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Based on KGB archives that have never been previously released, this stunning book provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was permitted unique access to Stalin-era records of Soviet intelligence operations against the United States. Years later, Vassiliev retrieved his extensive notebooks of transcribed documents from Moscow. With these notebooks, John Earl Haynes...
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Do you have the locksmith's phone number on speed dial? Find yourself spending a fortune on new locks after someone lost their keys again? Forgot your keys in the car one too many times? Free yourself once and for all from ever having a keyless crisis again with The CIA Lockpicking Manual. With this clever pocket- sized guide, you'll quickly learn how to get yourself into-and out of-tight spaces. With clear explanations and detailed illustrations,...
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There are many vivid episodes in the operational service of the Luftwaffe's special and secret units which engaged in the delivery of agents and saboteurs in the rear of the enemy throughout the Second World War-not just on the Eastern Front but across Asia and Europe. The activities of the pilots and crews of these squadrons, even in the Luftwaffe itself, were closed and secret. Information on the operations and missions of these units was known...
2484) War on the Streets
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Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission, But can the SAS prevent Britain descending into war-torn anarchy?
Great Britain, 1995: With terrorist bombs destroying town and city streets, rising crime and a teenage drug problem that is out of control, police forces are stretched beyond their limit. And now a new threat is looming.
A fanatical right-wing movement is spreading into the UK. Using terrorism and crime to fund its undercover activities, and a frightening...
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On 9/11 the U.S. had effectively no counterterrorism doctrine. Fast forward ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead; al Qaeda is organizationally ruined and pinned in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan; there has been no major attack on American soil; and while there has been at least one instance of a massive planned attack, it was crushed by the greatest international collaboration of intelligence services seen since the end of the Cold War....
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The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and psychology of two of the more spectacular intelligence failures in recent memory: the mistaken belief that the regime of the Shah in Iran was secure...
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A doctor in 1965 Miami is embroiled in international intrigue in this thrilling adventure from the author of the Duncan Maclain Mysteries.
In 1960, Dr. Antonio Carrillo fled Havana for freedom in Miami. Now, five years later, Tony works as a resident internist at the local VA hospital, and one hot summer day, he receives a phone call from a young woman who needs his help. A yacht pulling into Miami's harbor has rescued an ill man from the water. When...
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The true story of the top-secret mission to capture the Russian billionaire arms dealer, the “Merchant of Death”.
Viktor Bout was the world's foremost arms dealer. From his hideout in Moscow, he masterminded the sale of weapons to dictators, rebels, despots, and terror groups worldwide, supplying anything from AK-47s to state-of-the-art helicopter gunships and anti-aircraft missiles. Known as the Merchant of Death, he was hunted by MI6, INTERPOL,...
2489) Before Spin
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Before Spin is the eye-opening autobiography by Keith McDowall. It reveals an exciting wartime childhood, how the author became a local reporter chasing the news in South London to eventually working in Fleet Street where he covered industry, trade unions and Cabinet level politics. At the height of his career in the Government Information Service, Keith was a close adviser to both Labour and Conservative Cabinet Ministers throughout the 1970s and...
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A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical faultlines of South Asia.
Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord-faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu-has built an illicit empire throughout the lands that...
2492) A Wild Justice
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: "A winner . . . Mixing the grittiness of a police procedural with the high-concept tension of a spy thriller." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Ex-CIA agent John Locke's sister and brother-in-law, Billy, have been murdered. To find the killer and take revenge, he travels to a remote gas-field town in Siberia, where Billy's company had business connections. Once there, Locke finds an unlikely partner in...
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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession-but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA-whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account...
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Joseph Farny, dans une retraite forcée, découvre les règles et les coutumes bouddhistes...
Quand un Français en cavale pousse la porte d'un monastère tibétain, il cherche juste un refuge. Là-bas, au Ladakh, une rencontre providentielle change radicalement sa vision du monde et de la vie. Sept jours plus tard, c'est un homme nouveau qui retournera chez lui. ''Sept jours pour renaître'' est un court récit sur la découverte du bouddhisme tibétain...
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Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthral us with their abilities to operate secretly in the shadows. With these mini-biographies of twenty agents of various nationalities (including members of the DGSE, KGB, CIA, MI6 and Mossad), Patrick Pesnot and 'Mr X' bring the reader as close as possible into the world of espionage, though a panorama of intelligence history.Among the best known of these...
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Daniel Levin was in his New York office when he got a call from an acquaintance with an urgent, cryptic request to meet in Paris. A young man had gone missing in Syria. No government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help. Could he? Would he? So begins a suspenseful, shocking, and at times brutal true story of one man's search to find a missing person in Syria over twenty tense days. Levin, a lawyer turned armed-conflict negotiator, chases leads...
2497) [Leave a message]
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Ronnie Tracey's world is turned upside down when a missing intelligence officer contacts her, triggering a nail-biting chain of events in Cat Connor's spy/PI thriller [Leave a Message]. In Upper Hutt, New Zealand (a smallish city in the Wellington Region) there is a private investigation agency called, Wherefore Art Thou, with a reputation for excellence. The agency is run by Veronica (Ronnie) Tracey and her two best friends: Steph and Jenn. Domestic...
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Since 2001, the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around the world. But, how effective is this beleaguered agency, and is it really keeping us safe from terrorism? In this riveting expose, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley reveals the secrets behind the agency's ongoing battle to outthink and outmaneuver terrorists, illuminating the flawed, broken...
2499) The Avenue of the Dead
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MI6 agent Davina Graham plunges into a hotbed of international intrigue when she penetrates the inner sanctum of one of the US president's top aides, and tracks an elusive criminal from the White House to Moscow to Mexico City.
Still reeling from the murder of her husband, Ivan Sasanov, at the hands of the KGB, British Intelligence agent Davina Graham has been called back into active service to head off a potential international crisis. The...
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This extraordinary story of a high-class Berlin brothel-taken over by the Nazi secret service-is one of the last untold tales of World War II.
There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution.
"Salon Kitty" was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic-the city of "Cabaret." But after the Nazis...
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