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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why.
64) Once a spy
Author
Language
English
Description
"Hoping to find new meaning in his life, British intelligence officer Simon Duval resigns his commission and returns to England, where he finds his cousin's widow, Suzanne Duval, the Comtesse de Chambron. Working as a seamstress, living in reduced circumstances among London's French émigré community, Suzanne has had a life as complicated as Simon's own. While both believe they are beyond love and passion, their sympathetic bond leads him to propose...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Senior CIA analyst Mariah Bolt remembers her late father as the man who abandoned his family to run off to Europe with another woman. Ben Bolt's fans remember him somewhat differently, and revere him as a literary genius. But like it or not, Mariah has become the reluctant guardian of his legacy--never suspecting she has also inherited a ticking time bomb. As she is about to depart on a much-needed vacation with her teenage daughter, Mariah is called...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot's upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran -- in only a few days. But just as Pierson's informant is about to give her the location, they're ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
""If you make it across the border, get us help. Some of us care. Do you understand? ... The arrests grow insane." At the very hour this message is en route to the CIA, Mrs. Pollifax is waiting for her night-blooming cereus flower to do its thing. She hardly gets to see its flowers, though, before being whisked off for another daring mission halfway across the world. Soon she is sporting a beautiful new hat--perfect for hiding eight forged passports."...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two months after taking down terrorist Aleksandr Zakayev, Eric Steele is back in action. Though he is completing his Alpha assignments with the same deadly efficiency as always, he has lingering questions about his missing father--and his own future in the Program. When Steele gets the alert that a fellow Alpha is in serious trouble, he rushes to Paris--only to arrive too late. Jonathan Raines, Stalker Six, is dead, the victim of a brutal attack....
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Villanelle (a codename) is one of the world's most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world's richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail.
71) Twisted
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 376 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Former FBI Special Agent Sloane Burbank survived a life-threatening injury sustained in the line of duty, only to face leaving a job she loves in order to recuperate. As an independent consultant, she now uses her specialized skills to train law enforcement and private organizations in crisis resolution. But when one of her closest childhood friends mysteriously disappears, and the woman's parents beg for her help, Sloane takes the case--even though...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War, and Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant, but she's also a young black woman working in an old boys' club. Her career has stalled out, she's overlooked for every high-profile squad, and her days are filled with monotonous paperwork. So when she's given the opportunity to join a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic revolutionary president of...
74) Tightrope
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Allied forces close in on Berlin in spring 1945, a solitary figure emerges from the wreckage that is Germany. It is Marian Sutro, whose existence was last known to her British controllers in autumn 1943 in Paris. One of a handful of surviving agents of the Special Operations Executive, she has withstood arrest, interrogation, incarceration, and the horrors of Ravensbrück concentration camp, but at what cost? Returned to an England she barely...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
308 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When their autistic son Michael--a genius descended from Albert Einstein--is abducted by a cult bent on the destruction of the world, science historian David Swift and quantum physicist Monique Reynolds must stop the cult members from recreating the Big Bang and destroying mankind.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold. As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find...
77) Burned
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing one man: Bhoot, the world's most notorious nuclear arms dealer. That mission has been impeded by the murders of her assets, who were betrayed by a mole within her own agency. When she narrowly escapes death during a devastating explosion at the Louvre, Vanessa immediately suspects that Bhoot was the architect of the brazen terrorist attack. But when a previously unknown...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Intelligence officer Amy Cornwall knows too much, way too much. In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. It is empty. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum: locate and liberate an unnamed captive in forty-eight hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten-year-old daughter are dead. Now, and in open defiance of Army Command, Amy must...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a Russian intelligence officer insists on speaking to no one but her about cyber sabotage that has brought down a U.S. communications satellite, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle learns of a plot to hack into the West's military and reignite the Cold War.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to rise through the ranks of the agency first as an analyst and then as a Targeting Officer, eventually finding herself on the frontline of America's War against Islamic extremists. In this role, Nada was charged with determining if Iraq had a relationship with 9/11 and...