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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber's thoughts about you, his predictions of your behavior--a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Edgar Award-winning author Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder--and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 1992, after being fired from a top-secret nuclear facility, a top KGB man buried a dirty bomb. Sixteen years later he has found a buyer for it. Traveling with the buyer is an undercover policeman, working for MI6. But as their shadowy journey begins, it becomes clear to a top psychiatrist that their man may be suffering from Stockholm syndrome and the whole operation is very likely to be thrown into jeopardy. Displaying a fast-paced narrative and...
Author
Series
Company novels ; 6
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Can you imagine driving to a doctor's appointment and having your car sideswiped? And after being removed from the vehicle by the medics and moved towards the ambulance, your car blows up? So starts the story. The next day another car blows up, and many are injured. After examining the remains of the explosion, it is discovered that someone from years ago was planting bombs, No one knew the reason. Was it for fun or profit? Follow the emergency squads...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Obayda's family is in need of some good fortune. Her father lost one of his legs in a bomb explosion, forcing the family to move from their home city of Kabul to a small village, where life is very different and Obayda's father almost never leaves his room. One day, Obayda's aunt has an idea to bring the family luck -- dress Obayda, the youngest of her sisters, as a boy, a bacha posh. Now Obayda is Obayd. Life in this in-between place is confusing,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A lawyer survives an attempt on his life, a medical examiner uncovers murders in Napa Valley, and a woman hunts down a killer with her drone in this collection of three pulse-pounding thrillers.
The Lawyer Lifeguard with Doug Allyn: Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend? Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a lifeguard...
The Lawyer Lifeguard with Doug Allyn: Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend? Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car bomb that killed his fiancée. Out of work and out of his mind, he takes on a lifeguard...
8) Imperium
Publisher
LG Premiere / Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by real events. When a radical white supremacy terrorist group steals toxic materials in order to build a dirty bomb, FBI Agent Nate Foster goes undercover in order to infiltrate their shadowy underworld. But can Nate find the group's leader and the bomb before his cover is blown?--
10) Countdown
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When a madman kidnaps a young boy and rigs him with explosives, Ray, haunted by the loss of his young son, defies his captain and takes matters into his own hands. Now, he must beat the clock to stop a psychopath and save an innocent child." --
11) Hot seat
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An unknown criminal plants a bomb under the chair of a former hacker, and forces him to break into high-level banking institutions."--
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The curse of King Tut's tomb: Free-spirited archaeologist Danny Fremon is certain that if founc, King Tut's emerald tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair, a member of a secret society who wants the table to release unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
Merlin's apprentice: The great sorcerer Merlin has returned to...
13) Antimatter blues
Author
Series
Mickey7 ; 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Edward Ashton's Antimatter Blues is the thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation. Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive--that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony's creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb,...
16) Future weapons
Series
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A set of episodes from the second season of the television series that explores the world of weapons development.
18) The bomb
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of the most powerful and destructive device ever invented. With newly restored footage, go behind the scenes of the first atomic bomb, revealing how it was developed and how it changed the planet. Examine the choices society has made since 1945, and continues to make, to live with an invention that could destroy the planet." --
20) Speed
Language
English
Formats
Description
"L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist, Jack Traven, is sent out to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a city bus. Annie, one of the passengers on that bus, must now keep the bus speeding through the streets of L.A. at more than 50 miles per hour. If she goes below 50, the bomb on board the bus will detonate." --
