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Author
Series
Night soldiers volume 3
Language
English
Description
September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler’s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack by...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After terrorists launch a deadly attack on an Artificial Intelligence conference, ex-Secret Service agent Rusty Mullins is tasked with protecting an AI expert that just may hold the key to unlocking the Singularity -- the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities.
47) Let me in
Author
Publisher
Brava
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tate Winslow is done with all the guns, the adventures, the brushes with death. All she wants is to be left alone. So when her enigmatic ex-boss shows up on her doorstep barely alive, she really tries not to care. He's all alpha male, the baddest of the bad -- and a threat to her hard-won peace in more ways than one. Tate is the only lead Derek Cole has on a case that could blow the intelligence world apart -- if it doesn't kill him before he can...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The clever, devious, daring women who helped turn the tides of the Civil War
During America's most divisive war, both the Union and Confederacy took advantage of brave and courageous women willing to adventurously support their causes. These female spies of the Civil War participated in the world's second-oldest profession—spying—a profession perilous in the extreme. The tales of female spies are filled with suspense,
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Publisher
Westholme
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
xvii, 444 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In April 1862, 20 Union soldiers crossed Confederate lines to steal a locomotive called the General and destroy a critical Confederate supply line. In the aftermath half the team was executed; the half that escaped received the newly established Medal of Honor. -- publishers description.
Author
Language
English
Description
Follows New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department's Bomb Squad, as he hunts for German conspirators on American soil during World War I during a sabotage campaign that began in 1914 when the German ambassador to the U.S., Johann von Bernstoff, was instructed to develop an intelligence network to keep America out of WWI and prevent the shipment of supplies and war material to the Allies--both by "any means necessary."
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich--and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only his gift for daring falsehoods, Pujol became Germany's most valued agent--or double agent: it took four tries before the British believed he was really on the Allies' side. In the guise of Garbo, Pujol invented armadas out...
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 17
Language
English
Description
On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York, a former British soldier, who is also a bit more than that, takes a short walk in Central Park to stretch his legs, when a man comes up fast behind...
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
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of the American scientist and man of letters who led a secret life in Great Britain as British agent working against both the American colonies and the French during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Conant tells the story of young writer Roald Dahl who is assigned by His Majesty's Government to Washington, D.C. as a diplomat to gather intelligence about America's isolationist circles. In the course of his "spying, " he meets or works closely with David Ogilvy, Ian Fleming, and the great spymaster William Stephenson (aka Intrepid).
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