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The CIA keeps a lot of secrets. None more deadly than him.After a covert mission became personal, the only way elite counterterrorism operative, Alexander King, could keep his loved ones safe, and the eyes of Washington's enemies blind to his existence, was to disappear.A year after his family buried a body they thought was his, King saves a young woman from a car bomb in London, and that's when his work in the shadows becomes complicated. Because she's not who he thinks she is, and the web that King is pulled into is tangled with enemies that reach the highest levels of the United States government.But this web being spun by a sadistic terrorist isn't your average one-time explosive attack....
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In this thrilling climax of the classic fantasy The Chronicles of Prydain, Death Lord Arawn has stolen the black sword Dyrnwyn, the most powerful weapon in the kingdom. At the request of Prince Gwydion, Taran rallies friends both old and new to raise an army to march against Arawn's terrible warriors. Together, they must battle through a frozen wasteland to Mount Dragon, where a deadly confrontation awaits and Taran's true destiny will at last be fulfilled. "Lloyd Alexander is the true High King of fantasy." - Garth Nix Winner of the Newbery Medal 1969
There's only way to stop bioterrorism. Catch it before it spreads. Just one week after an entire town in Alaska mysteriously fell ill, all two hundred of them were dead.Six months ago a famous Russian virologist entered Seattle for a World Health Conference, but then he disappeared. Coincidence? The President of the United States doesn't think so, that's why he's sending in elite counterterrorism operative, Alexander King. King might not know anything about bioweapons, but he's an expert at stopping bad people from doing bad things. And if he doesn't get his man this time, millions of lives could be lost.
When an MI6 agent is found to be keeping records of his missions to protect himself from betrayal he unwittingly makes himself a priority target. But how do you silence the most dangerous man imaginable? Send him into hell on earth... While Alex King is sent into Northern Iraq to tidy the loose ends of a botched mission, the archipelago of Indonesia is under communist threat from within its own military. A consortium of worried businessmen call for desperate measures and seek the services of an assassin. But what if MI6 could be duped into taking care of their problems for them? With secret links to China the communist contingent threatens Britain's trade initiatives with the largest mineral producing country on the planet. In the dark world of intelligence it seems that everybody has their price.
Selection from the Austrian poet's works, arranged by Alexander King, consisting of short sketches, tales, and reminiscences. King has added comments and 100 drawings.
He was the CIA's most deadly secret weapon. Now he's the world's most wanted man.Elite counterterrorism operator Alexander King is on a mission in Mexico City when a surprise is left for him in the trunk of his car. The contents will change his life forever, and may very well end his legendary run with the CIA.King's entire career has been about saving others. This time it will take everything he's got just to save himself.
South of the border the bad guys have kidnapped seven young American girls. One man, former Special Operations legend, Xander King, has the skills and the resources to stop them before the girls are sold into slavery. But compromised agents, faulty intel, and ex-military mercenaries leave Xander in a fight for his life, and the fate of the innocent, literally dangling from his fingertips. "The latest action-packed thriller from bestseller Bradley Wright will leave you breathless."
Kat Makris was just a kid when her father spun wild and gruesome bedtime stories about Baboulas, the Greek boogeyman, a fearsome creature with a penchant for stealing gold and clashing with the gods. Now Kat is twenty-eight, single, an only child halfway to orphaned, and her father's weirdo fairytales lie crumpled at the bottom of her childhood closet, in the house where she still lives. But when her father is abducted by men with crooked noses, she discovers his old stories were true-true crime, that is. What does Kat know about crime? Nothing, that's what. Her only transgression, to date, is underage drinking. Even her driving record is pristine. Her couch-to-cubicle existence shattered by his kidnapping, and the discovery of his secret and deadly past as a mobster for the Greek mafia, Kat is determined to find her father, even if it means forming an unholy and felonious alliance with Greece's boogeyman ...