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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
2) Die trying
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jack Reacher finds himself in bad company in the second novel in Lee Child’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.
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Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to...
DON'T MISS REACHER ON PRIME VIDEO!
Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander when he witnesses a woman kidnapped off a Chicago street in broad daylight. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he’s kidnapped with her. Chained together, locked in the back of a stifling van, and racing across America to...
3) Chaos
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A CIA agent breaks into a billionaire's mansion to secure financing for an unsanctioned mission in Africa to rescue schoolgirl hostages, including her sister, from a cold-blooded killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unknown man armed with a gun walks into an elementary school classroom, holding the children hostage, Officer Meg Barrett watches and waits for his demands, while Evelyn Oliver, trapped in her classroom, wonders how to save her students.
8) Power play
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
An off-site corporate event gone disastrously wrong. The largest ransom in history. The price-tag: dead or alive. Now, in Joseph Finder's explosive thriller Power Play, it's up to Jake Landry-a modest, steady guy with a dark, hidden past-to save them all...
It was the perfect retreat for a troubled company. No cell phones. No BlackBerrys. No cars. Just a deluxe lodge surrounded by thousands of miles of wilderness and a desolate
Author
Series
Riley Wolfe novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Fearless thief and master of disguise Riley Wolfe plans his biggest heist yet even though his list of powerful enemies grows longer and more dangerous.
10) Black ice
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.
11) Hostage
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1975, Shaltiel Feigenberg, a Jewish writer from Brooklyn, endures a nightmarish abduction by Arab and Italian captors by sharing poignant stories from his childhood years spent hiding from the Nazis.
13) Targeted
Author
Series
Bob Lee Swagger novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the court where he is accused of reckless endangerment from his last assignment is attacked by violent operatives, Bobby Lee Swagger must rely on his instincts, shooting skills and the help of a mysterious rogue sniper on the outside, to save the very people who accused him.
14) Deadlock
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Dedicating her life to rescuing priceless artifacts from being destroyed by war, Emily Hudson is captured and tormented by a sadistic adversary, a situation for which the CIA calls on mercenary John Garrett for help in Emily's rescue.
15) A spark of light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a deranged gunman forces his way into the Center, a women's reproductive health services clinic, and takes hostages, the police hostage negotiator discovers his daughter is inside the clinic.
17) Wolf
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a vagrant finds a dog wandering alone carrying a scrap of paper with the words "HELP US" attached to its collar, Caffery races against time to find the dog's owners, while a wealthy local family, held hostage in their remote home, fight for their lives.
18) House of glass
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When two men force their way into their home and hold them hostage, Jen and Ted Glass, whose marriage is on the verge of collapse, must work together and risk their lives in order to keep their children safe.
19) Captive
Author
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Robyn Knollys-Green struggles to keep faith in her father, the British Prime Minister, while being held hostage by a group of extremist that includes an attractive, kind young man called Talon.
20) Chasing midnight
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 19
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
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