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1) Toxic prey
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"Lucas Davenport and his daughter, Letty, team up to track down a dangerous scientist whose latest project could endanger the entire world, in this latest thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. Gaia is dying. That, at least, is what Dr. Lionel Scott believes. A renowned expert in tropical and infectious diseases, Scott has witnessed the devastating impact of illness and turmoil at critical scale. Society as it exists is...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Assisting Darren Fletcher in a case involving a staged murder scene, former medical examiner Samantha Owens confronts high-ranking State Department officials when she uncovers evidence of a bioterrorism plot.
Author
Series
A Sigma Force novel volume 9
Language
English
Description
Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force set out to uncover the truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery going back to the birth of Christianity, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
426 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith is sent with his fellow Covert-One operatives to discover why an American special forces team was savagely attacked and decimated by the normally peaceful residents of a farming village in northern Uganda.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
297 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Chicago is targeted by a brutal biological attack that threatens millions of lives, Michael Kelly begins a desperate search through the tangled underworld of the city's West Side gangs, where he confronts the covert practices of dark science in one of the nation's premiere laboratories.
6) Bred to kill
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this sequel to Syndrome E, Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Sharko have reunited to take on the case of the brutal murder of Eva Louts, a promising graduate student who was killed while working at a primate research center outside Paris.
Author
Series
Circle volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2009], c2004
Edition
[5th anniversary ed.]
Physical Desc
x, 381 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Less than a month ago, Thomas Hunter was a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Now he finds himself in a desperate quest to rescue two worlds from collapse. In one world, he's a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the other, he's racing to outwit sadistic terrorists intent on creating global chaos through an unstoppable virus. Two worlds on the brink of destruction. One unthinkable solution.
8) Child Zero
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From molecular biologist turned Anthony Award-winning author of The Killing Kind comes a fact-based thriller about our species' next great existential threat--perfect for fans of Michael Crichton. It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections: meningitis in Frankfurt, cholera in Johannesburg, tuberculosis in New Delhi. Although the outbreaks spread aggressively and proved impervious to our drugs of last resort, public health...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The author explores the return of smallpox, eradicated in 1979 but now returning on the black market as a weapon of bioterrorism, and the crusade of three doctors to uncover the mastermind of the 2001 anthrax attacks.
10) Toxic game
Author
Series
A Ghostwalker novel volume 15
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible -- or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He will not risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory. Shylah Cosmo's mission is to track the virus and remain...
11) Sundown
Author
Series
Sky King ranch volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone else might believe the mysterious woman at Sky King Ranch has lost her memory, but Colt Kingston knows when someone is lying. Now he just has to find out if the lies are meant to save her . . . or protect them"--
12) Sea of Greed
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental...