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In the early evening of August 21, 2015, the world watched in stunned silence as the media reported a thwarted terrorist attack on Thalys train #9364 bound for Paris -- an attempt prevented by three courageous young Americans traveling through Europe. The 15:17 to Paris follows the course of the friends' lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack. Throughout...
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Kate Moore novels volume 2
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"American expat Kate Moore drops her kids at the international school, makes her shopping rounds, and meets her husband Dexter at their regular café: a leisurely start to a normal day, St-Germain-des-Prés. Across the Seine, tech CEO Hunter Forsyth stands on his balcony, perplexed that his police escort just departed, and frustrated that his cell service has cut out; Hunter has important calls to make, not all of them technically legal. And on the...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 16
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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again. They call him Saladin, a terrorist mastermind whose...
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"Inspired by true events, [it] follows an undercover British journalist on her quest to bait and expose a terrorist recruiter through social media, while trying not to be sucked into becoming a militant extremist herself"--Container.
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"A young French journalist's riveting and unprecedented look at how today's most ruthless terrorists use social media and technology to reach disaffected youth--witnessed through the undercover investigation that led to her deep involvement with a key member of ISIS, "--Novelist.
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"#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris's wife, Helene Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later, Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wife's...
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Gabriel Allon, the art restorer, spy, and assassin, is poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service. But on the eve of his promotion, events conspire to lure him into the field for one final operation. ISIS has detonated a massive bomb in the Marais district of Paris, and a desperate French government wants Gabriel to eliminate the man responsible before he can strike again. They call him Saladin, a terrorist mastermind whose...
9) Revoir paris
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Three months after surviving a mass shooting at a Parisian bistro, Mia is determined to reconstruct the sequence of events by bonding with fellow survivors, and piecing together their stories to rediscover her own.
10) Khalil: a novel
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"From the internationally bestselling author of The Attack and The Swallows of Kabul, a gripping first-person narrative about one young man's involvement in France's worst terrorist attack. Khalil, a 23-year-old Belgian of Moroccan descent, plans to detonate a suicide vest in a crowd outside the Stade de France on November 13, 2015. Explosions are rocking Paris, at cafes and the Bataclan theater, and when other bombs drive the stadium crowd to flee...
11) La chinoise
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Paris, 1967. Disillusioned by their suburban lifestyles, a group of middle-class students, led by Guillaume and Veronique, form a small Maoist cell and plan to change the world by any means necessary. After studying the growth of communism in China, the students decide they must use terrorism and violence to ignite their own revolution.
12) Punkt zwrotny
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"Bill, Stephanie, Wendy i Tom to lekarze pogotowia ratunkowego, najlepsi specjaliści w swojej dziedzinie. W życiu prywatnym obrali jednak zupełnie różne ścieżki. Bill po rozwodzie z żoną arystokratką całkowicie poświęca się pracy. Stephanie usiłuje pogodzić karierę z wychowaniem ukochanych synów. Wendy tkwi w związku bez przyszłości, a przystojny Tom łamie kobietom serca, lecz żadnej nie pozwala się do siebie zbliżyć. Pewnego...
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"Erwan Larher was enjoying a rock concert in Paris' Bataclan Theater on November 13, 2015, when the firing started. In this genre-bending, deeply moving and unexpected memoir, Larher reflects on what the gruesome terror attack meant to him and to others. The Book I Didn't Want to Write transcends bearing witness. Larher's voice is intertwined with others--his partner, his father, the two friends who were going to come but didn't--to create a deeply...
14) Czarna wdowa
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Potężna siła eksplozji wyrwała na paryskiej rue de Rosiers krater głębokości sześciu metrów. W całej dzielnicy pękły gazociągi, wagony rozpędzonego metra wykoleiły się tuż przed stacją. Zamach był wymierzony w uczestników międzynarodowej konferencji, ale zginęli też przypadkowi przechodnie. Życie w mieście zamarło na wiele godzin. Komórka ISIS, dowodzona przez Saladyna, zapowiada kolejne zamachy. Nikt nie wie, kim naprawdę...
15) Disturbance
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"Paris, January 7, 2015. Two terrorists who claim allegiance to ISIS attack the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The event causes untold pain to the victims and their families, prompts a global solidarity movement, and ignites a fierce debate over press freedoms and the role of satire today. Philippe Lançon, a journalist, author, and a weekly contributor to Charlie Hebdo is gravely wounded in the attack. This intense life experience upends his relationship...