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A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined.
2) Double play
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In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
3) Hot target
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Troubleshooters volume 8
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A movie producer receives death threats because of her latest film -- a World War II epic that depicts the homosexuality of a real-life hero
4) Next in line
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"London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the "people's princess." Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are sent in to investigate the team....
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2022.
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"New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton...
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Matt Stromsoe was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son . . . Once Stromsoe was best friends with brilliant, unpredictable Mike Tavarez. That was before Matt joined the San Diego P.D. and Mike left Harvard to run La Eme, the brutal Mexican Mafia, before a vengeance-obsessed Tavarez blew away everything Stromsoe loved, leaving him physically and emotionally broken. Years later, Mike Tavarez is in prison for life,...
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Joshua Duffey volume 1
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[2022]
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"A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney's Audible Original drama, Armored. Joshua Duffy is a Close Protection Agent-a professional bodyguard- and, as such, he's one of the world's elite operatives. That is he was until hislast mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his primary out alive, but the cost was high-the loss of Josh's lower left leg. There's not much call for a high-end guardian with such an injury....
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Reporter Sophie Rose leaves her job at a top Chicago newspaper rather than write an esposé on her father, a high-profile thief. Now writing for a small local paper, she senses foul play when a local personality is found dead in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and heads north, accompanied by an FBI agent "bodyguard," much to the displeasure of both, despite their mutual attraction.
10) Without warning
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Elite guardians volume 2
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[2016]
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When someone is willing to go to any lengths to put restaurant owner Daniel Matthews out of business, it's up to bodyguard Katie Singleton to keep her handsome but reluctant client alive.
11) Always watching
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Elite guardians volume 1
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[2016]
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Olivia Edwards's skills as a bodyguard are pushed to the limit as she must protect talk show host Wade Savage and stay out of a killer's path.
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[2003]
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A biochemist is being sought by lethal forces because of his knowledge of a powerful new drug. He seeks the services of Cavanaugh, a former Delta Force operator, who specializes in creating new untraceable identities for his clients. In this case, however, a brutal attack wipes out his entire team of agents and Cavanaugh sets out to find those responsible.
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[2013]
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"No matter how many times Tessa Camry moves, her mysterious tormentor always finds her...and leaves a grim reminder of all she's lost. But this year, no longer content to deliver roses, her stalker wants her dead. When former soldier Seth Sinclair becomes her bodyguard, he encourages her to stand her ground, even if it means letting go of long-held secrets. Seth realizes that Tessa may be his second chance at love, but their future depends on finding...
14) The devil's bed
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With her husband up for re-election, First Lady Kate Dixon returns home to care for her father, accompanied by Secret Service agent Bo Thorsen, who suspects that Kate has been targeted by escaped mental patient David Moses and by dark forces within the federal government.
15) Moving Target
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Elite guardians volume 3
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"When Maddy McKay and Quinn Holcombe don't show up for Quinn's surprise birthday party, his friends know that something is very wrong. Their search turns up little beyond evidence that Quinn and Maddy just decided to take off for a long overdue vacation. But it soon becomes apparent that they did not leave of their own accord"--Amazon.com.
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Modern love volume 2
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[2020]
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"In Alisha Rai's second novel in her Modern Love series, a reclusive investor goes viral, shoving her into the world's spotlight--and into the arms of the bodyguard she's been pining for."--Publisher's description.
17) Into the fury
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2016
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After a group of lingerie models are threatened, Ethan Brodie is brought on to protect them, and when one is murdered, he finds himself drawn closer to the breathtaking Valentine Hart, as he gets closer to the answers he needs to solve the crime.
18) Full throttle
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Black Knights Inc volume 7
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[2014]
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When the president's daughter, Abby Thompson, is kidnapped, it's up to Carlos "Steady" Soto to rescue the only woman he ever loved--and the only woman who ever broke his heart.
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For Caillen Dagan, a defiant soldier of fortune, survival isn't a right, it's a brutal daily battle. Moving through the Ichidaian universe like a wraith, his brushes with the law and death are legendary. Ferocious and determined. Desideria Denaraii is from a race where women are warriors and nothing is given freely but must be earned. Desideria serves as an official bodyguard for her queen. Born of questionable genetics, she will do anything to prove...
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St. Kilda Consulting volume 3
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Protecting a river guide with ties to the art world, private information collector and reluctant bodyguard Zach Balfour realizes his charge is in more danger than previously known, a situation that pits them against the ruthless multi-million-dollar Western art circuit.