W. E. B Griffin
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June 1, 1950: Captain Ken McCoy's report on Porbable North Korean hostilities meets with so much burequcratic displeasure that not only is it promptly suppressed, but McCoy himself is kicked out of the Corps.At least two outfits; however, are not impressed by such infighting: the fledgling CIA, which promptly hires McCoy; and the North Koreans, who on June 25 invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately, veterans and civilian life are called up,...
87) Broken Trust
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Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne is beginning to think nothing can shock him - until the case of a young socialite's death lands on his desk. The Camilla Rose Morgan he'd known as a teenager was beautiful and brilliant - how was it possible she'd jumped to her death from her own balcony? Her brother tells Payne she'd tragically been battling a lifetime of mental demons, and there is plenty of evidence of it, but still . . . something just...
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"A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa, the NKGB, the Hungarian Secret Police?--has broken the criminals out of jail, and he must track them down again. But there's more to it than that. Evidence has surfaced that in the war's last gasps, Heinrich...
89) Line of fire
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Two marines trapped on a small Coastwatcher island while reporting on Japanese air activity must rely for their survival on the special rescue team that has been assembled to save them.
90) Deadly assets
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Suffering among the country's highest murder rates; the tension between the Philadelphia PD and its Citizens Oversight Committee has long been reaching a boiling point. That turmoil turns from bad to worse shortly after the committee begins targeting police shootings; especially those of twenty-seven-year-old Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne, the Wyatt Earp of the Main Line, and then the committee's combative leader is found shot dead point-blank on the...
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Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel, his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Cohen calls for Charley Castillo to come out of retirement to direct a new Presidential Agent, one Captain P.K. "Pick" McCoy, USMC. Charley may be too old to kick...
92) Black ops: # 5
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The first disturbing reports reached Delta Force Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo in the form of backchannel messages concerning covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies around the world who have suddenly gone missing and then, inexplicably, found dying. Or dead. Castillo finds the information both infuriating and fascinating, particularly after a recent experience with two CIA traitors whose own deaths were swift and suspicious....
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For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, the news from an old law-enforcement friend sends a shiver down his spine. Russian girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. Payne learns thatś not all. It isnt́ just Russian girls who are vanishing. Teenage girls are being lured from foster homes.
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"The secretary of state has been kidnapped by Islamic extremists and his only hope for survival is a reconstituted Presidential Agent team in this revival of W. E. B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling series"--
Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel--his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing:...
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In Philadelphia the tension between the police department and its citizens oversight committee turns from bad to worse when the committee begins targeting police shootings, especially those of Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne. Then the committees combative leader is found shot dead. Ordered to stay out of the line of fire, Payne struggles to do his job. Hes been investigating the murder of a reporter--killed along with his wife and child--who was working...
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THRILLER / SUSPENSE. TOP SECRET: In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant named James D. Cronley, Jr. is recruited for a new covert enterprise that will eventually be transformed into something called the CIA. One war may have ended, but another one has already begun, against an enemy that is bigger, smarter, and more vicious: the Soviet Union. The Soviets have hit the ground running, and Cronley's job is to help...