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"In this action-packed, suspenseful sequel to the international thriller The Geneva Option, U.N. covert negotiator Yael Azoulay is drawn into a web of betrayal and intrigue that leads from deep within America's military-industrial complex to the Middle East and beyond.Yael Azoulay nearly lost her life while on assignment for the United Nations in the Congo. Though her physical wounds are healed, she still struggles with the psychological trauma. But...
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The untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day. Author John A. Nagy has become the nation's leading expert on Revolutionary spies, discovering hundreds who went behind enemy lines to gather intelligence during the American Revolution, many of whom are completely unknown to most historians. Using Washington's diary as the primary source, Nagy tells of...
4) Dead doubles: the extraordinary worldwide hunt for one of the Cold War's most notorious spy rings
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An account of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War traces the 1961 international manhunt for five Soviet spies whose activities exposed the shadowy world of deep-cover KGB operatives.
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Charles Jay Tice was a spy's spy--a legendary figure in the CIA, and the intelligence world in general, towards the end of the Cold War. But he was also a traitor, having sold secrets that seriously compromised the U.S. for years to come. Since his conviction, he's been kept in the tightest maximum security prison under the tightest security. Until one morning, his cell is discovered empty--Tice has disappeared without even the hint of trace.
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6) Desert fire
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Joseph Assad-Sherif is one of the world's most dangerous assassins. Known as Saddam Hussein's "Jackal," his bloody hit list includes the 1972 Israeli Olympic athletes, the South Yemen cabinet, and the 20,000 slaughtered citizens of Hamma, Syria.
Now Assad-Sheriff has been called upon for his most vicious task, acquiring and transporting nuclear technologies for Iraq. When this psychopath takes the life of Sharazad Razmarah, an American citizen...
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"In public life, Dr. Winthrop Bell was a Harvard philosophy professor and wealthy businessman. As an MI6 spy--known as secret agent A12--in Berlin in 1919, he evaded gunfire and shook off pursuers to break open the emerging Nazi conspiracy. His reports, the first warning of the Nazi plot for World War II, went directly to the man known as C, the mysterious founder of MI6, as well as to various prime ministers. But a powerful fascist politician quietly...
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"A real-life thriller about a CIA contractor who vanished in Iran and the international manhunt to find him"--
"In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States. Barry Meier, an award-winning...
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Ever fantasize what it would be like to step into James Bond's shoes? Then read THE KATKOV AFFAIR, an honest retelling of an incredible story. And THE KATKOV AFFAIR has 63 minutes of audio embedded into the narrative! Hear real spies in real conversations. I place an ad in the Computer Services Section of the New York Times. On December 6, 1983, Soviet GRU officer Mikhail Katkov answers the ad. He invites me to lunch to discuss a, "business arrangement...
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A quiet market town with no military presence was chosen as the secret communications centre for Britain as the country prepared for war with Germany in 1937. When hostilities began, 'Q Central' attracted a dozen other clandestine operations set up to defend the country or designed to confuse and undermine enemy morale. The headquarters of radar, RAF Group 60, also came to Leighton Buzzard to be hidden from German attack and to be close to the telephone...
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Two worlds which combine dominant elements of secrecy and apparent transparency set the stage for The Faithful Patriot. J.M.Browning weaves a tale of dual deceit and faith with duty to country, mission and self. CIA assassin Bart Manning is recruited, trained and embedded in one of the most overt, restrictive covers imaginable; A missionary for the Mormon Church. The requirements of missionaries and assassins are eerily similar yet one greatly restricts...
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The year is 1944. The allies have landed in France. In an underground factory placed securely in the middle of Germany, the Nazis are manufacturing weapons of retaliation. The forerunners of the modern IBM, the V2 rockets, are being fired at London, and against them there is no defence. Reports reach the British intelligence service that the rockets are to be fitted with nuclear warheads and the only way of averting the threat is direct sabotage against...
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This is a Summary of Matthew FitzSimmons' The Short DropA decade ago, fourteen-year-old Suzanne Lombard, the daughter of Benjamin Lombard-then a senator, now a powerful vice president running for the presidency-disappeared in the most sensational missing-person case in the nation's history. Still unsolved, the mystery remains a national obsession.For legendary hacker and marine Gibson Vaughn, the case is personal-Suzanne Lombard had been like a sister...
14) Masquerade
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When you gaze into the mirror--and find a stranger looking back? Liz Sansborough has no recollection of her past as a CIA agent; no idea what her future holds. For her, there is only the present...and the chilling knowledge that the world's most lethal assassin has set his sights on her.
When your only link to your identity is a stranger who claim to be lover? Gordon is so gentle, so loving--and so secretive. If Liz dares to put her life into his...
15) The Decoy
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Throughout her public life the eyes of the world were on Diana, Princess of Wales. But who else was watching her more closely? What were their motives? What was their agenda? And what was their role in her death? On the night she died two secret operations – one connected to the British Establishment and one involving major figures in the French government – collided unintentionally with catastrophic results. From Bosnia to Baghdad, from Paris...
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Al Qaeda terrorists have bought a cache of stolen weapons grade Plutonium from the Russian mafia. They plan to build a suitcase Nuke and level Washington DC. Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Washington Office, Steve Harris has the unenviable job of finding the terrorists and their weapon. Which wouldn't be a problem if he knew WHO they were and WHERE the weapon was!In Australia, ex CIA black ops assassin Allen Reynolds code name 'Shadow,' has problems...
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Si dice che i Servizi segreti britannici siano popolati da persone disadattate e da perdenti. Alec Cunningham, Annabel Gould, Gina Fairburn, Phyllis Robinson e Ian Woodward sono tutti stati sul punto di morire e ne sono usciti tutti con vari problemi. Tuttavia, nel Regno Unito post-imperiale del XXI secolo, costoro e persone come loro sono tutto ciò che si frappone come scudo tra la sicurezza e i disordini.
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18) Curtain's Fall
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What would you do if you found out a conflict brewing halfway across the world was the result of a thirty-year CIA operation- and that one of your parents was somehow involved? When political analyst Kate Bennett finds herself in this situation, she partners with an arresting Army captain to uncover the truth. Can the couple avoid the crosshairs of a rogue assassin long enough to stop the war?
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After a mission in Afghanistan leads to the death of a colleague, CIA agent Hayden Stone accepts what he thinks is a cushy assignment in the South of France. But on the Côte d'Azur, two terrorists, acting separately, attempt to murder him. Meanwhile, Stone meets an old love, a contessa, who he had seduced and abandoned years before. As Stone's love life heats up, he learns that a brutal Middle Eastern terrorist is in Provence to deliver a strain...
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In January of 2008 the citizens of Stephenville, Texas were astounded to witness a series of unexplained lights and craft flying over their skies,chased by military jets. These sightings would set off a series of events that would quickly become one of the most controversial and well documented UFO cases in US history.Enter investigator Marc Slade who has spent a lifetime investigating UFOs. What starts out as a simple investigation quickly turns...