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  Vector

  by Robin Cook

  New York cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian immigrant ready to lash out at his adoptive nation, which he believes has denied him the American Dream. As a former technician in the Soviet Union's biological weapons system, Yuri knows how to wreak havoc in his new home. But before he executes his masterpiece of vengenance, he experiments first on selected targets. Dr Jack Stapleton begins to witness... (more)
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  Weapons of Mass Destruction: The No-Nonsense Guide to Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapons Today (Cassell Military Paperbacks)

  by Robert Hutchinson

  When Tom Lehrer sang ‘We’ll all go together when we go’, the world was gripped by fear of nuclear holocaust: the ultimate endgame of every Cold War powerplay. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the threat was assumed to have gone away. But Libya, Iraq, Iran and North Korea are building weapons of mass destruction. The next live Scud missile launch could signal the next Hiroshima. Robert Hutchinson investigates... (more)
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  Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel

  by Gayle Lynds

  Robert Ludlum's exciting books of international suspense are enjoyed by millions of readers around the world while critics hail them as classics. Now comes the fourth volume in the bestselling Covert-One series-Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code. On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later, on the... (more)
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  The Cobra Event

  by Blair Underwood, Richard Preston

  "A PAGE-TURNER . . . THOROUGHLY FRIGHTENING." --Newsweek "ENORMOUSLY ENTERTAINING." --The New York Times Book Review "THIS BOOK SCARED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME. . . . Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility." --Entertainment Weekly Five days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on.... (more)
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  Acceptable Risk

  by Robin Cook

  Robin Cook confronts one of the most provocative issues of our time--a terrifying glimpse into the dangers of antidepressant drugs... "Cook manages to keep the suspense mounting and the pages turning."-- San Francisco Chronicle "King of the mind-bending medical thriller"- Kirkus Reviews "<A> morality tale of antidepressants and greedy medical entrepreneurs."-- Detroit News "One of Cook's... (more)
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  Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War

  by Judith Miller

  In the wake of the anthrax letters following the attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans have begun to grapple with two difficult truths: that there is no terrorist threat more horrifying -- and less understood -- than germ warfare, and that it would take very little to mount a devastating attack on American soil. In Germs, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government... (more)
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  The Melanin Apocalypse

  by Darrell Bain

  A man-made virus is killing all the blacks in the world. The African continent is devolving into complete chaos. Blacks in America begin rioting and killing Whites. Israel and the Arab states go to war again. The oil fields of the Middle East and Africa are up for grabs. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta provides the only possible bulwark against the whole world falling into anarchy. Unfortunately, the... (more)