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A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room.
Agent 355 is a result of author Marie Benedict's quest to bring history's most fascinating and courageous women to life for contemporary readers. Known to history only by her alias, this mysterious female spy, able to move freely and unobtrusively in Loyalist circles, became a member of George...
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Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent… Retirement sounded so good. When Mitch Herron's plans go up in flames, he hunts down the crime cartel responsible, but his simple quest for vengeance soon twists into an unpredictable and deadly game. With his future and his identity on the line, Herron is forced to deal with old friends and new enemies down the barrel of a gun. Yet none...
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Prepare to continue this explosive, pulse-pounding action series by USA Today Bestselling thriller author Steve P. Vincent… An old foe returns. To save the United States intelligence community from a catastrophe, Mitch Herron came out of the shadows and into the spotlight, exposing himself to plenty of foes who want payback. But only one of them has the resources and the ruthlessness to take down Herron, an old foe returned from the grave. Previously...
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It's 2030 and the story's background is set amongst climate change as a factor creating global food insecurity through droughts, floods and changing weather patterns reducing arable land worldwide. The climate change of the 20th and the early 21st century has led to massive immigration from African regions in Europe and South American regions below the US, where they can no longer provide sufficient food due to the loss of arable farming land. These...
6) Trophy
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The pilots of Number One Squadron are the NATO elite, trained to fly the new and formidable Tornado strike plane. When a combat exercise over the Norwegian Sea turns terrifyingly into the real thing, the rivals in Number One squadron find their lives in each others' hands.
7) False Flag
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A young, female CIA officer under non-official cover has been snatched off of the streets of Beirut by Hezbollah.
This is the kind of situation that CIA's legendary Deputy Director of Operations Edwin Rothmann needs solved fast-but he can't involve the agency. Instead, he enlists the renegade Ft. Lauderdale outfit he refers to as "CIA, Inc." headed by former CIA case officer Mac MacMurphy.
As the kidnapped officer faces a battle of wits with her...
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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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Just 10 days before the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule, 007 is sent to investigate the infamous Chinese underworld of Triad. Discovering a diabolical plot of revenge that threatens to derail the return of the former British colony to China, Bond penetrates a deadly high stakes game of intrigue and treachery.
10) Intercept
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Black Ops Agent Blake MacKay never anticipated becoming a former ally's target, but his life takes a dangerous turn when he's caught in their sights. After Iran's ex-nuclear guru resurfaces to lead a new nuclear weapons program, Mossad dispatches elite sniper Solomon Zinn to eliminate him. However, Ansar al-Sharia, the former Benghazi militant group, also has its sights set on Fallahi, and they'll stop at nothing to get him.
As tensions mount...
11) The Killing Room
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From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat
On a vacation in Las Vegas, a man wakes up in a hotel room that isn't his with a dead woman he doesn't recognize in the bathtub.
Panicked, he runs. Before he can get far the police have caught him, and two detectives inform him that he's the one who murdered the woman-they've even found the weapon. Only the man has...
12) She's Missing
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When an intelligence agent's old partner goes missing, he puts his life on the line to find her.Coop hadn't spoken to his old partner, Zoe, since she abruptly left the Agency two years earlier. Out of the blue he receives a frantic phone call from her domestic partner, saying while on holiday in Cyprus, Zoe has disappeared.Coop promised his wife and son he would never return to the clandestine world of a field agent, but he has a gut feeling Zoe's...
13) One Decent Thing
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Scottie, a decadent university administrator with a weakness for drink and women, visits his daughter Tina who is studying at university. She wants nothing to do with him because of the shabby way he has treated his ex-wife. After a heavy drinking session, he murders an injured IRA man he finds on the beach and steals the documents the man was carrying. The IRA cell try to hunt him down to recover the papers and exert pressure on him by kidnapping...
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Days after his seventeenth birthday, Edward Siedle received a series of cryptic messages indicating his father had suddenly disappeared in a remote region of Uganda, East Africa. Robert Siedle was last seen badly beaten at a Ugandan Army barracks, where he was captured while investigating a brutal massacre of hundreds of soldiers by President Idi Amin.
His disappearance, which was reported in Newsweek magazine within days, alerted the world that...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Spy Among Friends" chronicles the intertwined lives of British intelligence officers Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby, the latter a notorious double agent for the Soviet Union. Elliott, from a privileged background, joined MI6 and developed a close bond with Philby, who was also recruited into British intelligence despite...
16) Plausible Denial
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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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While looking for the man who shot them six months earlier, two U.S. intelligence officers search islands in the Indian Ocean only to get entangled in a web from which escape is difficult. A body washes ashore on a remote island in the Maldives. Normally the incident would go unnoticed by intelligence organizations; however, this corpse is carrying the passport of Craig (Coop) Cooper, a spy working for the U.S. Agency.Coop, who is very much alive,...
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Steven Statton - a very working-class spy', is a thrill-a-minute story of intrigue and betrayal at the heart of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency.
Although set mainly in London, the story sees Steven Statton travel the world in an effort to counter an Iranian plot to use the Mafia to destabilise Britain by flooding its streets with heroin. However, Statton's task is made harder when he is betrayed by somebody working in the British Secret...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben Macintyre chronicles the life of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer born into a Soviet intelligence family. Despite his father's staunch Communist beliefs and his own KGB career, Gordievsky harbored doubts about the regime. His espionage skills were honed at KGB's School 101, and despite initial...
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When American expat journalist Steve Collins sets off for the middle of the Amazon Jungle to cover a plane crash with a U.S senator aboard, he has no idea how his life is about to change. The Peruvian military is claiming the Shining Path rebel insurgency launched a missile attack on the aircraft, and the U.S. State Department is backing the military's claim. Steve just ain't buying it. He smells complicity, but has nothing to go on except the word...
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