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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"America's first line of defense--Brad McLanahan and the heroes of the Iron Wolf Squadron--must counter a dangerous Russian strike from within the homeland in this cutting-edge tale from the New York Times master of the high-tech military thriller, Dale Brown. On a remote island estate, a billionaire investor sells his air freight company to a mysterious new owner. The purchaser is none other than the President of Russia, Gennadiy Gryzlov. The Russians...
24) Fool Errant
Author
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...
25) Down Under
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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....
26) Walk with Care
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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...
27) Danger Calling
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
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...
28) 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...
29) Threads of blue
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Mathilde escapes war-torn Sofarende and reunites with Megs and the other children who are working for the army to retake Sofarende from the enemy, but Mathilde must come to terms with her past treasonous actions and determine what she must do in order to prove her friendship to Megs.
30) In at the Kill
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Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
They thought Rosie Ewing was dead. They were wrong ... At the London headquarters of 'F' Section SOE (Special Operations Executive) they're sure Rosie Ewing is dead - shot by the Gestapo when running from a train taking her to Ravensbrück concentration camp. But they can't be sure. Left for dead, Rosie has been nursed back to health at a farmhouse in Alsace. Now she has a score to settle, and an SOE traitor to track down. It's personal, as well as...
31) The Swiss Spy
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A thrilling tale based on top-secret Nazi plans to invade the Soviet Union...
All spies have secrets, but Henry Hunter has more than most. After he is stopped by British Intelligence at Croydon airport on the eve of the Second World War, he discovers one more devastating than any before.
From Switzerland he embarks on a series of increasingly perilous missions into Nazi Germany, all while having to cope with various identities and competing spymasters.
In...
33) Black Run
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"' Black Run grabs the attention like a fire alarm and never lets up' The Times The epic second novel from the author of the acclaimed Anthrax Island. John Tyler has a new mission: capture a heavily protected target from the Alps and smuggle him back into the UK in time for Christmas. La Rochelle in the dead of night: Tyler boards the Tiburon , a rusting freighter crewed by smugglers and mercenaries, for the last leg of his journey. But he is short...
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English
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After failing to stop a suicide bomber attack in London, master art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon is summoned by the CIA and is faced with an organization riddled with dissent--and ill-equipped to deal with the deadly new face of global jihadist terror.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Portrait of convicted spy Aldrich Ames, based on the author's interviews with Ames and others associated with the case; discusses his experiences as an intelligence agent, motivations for selling secret documents, and looks at how his actions impacted national security.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The Allies have landed; the liberation of Europe has begun.
In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears.
In London, her husband Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
Appalled but determined, Quinn sets off on a perilous hunt through France...
38) The Devil's Paw
Author
Publisher
Hodder and Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Julian Orden, son of a British aristocrat and vocal espouser of the Socialist cause attends a dinner party and meets Catherine, a young woman of mixed antecedents--British and Russian. In her face he recognizes the person who saved his life on the beach the night before. These two characters become caught up in a plan by the leaders of the working people of Germany and England to force a premature end to World War I.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is a story of intrigue, unfolding in the author's best style -- a thrilling narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service. The reader will follow with avidity the daring moves of Thew from the time he sails from New York on the "City of Boston," accompanied by a dying man and a special nurse in the person of Katharine Beverley, a society girl who is under obligations to Thew.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is a story of intrigue, unfolding in the author's best style -- a thrilling narrative of Jocelyn Thew and the English Service. The reader will follow with avidity the daring moves of Thew from the time he sails from New York on the "City of Boston," accompanied by a dying man and a special nurse in the person of Katharine Beverley, a society girl who is under obligations to Thew.
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