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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Harry Pendel, tailor to royalty, presidents, politicians, and crooks, is recruited by British Intelligence to provide information on the state of affairs in Panama as the time approaches for the country to gain control of the Panama Canal, and Harry, who prefers that his past remain unknown, is only too willing to cooperate.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
While on a tennis vacation in Antigua, a young English couple are charmed by Dima, a Russian money launderer who has set his sights on the couple's fortune, and find themselves in a danger game with the British Secret Service, the Russian mafia, and others who want them dead.
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Language
English
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Description
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?
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
Series
NERDS volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a virus infects Arlington, Virginia, home of NERDS headquarters, transforming victims into criminal masterminds, it is up to Flinch to stop its spread by miniaturizing himself and entering the head of the Villain Virus's creator, Heathcliff Hodges.
87) The German woman
Author
Language
English
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Description
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...
88) Edge of eternity
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Description
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
89) Shelley's heart
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Series
Language
English
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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.
90) Smiley's people
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1980, c1979
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
British intelligence agent George Smiley and his mortal enemy Karla, a Soviet agent, clash in a final confrontation.
92) Painkiller
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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,...
96) A colder war
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on the streets of Tehran. These three incidents, seemingly unrelated, have one crucial link. Each of the three had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, before being removed or killed. Then Paul...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
One does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight. But Amity Doncaster barely escapes with her life after she is trapped in a carriage with a blade-wielding man in a black silk mask who whispers the most vile taunts and threats into her ear. Her quick thinking, and her secret weapon, save her . . . for now. But the monster known in the press as the Bridegroom, who has left a trail of female victims in his wake, has survived...
98) Spycatcher
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Language
English
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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...
99) The mission song
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Language
English
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Description
After being abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador's life is guided by a British Intelligence officer. He becomes an interpreter and stumbles upon a nasty plot and ends up courting danger from London to Congo to an island off Denmark.
100) The Kremlin Letter
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Six American spies with unusual talents embark on a dangerous mission behind enemy lies in this classic Cold War espionage thriller. Lt. Cmdr. Charles Rone, a young naval intelligence officer with a sterling record, finds himself abruptly discharged from the service. Without his consent, Rone has been recruited to join a top-secret network of agents who operate independently of the US government. Led by a cynical spymaster known only as the Highwayman,...
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