282 results for "Hostage : A Novel" between $5.00 and $150.00

Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage. An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those skills become essential when she discovers an injured...

"Smooth prose, psychological depth and crafty plotting lift bestseller Iles's latest suspense thriller, which puts a fresh twist on a familiar theme — the cat-and-mouse game between an FBI agent and a fiendishly-clever serial killer. One personal tragedy after another has struck Alexandra Morse, a rising star in the FBI who specializes in hostage negotiation: her father's shooting death in a robbery, her mother's diagnosis of advanced ovarian cancer, and a misstep on the job that left her face scarred...

A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff. A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just hours before. Sifting through the evidence, authorities determine that the unthinkable is about to happen: In ten days, a major American city will be vaporized by a terrorist attack. Ten days. And Gideon Crew, tracking the mysterious terrorist cell from...

In Karin Slaughter's exciting new thriller, an officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station, and Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friends before Jeffrey dies. For the sins of the past have caught...

When Jenner Redwine wins a lottery jackpot, she can’t imagine ever finding a place in the world of the wealthy. Seven years later, though, she finds an ally—and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege—in the kind-hearted heiress Sydney Hazlett, who invites Jenner on a charity cruise aboard a luxury liner. But what Jenner gets is more like a Hitchcock movie than a Love Boat episode. Taken hostage by a menacing stranger, with nowhere to run, Jenner is drawn into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing...

By Order of the President, the first novel in Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike. ?True virtuosity, ? praised the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. ?Cutting-edge, ? agreed Publishers Weekly. ?The end leaves readers standing on the tarmac waiting for Castillo and his newly minted band of can-do compatriots to touch down and carry them away again on a new adventure.?Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and...

[ Ships Daily ] Condition: Good ISBN-13: 9780060829810 ISBN-10: 0060829818Publisher: William Morrow Pub Date: 6/1/2006 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 416

Four masked men -- thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown -- take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn't plan on one thing: falling hard for Claire. When he tracks her down without his mask and gun, their mutual attraction is undeniable. With a tenacious FBI agent following his every move, he imagines a life away from his gritty, dangerous work -- a life centered...

On December 17, 1996, fourteen MRTA revolutionaries stormed the Japanese embassy in Peru in the middle of a party celebrating the Japanese Emperor's birthday. The siege was deadlocked for 126 days. Ann Patchett has fictionalized this dramatic and true event in her novel, Bel Canto. Bookclub-in-a-Box shows how Ann Patchett sets the stage and has the players act out the drama of this hostage-taking incident. What should be narrated as a tense and terse action-filled tragedy turns out to be a human...

Jane Boyle married her prince charming and moved into his upper east side castle--but she didn't get her fairy-tale ending It's hard to live happily ever after when you discover your demanding and controlling mother-in-law is literally a witch, determined to steal the magical powers you didn't even know you had. Jane narrowly avoided Lynne Doran's clutches when she escaped on her wedding day, and has been hiding out in New York City. But she can't hide forever. When Jane learns of the one thing Lynne...

Pages: 768, Edition: First Edition, Mass Market Paperback, Jove

Description Author Bios 2024 - a terrifying future where the past doesn't matter and no-one cares. Ted Rall is the award-winning artist behind My War with Brian, Revenge of the Latchkey Kids and RealAmericans Admit: The Worst Thing I've Ever Done.Move forward two decades. See the world as the giant media moguls and software companies have become our new big brothers. They know what's best for us. And that is what we have chosen ourselves: consumer heaven with no questions asked! A terrifying future...

Hell Hostage explores the world of EmmaJean MacNeal – a woman who turns the tables on two murderous kidnappers by brutally beating them and giving them months of agonizing household chores. But as a lonely woman, she needs love; and as a psychotic, she hunts for it. So, with the availability of her severely beaten kidnapper, she forces her dreams to come true and makes a desperate serial killer cry out to God.

Pages: 384, Mass Market Paperback, Fawcett

Beverly Hills 90210 A Novel: PB Book/1991 [Jason Priestley & cast]

Publisher: TSR, Inc. Publisher Year: 1988 Edition: First Edition Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: 0 Binding: Soft Cover Publish Place: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin Notes: 0