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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite...
Publisher
ClassicFlix
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (338 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a secret mission behind the Iron Curtain, a freak accident involving an exploding rocket shrinks American agent Mel Hunter to the size of six inches. But instead of ending his career, it turns out to be to his, and The Bureau's, advantage as the pocket-sized operative can infiltrate areas closed off to the average G-man. Hunter is aided by his full-sized partner Agent Bill Winters, gal Friday Miss Brown, and Bureau Commissioner Hall.
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving Washington, DC behind after causing an unthinkable disaster, ex-Army sniper and Secret Service agent Rafe Hendrix starts over in Texas where he meets and falls in love with veterinarian Melody Sanchez until someone from the past, bent on revenge, threatens everything he cherishes and believes.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Special agent James West and fellow agent and crackerjack inventor Artemus Gordon team up on a daring assignment to stop legless Dr. Arliss Loveless and his diabolical plot for a Disunited States of America.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The winter of 1779 to 1780 would mark Washington's darkest hour where he contemplated the army coming apart from lack of food, money, six years of war, desertions, mutiny, the threat of a devastating attack by the British, and incredibly, a plot to kidnap him. Yet Morristown would mark a turning point"--
10) Under fire
Author
Series
Defend and protect (Blackburn) volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Special Agent Tessa Reed left her demons in the past, but when she reconnects with USSS Agent Zane Thacker during a presidential fundraiser, one of those old adversaries comes to collect. These best friends must work together to protect the President and guard their own hearts"--
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Winston Churchill called for the lightning development of a completely new kind of warfare, recruiting a band of eccentric free-thinking warriors to become the first 'deniable' secret operatives to strike behind enemy lines, offering these volunteers nothing but the potential for glory and all-but-certain death. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare tells the story of the daring victories for this small force of 'freelance pirates', undertaking devastatingly...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
13) Lucky Jordan
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (84 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Lucky Jordan discovers that he can no longer avoid the draft, the self-serving New York racketeer fails at his half-hearted attempt at military life. He goes AWOL, stealing a car that happens to contain a briefcase full of valuable military plans. What follows is an escapade filled with Nazi spies, espionage, assassins, saboteurs and a beautiful member of the WACs determined to reform the gangster.
14) Kompromat
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A French diplomat must escape an FSB plot in Siberia.
Author
Publisher
[American Civil Liberties Union Foundation?]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (iv, 23 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether the existence of probable cause to arrest defeats a claim that the arrest was made in retaliation for arrestee's exercise of First Amendment protected speech.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (iii, 16 pages).
Language
English
Description
At issue is whether the existence of probable cause to arrest defeats a claim that the arrest was made in retaliation for arrestee's exercise of First Amendment protected speech.
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
The truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland--a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [edition].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray + 1 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Federal agent Richard Chance has a score to settle, and he's through playing by the rules. Whether that means blackmailing a beautiful parolee, disobeying direct orders or hurtling the wrong way down a crowded freeway, he vows to take down a murderous counterfeiter by any means necessary. But as the stakes grow higher, will Chance's dark obsession with vengeance destroy him?
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