Brendan DuBois
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English
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VIGILANTE? VICTIM? VILLAIN?
Where is your breaking point? Would you defy the law in pursuit of justice? How far would you have to be pushed before you got...blood on your hands?
Nineteen gripping crime and mystery stories reveal the transgressions ordinary people commit when they feel they have no other choice. What should be a marriage of wealth and privilege contains only dark secrets of the heart. A long-ago crime of passion on the lake returns...
2) Storm Cell
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Lewis Cole mysteries volume 10
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English
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In award-winning author Brendan DuBois' new mystery novel, defense analyst Lewis Cole must try to save a close friend from a death row murder conviction.
In his tenth outing, retired intelligence analyst Lewis Cole faces his most daunting challenge yet: Trying to save his friend Felix Tinios from being sent to death row after a conviction on first degree murder-but Felix refuses to accept Lewis' assistance.
Felix is being charged for the brutal...
3) Blood Foam
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Lewis Cole mysteries volume 9
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English
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In the new novel in the acclaimed Lewis Cole mystery series, award-winning author Brendan DuBois launches Lewis Cole on a quest to track down the fiancé of a close friend.
A wounded and healing Lewis Cole-retired Department of Defense analyst and magazine columnist-returns to his fire-damaged home on Tyler Beach with two things on his mind: to recover from a bullet wound and to repair his nearly two hundred-year-old home before a hurricane scours...
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Lewis Cole mysteries volume 11
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English
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With echoes of Rear Window, award-winning Brendan DuBois' new thriller finds defense analyst Lewis Cole trapped and under siege in his beachfront home.
In his eleventh outing, Lewis Cole-former Department of Defense research analyst-is "hard aground" at his beachfront home, recovering from major surgery.
Alone at night, he's convinced he's hearing someone breaking into his home, and during the day, he's harassed by genealogy researchers. Then...
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Lewis Cole mysteries volume 8
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English
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In the eighth novel of the acclaimed Lewis Cole series, award-winning author Brendan DuBois returns once again to one of the most appealing heroes in mystery fiction.
Former Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole has traveled some dark roads before in his quest for justice. Days after a violent anti-nuclear demonstration puts his best friend, police detective Diane Woods, in a near-fatal coma, Cole abandons his job and his home to find the man...
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Some secrets are better left buried...
The serenity of Lewis Cole's day-to-day life is shattered when his friend, eccentric retiree Jon Ericson, calls to tell him of an amazing discovery-he has unearthed evidence of Vikings in their town over a thousand years ago. Racing to see the breakthrough in person, Lewis arrives to find the unthinkable-Ericson's dead body... and no trace of the Viking artifacts.
Pulled into the eye of the storm, Lewis is...
8) Black Tide
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English
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A toxic oil spill. Mysterious remains. And one man on a mission to reveal the truth at all costs . . .
"One of the most sharply plotted mysteries of the season." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
When a noxious oil spill pollutes the picturesque beaches of Tyler, New Hampshire, local reporter Lewis Cole is determined to get to the bottom of it. But his investigation takes a sinister turn when a decapitated body washes up on shore.
Then a slew of...
9) Dead Sand
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When a young waitress is found dead at a New England beachside resort, a retired defense analyst with a mysterious past must uncover the truth behind her murder.
Lewis Cole thought he'd left his demons behind. He was looking for serenity, retiring from his high-stress Defense Department job to become a magazine columnist living in the New Hampshire coast.
But when a teenage waitress turns up dead, Cole finds himself thrust into action. There is...
10) Killer Waves
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With a lifeless body on his doorstep, ominous federal agents, and a deadly conspiracy looming, Lewis Cole finds himself in deep water that threatens to drown him . . .
When retired Department of Defense analyst Lewis Cole stumbles upon a murdered man in a quiet state park near his coastal home in Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, he's determined to stay out of the case. But his plans are derailed when a team of federal agents arrives, claiming the victim...
11) Shattered Shell
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Lewis Cole's latest case is about to go up in flames . . .
When a mysterious arsonist strikes the sleepy town of Tyler Beach, leaving a trail of burned-down hotels in their wake, the police are left baffled and scrambling for a suspect. Retired Department of Defense analyst and local columnist Lewis Cole once again finds himself called in to solve a critical case.
But the fugitive pyromaniac is just the beginning. When a monstrous act of violence...
12) Red Vengeance
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US Army Sergeant Randy Knox is sixteen, and already a seasoned veteran. He is an alien killing prodigy who has eradicated more of the invading Creepers than anyone can keep track of. But Randy is also a high school student struggling with geometry. And he is a young man whose heart is being pulled in two directions by two very different girls. One, Abby Monroe, a straightforward warrior. The other, Serena Coulson, dangerous and mysterious.
Randy,...
13) Black Triumph
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The conclusion to Brendan DuBois's Dark Victory alien-invasion trilogy.
More than ten years ago, the alien Creepers arrived in Earth's orbit and started a war that was a slaughter for humanity. Nuclear weapons detonated in the atmosphere destroyed all electronic devices, asteroids dropped into oceans and lakes swamped cities with artificial tsunamis, and the nearly invulnerable Creepers arrived on Earth, going forth from their dome bases to attack...
14) Dark Victory
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Randy Knox has the usual problems of a teenage boy: getting along with his father, dating his sweetheart, and trying not to fail his junior year of high school. But Randy also has other demands on his time, as a sergeant in the NH National Guard, attached to the US Army, and fighting the invading Creepers.
But now change has drastically come to his life. The current President of the United States has announced that scattered remnants...
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Lewis Cole mysteries volume 6
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
18) Blowback
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Little, Brown and Company
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2022.
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English
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No one should be above the law-not even the president-in Blowback, The perfect beach read for political junkies(Kirkus). US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of...
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Amy Cornwall novels volume 2
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English
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Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows--until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband anddaughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall's countdown has begun--
20) The summer house
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For seven victims, death comes in the dark . . . Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers -- known as the Night Ninjas -- recently returned from Afghanistan. To ensure that justice is done, the Army sends Major Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former NYPD cop, to investigate. But the major and...