Philip Shelby
1) Gatekeeper
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"Hollis Fremont has recently arrived in Paris to begin her job as a "visa slave" at the American consulate. Her return to the City of Light forces her to revisit tragedy: the mysterious assassination of her parents by a sniper's bullets fifteen years earlier. Hollis, an unprepossessingly beautiful young woman, soon attracts the notice of Paul McGann, deputy chief of mission, whose ardent attention to Hollis is matched by his violent temper and calculating...
2) Last Rights
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Pub. Date
1997
Description
Philip Shelby's electrifying bestseller Days of Drums was praised as "taut and exciting" (Los Angeles Times). Now this master of Washington thriller pits a maverick military officer against the ultimate nemesis: an unrelenting assassin who is the mastermind behind a far-reaching government conspiracy. In a tense stakeout at an Army warehouse, Warrant Officer Rachel Collins breaks all the rules by going on her own -- and in a flash from her Sig-Sauer,...
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Pub. Date
1996
Description
A political thriller featuring Holland Tylo, a woman agent of the U.S. Secret Service. Just before a senator whom she is protecting dies from an assassin's bullet, he gives her a computer disk with damaging information on other senators. At that Tylo, the daughter of a senator who was also assassinated, goes after the killers, only to become a target herself when an assassin is hired to silence her and retrieve the disk. By the author of Oasis of...
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The powerful and prescient new novel in the bestselling Covert-One series. Lt. Colonel Jon Smith, currently working as a medical researcher, is contacted by a Russian colleague with an urgent request that they meet in Venice in ten days. When they meet, however, his colleague is killed almost instantly in a hail of automatic gunfire but not before he passes on to Smith the vital intelligence -- someone is out to steal Russia's store of the smallpox...
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Series
Covert-One series volume 2
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Medical researcher and sometime spy, Lt. Col. Jonathan Smith, and two colleagues face a plot to unleash a deadly disease on an unsuspecting populace.
8) Survivor
Description
A Foreign Service Officer newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the US. After surviving a vicious attack on the embassy, she finds herself framed for crimes she didn't commit and racing to elude assassins while trying to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve.
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Arthur Bishop returns as the Mechanic in the sequel to the 2011 action thriller. When the deceitful actions of a cunning but beautiful woman force him to return to the life he left behind, Bishop's life is once again in danger as he has to complete an impossible list of assassinations of the most dangerous men in the world.