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Thrillers and Suspense October 2018
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Ontario Public Library Week
Sunday, October 14 to Saturday, October 20,
Food for Fines (All Week) -- "The Desk Set" (Monday movie) -- Guess the bookworms (Tuesday) -- Superhero Day (Wednesday) -- "Pop" into the Library (Thursday) -- Spin the Wheel for Prizes (Friday) -- Book Sale and Silent Auction (Saturday 10am to 2pm) Check our online calendar for more details!
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The bouncer : a novel
by David Gordon
"In David Gordon's diabolically imaginative new thriller, The Bouncer, nothing and no one is as expected--from a vial of yellow fragrance to a gangster who moonlights in women's clothes. Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelledstrip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and whose best friend from Catholic school happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her class at Quantico, is a single mother stuck at a desk manning the hotline. Their storylines intersect over a tip from a cokehead that leads to a crackdown on Gio's strip joint in Queens and Joe's arrest--just one piece of a city-wide sweep aimed at flushing out anyone who might have a lead on the various terrorists whose photos are hanging on the wall under Most Wanted. Outside the jailhouse, the Fed and the bouncer lock eyes, as Gordon launches them both headlong into a nonstop plot that goes from back-road gun show intervention to high-stakes perfume heist and manages to touch everyone from the CIA to the Flushing Triads. Beneath it all lurks a sinister criminal mastermind whose manipulations could cause chaos on a massively violent scale. For readers who like a heavy dose of fun with their murder, this is crime fiction at its freshest, from a virtuoso of the "darkly comic, stylish literary thriller" (Associated Press)"
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When the lights go out
by Mary Kubica
Forced to start over upon her mother's death, a college student with debilitating insomnia begins to succumb to her grief before a stranger's desperation to have a child changes both of their lives. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Good Girl. Simultaneous
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Cross her heart : a novel
by Sarah Pinborough
A devoted single parent hides the truth about her daughter's absent father and asks her best friend for help when challenges from her past threaten her teenage daughter. By the New York Times best-selling author of Behind Her Eyes. 150,000 first printing
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The forbidden door : a Jane Hawk novel
by Dean R. Koontz
Rogue FBI agent and high-profile fugitive Jane Hawk confronts her worst nightmares when her enemies strike unsettlingly close to home, threatening the life of her beloved 5-year-old son. By the best-selling author of The Silent Corner
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Little girl lost
by Wendy Corsi Staub
Determined to discover the truth about the birth mother who abandoned her, Amelia Crenshaw soon discovers that she is on a collision course with a killer and a brash young NYPD detective whose case is connected to a long-ago crime and her search. Original. 150,000 first printing.
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| Trigger Mortis by Anthony HorowitzStarring: Bond. James Bond. At his glamorous 1950s best.
What it's about: Besides fast cars and beautiful women? There's also a Soviet plot to sabotage the Grand Prix, which 007 learns is only the beginning of an international conspiracy to undermine Western progress in the Space Race.
Why it's unique: This fast-paced, engaging early Bond story contains never-before-seen material from Ian Fleming himself, lovingly incorporated by Anthony Horowitz. |
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| Leaving Berlin by Joseph KanonFeaturing: Celebrated Jewish writer Alex Meier, who returns to his native Berlin in 1948 when the rise of McCarthyism makes him a pariah in the U.S.
What happens: The CIA offers him a chance to come back to America if he agrees to spy on the Soviets, but the stakes skyrocket when his assignment leads him right to the woman he loved and left behind during the war.
Try this next: For more atmospheric historical spy fiction, look for Alan Furst’s Night Soldiers series. |
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Death at Nuremberg : a clandestine operations novel
by W. E. B Griffin
Assigned to the Nuremberg war trials, special agent James Cronley, Jr., finds himself fighting wars on multiple fronts, in a dramatic entry in the popular series about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Cold War. By the author of Curtain of Death.
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| A Legacy of Spies by John Le CarréWhat happens: Former intelligence agent Peter Guillam is called out of retirement when the current government in London begins probing the activities of British operatives during the Cold War. This prompts Guillam to do some personal reflection on his past actions and missions, making for a bleak but also moving take on the typical spy thriller.
Series alert: Le Carré fans may recognize the name Peter Guillam -- yes, this really is the long-awaited next entry in the George Smiley series of novels, the first since 1991. |
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Masaryk Station
by David Downing
"Working as a reluctant double agent for Russia and the CIA in politically strained 1948 Berlin, John Russell looks for an opportunity to secure his freedom before being approached by a woman he saved during World War II who begs his help reclaiming her child from behind the Iron Curtain. By the author of Zoo Station."
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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