Scott Brick
1) Hour game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A series of brutal murders darkens the Wrightsburg, Virginia countryside. The killer, replicating notorious murders of the past, seeks to improve them, while taunting the police by leaving watches on the victims set to the hour corresponding with their position on his hit list. The tension is further increased by a second killer who is copying the crimes of the first.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Two ex-Secret Service agents must face a dark world of violence, codes, and spies at a secret CIA training camp in this #1 New York Times bestseller about a mystery that could destroy the nation.
Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians,...
Near Washington, D.C., there are two clandestine institutions: the world's most unusual laboratory and a secret CIA training camp. Drawn to these sites by a murder, ex-Secret Service agent Sean King encounters a dark world of mathematicians,...
4) The chase
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Turn-of-the-century detective Isaac Bell pursues a blood-thirsty bank robber—and perhaps one of the world’s first sociopaths—in the first novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
In 1906, the western states of America suffer a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of “The...
In 1906, the western states of America suffer a string of bank robberies by a single man who then cold-bloodedly murders any and all witnesses, and vanishes without a trace. Fed up by the depredations of “The...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A conscientious supreme court clerk. The professionals who share his house. A minor slip-up.
Ben Addison, fresh from Yale Law, is a new clerk for one of the Supreme Court's most respected justices. But when he accidentally reveals the secret outcome of an upcoming decision, a blackmailer makes millions and Ben starts to sweat. Big time. He turns to his co-clerk, Lisa, and his housemates, Nathan, Eric, and Ober, for help. Washington's best and...
Ben Addison, fresh from Yale Law, is a new clerk for one of the Supreme Court's most respected justices. But when he accidentally reveals the secret outcome of an upcoming decision, a blackmailer makes millions and Ben starts to sweat. Big time. He turns to his co-clerk, Lisa, and his housemates, Nathan, Eric, and Ober, for help. Washington's best and...
6) Arctic drift
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming . . . a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Columbia . . . a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war . . . NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there's a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to...
7) The race
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Protecting a woman aviator whose violent husband has already committed one murder, Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Detective Agency oversees the woman's participation in a daring 1910 cross-country race, which is being sponsored by a wealthy newspaper publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When the U.S. secretary of state's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to search for her--in a manhunt that pits him against Islamic terrorists and a search for answers regarding a centuries-old Islamic manuscript.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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Description
When an oil survey team is abducted after a suspicious accident, Dirk Pitt follows leads to Mongolia, where he learns about a megalomaniac's plot to supply oil to China and to undermine global oil markets.
10) Spartan gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are shocked to discover a bottle of a rare wine taken from Napoleon's lost cellar. However, someone else is also searching for this treasure.
11) The spy
Author
Series
Isaac Bell volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
1908 marks a year of ever-escalating international tension as the world plunges toward war. And with America on the brink, it comes as a devastating blow to learn of the apparent suicide of one of the United States most brilliant battleship-gun designers. The death becomes a media sensation, and the mans grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her fathers name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case,...
12) Devil's gate
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
13) The divide
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When a murder suspect's body is found frozen in the ice of a remote mountain creek, the subsequent investigation poses unsettling questions about how a promising young woman from a loving family could engage in acts of killing and ecoterrorism.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as ship captain Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate--and as perilous--as any...
15) The storm
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 10
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate the smoldering hulk of a NUMA research vessel in the Indian Ocean and soon uncover an audacious scheme to permanently alter the weather on a global scale, killing millions.
16) The wrecker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Set in 1907, the rousing second thriller to feature detective Isaac Bell (after The Chase) from bestseller Cussler and Scott pits Bell against "the Wrecker," who's been destroying trains and railroad facilities around the country for no apparent reason. These horrific incidents are wreaking havoc on the plans of Osgood Hennessy, the Southern Pacific Railroad's president, who's constructing the massive Cascade Canyon Bridge in Oregon. If the project...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more....
18) Hold tight
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mike held his son's hand and told him to "hold tight," and he could feel the little hand dig into his but the crush got bigger and the little hand slipped from his and Mike felt that horrible panic, as if a wave hit them at the beach and it was washing his baby out with the tide. The separation lasted only a few seconds, ten at the most, but Mike would never forget the spike in his blood and the terror of those brief few moments. Tia and Mike Baye...
Author
Series
Oregon Files volume 7
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring a small island off the Washington State coast in 1941, five brothers make an astonishing discovery that is interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and has ramifications for Cabrillo's present-day investigation into a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle.
20) The innocent
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight--and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's cell phone to shatter Matt's life a second time.