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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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2) 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...
3) 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...
4) 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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The first thriller in the WWII series featuring SOE agent Rosie Ewing, a "meticulously researched war novel" (Len Deighton).
Summer 1943: Rosie Ewing is an agent of SOE-Special Operations Executive-and a "pianist," Resistance slang for radio operator. Their average life expectancy is six weeks.
But Rosie is brighter than most, well aware of the consequences of a second's carelessness, or bad luck, or treachery. Or a fellow agent crumbling...
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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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Cuando un brillante pianista y su curiosa compañera se entrometen en los asuntos de los demás, las consecuencias pueden ser imprevisibles... Max (pianista de bar) y Fabienne (pintora) pasan su vida en hoteles de lujo, en los lugares más prestigiosos frecuentados por clientes internacionales, entre cócteles y menús refinados. El encuentro fortuito con el director de orquesta chino Wang Shi, de gira por Europa y temporalmente en Roma, los involucra...
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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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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...
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...
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Dos de la mañana en el metro de Nueva York, primera década del siglo XXI. En la ciudad está vivo el recuerdo del ataque a las Torres Gemelas. Jack Reacher y cinco pasajeros en un vagón. Algo no va bien con uno de ellos: cumple con todos los requisitos para ser un terrorista suicida. Reacher se los sabe de memoria y va a entrar en acción antes de que sea demasiado tarde. El reflejo de una guerra en el territorio menos pensado.
Así empieza a desenredarse...
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The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational New York Times best-seller that tells the inside story of FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen, a seemingly all-American boy who would become the perfect traitor, jeopardizing America's national security for over twenty years by selling top-secret information to the Russians. Drawing from a wide variety of sources in the FBI, the Justice Department, the White House, and the intelligence community,...
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It's 1979 and Morgan O'Reilly, a dispirited CIA desk officer, is desperately trying to bury his memories. Sent to Cambodia as a Marine and then as a CIA operative during the Vietnam War, he had been given the unlikely task of pulling together a secret spy unit of orphaned street children. At the end of the war, he was only able to get one child out of the country, his surrogate son, Sophal. Years later, Sophal, now a CIA agent, disappears on a secret...
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Ric Hartland is more or less a paper pusher for the secret service in London. When a promotion comes his way – one he doesn't really want – Ric agrees to give it a try. It can't be too difficult, can it? His new assignment seems easy: visit Moscow, gather info and get out quick!
Yet nothing proves as simple as it first appears. Drawn deeper into a web of murder and deceit, Ric soon finds himself out of his depth. This is beyond the realm of deskwork...
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In the closing phases of the Second World War, over five thousand German rocket scientists are forcibly evacuated to a newly built rocket plant in the Soviet Union. Here, former German chief engineer Ernst Baier is working on a more streamlined, more powerful rocket that can be fired from mobile ramps. It is also only a matter of time before the Soviets also have the A-bomb. The former British agent Michael Saunders is living a life of ease with his...
16) The Triangle
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This intriguing story of international espionage is filled with twists and turns that will take you around the world. The character development paints a vivid picture of daily lives and motives, for good or ill, that will leaving you loving some and hating others. Justin and Amelia, brought together by a shared desire to find the source of deformed marine life, will soon find their own lives in jeopardy. But why? By which country? How can their lives...
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CIA operative Hayden Stone has his work cut out for him. Abdul Wahab seeks to make a power grab in the exotic land of Yemen and establish a terrorist base from which to launch an attack on Europe.
Wahab lures Stone to Yemen by kidnapping his partner CIA officer Sandra Harrington in Sicily. Stone comfortably operates in this world where tribal leaders vie for power with the central government, al Qaeda exerts its influence through murder and mayhem,...
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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...
19) The Partisan
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Epic in scope, The Partisan is a thrill ride that takes readers from the hallowed halls of Cambridge to the grimy depths of the Moscow underworld, from 1960s London to the Eastern Front during the Second World War.
Summer 1961: The brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous. Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they're...
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Dos agentes rusos descubren que Corea del Norte escondió un arma nuclear desaparecida en una ciudad estadounidense. Otra arma nuclear se acerca a Seúl en un túnel construido por norcoreanos. Y el nuevo dictador militar de Corea del Norte lanza una invasión total. ¿Será Seúl o Pyongyang la nueva capital de una Corea unida?
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