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Publisher
Timeless Media Group [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
It's 1914, and mercenaries Hank Brackett and Johnny Reach are in search of action, adventure, and more than a little profit, as they travel the American Southwest in their Stutz Bearcat! These men-for-hire take on varied and often vague assignments for a wealthy clientele, with the amount charged determined once the job is complete. No matter how difficult or dangerous, you can count on the Bearcats to come through!
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three times they tried to kill her. Then they hired a professional. She hired Riyria.
When the last member of the oldest noble family in Avryn is targeted for assassination, Riyria is hired to foil the plot.
Three years have passed since the war-weary mercenary Hadrian and the cynical ex-assassin Royce joined forces to start life as thieves for hire. Things have gone well enough until they receive the odd assignment to prevent a murder. Now they...
3) Wolfsbane
Author
Publisher
Berkley Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Shapeshifting mercenary Aralorn leads a dangerous existence. Now she must return home, for her noble father, the Lyon of Lambshold, has passed away. But when Aralorn and her companion Wolf arrive, they find he's not dead but ensorcelled by the ae'Magi, who are using him as a conduit to destroy Aralorn and Wolf. She must overcome this mysterious mist or fall to the blackest of magic.
Author
Series
Riyria chronicles volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Gabriel Winter's daughter mysteriously disappears and is presumed dead, the wealthy whiskey baron seeks revenge. Having lived in Colnora during the infamous Year of Fear, he hires the one man he knows can deliver a bloody retribution - the notorious Duster. Riyria's job appears easy: discover what happened to the missing duchess and, if she lives, bring her home, if not, punish those responsible. But nothing is simple in the crowded, narrow,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best -- the meanest, dirtiest, most feared crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk - or a combination of the three. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay's door with a plea for help. His daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Rescuing Rose is the...
Publisher
Lionsgate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Barney and the rest of the team come face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded the team with Barney. Stonebanks became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill, or so he thought. Stonebanks now is making it his mission to end the team, but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of team members, recruiting individuals who are younger,...
7) The jungle
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China ... a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ... a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar ... for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together -- leading to the greatest threat against US security that the country has ever...
8) Expend4bles
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give new blood a whole new meaning.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as ship captain Cabrillo tries to determine what happened,
11) The contractor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a Special Forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
Author
Series
Kingkiller chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 60
Language
English
Description
Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero as he attempts to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm where he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist.
13) The gatekeeper
Author
Series
Dez Limerick novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
James Byrne's The Gatekeeper introduces Dez Limerick in the most anticipated new thriller in years. A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned, coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor - but they didn't count on one thing, the right man being in the wrong place at the right time. Desmond Aloysius Limerick (Dez to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying...
Author
Series
Dez Limerick novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Desmond Aloysius Limerick (Dez to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a winning smile, a bass guitar, and bullet wounds that paint a road map of past lives. Jaleh Swann, a business journalist hot on the trail of an auditor who was mugged and killed,...
15) Bloody Rose
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Tam Hashford has always dreamed of living through glory days of her own. With a renowned mercenary for a mother and an illustrious bard for a father, battles and adventure seem the only way to really live. So when she learns that the most revered mercenary crew in Grandual is in need of a bard, she grabs her lute and goes on tour. Led by the infamous Bloody Rose, Tam and her new band embark on a mission that will earn them everlasting fame--or certain...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was the Mogadishu moment of the Iraq war. March 31, 2004, four American mercenaries are ambushed in the Sunni hotbed of Fallujah, their jeeps set ablaze with the men inside. An angry mob drags their charred corpses through the streets, hanging them from a bridge over the Euphrates River. “Fallujah is the graveyard of the Americans!” the mob declares in front of the cameras. The ensuing US slaughter in Fallujah would fuel the fierce Iraqi resistance...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 12
Language
English
Description
When the leader of a militant communist insurgency in the Philippines escapes capture from the U.S. government with almost supernatural ease, it's up to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to catch him. Tracing the Filipino insurgent through his drug lord allies, Cabrillo learns his new adversary has his eye on an addictive chemical compound developed during World War II that can turn civilians into supersoldiers. And he's not the only one. An...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 11
Language
English
Description
"From a helicopter high above the empty California desert, a man is sent free-falling into the night... In Chicago, a woman learns that an elite team of ex-army investigators is being hunted down one by one... And on the streets of Portland, Jack Rea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo’s crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The...
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Lee Child's astonishing new thriller, ex-military cop Reacher sees more than most people would, and because of that, he's thrust into an explosive situation that's about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth, and save two innocent lives, is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way. Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to...
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