By Stephen King
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture.

By Lee Child
Series Jack Reacher Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces, and Reacher will risk his own to save her from a coldly proficient assassin who never misses.

By Charles Robbins

Smarting over his role in an embarrassing failed gubernatorial campaign, ambitious young politico Henry Hatten lands a lucky job as a communications director for a senator's presidential campaign only to find himself embroiled in brutal dealings that make him question his sense of morality.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“When his pregnant wife and child are kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man (From the Publisher).”

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn’s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation’s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin (From the Publisher).”

By Richard North Patterson
Series Kerry Kilcannon Novels

The marriage of President Kerry Kilcannon and TV journalist Lara Costello is marred by a massacre of innocent civilians by gunfire, setting in motion events that reveal the hidden connections among guns, money, and power in Washington.

By Joseph Kanon
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

In 1963 Berlin, Martin Keller, a captured physicist and American who spied for the KGB, is swapped by the British and returns to East Berlin where he needs to know who arranged for his release and why.

By Brad Thor
Series Scot Harvath Novels

When his name is added to a top-secret government list of individuals slated for assassination, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath engages in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game of survival while struggling to prevent a cataclysmic terrorist attack and learn who has framed him for treason.

By Thomas Perry
Series Butcher's Boy

Elizabeth Waring, an investigator for the Justice Department, and the Butcher's Boy, a professional assassin, both search for the person who ordered the deaths of a United States senator and a union official.

By Eric Ambler
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“Robert Halliday, an American free-lance writer is coerced into negotiations between NATO and the "Ruler," a powerful Persian Gulf sheik of questionable sanity, and finds mystery in each of their interests (From the Publisher).”

By Tom Rob Smith
Series Leo Demidov
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, July 21, 2009.  7 PM.

“During the terror of Stalin's last days, a secret policeman becomes a detective stalking a serial killer in a debut novel from a shockingly talented 28-year-old Brit (Kirkus Reviews).”

By David Baldacci
Series Camel Club Series
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

When Camel Club member Caleb Shaw nearly falls victim to one of a series of mysterious deaths targeting the elite of Washington, D.C., the members of the Camel Club attempt to unravel a secret conspiracy that threatens all of America.

By Jeff Abbott

Thrown together as the fall guys for an elaborate setup, a corporate consultant and an espionage agent become unlikely partners whose survival is threatened by untrustworthy associates and secrets from the agent's past.

By Graham Greene
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“Three men who meet on a ship bound for Haiti are ruined by their own apathy as they attempt to destroy the tyranny of the corrupt regime of "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his sinister Haitian secret police, the Tontons Macoute (From the Publisher).”

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels

CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted by the influential father of a terrorist who is demanding retribution for his son's death.

By Robert Harris
Series Cicero Trilogy
Recommended By Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

“A second installment in the trilogy that began with Imperium finds powerful and brilliant politician Cicero struggling with the high human cost of agendas gone terribly wrong (From the Publisher).”

By Andrew Gross
Series Ty Hauck Mysteries

Two strangers touched by tragedy are pulled into a deepening relationship and unwittingly open the door to a twisted––and deadly––conspiracy.

By Allan Folsom
Recommended By Evelyn Hershkowitz, Readers' Services Librarian

An American surgeon tries to kill the man who murdered his father.

By Jack Coughlin
Series Sniper Novel

Kyle Swanson, once the top sniper in the Marine Corps and now the key member of a secret special operations team known as Task Force Trident, is assigned to hunt down his old special ops rival. A new reign of global terror can be stopped only by a confrontation between the two best snipers in the world, a duel in which the first shot wins most of the time.

By Richard North Patterson

Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, John Shea, Library Page, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious Faustian figure (From the Publisher).”

By Brad Meltzer
Series Beecher White

Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins' crimes.

By David Baldacci
Series Sean King and Michelle Maxwell Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, back from their harrowing and near-fatal adventure in the bestseller Simple Genius, return in a mesmerizing new thriller (From the Publisher).”

By Mario Puzo

"…A political novel that starts with a terrorist assassination of the pope on Easter Sunday, a deed that sends global aftershocks to jolt the power strongholds around the world, from the palace of the sultan of Sherhaben to the White House (From Publishers Weekly)."

By Denise Mina
Series Alex Morrow Novels
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

“In the aftermath of an elderly man’s murder during a holiday season bank robbery, DS Alex Morrow discovers that the bank’s alarm system had been disabled before the robbery and uncovers a sinister political network that places the entire city at risk (From the Publisher).”

By Robert Ferrigno
Series Assassin Trilogy
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“Set in a future American divided into two major regions, Edgar-finalist Ferrigno’s final entry in his Assassin trilogy nicely ties up the wildly diverse plot lines that have motivated his many characters (Publishers Weekly).”

