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The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling Gulf War movie, The Fist of God, things get intense when British and American spies find out about Saddam Hussein’s secret weapon, a super powerful device that could change the whole war.

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The Deceiver by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s epic espionage novel, “The Deceiver,” seasoned British SIS officer Sam McCready, known for his cunning, is forced to retire as the Cold War ends in 1989.

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The Negotiator by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s The Negotiator, a high-stakes thriller set in the late 1980s, master negotiator Quinn, a battle-hardened American with a mysterious past, gets entangled in a deadly conspiracy when the U.S. President’s son is kidnapped by ruthless mercenaries.

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The Fourth Protocol by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s The Fourth Protocol, a gripping Cold War thriller, a Soviet agent named Valeri Petrofsky is sent to Britain to carry out a sneaky mission to blow up a nuclear device.

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Nothing to Lose by Lee Child

Nothing to Lose strands Reacher between the Colorado towns of Hope and Despair, where he uncovers a military scrap conspiracy tied to disappearances.

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No Comebacks by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s No Comebacks, a collection of ten short stories, the master of suspense takes you on a thrilling ride through a world of crime, deception, and unexpected twists.

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The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s gripping Cold War thriller, The Devil’s Alternative, a global crisis erupts in 1982. A Ukrainian nationalist group takes control of a supertanker packed with oil, threatening to unleash an environmental catastrophe.

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The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s heart-pounding mercenary novel, The Dogs of War, a ruthless British mining tycoon named Sir James Manson finds a huge platinum deposit in the mysterious African country of Zangaro.

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The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling historical thriller, The Odessa File, set in 1963, young German journalist Peter Miller finds a diary belonging to a Holocaust survivor.

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The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth

In Frederick Forsyth’s epic thriller, The Day of the Jackal, a mysterious assassin known only as “The Jackal” is hired by the OAS, a French terrorist group, to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle in 1963.

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Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child

In Bad Luck and Trouble, Reacher reunites his old Army MP unit after a member’s murder, uncovering a plot targeting them over a past case.

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The Hard Way by Lee Child

The Hard Way begins with Reacher witnessing a ransom drop in New York, hired to recover a kidnapped wife from a mercenary crew.

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One Shot by Lee Child

In One Shot, a sniper kills five in an Indiana city, but Reacher doubts the accused's guilt and investigates a frame job tied to local corruption.

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The Enemy by Lee Child

The Enemy flashes back to 1990, with Reacher as an Army MP investigating a general's death that uncovers a conspiracy threatening national security.

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Persuader by Lee Child

In Persuader, Jack Reacher goes undercover in a Maine arms dealer's fortress to rescue a kidnapped agent and settle a decade-old score from his Army days.

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Without Fail by Lee Child

Lee Child's Without Fail sees Reacher hired to test Secret Service security for the Vice President-elect after credible assassination threats surface.

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Echo Burning by Lee Child

In Echo Burning, Reacher hitches a ride in Texas with a woman who claims her abusive husband plans to kill her upon his prison release.

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The Visitor by Lee Child

Lee Child's The Visitor forces Reacher to work with the FBI to profile a serial killer targeting Army women with bizarre, traceless murders.

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Tripwire by Lee Child

In Tripwire, Jack Reacher is digging graves in Key West when a private investigator's murder pulls him into a web of extortion and revenge tied to his military past.

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Die Trying by Lee Child

Lee Child's Die Trying sees Jack Reacher kidnapped alongside an FBI agent by a militia group plotting a massive terrorist attack.

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Killing Floor by Lee Child

In Lee Child's Killing Floor, ex-military policeman Jack Reacher arrives in the small Georgia town of Margrave and is promptly arrested for a murder he didn't commit.

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The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code thrusts Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon into a thrilling quest after a curator’s murder in the Louvre reveals a trail of clues tied to the Holy Grail.

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Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons follows Harvard symbolist Robert Langdon as he races to stop an ancient secret society, the Illuminati, from destroying Vatican City with a stolen antimatter device.

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The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

The final book in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien, is an absolute must-read!

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The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Frodo and Sam keep going on their dangerous mission to Mount Doom, with the sneaky Gollum leading the way.

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