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Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister, Beatrice, as their elegant, formidable mother slowly slides into dementia. When a stranger contacts Laura claiming to be her brother, who disappeared decades earlier when the family lived in Bangkok, she ignores Bea's warnings of a scam and flies to Thailand to see if it can be true. But meeting him in person leads to more questions than answers. Bangkok, 1972:...
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[2018]
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English
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A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary "hearts and minds" diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust.
"The legendary Edward Lansdale (1908-1987), a covert operative so roguish that he was said to be the model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American, remains...
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Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2006
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Forcibly recruited into MI6 after the mysterious death of his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex is sent to infiltrate the organization of a sinister billionaire. Within days he's gone from schoolboy to superspy, and it looks like his first assignment may be his last.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
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256 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Burned out from a decade in Special Section clandestine ops, Tara Chance applies for a desk job so that she can spend more time with her daughter only to be drawn into a mission involving the Ayatollah's son's request to defect.
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
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335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Thriller about sending a woman to do a man's job, only to find she's better at it than most men. Tara Chace is a "Minder" with the Special Ops division of the British Secret Intelligence Service. The crisis that puts her into action here is a wide, deadly, and expertly timed assault on London's Underground. Intel quickly points to a certain Dr. Faud bin Abdullah al Shimmari, a notorious Islamic extremist, and word comes down from the lofty perches...
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