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1) The fix
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI headquarters. A man shoots a woman execution-style on a crowded sidewalk, then turns the gun on himself. Even with Decker's extraordinary powers of observation and deduction, the killing is baffling. Decker and his team can find absolutely no connection between the shooter--a family man with a successful consulting business--and his victim, a schoolteacher. Nor is there a hint of any possible motive...
2) Lethal agent
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novel volume 18
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the US. ISIS recruits a Mexican...
3) Severe clear
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Stone Barrington is in Bel-Air, overseeing the grand opening of the ultra-luxe hotel, The Arrington, built on the grounds of the mansion belonging to his late wife, Arrington Carter. The star-studded gala will be attended by socialites, royalty, and billionaires from overseas. and according to phone conversations intercepted by the NSA, it may also have attracted the attention of international terrorists. To ensure the safety of his guests--and the...
Author
Language
English
Description
A computer whiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone's e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca and Brian Unsworth appear to have it all. A nice house in the suburbs of Washington, DC. Two well-behaved, healthy teenage children. Important government jobs--Rebecca working in counterterrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Brian serving as a coder for the National Security Agency. Their lives stand to improve even more as Brian, in his off-hours, has just developed and sold a highly profitable app. However, the Unsworths' marriage...
7) Snowden
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What are the various security agencies? How do they work to keep the United States safe? Find the answers to these questions and more in this title." -- From publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
374 pages, 32 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
NSA director Theodore Anders has a simple goal: collect every phone call, email, and keystroke tapped on the Internet. He knows unlimited surveillance is the only way to keep America safe. Evelyn Gallagher doesn't care much about any of that. She just wants to keep her head down and manage the NSA's camera network and facial recognition program so she can afford private school for her deaf son, Dash. But when Evelyn discovers the existence of a program...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking, compelling investigation that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker-turned-avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become. In the wake of the scandal that emerged after details of American government surveillance were made public by WikiLeaks in 2013, Edward Snowden, formerly an employee of an outside contractor at the NSA facility in Hawaii, became the controversial...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Hot toy: A determined shopper grabs the last action figure off the shelf, only to find herself plunged into the arms of a sexy secret agent. Mayhem under the mistletoe ensues.
Christmas at Seashell Cottage: Jewell Cove doctor Charlie Yang finds her quiet, steady life disrupted by both an abandoned baby in the nativity manger and ex-SEAL Dave Ricker.
Christmas with the billionaire rancher: Texas rancher Nate wants to stay away from all the women...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a series of devastating cyber attacks rock the United States, Hayley Chill is tasked by the 'deeper state' to track down their source. NSA analysts insist that Moscow is the culprit, but that accusation brings plenty of complications with Hayley directing the president as a double agent against the Russians. With increasing pressure on the president to steer him towards a devastating war, it's up to Hayley to stop the mysterious computer hacker...
13) H.M.S. Unseen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The H.M.S. Unseen is one of the most efficient, lethal submarines ever built. But suddenly, on a training mission off the English coast, it vanishes, baffling military intelligence on both sides of the Atlantic, including National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan. A missing weapon is dangerous enough. But then the unthinkable begins to happen... Planes begin blowing up across the skies. Searching for answers, Morgan is convinced that only one...
Author
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
John Perkins was an economic hit man. His job was to convince countries around the globe to accept enormous loans that they could not pay back. His true story exposes international intrigue, corruption, and little-known government and corporate activities.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Investigative reporter for The Guardian and bestselling author Glenn Greenwald, provides an in-depth look into the NSA scandal that has triggered a national debate over national security and information privacy. With further revelations from documents entrusted to Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden himself, this book explores the extraordinary cooperation between private industry and the NSA, and the far-reaching consequences of the government's surveillance...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every day, a member of the CIA presents to the president a report detailing the most sensitive activities and analysis of world events. These can range from the behavior of America's allies to the maneuvering of its adversaries, from imminent dangers to long-term strategic opportunities, and are often based on the words of highly placed sources or the interceptions of astonishingly nimble technologies. This report--for the president's eyes only--forms...
17) Time to hunt
Author
Series
Pierce Hunt thriller volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the CIA calls on former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt to find a missing operative and friend, the last thing he wants to do is leave the peace of home and family behind. But there's more to this mission than meets the eye, and Hunt knows he has no choice but to risk everything to save his friend and protect his country. Hunt's target is Jorge Ramirez, who allegedly has information that poses a threat to the national security of the United States....
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Anchor Books ed.
Physical Desc
763 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
James Bamford, bestselling author of The Puzzle Palace, has written another fascinating, unrestricted, and controversial look into the secretive, powerful, and massive National Security Agency.
19) Bound to danger
Author
Series
Publisher
Signet Eclipse, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A person of interest to the NSA after overhearing two men plotting a terrorist attack and then losing her memory, Maria Cervantes falls under the protection of Agent Cade O'Reilly, a man from her past, who not only wants the memories locked in her mind, but wants to keep her in his life forever.
20) Citizenfour
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015], c2014.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With unprecedented access, this behind-the-scenes chronicle follows director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong as he hands over classified documents that provide evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.