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3) Underworld
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A fictional survey of the Cold War years as seen through the eyes of protagonists Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm, and his one-time lover Klara Sax, an artist.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Thomas Nesbitt struggles to cope with his newfound solitude after he and his wife divorce, but a package arrives, postmarked from Berlin, that reminds him of the passionate love affair he participated in twenty-six years earlier, when the city was divided in two.
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Rex and his family move from Ottawa from Vancouver in the summer of 1962 when it seems everyone is nervous about the possibility of nuclear war between America and Russia, but his thoughts about the possible end of the world take second place to the mystery creature hiding out in the local park.
7) Exposure
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon's wife, Lily, resolves to protect their family only to be devastatingly exposed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel Kaplansky and new student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet spy and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive.
Vienna, 1954
After losing everyone she loves in the final days of World War II, Ingrid Bauer agrees to a hasty marriage with a gentle Soviet embassy worker and follows him home to Moscow. But nothing deep within the Soviet Union's...
Author
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Cold War, a renegade submarine threatens to ignite Europe in all-out war The French submarine L'Alouette prowls deep beneath the surface of the North Atlantic, its crewmembers eager to spill blood in the service of their frenzied nationalism -- regardless of the cost. And only one man can stop them. That man is Neil Mallory, former lieutenant colonel of the British Special Air Services and Korean War hero. Can Mallory and his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
At the height of the Cold War, two secretaries are pulled out of the typing pool at the CIA and given the assignment of a lifetime. Their mission: to smuggle Doctor Zhivago out of the USSR, where no one dare publish it, and help Pasternak's magnum opus make its way into print around the world. Glamorous and sophisticated Sally Forrester is a seasoned spy who has honed her gift for deceit all over the world--using her magnetism and charm to pry secrets...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During the Cold War, many liberal anti-communist writers, artists, musicians, and intellectuals ended up working for organizations that were CIA fronts. CIA protocol dictated that one individual in the various organizations would be investigated, sworn to secrecy, and told about the CIA connection and funding. That individual was, in Agency parlance, witting. Everyone else was unwitting. The Unwitting is about a husband who is witting, a wife who...
Author
Publisher
Running Wild Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Confessions of Gabriel Ash, a literary Cold War thriller with echoes of John Le Carre and A Gentleman in Moscow, alternates between the glittery backdrop of 1980s New York and the sinister grottoes of Eastern Europe. The story UN Ambassador Gabriel Ash has to tell -- in a voice that's sardonic, self-delusional, and uniquely his own -- will result either in his release from captivity or the loss of his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A stylish spy thriller" of postwar Berlin -- the first in a thrilling new series from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Troy novels ( The New York Times Book Review ). John Wilfrid Holderness -- aka Joe Wilderness -- has gone from young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz to MI6 agent navigating war-ravaged Europe to his current career of "free-agent gumshoe" weathering Cold War fears and hard-luck times. Now he's being drawn back into...
17) Bluebird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1946 Eva arrives in New York City, from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life, but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA; one in particular, the doctor who knows who Eva really is, because her identity is the product Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and Eva...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.
Autumn, 1948: Iris Digby, her American diplomat husband Sasha, and their two children vanish from London. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys...
19) Code to zero
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In January 1958, the midst of the Cold War, Luke Lucas wakes alone on the ground in a railway station with no idea how he got there--and finds that he must recover lost memories that others are glad he has forgotten if he is to save the launch of Explorer I, America's attempt to top the Soviet Union's Sputnik.
20) The Crossing
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
[Allbeury] tells it as it is: he was there and he knows what it feels like.-- The Washington Post Inspired by the Soviet Union's downing of an American spy plane flown by Francis Gary Powers in 1960, one of Ted Allbeury's most explosive thrillers introduces the brilliant British spycatcher Joe Shapiro. But even Shapiro's superiors doubt his intentions when he attempts to convince the CIA to exchange a high-powered Communist agent for the seemingly...
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