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1) Slow horses
Author
Series
Slough House volume 1
Language
English
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Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.
3) Modern spies
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the dangerous missions of several modern-day spies"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Language
English
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"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
6) Spook street
Author
Series
Slough House volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services...
10) Dead lions
Author
Series
Slough House volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a Cold War-era colleague is murdered far from his usual haunts, a team of disgraced MI5 spies under the leadership of irascible Jackson Lamb uncovers a shadowy tangle of secrets that lead to a man who hides his dangerous powers behind a false identity.
11) Echelon: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the time it takes to read this sentence, Echelon will intercept more than 70,000 phone calls, e-mails, and faxes. Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon will capture three billion electronic communications. Imagine what it will do tomorrow. In the near future, war is unknown, conflict has vanished, and life is picture-perfect. Or so it seems. Once merely a...
12) Firethorn
Author
Series
Discarded heroes volume 4
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Former Marine Griffin "Legend" Riddell, a fugitive from injustice, finds it difficult to trust anyone. Covert operative Kazi Faron, the woman sent to free him, has a dangerous secret that may jeopardize her life, mission, and the only man she respects. As Griffin and Kazi race around the globe to save Nightshade, the danger mounts. Will they find the culprit sabotaging their black ops team? Can their newfound feelings and trust survive when Griffin...
13) Executive orders
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Series
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
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When John Ryan finds himself President of the United States, he is bombarded by one crisis after another-- biological warfare, betrayal by high government officials, and assassination attempts.
14) I am the cheese
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with President Trump himself, outlines how the country's democratic structures and processes are under stress and discusses effective responses.
"In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order is teetering on the brink. North Korea is on the verge of having a nuclear...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives of the passengers on board, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears Masquerading as Amanda Pym?s worried aunt, Mrs. Pollifax begins her determined search, slipping through Damascus?s crooked streets and crowded souks ... and trekking deep into the desert. Yet she is shadowed by deadly enemies, whose sinister agenda...
18) Inside the CIA
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Is the life of a CIA agent really as exciting and dangerous as it appears? Readers discover the truth behind the secret life of CIA agents as they learn what it takes to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. As vivid full-color photographs draw them in to this secretive world, they explore essential facts about the skills, education, and training needed to follow this high-interest career path.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive and authoritative, The Secret State skillfully examines the potential pitfalls of the traditional intelligence cycle; the dangerous uncertainties of spies and human intelligence; how the Cold War became an electronic intelligence war; the technical revolution that began with the use of reconnaissance photography in World War I and during the Cuban Missile Crisis; the legacy of Stalin's deliberate ignoring of vital intelligence; how signals...
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