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Lured to Umbersea Island to attend the engagement party of one of her late husband's fellow officers, Verity mingles among the men her husband once fought beside, and discovers dark secrets--along with a murder clearly meant to conceal them. Relying on little more than a coded letter, the help of a dashing stranger, and her own sharp instincts, Verity is forced down a path she never imagined--and comes face to face with the shattering possibility...
2) Treason
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Stone Barrington novels volume 52
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English
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Upon returning to New York City after a whirlwind British excursion, Stone Barrington is notified of a delicate situation within the country's administration. A close friend requires his expertise and subtlety to eradicate a destructive presence in a classified agency--only it soon becomes clear that this renegade was sent by a rival Stone has encountered before. From the City of Light to the rocky Maine coastline, Stone will need to summon all his...
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Violet Sterling has spent the last seven years in exile, longing to return to Burleigh House. One of the six great houses of England, Burleigh's magic kept both the countryside and Violet happy-- until her father's treason destroyed everything. But when she returns, Burleigh isn't what she remembered. Wild with grief, its very soul crying out in pain, Burleigh Houses's tormented magic ravages the countryside. How far will Vi go to save her house--...
5) Marshlands
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
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164 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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A novel written in reverse relates the story of an aging prisoner who is released only to be rescued from an assault by a curator, who works at a museum exhibiting "the marshes, " a conflict-torn wilderness where the former prisoner committed his crime.
6) Skin game
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Teddy Fay novels volume 3
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English
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"When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can't refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy unearths more information that just doesn't seem to connect, his straightforward mission becomes bigger--and stranger--than he imagined. The trail of bread crumbs leads to secrets hidden within secrets, evildoers trading in money and power, and a global threat on an unprecedented scale. Under the...
7) Under fire
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When Rachel Flores' tumultuous relationship with Major Liam McCabe ended abruptly, she refocuses her energy onto her career. She plans to forget Liam and live a peaceful life supplying therapy dogs for recovering military vets-until a patient reveals a traitorous plot within the epicenter of military intelligence. Rachel finds herself ensnared within a web of danger, and only one man can help her ...
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In 1780, Britain is nearly bankrupt from its long war with its former colonies. Its shrewd prime minister, Frederick North, devises a secret plan he hopes will finally force the conflict to a close: the arrest for treason of George Washington, commander-in-chief of the American army and one of the most famous men in the world. The undercover operative he selects, Jeremiah Black, evades danger long enough to capture Washington at his New Jersey headquarters...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
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334 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In the twenty-second century, a future in which mortaline wire controls the weather on the settled planets and entire refugee camps drowse in drug-induced slumber, no one--alive or dead, human or alien--is quite what they seem. When terrorists manage to crash Coral, the moon, into its home planet of Ribon, forcing evacuation, it's up to Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos, contract detectives for the Network Intelligence Organization, to solve a case of...
10) Traitor
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Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 27
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When McGarvey's best friend, Otto, is charged with treason, Mac and his wife, Petey, set out on a desperate odyssey to clear Otto's name. Crossing oceans and continents, their journey will take them from Japan to the US to Pakistan to Russia. Caught in a Kremlin crossfire between two warring intel agencies, Mac and Petey must fight for their lives every step of the way. And the stakes could not be higher.
11) The kingmaker
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Sean Drummond novels volume 3
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English
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In the worst case of treason in U.S. history, General William Morrison has been charged with an array of crimes. Sean Drummond bulls ahead and comes to suspect that this simple case of treason is actually a chess game being played at the highest levels by the best and brightest—one in which Morrison is merely a pawn.
12) The other virus
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Robertson Dickens
Pub. Date
2020.
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First edition.
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ix, 247 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Beau Kennedy is only weeks away from college graduation and a promising career. His phone buzzes and a mystery caller informs him of a Chinese plot against the United States. The caller then recruits Beau to join a secret program to stop the plot. Jenna Powers, a CIA psychiatrist and contractor, briefs Beau on a global manhunt to end a killer virus that has yet to surface in America. Meanwhile, the Chinese are utilizing a high-level mole inside the...
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Livy Nash series volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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It's V-E Day 1946 in London. Former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink before noon. She went to war to kill Nazis and quickly became one of the toughest agents in France. But her war ended with betrayal and the execution of the man she loved. Now Livy spends her days proofreading a demeaning advice column and her nights alone with black market vodka. But everything changes when she meets Ian Fleming. The man who will create the world's...
14) Time limit
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Former POW Major Harry Cargill has not only been charged with collaboration, he's even signed a confession. His court martial should be an open-and-shut case, except that his judge advocate, colonel William Edwards, is suspicious of its ease. Cargill refuses to answer questions or defend himself, but as Edwards investigates, he uncovers a horrifying truth that will shake the Army to its core.
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"The never-before-told story of the scandalous courtroom drama that paved the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. On the evening of November 8, 1923, the 34-year-old Adolf Hitler stormed into a beer hall in Munich, fired his pistol in the air, and proclaimed a revolution. Seventeen hours later, all that remained of his bold move was a trail of destruction. Hitler was on the run from the police. His career seemed to be over. The Trial...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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xiii, 404 pages : illustrations, portaits ; 25 cm
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English
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"The Trials of Allegiance examines the law of treason during the American Revolution: a convulsive, violent civil war in which nearly everyone could be considered a traitor, either to Great Britain or to America. Drawing from extensive archival research in Pennsylvania, one of the main centers of the revolution, Carlton Larson provides the most comprehensive analysis yet of the treason prosecutions brought by Americans against British adherents: through...
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"In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington's bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan. In the months leading up to the Revolutionary War, these traitorous soldiers, along with the Governor of New York, William Tryon, and Mayor David Mathews, launched a deadly plot against the most important member of the military: Washington...
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World War II, London - Many people have fled the city, and those who stayed behind find themselves thrown together in an odd intimacy born of crisis. Stella Rodney is one of those who chose to stay. But for her, the sense of impending catastrophe becomes acutely personal when she discovers that her lover, Robert, is suspected of selling secrets to the enemy, and that the man who is following him wants Stella herself as the price of his silence.
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University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
[2008]
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viii, 212 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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The first book dedicated to the treason trial of Aaron Burr. He was "arrested as a threat to national security, under suspicion of fomenting insurrection against the young republic, and then held without bail for months ... Deftly linking politics to law, Hoffer's highly readable study resonates with current events and shows us why the issues debated two centuries ago still matter today."-inside jacket.
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