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The masked truth

2015
Stuck in a weekend therapy camp alongside five other troubled teens, Riley and Max must work together for survival when three masked men break into the building and go on a killing spree.

The president's daughter

1998
When terrorists learn that the president of the United States has a daughter by a former lover, they kidnap and hold her hostage.

FBI hostage rescue & SWAT teams

2015
From historical missions and controversial calls to details about equipment and selection processes, this series aims to inform! This title provides a chronological account of the American special forces unit known as FBI S.W.A.T., including key details about important figures, landmark missions, and controversies.

American hostage

a memoir of a journalist kidnapped in Iraq and the remarkable battle to win his release
2005
The author describes his abduction by militants in Southern Iraq during the summer of 2004 and the efforts to negotiate his release.

The risen empire

2003
The undead Emperor, having ruled for over one thousand years supported by the Risen, an elite group he has granted eternal life, finds his empire of eighty worlds threatened when the Rix, machine-augmented humans who seek to make all minds one through Artificial Intelligence, kidnap the tyrannical Emperor's sister, the eternal Child Empress.

Out of sight

1996
Deputy U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco is taken hostage by bank robber Jack Foley when she is caught in the middle of his escape from Florida's Glades Prison, and realizes she is attracted to her captor while huddled with him in the trunk of the getaway car.

Submergence

a novel
2013
James More, held captive by jihadists, and Danielle Flinders, diving in a submersible to the ocean floor, each remember the love they shared and the Christmas they spent together the year before.

Hostage

my nightmare in Beirut
1991
The author recounts his seventeen-month ordeal as a hostage in Lebanon and discusses his release in exchange for weapons and the failure of America's anti-terrorism and hostage-rescue policies.

Manhunt

2014
Henry, Anna, and Jose, the junior members of the Silver Jaguar Society, are on a mission in Paris to recover the Mona Lisa--but when senior members of the Society are taken hostage, it is up to Henry to rescue them while continuing to pursue the missing masterpiece.

Black ice

2014
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.

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