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Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 online resource (97 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The elite US sniper team of Shadow Squadron's latest mission is to protect Heshem Shadid, ex-terrorist who has turned politician and now is on the side of the US, and a target for his former terrorist friends.
6) The brave
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
Author
Series
Sniper volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Marc Royce volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two CIA operatives go missing in Iraq, kidnapped by Taliban forces bent on generating chaos in the region, Marc Royce must unravel the truth in a covert operation requiring utmost secrecy--from both the Americans and the insurgents.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At night, in Huda's fragrant garden, a breeze sweeps in from the desert encircling Baghdad, rustling the leaves of her apricot trees and carrying warning of visitors at her gate. Huda, a secretary at the Australian embassy, lives in fear of the mukhabarat--the secret police who watch and listen for any scrap of information that can be used against America and its allies. They have ordered her to befriend Ally Wilson, the deputy ambassador's wife....
12) The wreckage: #5
Author
Series
Joseph O'Loughlin volume 5
Language
English
Description
After being robbed of his briefcase, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz tracks down the thieves, who had mistaken him for someone else, and becomes unwittingly involved in unraveling plots surrounding bank bombings in Baghdad and a missing VP at an international finance powerhouse.
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
With CIA director Thomas Stansfield dead, his protégé, Dr. Irene Kennedy, is poised to take over the reins of the agency, while CIA operative Mitch Rapp heads to the Middle East to try to stop the chaos that could ignite World War III.
14) Steel hammer
Author
Series
Shadow Squadron volume 12
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (95 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Ryan Cross and his elite Shadow Squadron have a tall order of a mission ahead of them: parachute onto a moving train and secure a group of hostages, all without letting the terrorist hijackers call in back up.
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the international prize for Arabic fiction 2018. For fans of The Kite Runner comes this remarkable debut, the number one bestselling title in Iraq, Dubai and the UAE. Baghdad, 1991. In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams,...
16) Betrayal: #12
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy volume 12
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dismas Hardy agrees to clean up the caseload of recently disappeared attorney Charlie Bowen, he thinks it will be easy. But one of the cases is far from small-time--the sensational clash between National Guard reservist Evan Scholler and an ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor named Ron Nolan. Two rapid-fire events in Iraq conspired to bring the men into fatal conflict: Nolan's relationship with Evan's girlfriend, Tara, a beautiful school-teacher...
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 7
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
437 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus stop. One of them belonged to one of the most wanted men in Iraq, known to his friends as Ibrahim the Fated. How did this good and humble man earn the enmity of so many? What did he do to deserve such a death? The answer lies in his lifelong friendship with Abdullah Kafka and Tariq the Befuddled, who each have their own...
19) Fox hunter: #12
Author
Series
Charlie Fox volume 12
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The ex-special-forces soldier finds herself on a mission to the Iraqi countryside to track down a missing comrade-in-arms.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A secretary determined to become a photojournalist in 1979 accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to a wedding in northern Iraq where she is awakened to a world of constant threat and captures a tragic moment on film that upends her life.