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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...
Author
Language
English
Description
One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests-her sister, Flossie (known affectionately as "The Veg"); her brother Digby, the long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitkat, maidservant; Taras, a hot-tempered visiting artist-build a theatre within the whale's skeleton....
4) Red to black
Author
Series
Anna Resnikov novels volume 1
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Ken Follett and the intrigue of World War II—"a winning formula" (Entertainment Weekly) if ever there was one. With his riveting prose and unerring instinct for suspense, the #1 New York Times bestselling author takes to the skies over Europe during the early days of the war in a most extraordinary novel. . . .
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the...
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the...
6) Black cross
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the poison gas is being perfected on human subjects. Their only objective: destroy all traces of the gas and the men who created it-no matter how many lives may be lost ... including their own.
7) Enigma
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
The Parisian Orphan volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"1940, England: Evelyne Redfern, known as "The Parisian Orphan" as a child, is working on the line at a munitions factory in wartime London. When Mr. Fletcher, one of her father's old friends, spots Evelyne on a night out, Evelyne finds herself plunged into the world of Prime Minister Winston Churchill's cabinet war rooms. However, shortly after she settles into her new role as a secretary, one of the girls at work is murdered, and Evelyne must use...
11) Jasmine nights
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 34
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) Doubleshot
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 37
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Anna Resnikov novels volume 2
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ex-KGB colonel Anna heads to America, where she is sought out by Adrian, the former boss of her deceased, ex-spy husband, who wants answers and information that only she possesses.
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 35
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
17) Liberation
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
To the Allies, she was a fearless freedom fighter, a special operations legend, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo, she was a ghost, a shadow, the most wanted person in the world. When France fell to the Nazi blitzkrieg, Nancy Wake was just another young woman living in Marseilles. Drawn into the underground Resistance, she gained notoriety as the White Mouse, with a 5-million-franc bounty hanging over her head. Escaping to Britain, Wake joins...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
British secret agent James Bond is lured into a trap using the beautiful Russian spy Tatiana Romanova as bait. She's asked for passage to Paris with Bond as her chaperone in exchange for a top secret decoding machine. To survive the train ride from Istanbul, 007 will need to keep his wits about him and his Beretta close at hand, dealing with SMERSH's deadliest assassin and their operations chief, Rosa Klebb.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"It is World War II, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces an even more sinister threat from 'the enemy within'--Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Their mission: to seek out a man and a woman from among the colorful guests at Sans Souci, a seaside hotel. But this assignment is no stroll along the promenade--N...
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