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Tommy Atherstone, last of the "Knights of Rookhurst", isn't quite old enough to enlist for the Great War but persuades his strangely reluctant father to-who then goes missing, pitching Tommy into No Mans Land and the Castle of Time. His stop/go affair with his feisty Anglo-Indian girlfriend Ruth Rani Westall takes place against a background of civil unrest, the Russian Revolution and new ways of thought coming back to Britain from the Empire. Meanwhile,...
22) The Case Officer
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The book the CIA wanted to keep off the bookshelves! In the murky world of espionage, where shadowy intelligence operatives struggle against one another to gain tactical advantage, things can often go very, very wrong. This is one such story. Told by a former master CIA spy, truth is woven with fiction to create a gripping yet authentic action packed tale of real intelligence operatives at war.
23) Intercept
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Black Ops Agent Blake MacKay never anticipated becoming a former ally's target, but his life takes a dangerous turn when he's caught in their sights. After Iran's ex-nuclear guru resurfaces to lead a new nuclear weapons program, Mossad dispatches elite sniper Solomon Zinn to eliminate him. However, Ansar al-Sharia, the former Benghazi militant group, also has its sights set on Fallahi, and they'll stop at nothing to get him.
As tensions mount...
24) The Paris Trap
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Joseph Hone's The Paris Trap, first published in 1977, saw him step aside from his sequence of 'Peter Marlow' novels to offer a different kind of political thriller.Jim Hackett and Harry Tyson first met in Paris, in days of hope - Hackett a promising actor, Tyson a budding writer. Twenty years later, their dreams soured, they are reunited in Paris for a substantive project: Hackett, now a movie actor, has been cast in a major film derived from a spy...
25) False Flag
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A young, female CIA officer under non-official cover has been snatched off of the streets of Beirut by Hezbollah.
This is the kind of situation that CIA's legendary Deputy Director of Operations Edwin Rothmann needs solved fast-but he can't involve the agency. Instead, he enlists the renegade Ft. Lauderdale outfit he refers to as "CIA, Inc." headed by former CIA case officer Mac MacMurphy.
As the kidnapped officer faces a battle of wits with her...
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It begins in Sweden. A low-level defection by a Russian sailor in Stockholm coincides with the theft of critical tapes at a high-level Soviet-American conference in Malmo. At stake is a sophisticated computer virus potentially more lethal that any biological plague in history. From Paris to Copenhagen to Washington to the Vatican, two adversaries once more find themselves on opposite sides: Henry McGee, the traitorous, seemingly indestructible double...
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Peter Marlow goes undercover to infiltrate the KGB The Soviet intelligence agency's worst nightmare has come true: Besides the five directorates that oversee its operations, there lurks a sixth-a shadow directorate that may be plotting a coup against the Communist Party. Disruption of the KGB might spell trouble for Moscow, but for the British Intelligence, chaos in the Soviet Union means a chance to infiltrate. To make the most of the opportunity,...
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January, 2020. Two West Bank investors launch a surgical mask production process. A young hacker is assassinated in the outskirts of Reims. A pandemic is threatening Europe. Governments declare a state of emergency, their strategic stocks are empty and secret services throughout the world are trying to get their hands on mask stored in Asia. Hundreds of millions of masks disappear from the market. These events are linked.
All these conditions are...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben Macintyre chronicles the life of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer born into a Soviet intelligence family. Despite his father's staunch Communist beliefs and his own KGB career, Gordievsky harbored doubts about the regime. His espionage skills were honed at KGB's School 101, and despite initial...
30) Hollow Men
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Retired CIA agent Wallace Mahoney is approached by Sonja, an Israeli intelligence agent. There's a mole in the Mossad, and they need an outsider to help uncover him. Against his better judgment, Mahoney agrees to help-and finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of agents and double agents that crisscrosses the globe.