By Fern Michaels
Series Sisterhood
Recommended By Marie McLaughlin, Head of Circulation

The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, and the president of the United States, Martine Connor.

By David Baldacci
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up (From the Publisher).”

By Jussi Adler-Olsen
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Chief detective Carl Mørck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.

By Daniel Silva
Series Gabriel Allon
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Ari Shamron, the head of the Israeli intelligence, calls on former intelligence operative Gabriel Allon to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the Middle East peace negotiations, a conspiracy linked to a Palestinian zealot with ties to Gabriel’s past (From the Publisher).

By Jack Coughlin
Series Sniper Thrillers

Dispatched on a secret mission to Iraq to rescue a hostage general whose captors speak perfect American English, Marine Corps sniper Kyle Swanson discovers that American mercenaries are working with the White House for total control over the military.

By Steve Berry
Series Cotton Malone Novels
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“While escalating political tensions between the United States and England put his son, Gary, in the hands of a man with a shadowy and intensely personal agenda, Cotton Malone finds himself confronting a baffling historical mystery that questions the legitimacy of Elizabeth I (From the Publisher).”

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra

“Ex-CIA agent Sam Capra is contacted by kidnappers to find and murder the one man that can expose them in exchange for his son’s freedom (From the Publisher).”

By Brad Thor
Series Scot Harvath

Scot Harvath--Navy SEAL turned counter-terrorist operative--braves unspeakable dangers to reveal an ancient secret that could neutralize militant Islam without further bloodshed.

By Joseph Kanon

Targeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin.

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey Novels
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

“Libyan terrorist Asad Khalil, known as "The Lion," returns to the U.S. to take care of unfinished business, and the only man who can stop him is John Corey, a special agent for the NYPD's Anti-Terrorist Task Force (From the Publisher).”

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey Novels
Recommended By Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director

"Detective John Corey sets out to capture the world's most dangerous terrorist - a young Arab known as "The Lion" - a man who will stop at nothing in his quest for vengeance against America for bombing Libya and killing his family (From the Publisher)."

By Douglas Brunt

An incisive portrait of ambition, power and today’s ruthless political world follows the experiences of a conservative trial attorney, a president-elect and a child-actor-turned journalist who triggers a scandal with a decade-old story.

By Sandra Brown
Recommended By Lisa C., Library Clerk

“After plastic surgery transforms her face following a devastating plane crash, reporter Avery Daniels is mistaken for the greedy and glamorous wife of senatorial candidate Tate Rutledge, with whom she falls in love and must live a lie to protect (From the Publisher).”

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp

Undercover CIA counter-terrorism agent Mitch Rapp rebels against red tape and standard operative procedure to thwart terrorists, both foreign and domestic

By Brad Taylor
Series Pike Logan Thrillers

These exciting, fast-paced political thrillers follow an elite team of American agents as they travel across the globe on violent, action-packed missions thwarting terrorist plots, tracking notorious killers, and rescuing innocent hostages. The clever plotting, relentless suspense, and compelling casts of heroes and villains make these books hard to put down.

By Ben Coes
Series Dewey Andreas

The first wave of terrorist attacks against America's energy-producing capacity runs afoul of oil rig crew chief Dewey Andreas, a former Special Forces officer. As Dewey hunts down those responsible for the attacks he comes closer and closer to sleeper agent Alexander Fortuna, who is poised to set off the final assault.

By Robert Ferrigno
Series Assassin Trilogy
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“SEATTLE, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control, and rebels plot to regain free will (From the Publisher).”

By Bill Clinton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

As enemies plan an unprecedented attack on American soil, Washington is gripped by uncertainty and fear as rumors spread of a traitor in the cabinet and the president himself comes under suspicion, before he goes missing.

By Bill Clinton
Recommended By Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

A one–time Navy SEAL and past president, Matthew Keating, after his daughter is kidnapped by a madman, embarks on a one–man special–ops mission that tests his strengths as a leader, a warrior, and a father.

By Steven Pressfield
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

“In a near-future world in which governments and corporations are forced to hire cutting-edge mercenary armies to protect their wealth, the globe's largest private military launches a campaign to take over the US (From the Publisher).”

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey

When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down.

By Larry Bond
Series Red Phoenix

Explores the implosion of a corrupt regime--a coup that triggers a bloody civil war among the North's brutal factions. The world is dragged into a violent and rapidly widening confrontation amid North Korea's shattered ruins, bringing it to the edge of an all-out war that could engulf the entire civilized world.

By Jason Matthews
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, John Shea, Library Page

“Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladmir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers (From the Publisher).”

By Ian McEwan

A successful, happily married neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne is drawn into a confrontation with Baxter, a small-time thug, following a minor motor vehicle accident on the way to his regular squash game, an encounter that has savage consequences when Baxter, believing that the doctor has humiliated him, visits the Perowne home that evening during a family reunion.