist, is taken hostage in a bank heist, every secret she is keeping close begins to unravel.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with...
11) Swept aside
Author
Series
Storm Front volume 3
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shell-shocked after a nightmarish school shooting, Amalie Pope retreats to an aging plantation house near Bordelaise, Louisiana, to heal, physically and emotionally. She's there barely an hour when a tornado rips through bayou country, mercifully leaving the house intact. She's stranded, but unafraid--until a knock on the door. Four escaped prisoners barge inside, and in an instant Amalie is a hostage again. These men are wounded, desperate and dangerous--with...
Author
Series
In death volume 54
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The woman’s body was found in the early morning, on a bench in a New York City playground. She was clean, her hair neatly arranged, her makeup carefully applied. But other things were very wrong—like the tattoo and piercings, clearly new. The clothes, decades out of date. The fatal wound hidden beneath a ribbon around her neck. And the note: Bad Mommy, written in crayon as if by a child.
Eve Dallas turns to the department’s top profiler, who...
13) Die trying
Author
Series
Jack Reacher volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Intelligence officer Amy Cornwall must use lethal tactics in open defiance of Army Command when a mysterious adversary kidnaps her family and gives her forty-eight hours to commit an unspeakable crime. .
16) The lioness
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1964, Hollywood royalty Katie Barstow and her new husband, along with her glittering entourage, arrive for their luxury African safari, but are instead taken hostage by Russian mercenaries, in this blistering story of fame, race, love, and death set in a world on the cusp of great change.
