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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the eleventh book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard reveal the startling, dramatic story of the global war against terrorists. In Killing The Killers, #1 bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take readers deep inside the global war on terror, which began twenty years ago on September 11, 2001. As the World Trade Center buildings collapsed, the Pentagon burned, and a small group of passengers...
Author
Series
Band of sisters volume 2
Language
English
Description
Five women must draw upon their bond of friendship and faith to find the strength, courage, and insight needed to move forward when their soldiers come home.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, a small contingent of US Troops were sent on a secret mission to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war origin story & cautionary tale, illuminating the impact of 15 years of constant combat.. This untold story features unprecedented access to the Green Berets who played pivotal roles in these covert missions. Reflecting on their experiences and on the brothers-in-arms they lost, these elite...
Publisher
Millennium
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After an unsuccessful and bloody raid in Istanbul, two Turkish anti-terrorist agents are sent to New York City on a mission to capture a notorious terrorist known only as ₁Dejjal₂ (Arabic for Anti-Christ). Working with the FBI and NYPD, the agents orchestrate the arrest of a suspect who may or not be the notorious Dejjal, but when events escalate, the foreign agents must take things in their own hands to avert disaster.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
German intelligence agent Gunther Bachmann (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his final starring role) must race against time to solve a perilous mystery: Is the half-Chechen, half-Russian Muslim who's surfaced in Hamburg a victim seeking refuge, or a terrorist seeking revenge?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of the first five hundred days after September 11 that reveals previously undisclosed information about the terror wars, warrantless wiretapping, and the anthrax attacks.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A former FBI special agent offers an insider's account of how the September 11th attacks could have been prevented, as well as his role in the war on terror, including his highly effective interrogation efforts.
Author
Series
Sniper elite volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Against the President's orders, Navy SEAL and sniper Gil Shannon leads a mission comprised of SEAL Team Six and Delta Force members into Afghanistan to rescue a female helicopter pilot held captive by the Taliban.
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a chronological account of September 11, 2001, and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the hijacking of a plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into the situation room of the White House in Washington, D.C.: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, put paid to Osama bin Laden's three-decade-long career of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind, told by Chuck Pfarrer, a former assault...
13) Lights out
Author
Series
Snap Agency volume 1
Language
English
Description
"To fight the global war on terrorism, CIA Analyst Brynn Taylor invited foreign spies into America. Now one of them is missing. To track him down and stop a cyber blackout, she must work with an elite security team-and the ex-boyfriend she betrayed"--
14) Obama's wars
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shows Obama making the critical decisions on the Afghanistan War, the secret war in Pakistan, and the worldwide fight against terrorism.
15) The ghost
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving - and most controversial - prime minister of the last half century, whose career ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. Now, after stepping down in disgrace, Lang is hiding out in wintry Martha's Vineyard...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Espionage Act was passed in 1917 to prosecute spies and critics during World War I. And yet, after a century of piecemeal revisions, the Espionage Act still forms the basis of our national security architecture today - a tool that lets the governmentkeep an untold amount of information secret, without ever justifying the need for that secrecy. In State of Silence, political historian Sam Lebovic uncovers the troubling history of the Espionage...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the former secretary of defense, a candid account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he'd left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happy in his role as president of Texas A & M University. But when he was asked...
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