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Medusa
Clive Cussler
Paul Kemprecos

Murmansk, Russia, Present Day

As the commander of one of the most fearsome killing machines ever devised, Andrei Vasilevich once held in his hands the power to wipe out entire cities and millions of people. If war had ever broken out between the Soviet Union and the United States, the Typhoon-class submarine Vasilevich had commanded would have launched twenty long-range ballistic missiles at the U.S. and sent two hundred nuclear warheads raining down on American soil...

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Compulsion
Jonathan Kellerman

Kat loved breaking the rules. Don’t talk to strangers. She’d talked to plenty of them tonight. Danced with a few, too. If you could call the way those losers moved dancing. The big, scary consequence: a stomped toe, courtesy of a loser in a red shirt.
Don’t go crazy mixing your drinks. Then how did you account for Long Island IcedTea, which was basically everything tossed together and the best buzz in the world? She’d had three tonight. Plus the tequila shots and the raspberry beer and the weed the guy in the retro bowling shirt had offered her. Not to mention . . . hard to remember. Whatever. Don’t drink and drive. Yeah, great plan...

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