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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Amanda Cole is bored and restless in her position as deputy chief of station in Rome. When her boss bungles a job and causes the poisoning death of a U.S. senator, Cole takes over as station chief and begins investigating the murder and Russia’s role in it. In the process, she finds a disturbing document in the senator’s notes that implicates her father—CIA operative Charlie Cole, who decades ago was mysteriously demoted to the agency’s public...
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Language
English
Description
To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue band of Ukranian partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia’s military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian National Guard to root them out. It’s a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from joining NATO by assassinating a deputy minister...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
603 pages (large print) : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten years after defeating a great evil threatening Russia and losing her new husband in the process, Ivy Vale is pursuing a personal vendetta. Her rogue actions may jeopardize everything that Talon, a secretive agency founded to fight the United States' enemies, has worked centuries to create. With each enemy agent she hunts down, she loses a piece of herself, until she comes face to face with the impossible: the love of her life may still be alive...
16) 2054: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It is twenty years after the catastrophic war between the United States and China that brought down the old American political order. A new party has emerged in the US, one that's held power for over a decade. When the beleaguered U.S. president falls dead during an address to the nation, computer science, intelligence, and business interests quickly recognize that it was a remote assassination effected by AI.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xvii, 222 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK's and is at the president's limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president's casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his report....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine days in the life of a country on the edge, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela's protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa's democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages, 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Dissident is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival--so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny's name. There's an old saying that Russia without corruption isn't Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition. His stubborn insistence...
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