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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In this exposé by radical journalist Scahill, you will meet BLACKWATER USA, the world's most secretive and powerful mercenary firm. Based in the wilderness of North Carolina, it is the fastest-growing private army on the planet, with forces capable of carrying out regime change throughout the world. Blackwater protects the top US officials in Iraq, and yet we know almost nothing about the firm's quasi-military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and...
Author
Publisher
Casemate Publishers
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
304 pages, 32 color unnumbered pages : illustrations, some color ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating look at modern merc actions in the Middle East and Africa. From brushfire wars in the Congo to outright genocides in Biafra, highly skilled mercenaries were called upon to fight for order, and also for a living. Whether facing fanatics in Somalia or revolutionaries in Rhodesia, staving off cannibals in Sierra Leone or assisting a civil war in Angola the mercs put their lives on the line for a cause." -- book cover.
4) Courageous
Author
Language
English
Description
When Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange returns home to Texas, he must employ all of his training to help a former associate from South America while trying to avoid Peg Larson, the daughter of his ranch foreman who is a distraction he cannot afford.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A ragtime army of terrorist mercenaries led by Soviet agent Rostov catches America unprepared and makes her a war zone from sea to shining sea. Only one man can stem the rising tide of violence and free the American people from the tyranny of the streets and skies. Chuck Norris blazes onto the screen, his twin holsters spitting death and destruction upon the enemies of freedom.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this erotic, emotional debut novel, a young man is torn between two cities, two cultures, and two women.
Disillusioned with his marriage to the controlling Ursula, shattered by the death of his sister, and unsettled by the vandals threatening the security of his home, Stephen, a young Dubliner, moves to New York hoping to make a clean start.
He is quickly swept up in an affair with Holfy, a fiercely independent woman fifteen years his senior,...
7) The 355
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
CIA agent Mason 'Mace' Brown joins forces with a rival German agent, a cutting-edge computer specialist and a Colombian psychologist when a top-secret weapon falls into the hands of a group of mercenaries. Together, the four women embark on a breakneck mission to save the world while staying one step ahead of a mysterious figure who's tracking their every move.
8) Vice
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think, and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hellbent on shutting down the resort, stopping the violence once and for all.
Publisher
Uncork'd Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A father and daughter team of space scavengers race against a band of evil mercenaries to reach a legendary lost freighter called the Deepstar. Along their trek through the universe, they encounter monsters, aliens, robots, and something even worse.
10) I am vengeance
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When ex-soldier turned mercenary John Gold learns of the murder of his best friend, he sets off on a mission to find out what happened. What he discovers is a sinister conspiracy, and he sets about taking down those responsible one by one.
11) Boon
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mercenary Nick Boon is trying to atone for his life as an enforcer for a ruthless syndicate. Running from his past, Boon moves to a remote area in the pacific northwest where he meets a struggling widow and her son. When he finds the pair living in fear of a criminal kingpin, Boon realizes the only way to protect them is to do what he does best: Kill.
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When he's given the chance to retrieve Sean Teague, the man who betrayed Gold's the team on their final mission in Eastern Europe and transport him to a military prison, Gold, who'd rather kill Teague, is reluctant. But when a government operative promises to expunge the crimes that've forced Gold into a life on the run, Gold agrees, and prepares for the fight of his life against Teague's band of mercenaries and a mysterious sniper.
Publisher
FUNimation
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (325 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The rogue vampire Alucard is the Hellsing Organization's deadliest instrument in its mission to protect the British Empire from undead ghouls and satanic freaks. He is not alone in his assault on the occult, the master has a servant. Seras Victoria accepted Arucard's gift of dark salvation after falling in the line of duty, and now the remnants of her human soul struggle against her growing vampire urges. Together, they haunt the shadows as a sinister...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (380 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Brotherhood of justice: Three young men are caught in a web of violence and revenge as they form a secret brotherhood of vigilantes to rid their community of lowlife.
Blackjack: Jack, a federal agent, must put his life on the line to save a sexy supermodel he is protecting.
Laser mission: Mercenary, Michael Gold is sent from the CIA to seize the laser expert Braun in Cuba, before the KGB catches him.
Logan's war--bound by honor: Logan Fallon was...
Publisher
Geneon Entertainment USA, Inc
Pub. Date
©2006
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"By his hand, you will suffer. Remember when vampires had fangs? Remember when they were known as terrifying monsters that stalked the night instead of moody teenagers that sparkle in daylight? It's time to drive a stake through the lovesick heart of contermporary vampire nonsense. Satisfy your bloodlust with Helsing Ultimate, the definitive action-horror anime. The rogue vampire Alucard is the Hellsing Organization's deadliest instrument in its mission...
16) The contractor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Spanish subtitlied version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a Special Forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
17) Expend4bles
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on and the skills to use them, The Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. But new team members with new styles and tactics are going to give "new blood" a whole new meaning.
18) Darkness
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
BOOM. That's the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu's infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning--but what she doesn't see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there's a sole...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (12 hr., 43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hobbs & Shaw: When a cyber-enhanced super soldier sets out to steal a genetically altered virus that could destroy humanity, law man Luke Hobbs and outcast assassin Deckard Shaw must work together to save Shaw's sister and stop the virus from spreading.
San Andreas: When a magnitude nine earthquake leaves California in ruins, a helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way to San Francisco to save their only daughter.
The scorpion king:...
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