Roger Spottiswoode
3) Air America
Pub. Date
©1999
Description
Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of Air America, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnamese countryside.
Series
James Bond volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Bond must prevent a tremendous global disaster when the superpowers are pitted against one another by a criminal mastermind who is manipulating world events through his media empire in order to corner the market on his next planned news story: global pandemonium!
7) Hiroshima
Pub. Date
1999
Description
The story of the final months of World War II, portraying the events that led to the decision which would change the course of human destiny.
9) The 6th Day
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
Adam is an ace pilot in the very near future who is having a serious identity crisis. An evil corporation illegally cloned him, and now they're trying to kill him to hide the evidence. Torn from his beloved family and faced with a shocking exact duplicate of himself, Adam races against time to reclaim his life and save the world from the underground cloning movement.
Series
Pub. Date
[1986]
Description
In 1972, underdog Taft High challenged their meanest rival, Bakersfield, to the annual game. But when Jack "Butterfingers" Dundee dropped the ball instead of making the big play, Taft was defeated and star quarterback Reno Hightower has never let him live it down. Now, 13 years later, "Butterfingers" wants the chance to redeem himself, no matter what it takes. His only solution is to play Bakersfield again with the same team. But for the Taft team,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
James Bond struggles to keep major government weapons from the hands of Russian "free-market" hoodlums; 007 thwarts an overreaching media tycoon; James Bond is assigned to protect a dead oil tycoon's daughter from her father's killer; James Bond must figure out the connection between North Korean terrorists and a mysterious diamond broker with a secret that threatens to destroy the world.
Pub. Date
[c2009]
Description
Set in the 1930's in war-torn China and inspired by true events. George Hogg, a young Englishman, leads sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. During his journey, George learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with...
15) Hiroshima
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
A dramatization of the decision to drop the atomic bomb and its consequences in Japan.
16) 48 hrs.
Pub. Date
1983
Description
48 hours: Hard-nosed cop Jack Cates reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking prison inmate Reggie Hammon (temporarily paroled to him for 48 hours) in order to track down the felon's ex-partners.
Another 48 hours: Hard-nosed cop Cates and ex-con Hammond team up together again--Cates to prove he's innocent of manslaughter in a drug bust gone wrong, and Hammond, who's just been released from prison, to fight those trying to take his life.