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1) Safe houses
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. But during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two people speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities and then, before much longer, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in...
Author
Language
English
Description
Posing as the wife of an academic who has published a controversial interpretation of the Quran's promise to martyrs, CIA agent Claire Saylor finds her path on a collision course with a recent Moroccan emigre who has fallen under the sway of radicals at his local mosque.
3) Winter work
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Winter Work is a spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is forced to pick...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A thrillingly inventive novel about spies and their secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, and duplicity and loyalty - a maze of intrigue built from the espionage classics of the Cold War. A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that he'd once considered spying for the enemy. More than two decades later, Cage, by then a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives...
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