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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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When a young American woman who faced down hijackers on board a flight to the Middle East and saved the lifes of hundreds of people disappears, U.S. officials believe she has been kidnapped, so they call in CIA agent Emily Pollifax to find her.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
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Thomas Danforth, the privileged son of a wealthy importer, takes over the family business while the world suffers the beginnings of World War II, but his untroubled life changes when he agrees to allow access to his Connecticut mansion so that a mysterious woman can be trained in firearms and explosives and, when things go wrong and she disappears, Thomas sets out to find her.
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Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, tries to prevent a terrorist from blowing up the US Ambassador to London and pursues his own quest to prove the innocence of his late father, the former head of M16 who was removed from his position by the CIA and suspected of treachery.
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In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by the FSB, Russia's intelligence-service successor to the infamous KGB. Charlie is Russia's long-term target in British counter-intelligence, and Moscow is determined to extract, by whatever means necessary, every secret of British---and Western---espionage over Charlie's thirty-year career.
Charlie's determined not only to resist the interrogation but to learn from it if his Russian...
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"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon-a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption-now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling...
9) Ark angel
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.
10) Red gold
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As the German occupation of France tightens, Jean Casson finds himself hiding from the Gestapo and running guns to combat units of the French Communist party.
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Winner of such prestigious honors as the Booker Prize and Whitbread Award, Ian McEwan is justifiably regarded as a modern master. Set in 1972, Sweet Tooth follows Cambridge student Serena Frome, whose intelligence and beauty land her a job with England's intelligence agency, MI5. In an attempt to monitor writers' politics, MI5 tasks Serena with infiltrating the literary circle of author Tom Healy. But soon matters of trust and identity subvert the...
12) The German woman
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This riveting war story introduces us to the beautiful Kate Zweig, the English widow of a German surgeon, and Claus Murphy, an exiled American with German roots-two lovers with complicated loyalties. In 1918, Kate and her husband, Horst, are taken for spies by Russian soldiers and forced to flee their field hospital on the eastern front, barely escaping with their lives. Years later, in London during the Nazis' V-1 reign of terror, Claus spends his...
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Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. He left Iraq with a shattered leg and a mission - to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as 'Suleiman'. But when his scheme begins to unravel, Ferris finds himself flying blind into a hurricane. His only hope is the urbane head of Jordan's intelligence service. But can Ferris trust him?
14) Shelley's heart
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While celebrating his reelection--just before Inauguration Day--the president discovers that his over-zealous aids may have stolen the election by means of computer manipulation.
15) Painkiller
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With page-turning ferocity, Will Staeger delivers a stylistic blend of riveting action, thrilling suspense, and starkly alluring characters in this classic tale of espionage laced with a twist of modern-day terror . . . The quasi-retired, Virgin Islands-based CIA operative known only as W. Cooper lives his life free-diving and philandering along a quarter-mile of white sand-a necessary slice of paradise for a man seeking to kill the pain of torturous...
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"From the award-winning author of Waiting: a spare, haunting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries--China and the United States--and two families as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father,...
17) Spycatcher
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"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity make this one of the year's best thriller debuts."
-Lee Child
"Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider's reality."
-Noah Boyd, New York Times bestselling author of Agent X and The Bricklayer
"A real spy proves he is a real writer-and a truly deft and inventive one. Spycatcher...
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Best friends, James Lessor and Skip Moore are still stuck in dead end jobs. When Skip lands a job to install a state-or-the-art security system for Synco Systems, they think their dreams have finally come true. But, as usual for these two, things are not exactly what they seem.
19) Masaryk Station
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Berlin, early 1948. The city, still occupied by the four Allied powers, still largely in ruins, has become the cockpit of a new Cold War, and as spring unfolds its German inhabitants live in fear of the Soviets enforcing a Western withdrawal. Here, as elsewhere in Europe, the legacies of the War have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict, creating a world of bizarre and fleeting loyalties, a paradise for spies. John Russell works for...
20) A spy's life
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An ex-British spy finds himself dragged back into the world of espionage after a mysterious plane crash...
Robert Harland ended his career as a British spy in an Austrian hospital, after being tortured and beaten by Czech security agents in the last days of the communist regime. He was young enough then to find a new life with the Red Cross and then with the UN.
Twelve years later his UN plane crashes in mysterious circumstances at La Guardia airport,...
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