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The History Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War — Room 40 & MI1(b) — remain in the shadows, despite their involvement in and influence on most of the major events of that war.
From the First Battle of the Marne, the shelling of Scarborough, the battles of Jutland and the Somme in 1916, to the battles on the Western Front in 1918, the German naval mutiny...
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Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre, and this novel represents some of his best work. -- Booklist It's 1980 and the Cold War continues to rage. Seemingly out of nowhere, wealthy businessman Logan Powell has become President-elect and is only weeks away from assuming the most powerful position in the world on the twentieth day of January. Across the Atlantic, veteran British intelligence agent James MacKay uncovers shocking evidence...
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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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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.
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Regnery Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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When the CIA can't get the job done, its legendary director of operations turns to "Mac" MacMurphy, in this exciting sequel to Rustmann's first best-selling novel, The Case Officer. Mac is the best. A proven talent in fighting fire with fire. Able to be as ruthless as any enemy, showing no mercy where none is due. The perfect man to pit against an out-of-control drug lord who has declared war on the U.S. Consulate in Northern Thailand. But do the...
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The Second World War is coming to a close. But their fight is just beginning...
Berlin, 1945: A group of Nazis frantically plot the next steps for their country. SS recruits gather east of the city for an audacious yet ill-fated mission to bring about a Fourth Reich.
Three decades later, a young British diplomat in East Berlin is compromised after falling into a honey-trap. He contacts Major Edgar, a veteran British spymaster, who is drawn into an...
6) Sea of Spies
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English
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A nest of espionage. A break for the border. A race to survive.
The Allies are desperate to stop neutral Turkey supplying vital materials to the Nazis — materials which could help them win the war. But then a British agent makes a fatal mistake, and disappears in Istanbul.
In England, detective turned spy Richard Prince — back from a clandestine mission in Nazi-occupied Europe — is hunting for his lost son. Before long he is drawn into a dangerous...
7) Wolf Winter
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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The acclaimed Cold War spy thriller from international bestselling author Clare Francis When two Norwegians are murdered in cold blood after mistakenly wandering into Soviet wilderness, their family and friends navigate the bitter winter as they try to unveil the mystery behind their deaths. Halvard Starheim, a savvy and seasoned explorer, delays his Mount Everest expedition to search for his fellow explorer and close friend, Jan. Ragna Johansen,...
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Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master.
1942: A German spy comes ashore on a desolate stretch of Lincolnshire beach. But he is hunted down by a young detective, Richard Prince. The secret services have need of a man like him...
In occupied Europe, Denmark is a hotbed of problems for British intelligence. Rumors of a war-ending weapon being developed by the Germans are rife.
Sent...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Sure to add to Allbeury's already large readership.-- Time Out. As the world still reels from the Kennedy assassinations, an English intelligence operative uncovers a sinister conspiracy: the CIA has joined with the Mafia and communist Cuba to create sleeper agents, unwitting pawns hypnotized to kill on command. Now London wants in, setting its sights on the IRA and other enemies of the British Empire. In this spine-tingling suspense about one of...
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Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Today's world is in flux. Competition between the great powers is back on the agenda and governments around the world are turning to secret statecraft and the hidden hand to navigate these uncertain waters. From poisonings to electoral interference, subversion to cyber sabotage, states increasingly operate in the shadows, while social media has created new avenues for disinformation on a mass scale.
This is covert action: perhaps the most sensitive...
11) Ring of Spies
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As the war approaches its end, Prince once more has to risk everything.
Berlin, 1939: A German intelligence officer learns a top agent is quickly moving up the British Army ranks. He bides his time.
Arnhem, 1944: British paratroopers have been slaughtered in one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. A shell shocked officer is convinced: the Germans knew they were coming.
But who betrayed them?
Back in London, Richard Prince, detective...
12) North Strike
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A searing tale of war and espionage from the edge of the world.
Magnusson had expected to go to war – though not as a spy, and certainly not in a windjammer. But it is 1939 and the Navy desperately needs information about German raiders and blockade runners operating in northern waters.
One of the key places to uncover that information is the port of Narvik in Norway – and the man to do it is Magnusson.
Soon he and the rest of the ship's crew...
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Decades after the defeat of the Third Reich, the SS rears its sinister head in this captivating thriller from the bestselling author of Enemy at the Gates and The Fall of Japan. In the chaos of defeat, while Germany's roads teemed with desperate refugees and jumbled armies, Hitler's inner circle tried to disappear. Heinrich Himmler donned an eye patch and posed as a farmer. Captured by British troops, he bit into a cyanide capsule concealed in a tooth...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and Co., espionage is not just a boys' game.
As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914-18 there were several thousand women actively working against the Kaiser's forces occupying their homelands. In the Second World War, women of many nations opposed the Nazis, risking the firing squad or decapitation...
15) Down Under
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Foreign Office agent Benbow Smith investigates the disappearance of a bride-to-be-the latest in a series of bizarre abductions-in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Rose Anne Carew is to be married tomorrow. During a last-minute discussion of floral wreathes, a stranger calls, refusing to leave a message for the bride. A few hours later, at half-past six, Rose Anne leaves the vicarage to visit her former nurse's sick child....
16) Fool Errant
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Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Political intrigue and industrial espionage are brewing in Britain's Foreign Office in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries On a dark, foggy night, Hugo Ross encounters a beautiful woman. She claims to be running away and begs Hugo not to tell anyone that he's seen her. Before boarding her train, she warns him not to take the job he's applying for: secretary to eccentric inventor Ambrose Minstrel. The train pulls away, and...
17) Walk with Care
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Benbow Smith investigates the suspicious death of a prominent political figure and a mysterious letter in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Rosalind Denny, the American-born widow of the under secretary for Foreign Affairs, is still grieving for her husband. Eighteen months ago, Gilbert Denny threw away a happy marriage and a promising political career by ending his life. But Rosalind doesn't believe that Gilbert's drowning...
18) Danger Calling
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Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Clandestine operative Benbow Smith recruits a former Secret Service agent to bring down an enemy of the free world in this thriller from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries Lindsay Trevor, a junior partner in a publishing firm, boards a train headed for Waterloo Station. He is contemplating his future as a soon-to-be-married man when the stranger seated across from him asks if he's willing to die for his country. Trevor was taken prisoner...
19) Assassins
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"The bestselling author of Renegade delivers a spy thriller that's "got the action... the blood and guts... and the twists you just don't see coming" ( David's Book Blurg ). Stalking the streets of Prague, James Ryker is on the hunt for justice when he hears a news report of a murder in rural England. Big problem. He knows the victim. Ten years ago, in Qatar, Ryker led a team of assassins to kill him. He thought they had. So how has a man Ryker thought...
20) The Crossing
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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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