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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...
22) Damage control
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rescue specialist Jonathan Grave is determined to save a bus of teenagers that has been taken hostage by someone demanding three million dollars, and he discovers that someone within the United States government has a deadly secret that threatens national security.
23) Power game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is "one of the best storytellers around" (RT Book Reviews). Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top...When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government...
24) Legion of fire
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Luke Jensen traps fugitive Ben Craddock in Arapaho Springs, he's ready to collect on his bounty. But the job's not done - not by a long shot. A raid by a savage gang known as the Legion of Fire has left the peaceful settlement looted, burned to the ground, and the ashes scoured for female hostages - including the marshal's daughter. For Luke this is more than a hunt. It's now a rescue. And with Craddock busted out of jail and thrown in with...
25) Ambulance
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
When their bank robbery goes wrong, two adoptive brothers hijack an ambulance carrying an EMT and a wounded police officer and try to make their escape while keeping their hostages alive.
Author
Series
Griffin force volume 3
Publisher
Stone Hall Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Julian Bennet, head of Griffin Force, finally finds love with Zaya Altes, but the day he buys her an engagement ring, international terrorist Nazer al-Raimi abducts her. Getting her back consumes him, yet it takes nearly six months to find her. The daring mission to extract her from a hidden prison in Afghanistan is successful, but Zaya has suffered during captivity. Though she's grateful to Julian for breaking her out, she wants nothing to do with...
27) The negotiator
Author
Series
O'Malley series (Dee Henderson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Kate O'Malley, a hostage negotiator, is investigating the bombing of an airplane and finds herself faced with evidence that points to FBI agent Dave Richman.
28) First strike
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The violent terrorist group ISIS has launched a major military campaign to take over Syria. But as they commit more and more public atrocities, their sources for ammunition are drying up. However, their charismatic and tyrannical leader, Tristan Nazir, has a major card left to play, which will get a new secret shipment of arms underway. Dewey Andreas is sent into the field to meet Mallory, the Milan CIA station chief who has explosive proof about...
29) Trigger warning
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former Army Ranger Jake Rivers enrolled in Kelton College for an education, but his lack of political correctness makes him a target. When a violent gang of marauders invade the main hall, taking students as hostages for big ransom money, Jake enlists his fellow classmates to fight back"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The president of the United States . . . is missing. WIth these words, New York Times journalist J. B. Collins, reporting from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert. The leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically injured, Jordan's king is fighting for his life, and the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured. As the U.S. government faces a constitutional crisis and Jordan...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Every night, Marc Laurent, an American taken hostage in Pakistan, is bound and blindfolded. And, every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine visits his cell. At first, her questions are mercenary: is there anyone back home who will pay the ransom? But, when Marc can offer no name, she asks him a question about his daughter that is even more terrifying than his captivity. And so, begins a strange yet increasingly comforting ritual, in which Josephine...
32) Non-stop
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
33) Falling
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
You just boarded a flight to New York.
There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard.
What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped.
For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die.
The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane.
Enjoy the flight.
Author
Series
Killer of enemies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years ago, seventeen-year-old Apache hunter Lozen and her family lived in a world of haves and have-nots. There were the Ones--people so augmented with technology and genetic enhancements that they were barely human--and there was everyone else who served them. Then the Cloud came, and everything changed. Tech stopped working. The world plunged back into a new steam age. The Ones' pets--genetically engineered monsters--turned on them and are now loose...
35) Taken 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Liam Neeson returns as Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative who finds himself taken hostage along with his wife. To survive, Bryan must enlist the help of an unlikely ally and use his brutally efficient skills to take out his kidnappers.
36) Chasing midnight
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
37) Bel canto
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Single-sided.
Language
English
Description
Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. But while McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war - as only McClane can!
Die hard 2: die harder: It's Christmas Eve, and McClane...
Publisher
Excel Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On May 9, 1986, in the small, ranching community of Cokeville, Wyoming, David and Doris Young took an elementary school hostage for several hours before detonating a bomb inside a classroom that held every teacher and student in the school. In the wake of the madness, Ron Hartley, whose children were inside the classroom, must fight his skepticism and unbelief as he hears eyewitness accounts from the students about miraculous, heavenly intervention...
40) Deliverance
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Deluxe ed.
Language
English
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