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Pub. Date
2022.
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"On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O’Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O’Brien’s veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve—and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter’s promoted to detective, his fascination with the...
2) Raven's prey
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Pub. Date
[2006], c1983
Description
When a shady business deal goes awry, Honor Knight is desperate to flee the U.S. with her life-even if it means taking refuge deep in rural Mexico. Her captor has other ideas. Judd Raven has been hired-by two men claiming to be her father and brother-to hunt her down.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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"A special-ops veteran of the war in Afghanistan returns to a broken marriage. When we meet him, he may or may not have killed his estranged wife. He is on the run with his two children-an adolescent boy who is big enough to fight back and an 8-year-old girl who wants to believe her father is a good man. The FBI agent in pursuit has family troubles of his own, including a suicidal daughter, but he can't get back home because of his unnatural obsession...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Charles Wolfe Collins is a veteran of the Civil War, an Irish immigrant, a reluctant Pinkerton operative and an independent agent frequently performing confidential investigations for powerful politicians in Washington D.C. In early 1879, he is summoned to the nation's capital by the Secretary of the Interior and requested to gather intelligence regarding the escape of the Northern Cheyenne from Indian Territory and subsequent military actions intended...
5) Manhunt west
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The big man turned in his saddle for a last brief study of the canyon. Dust boiled out of the canyon's mouth and the running beat of hoofs told the fugitive that John Stagman's posse would soon break into view. He checked his surroundings; this was it -- there was nowhere to run. Suddenly, he nudged his stallion's flanks with steel made the jump...
6) Palmares
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Pub. Date
c2021.
Description
"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil"--
Intricate and compelling, Palmares recounts the journey of Almeyda, a Black slave girl who comes of age on Portuguese plantations and escapes to a fugitive slave settlement called Palmares. Following its destruction, Almeyda embarks on a journey across colonial Brazil to find her husband, lost in battle.
Her story brings to life a...
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