Thrillers (Fiction)

  • Red winter : Jack Ryan, book 22

    Creator

    Cameron, Marc

    Abstract

    A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer -- invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up... if it's genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Such a good mother

    Creator

    Monks Takhar, Helen

    Abstract

    Rose O'Connell is barely surviving. Her relationship with her husband is on the rocks and their son isn't fitting in at his new school, the prestigious Woolf Academy. Their tiny flat in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood--the very place Rose grew up as the daughter of an infamous local con artist--can barely contain her family. Rose can't catch a professional break either, trapped in the same junior bank teller role for years. Life as the only mom in a nametag and uniform at The Woolf's shiny school gates isn't easy.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Robogenesis

    Creator

    Wilson, Daniel H.

    Abstract

    The stunningly creative, epic sequel to Wilson's blockbuster thriller and New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse "The machine is still out there. Still alive." Humankind had triumphed over the machines. At the end of Robopocalypse, the modern world was largely devastated, humankind was pressed to the point of annihilation, and the earth was left in tatters ... but the master artificial intelligence presence known as Archos had been killed ...

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The lost kings

    Creator

    Johnson, Tyrell

    Abstract

    A riveting psychological thriller about a woman forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood in order to move on from her past and open her heart to love. One night when Jeanie King is twelve years old, her father comes home covered in blood. The next day, Jeanie wakes up alone. Her father has disappeared and he's taken her beloved twin brother, Jamie. Inevitably, this loss leads to others, as Jeanie is ripped from her life in rural Washington and her childhood love, Maddox.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Feel the Bern : Bernie Sanders mystery, book 1

    Creator

    Shaffer, Andrew

    Abstract

    Fall is bursting out all over Vermont, and while the rest of the Congress enjoys its recess, Senator Bernie Sanders has returned to his beloved home state for a weekend of events in Eagle Creek, "America's #1 Leaf Peeping Destination." It's up to intern and Eagle Creek native Crash Robertson to keep the senator on schedule--and out of trouble. Crash's hopes for a quiet homecoming are dashed, however, when the lifeless body of a community banker with ties to "Big Maple" is found in Lake Champlain.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • The clockwork dynasty

    Creator

    Wilson, Daniel H.

    Abstract

    An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • Alias Emma : Alias Emma, book 1

    Creator

    Glass, Ava

    Abstract

    "A thrilling read . . . I could not have loved it more."--LISA JEWELL "Emma Makepeace is a worthy heir to the James Bond mantel."--JAMES PATTERSON. In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city's security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed? Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Random House Audio

    Not specified
  • You're invited

    Creator

    Jayatissa, Amanda

    Abstract

    What could be worse than your ex-boyfriend marrying your childhood best friend? Getting accused of her murder? From the author of My Sweet Girl comes a dangerously addictive new thriller about a lavish Sri Lankan wedding celebration that not everyone will survive. When Amaya is invited to Kaavi's over-the-top wedding in Sri Lanka, she is surprised and a little hurt to hear from her former best friend after so many years of radio silence.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • Three-edged sword

    Creator

    Lindsay, Jeff

    Abstract

    Wickedly funny. Wildly twisty. The new book from the master of the heist novel. “A super-thief who leaves no trace.” —Andy Garcia “An anti-hero for our times.” —Sarah Dunn “A can't-miss master.” —David Baldacci Super thief Riley Wolfe can do it all. He is a master of disguise, can scale a wall, and can vanish into thin air (thick air, too). He uses these unique talents to rob the richest. But this time, it’s the most powerful who have him in their grips. ONE MADMAN. TWO HOSTAGES.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified
  • The sun down motel

    Creator

    St. James, Simone

    Abstract

    Something hasn't been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the national bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girl s. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, NY. But something isn't right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Upstate New York, 2017.

    Audience
    Adult**
    Publisher (Source)

    New York

    Penguin Audio

    Not specified