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Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly--when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick's deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar, the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now, suddenly, Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists...
42) The Heist
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"Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is in Venice repairing an altarpiece by Veronese when he receives an urgent summons from the Italian police. The eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood has stumbled upon a chilling murder scene in Lake Como, and is being held as a suspect. To save his friend, Gabriel must track down the real killers and then perform one simple task: find the most famous missing painting in the world. Sometimes the...
44) Eye of the Storm
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Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon's strengths and weaknesses--and brilliant mastery of espionage. Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening -- and true -- event: Iraq's attempted mortar attack on...
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"Vivian Miller is a dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States. On track for a much-needed promotion, she's developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight. After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within America's borders. A few clicks later, everything...
46) Harriet, the spy
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Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.
47) The spy: a novel
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When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the eras richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Haris lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage. Told in Mata Haris voice through...
48) Paris Spring
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James Naughtie established himself a "capable and elegant writer" (Wall Street Journal) with his gripping and highly praised debut, The Madness of July. He sets his new, "brilliant spy thriller" (The Guardian) in the feverish atmosphere of Paris, in April of 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Scottish-American Will Flemyng-a spy working in the British Embassy-the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro...
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Gabriel Allon has been hailed as the most compelling creation since "Ian Fleming put down his martini and invented James Bond". A man with a deep appreciation for all that is beautiful, Gabriel is also an angel of vengeance, an international operative who will stop at nothing to see justice done. Sometimes he must journey far in search of evil. And sometimes evil comes to him.
50) Exposure
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A missing top-secret file poses a terrible dilemma for colleagues Giles Holloway and Simon Callington at the height of the Cold War in London, where Simon's wife, Lily, resolves to protect their family only to be devastatingly exposed.
51) The Risk Agent
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A Chinese national working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off a Shanghai street in broad daylight. His one-man security detail goes missing. Rutherford Risk is a firm specializing in the negotiation for and recovery of hostages. With private investigation illegal in today's China, the operation will be difficult at best. So the firm hires two unique outsiders to do their bidding: forensic accountant Grace Chu to follow the money;...
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August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now - standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in the middle of a miserably hot and remote Mississippi prisoner-of-war camp. Frade's job? Typical OSS: to help the uncooperative Frogger escape. Frogger's parents are in Frade's custody...
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American media mogul Stephanie Gallo's daughter is kidnapped in Afghanistan by a terrorist group. When the group explains that they'll trade Gallo's daughter for Mustafa Khan, a top Al-Qaeda operative, the U.S. president calls in Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath. Without back-up or resources, Harvath must sneak into Afghanistan's Policharki prison and not only bust out Khan, but also figure out a way to outsmart the...
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In late 2009, the CIA officers in Afghanistan's Kabul state fell for a Jordanian doctor who promised to lead them to the highest ranks of al-Qaeda. In truth, the doctor was a double agent, and when he blew himself up, the station's most senior officers died with him. More than two years later, the station still hasn't recovered. At Langley, the CIA's chief wonders if somehow the Taliban has infiltrated the station. When they ask John Wells to investigate,...
55) Black ops
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The Russian bear is stirring--and it's hungry--in the thrilling fifth novel of the Presidential Agent series. Could sabers be rattling for a new Cold War--or worse? Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo is about to find out as the Delta Force operative investigates the disappearances and deaths of covert U.S. intelligence assets working for a variety of agencies.
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"Mrs. Pollifax is on loan to her retired CIA friend, Farrell. Her bag lady act is the first phase of a mission to the Middle East: to smuggle out of Jordan the final manuscript of the dissident Iraqi novelist Dib Assen, who was recently murdered in an Iraqi prison. Allegedly fiction, the script encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign."--BOOK JACKET. "Allah willing, Farrell is to rendezvous near Amman with a man called Ibrahim, who will...
58) Twice a spy
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Hiding out in Switzerland to avoid criminal charges in America, Charlie and Drummond Clark experiment with treatments to retrieve Drummond's memory before confronting a formidable CIA case officer to save kidnapped NSA operative Alice Rutherford.
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Reformed from his days of covert-operations, Paul Janson has set a new mission for himself. Working in partnership with champion sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he rehabilitates disenchanted agents and helps them create new lives outside of the violent intelligence sector. For a fee, he will also use his skills to resolve international crises. Whether he's rescuing an American doctor from Somali pirates, attacking militant thugs intent on murdering...
60) Spy school
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Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.