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Pub. Date
[2012], c1989
Language
Français
Description
This extraordinary documentary presents the psychological case histories of four hostages who were released-a French businessman kidnapped in Paris, two French journalists captured in Lebanon, and a Dutchman hijacked by Moluccans in Holland. Through expert questioning, the hostages reveal why they were seized, how they lived during captivity, what went through their minds at the time, and their feelings toward their captors and fellow hostages-several...
2) Killer Joe
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
'Killer' Joe Cooper is a Dallas detective who doubles as a hitman with the charm of a Southern gentleman. Chris hires Joe to kill his mother in order to collect her life insurance and pay off his debts. When Chris is unable to pay for the service up front, Joe takes Chris's sister Dottie as a retainer until he can be paid.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacularly dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her to the world's most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity--a beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and grace. At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble hometown to the big city and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring...
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. It is empty. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum: locate and liberate an unnamed captive in forty-eight hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten-year-old daughter are dead. Now, and in open defiance of Army Command, Amy must employ every lethal tactic she has to...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Eric wakes up, tied and gagged in the trunk of a truck, it's instantly clear he's been kidnapped. However, soon he discovers he's accompanied by a young woman, Blake, another hostage. Neither can recall how they ended up there, and together, they desperately try and get help. With no help coming, and as things become more hopeless, it soon becomes apparent that there is more going on than it first seems. The two kidnappers have their own agenda,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Lila Bennett's bad choices have finally caught up with her. And one of those decisions has split her life in two. Literally. In one life, she's taken hostage by someone who appears to be a stranger but knows too much. As she's trapped in a concrete cell, her kidnapper forces her to face what she's done or be killed. In an alternate life, she eludes her captor but is hunted by someone who is dismantling her happiness, exposing one secret at a time"--Back...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a massive hurricane builds, criminals infiltrate a U.S. Mint facility. Their plan: to steal $600 million and escape using a category five hurricane as cover. But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time, and the hurricane, to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
10) Deadlock
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Emily Hudson is an archeologist who travels the world in search of priceless artifacts from war-torn countries and other hot spots. Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her sideūntil one day, her entire crew is massacred and Joel and Emily are held captive. Victims of one of the most ruthless and evil human beings on earth. For two weeks they try to survive, until Emily is the unwitting instrument in Joel?s demise. John Garrett...
11) Tiger house
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After injured gymnast Kelly sneaks a visit into her boyfriend's house, the house is attacked by armed robbers, who don't see Kelly. Kelly decides to take on the robbers herself as they hold her boyfriend and his mother hostage to convince the family patriarch to aid them in a bank scam to protect his family. A savage game of cat and mouse ensues between Kelly and the intruders.
13) Shock wave
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Chinese
Description
When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
15) Lockdown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In this white-knuckle action-thriller, hell on earth erupts as three sadistic criminals take over a precinct and hold the police force hostage. Promising to kill one cop every hour, the three shooters, a rapist, a serial killer, and their psychotic leader, play sadistic games with the terrified cops and a high-strung prostitute. Meanwhile, an FBI agent is racing to rescue the officers, but as time runs out, the hostages may have to fight to save their...
16) Rogue hostage
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Single father and former Marine Kyle Snowden must save his daughter and other hostages from a dangerous criminal who has trapped them inside a neighborhood store owned by Kyle's polarizing stepfather, Congressman Sam Nelson.
17) Captive
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Brian Nichols, on the run as the subject of a city-wide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son, takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren's bestselling inspirational book, The purpose driven life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.
18) The predator
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deep in the jungle, several bodies have been discovered skinned and hanging from trees although who or what could have done this is a mystery. Military covert specialist Dutch and his team are called in to eliminate the threat, but once in the heart of the menacing jungle, they discover something far worse than they could ever have imagined the Predator alien which has come to earth with cloaking technology, extensive combat skills and a desire to...
19) Die trying
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, Montana neo-Nazis abduct the daughter of the nation's top general and her male companion. The companion is Jack Reacher, a former military policeman and he turns the tables on the captors.
20) Constant fear
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Jake Dent's dreams of baseball glory fell apart in a drunk-driving incident, his marriage did too. He's become an avid Doomsday Prepper, raising his diabetic son, Andy, to be ready for any sudden catastrophe. Andy, now a student at the prestigious Pepperell Academy where Jake works as a custodian, has a secret--he's part of a computer club that redistributes money from the obscenely wealthy to the needy. But this time, they've stolen from the...
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