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81) Iron eagle
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A retired Air Force colonel and a young pilot undertake a seemingly impossible mission to rescue the young man's father, who has been wrongfully imprisoned in a Middle Eastern country.
82) Ambulance
Language
English
Formats
Description
Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
83) One breath away
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom. Outside the school, the town of Broken Branch watches and waits. Officer Meg Barrett holds the responsibility for the town's children in her hands. Will Thwaite, reluctantly entrusted with the care of his two grandchildren by the daughter who left home years earlier, stands by helplessly and wonders if he has failed his child again....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"With echoes of Catch-22 and Black Hawk Down, author and former hostage Michael Scott Moore masterfully walks a fine line between personal narrative and journalistic distance in this page-turning and novelistic account of 977 days held captive by Somali pirates. Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany. He went with an open mind and a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting....
85) Black ice
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.
Author
Series
The Cliff Fulton volume v 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
They tried to kill a nation. Revenge and genocide, is that even possible? Walk into the arena of 'Without A Conscious...' where an unsuspecting college student is dragged into a world he never knew. Under a ruthless plot carried out in the name of progress and greed, our nation is attacked. Hindered from the truth by those in power, it's a fight for the right to survive. When Cliff finds a photo of his murdered grandmother under the door of his apartment,...
Author
Series
The Cliff Fulton volume v 2
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
...Thought That's Thin... The Second Cliff Fulton Mystery Cliff has a secret, and everyone wants to bury him for it. Walk into the arena of a world gripped in dark secrets, where friend could be foe, and power corrupts absolutely. It is a place of misleading facts, hidden venues, and unexpected choices. When Cliff attends his grandmother's funeral, things thought buried come back to life, flames erupt, and his world is blown apart. With captives taken...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The definitive account of the bizarre hostage drama that gave rise to the term Stockholm Syndrome. On the morning of August 23, 1973, a man wearing a wig, makeup, and a pair of sunglasses walked into the main branch of Sveriges Kreditbank, a prominent bank in central Stockholm. He ripped out a submachine gun, fired it into the ceiling, and shouted, The party starts! This was the beginning of a six-day hostage crisis - and media circus -that would...
89) Oldboy
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kidnapped and kept in solitary confinement for 20 years, Joe Doucett has suddenly been set free without a word of explanation. Obsessed with finding those who imprisoned him, Doucett wreaks havoc upon his captors, unaware his freedom is part of a plan and his true punishment's about to begin.
Author
Series
Fae and crystal thorns volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A dagger could save them… if they don’t get stabbed in the back with it first. Chloe and Quintus have just discovered a hidden court inside Faerie. It seems obvious who the new leader should be, especially once they realize how to find the missing crown. A golden and emerald dagger is the key to discovering it, but in the wrong hands, it could ruin them all. When mortals start invading the court, their meddling impedes Chloe and Quintus’s quest...
Author
Series
Fae and crystal thorns novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
She vowed she’d never return to Faerie…but vows were made to be broken. As a human girl, Chloe is perfectly happy being back in the mortal realm where she belongs. She's even become the town apothecary. When a fae from her past shows up begging her to return to Faerie, she utterly refuses. But then she finds out an angry group of mortals are using iron to hold an entire castle full of fae hostage. And of course, the hostages include Chloe's older...
93) The test
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?
94) Blood circus
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In this lush and terrifying debut Camila Victoire draws upon her own experience in a traveling circus to create a future where cruelty and spectacle hold the keys to subjugating humans on a ravaged earth.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A haunting, luminous debut novel about a man and his relationship with his daughter, his captor, his past, and his future. "Like Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, All That's Left to Tell celebrates not just the power of storytelling but the deeply human need for it in even the most dire situations. Alternately gripping and dreamy, Daniel Lowe's debut imagines what the stories we tell reveal about ourselves, and how they may save us." -Stewart O'Nan,...
96) A holiday heist
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A group of college students stay at school over Christmas to work at a special exhibit in the college's fine art gallery. The students have little in common to each other. When they decide to hold an unplanned Christmas Eve dinner in the gallery, they stumble into a trio of bumbling thugs planning a Holiday Heist of the exhibit. As the students are held hostage, they are forced to learn about themselves and each other, the spirit of Christmas, and...
Author
Series
Prisoners of Peace volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The teenage princess of a future-world Canadian superpower, where royal children are held hostage to keep their countries from waging war, falls in love with an American prince who rebels against the brutal rules governing their existences.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of his sense of duty refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Eric wakes up, tied and gagged in the trunk of a truck, it's instantly clear he's been kidnapped alongside a young woman, Blake, another hostage. Neither can remember how they got there, but it's clear there is no help coming, and as things become more hopeless, it soon becomes apparent that there is more going on than it first seems.
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