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2) Under siege
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Killer-elite commandos out to hijack the USS Missouri's nuclear arsenal overpower the crew, except for the cook, who just happens to be an ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy-and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working...
4) Deep rising
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998].
Language
English
Description
When a band of hijackers invade the world's most luxurious cruise ship they are shocked to discover that the passengers have vanished, yet they are not alone.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked and taken hostage by Somali pirates. The pirates pick the ship's cook as interpreter, to engage in escalating negotiations and ransom demands with their company CEO and authorities.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"On October 3, 1985, Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled Jewish New Yorker, and his wife boarded the Achille Lauro to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary with a Mediterranean cruise. Four days later, four Palestinian fedayeen hijacked the Italian luxury liner and took the passengers and crew hostage. Leon Klinghoffer was shot in the head, his body and wheelchair thrown overboard. His murder became a flashpoint in the ... struggle between Israelis and...
9) America
Author
Series
[Jake Grafton novels] volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Dispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissle defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes. Rear Admiral Jake Grafton fears something worse than a grave malfunction--he suspects sabotage... The USS America--the world's most technically advanced nuclear submarine--is launched on its maiden voyage. Then shortly after steaming out of harbor, the unthinkable...
10) Birds of prey
Author
Series
Courtney volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney and his son, Hal, voyage from the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia, as they and their crew attempt to seize one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company en route from the Orient
Author
Series
Kurt Austin adventures volume 20
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain. While searching for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship. Kurt and Joe deduce that the men are suffering from...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The roguish, yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal, kidnapping the governor's daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has doomed Barbossa and his...
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