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741) Old flames
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The Quiet Americans chronicles the exploits of four spies--Michael Burke, a charming former football star fallen on hard times, Frank Wisner, the scion of a wealthy Southern family, Peter Sichel, a sophisticated German Jew who escaped the Nazis, and Edward Lansdale, a brilliant ad executive. The four ran covert operations across the globe, trying to outwit the ruthless KGB in Berlin, parachuting commandos into Eastern Europe, plotting coups, and...
743) The good shepherd
Language
English
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Description
Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Elizabethan England, the queen?s chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward off Catholic plots and an ever-present threat of invasion from Spain. One agent in particular?a young Cambridge undergraduate of humble origins, controversial beliefs, and literary genius who goes by the name of Kit Marlowe?is relentless in his pursuit of intelligence for the Crown. When he is killed...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Duncan Chaplin Lee was one of the highest-ranking moles in the wartime U.S. intelligence apparatus. Lee was chief aide to William "Wild Bill" Donovan, the fabled head of the Office of Strategic Services and grandfather of the CIA. During World War II, Lee's political sympathies and desire to advance the fight against fascism led him to leak highly classified information to the Soviets. J. Edgar Hoover would tirelessly trace Lee's movements in an...
746) Hour of the cat
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Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a windy night in 1937, a seventeen-year-old German naval sub-cadet is wandering along the seawall when he stumbles upon a gang of ruffians beating up a tramp, whose life he saves. The man is none other than spymaster Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the Abwehr, German military intelligence. Canaris adopts the young man and dubs him 'Cesare' after the character in the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari for his ability to break through any barrier...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Economic hit men are the shock troops of what Perkins calls the corporatocracy, a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments, and the rich and powerful people tied to them. Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. He reveals how EHM have become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. And he gives an insider view with specific actions...
751) Run to you
Author
Series
Publisher
SDG Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The only way out is to trust the man who broke her heart. Her sister has been kidnapped and FSB agent Yanna Andreavka is hot on her trail--by going undercover into Taiwan's sex-trafficking trade. Now, she's in over her head . . . or is she? Also deep undercover is Delta Force Captain David Curtiss, after the kingpin of the Twin Serpents, the organized crime syndicate that has Yanna, and hundreds of others, in their clutches. But when he discovers...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A CIA veteran with extensive experience in covert operations presents a guide to the art of spycraft while illuminating the CIA's essential role, sharing a cautionary message about its recent transition toward paramilitary activities.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 446 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Brennan pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency. He brings the reader behind the scenes of some of the most crucial moments in recent U.S. history. He also candidly discusses the times he has failed to live up to his own high standards and the very public fallouts that have resulted. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Schaffner Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1st hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 263 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For more than a decade, Ron Capps, serving as both a senior military intelligence officer and as a Foreign Service officer for the U.S. Department of State, was witness to war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. From government atrocities in Kosovo, to the brutal cruelties perpetrated in several conflicts in central Africa, the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and culminating in genocide in Darfur, Ron acted as an intelligence collector and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"The former Director of National Intelligence's candid and compelling account of the intelligence community's successes--and failures--in facing some of the greatest threats to America. When he stepped down in January 2017 as the fourth United States director of national intelligence, James Clapper had been President Obama's senior intelligence adviser for six and a half years, longer than his three predecessors combined. He led the U.S. intelligence...
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Language
English
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Description
"Presents an account of how OSS spymaster Allen Dulles led a network of disenchanted Germans in a plot to assassinate Hitler and end World War II before the invasion of opportunistic Russian forces, "--NoveList.
"In November 1942, American spymaster Allen Dulles slipped into Switzerland just before Nazi forces sealed the border. His mission: to report on the inner workings of the Third Reich. Code-named Agent 110 by the OSS, he discovered a network...
Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this gripping third book in Andrew Rosenheim's critically acclaimed Jimmy Nessheim series, the fate of America's fledgling nuclear program and the outcome of World War II itself are at stake. Fall, 1942. Special agent James Nessheim has quit the FBI and enrolled as a law student at the University of Chicago. It isn't long before his former boss, Assistant Director Harry Guttman, comes to call, determined to persuade Nessheim to accept a new and...
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