coolreads # Retro Books # The Bombmaker

The Bombmaker

Author: Stephen Leather

Publisher: Hodder

ISBN: 9780340689561

Year Published: 2000

The book starts off with a scene of two Belfast terrorists trying to blow up the underground tunnel by placing a bomb at the entrance. Unfortunately, the bomb was discovered by a group of four children playing football nearby. When one of them accidentally kicked the ball that landed at the mouth of the tunnel, he ran over to pick up the ball, followed by the others. One of the kids saw a blue holdall nearby. He grabbed it and opened it just when the terrorists detonated the bomb.

coolreads # Retro Books # Dark Horse

Dark Horse

Author: Gregg Hurwitz

Publisher: St Martin's Paperbacks

ISBN: 9781250253248

 

As Orphan X, Evan Smoak was an off-the-books government assassin. However, after a while, he broke with the Orphan Programme and adopted a new mission - helping the most desperate people in their times of trouble. Having just survived an attack on his life and the destruction of his base of operations at the condo at Castle Heights where he resides, Evan is not keen on taking on a new mission. But one finds its way to him anyway.

coolreads # Retro Books # Ballistic

Ballistic

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkley Books

ISBN: 9781101544921

Year Published: 2011

The central character in the Gray Man series is Court Gentry - a legend in the covert ops world (also known as Violator), who has been disavowed by the CIA.

coolreads # Retro Books # Capitol Conspiracy

Capitol Conspiracy

Author: William Bernhardt

Publisher: Ballantine Books

ISBN: 9780345487575

Year Published: 2008

William Bernhardt is well known for his high-powered legal thrillers. In this third novel starring Ben Kincaid as a senator, he has created another suspenseful plot with just the right pace and style.

coolreads # Retro Books # Simple Genius

Simple Genius

Author: David Baldacci

Publiser: Grand Central

ISBN: 9781455550807

Year Published: 2007

This is a Sean King and Michelle Maxwell adventure by David Baldacci. The story opens with Michelle experiencing a breakdown.

coolreads # Retro Books # Treasure

Treasure

Author: Clive Cussler

Publisher: HarperCollins

ISBN: 0007205597

Year Published: 2005

The story starts off in the past when the great Library of Alexandria which housed the knowledge of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman empires as well as those little known civilisations that rose and fell far beyond the shores of the Mediterranean, was ransacked, burned and destroyed by some fanatics after being ordered by the Christian Emperor Theodosius in 391 AD.

coolreads # Retro Books # Agent in Place

Agent in Place

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkeley

ISBN: 9780451488909

Year Published: 2018

This is the seventh in the high-powered Gray Man series by Mark Greaney. The book opens with the Islamic State group about to execute Courtland Gentry, also known as the Gray Man and leave his body floating with others shot in the head in a bloody lake. Then the story backs up a week earlier to show how Gentry got into this unholy mess.

coolreads # Retro Books # Crescent Dawn

Crescent Dawn

Authors: Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler

Publisher: Penguin Books

ISBN: 9780241951316

Year Published: 2011

Throw in a band of mixed terrorists, Roman artefacts, with delusions of dynasty by deranged siblings and the irrefutable physical evidence that Jesus of Nazareth lived, then include water - from the Mediterranean Sea - and from this exotic mixture, you get another aquatic adventure starring Dirk Pitt and his colleagues at NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency).

coolreads # Retro Books # Dead Eye

Dead Eye

Author: Mark Greaney

Publisher: Berkley Books

ISBN: 9780425269053

Year Published: 2013

With Court Gentry also known as the Gray Man still on the run from US authorities, including a number of "handlers" whom he has burned, the CIA hires one of its most covert private operations, Townsend Government Services, to find and kill him. They turn to the one man who is just as skilled as Gray Man in order to do the job for them, a man code-named Dead Eye, which is also the title of the fourth thriller in this series by Mark Greaney.

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Conviction

Author: Jack Jordan

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

ISBN: 9781398505711

AS an ambitious lawyer, 38-year-old Neve Harper has been handed a controversial murder case which has made the headlines. Her new client, Wade Darling has been accused of killing his wife and children, and then burning down the family home, injuring himself in the process. But Wade professes his innocence, claiming a mystery man killed them all instead before leaving him to die in the fire.