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1) Typhoon
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
388 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
2) Nemesis
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
659 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best friends in an upscale part of Washington, D.C., in the politically charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her agoraphobic mother is obsessed with fears of nuclear war. Jenny is an all-American girl who has seemingly perfect parents. With Cold War rhetoric reaching a fever pitch in 1982, the ten-year-old girls write...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2008, almost two decades after the Cold War was officially consigned to the history books, an average American guy in his twenties helped to bring down a top Russian spy based at the United Nations. This American had no formal espionage training. Everything he knew about spying he'd learned from books, movies, video games, and TV. And yet, with the help of an initially reluctant FBI duo, he ended up at the center of a highly successful counterintelligence...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 14
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Amnesiac secret agent Jason Bourne joins forces with dubious enemies when the murder of a high-ranking Russian official triggers a retaliatory plot to steal the U.S. President's nuclear launch codes.
Author
Language
English
Description
The two-time Pulitzer winner investigates the truth about the Kremlin's covert attempt to help Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast allegiance to Vladimir Putin, and Robert Mueller's ensuing investigation -- based on confidential documents and hundreds of interviews with Trump's inner circle, government officials, individuals with close ties to the White House, law enforcement, the intelligence community, and foreign officials. Miller offers...
Author
Publisher
Walker Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A senior Economist writer argues that the Kremlin's spymasters have excelled in their field beyond the capabilities of their Western-world adversaries, tracing the story behind the 2010 deportation of Anna Chapman while analyzing triumphs and disasters in Western intelligence throughout the Cold War as revealed by a leading Russian NATO spy.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiii, 506 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A former ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration describes how the progress made between the two countries was destroyed when Vladimir Putin returned to power and recounts how the Kremlin actively sought to discredit and undermine him.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hatchette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"US sanctions have crippled Russia's economy, and Russia's interventions have exacerbated political problems in America. The old paradigm of America as the free capitalist good guys, fighting Russia, the repressive communist bad guys doesn't apply anymore. Joe Weisberg examines American policy and attempts to understand what Russia truly wants. Russia Upside Down suggests that we are fighting an enemy with whom we have few if any serious conflicts...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Russia's interference in 2016 marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. Shimer tells the story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations--by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia--to shape electoral outcomes. He also shows how, throughout history and in 2016, both Russian and American operations achieved their greatest success by influencing the way voters think, rather...
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