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41) The Texan code
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mercenary?s Woman All retired soldier of fortune Ebenezer Scott wants is some peace and quiet. Though when schoolteacher Sally Johnson?s life is put in danger, Eb will do anything to keep her safe. Sally doesn?t want his help?he broke her heart six years ago, and she can?t trust him to not hurt her again. Now Eb must risk it all to win the sweet-natured beauty over?before it?s too late.
The Winter Soldier Most people in town steer clear of brooding...
42) The devil to pay
Author
Publisher
[K. C. Bateman]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Italy, 1492. A ruthless mercenary skilled in the art of conquest. An heiress who refuses to be tamed. The Devil's own bargain . . . Cara di Montessori has a price upon her head. Her traitorous uncle has murdered her father and seized her home. Her only hope of survival, and of regaining her birthright, is an alliance with her childhood nemesis, the infamous mercenary Il Diavolo. The most irritating--and seductive--man Cara's ever met. Battle hardened...
43) Avalon
Author
Series
Avalon (Mindee Arnett) volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon.
44) Tabula rasa
Author
Series
Tabula rasa trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A girl who has been held in an experimental medical facility to remove the memories that gave her post-traumatic stress disorder begins to recover her memory after fleeing mercenaries sent to eliminate her.
45) Dark watch
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates in the waters of Southeast Asia turn to Captain Juan Cabrillo for assistance, he soon learns that the pirates' predations hide a deadly international conspiracy--a scheme of death and slavery.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ex-cavalry officer Matthew Hanger leads a band of mercenaries who defend the innocent, but when one of them nearly dies, they seek out help from Dr. Josephine Burkett. When Josephine's brother is abducted and she is caught in the crossfire, Matthew may have to sacrifice everything to save her"--
47) Foreigner
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A mercenary is hired to deliver a package from France to Germany but dangerous people are working to thwart him.
49) Polaris
Author
Series
Avalon (Mindee Arnett) volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Jeth Seagrave and his crew of mercenaries are pulled into one last high-stakes mission"--
50) Predators
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Royce is a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors mysteriously brought together on a jungle planet. But when these cold-blooded human 'predators' find themselves in all-out war against a new breed of alien Predators, it's the ultimate showdown between hunter and prey.
51) Sacred stone
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Clive Cussler debuted his new series, The Oregon Files, with the incredible adventure of Golden Buddha. Now he follows that triumph with Sacred Stone, a rollicking new tale featuring the enigmatic captain of The Oregon, Juan Cabrillo. In the remote wastes of Greenland, an ancient artifact possessing catastrophic radioactive power is unearthed. But the astounding find puts the world at risk. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter,...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Explores the private security company Blackwater USA, including the background of its founder; its relationship with the United States government; and its role in the Iraq War, the cleanup of Hurricane Katrina, and the War on Terror.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Furian renegade Riddick has another bounty on his head, but when he escapes from his mercenary captors, he's plunged into an epic-scale war waged by the Necromongers. A fascist master race led by Lord Marshal becomes determined to conquer all enemies in their quest for the Underverse and its up to Riddick to stop him from taking over the universe, but things don't go according to his plans and soon mayhem ensues.
54) A man at arms
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire.
The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon...
55) Golden Buddha
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's up to Cabrillo and his crew of expert intelligence and Naval men to put Tibet back in the hands of the Dalai Lama by striking a deal with the Russians and the Chinese. His gambling chip is a golden Buddha containing records of vast oil reserves in the disputed land. But first, he'll have to locate--and steal--the all-important artifact. And there are certain people who would do anything in their power to see him fail.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Last Mercenary: "Micah Steele was a mystery, as silent as stone and just as intractable. Not even those closest to him knew the details of his life--which was exactly how it had to be. Because Micah was a mercenary, and his lies protected those he loved. Or they had, until the young beauty he'd left behind in Jacobsville, Texas, was kidnapped by his sworn enemy. Micah was prepared to go to the ends of the earth to rescue Callie Kirby. But he wasn't...
57) Don't tempt me
Author
Series
Georgian romances (Sylvia Day) volume 4
Publisher
Brava/Kensington Pub. Corp., c2008
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Simon has nothing more than his expertise as a lover and mercenary to recomend him. Lysette can seduce or betray with equal skill-- and will do anything to reclaim the twin sister who doesn't remember her.
58) Hercules
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After turning his back on the gods and honing his fighting skills working as a mercenary, Hercules is hired by the King of Thrace to train his men to become the greatest army of all time.
59) Drawing dead
Author
Series
Cross series volume 5
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The man known only as Cross and his skilled team of urban mercenaries are back (Blackjack,Urban Renewal), but this time they are on the defensive as they receive a series of cryptic messages. The question is, are they being warned or hunted? A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL. Chicago the reigning number one city in homicides has no shortage of deadly gangs. They all know the Cross Crew occupies a cinderblock bunker called Red 71, and it's the...
60) The killing fog
Author
Series
Grave Kingdom volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Survivor of a combat school, the orphaned Bingmei belongs to a band of mercenaries employed by a local ruler. Now the nobleman, and collector of rare artifacts, has entrusted Bingmei and the skilled team with a treacherous assignment: brave the wilderness's dangers to retrieve the treasures of a lost palace buried in a glacier valley. But upsetting its tombs has a price. Echion, emperor of the Grave Kingdom, ruler of darkness, Dragon of Night, has...
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