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It's 2030 and the story's background is set amongst climate change as a factor creating global food insecurity through droughts, floods and changing weather patterns reducing arable land worldwide. The climate change of the 20th and the early 21st century has led to massive immigration from African regions in Europe and South American regions below the US, where they can no longer provide sufficient food due to the loss of arable farming land. These...
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When CIA Agent Alisha MacAleer's cover is blown by ex-lover Frank Reichart, she's forced into a spy game that draws a curtain back on a world she never even suspected existed...The clandestine Sicarii have hired Brandon Parker, the brilliant, estranged son of Alisha's handler, to develop an artificial intelligence capable of enforcing their divine right to rule. No one, not even Brandon's father, imagines he can do it not until Alisha herself faces...
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Vor der Arminius-Markthalle wird ein Straßenmusiker mit einem gezielten Kopfschuss aus einem Fenster des gegenüberliegenden Rathauses getötet. Kommissar Hajo Freisal sieht sich mit der Vielzahl von Verdächtigen konfrontiert: Ist der Täter einer der Angestellten des Bezirksamtes, die sich von der schrägen Musik des Toten seit Monaten terrorisiert fühlen? Oder gehört er zu einer Bande von Schutzgeld-Erpressern? Die Wahrheit, die allmählich...
34) Trophy
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The pilots of Number One Squadron are the NATO elite, trained to fly the new and formidable Tornado strike plane. When a combat exercise over the Norwegian Sea turns terrifyingly into the real thing, the rivals in Number One squadron find their lives in each others' hands.
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Heute geschehen, morgen vergessen, heute gewusst, morgen verdrängt! Ereignisse faszinieren, inspirieren, berühren oder ängstigen. Fallen unbeachtet unter den Tisch oder geraten ganz in Vergessenheit. Von Äthiopiens Gipfeln bis in die Tunnel Palästinas. Über den Dschungel Vietnams in die Fernsehstudios Europas. Von Nacktbildern, Mördern und der Erinnerung an Tragödien und Katastrophen vergangener Tage. 22 Kurzgeschichten und Erzählungen rund...
36) Snark
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In the follow-up to Cronus, an American spy travels to London to locate a high-profile missing person, and is faced with terror from the past If they're going to take you, let them take you with your eyes open. That's the credo of Clifford Driscoll, the American spy at the center of Snark, the follow-up to William DeAndrea's Edgar Award–winning Cronus. Driscoll has gone by many names in his short, eventful life, and he's just borrowed another: that...
37) End of Enemies
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One Man.
Covert agent Briggs Tanner doesn't like coincidences. In his business, they always mean trouble. So when a man is professionally assassinated right in front of him, Tanner wants answers.
One Mission.
Who pulled the trigger and why? And what is the mystery behind the key the man clutched in his dying hand-the key that Tanner now possesses?
One War Without End.
His search will lead him on an international trail, city to city, from the...
38) League of Terror
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The armistice has been all but signed. The Cold War is over. The world has no further use for spies. Or so it would seem.
Fortunately, Devereaux--the spy they call November--knows better. Even now, he finds himself and his implacable nemesis locked in a deadly battle. The backdrop is the secret war of terrorism waged by an insidious mastermind combining the bloodiest back-alley tactics of Irish republicanism with the sleek financial machinations...
39) Triple Cross
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When Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov teams up once more with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, their attempt to thwart a unified global mafia makes for Brian Freemantle's most unique and explosive Danilov/Cowley thriller yet. Their mission: to stop the Mafias of the U.S., Russia, and Italy from forming themselves into an organized crime conglomerate with the power to, quite literally, rule the world.
Their investigation...
40) Navegando claro
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Niñas desaparecidas, dinero perdido, hombre desaparecido, yates de lujo y la gente que los persigue.
Una antigua misión encubierta del MI6 para evitar que los terroristas ingresen al Reino Unido a través de rutas de tráfico sexual salió mal. El agente encubierto es asignado a un nuevo rol.
Un hombre perdido en las sombras maneja las finanzas ocultas de los servicios de seguridad pero sueña con una vida mejor navegando por el Mediterráneo. Cuando...
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