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A Vietnam vet leads an Army Special Forces unit to rescue a compromised CIA agent in 1979 East Berlin in this spy thriller series debut.
When the CIA's most valuable spy is compromised, the Agency realizes it does not have the capability to bring him to safety. If he cannot evade the dreaded East German security service, the result will be chaos and a cascade of failures throughout the Agency's worldwide operations.
Master Sergeant Kim Becker lived...
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On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme.
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The hunter is now the hunted. To save millions of innocent people from a brutal terrorist attack, Mitch Herron disobeyed his mission. Herron knows the cost of breaking faith with his employers – death, no matter what it costs them or how long it takes. Now, with elite killers on his tail, Herron faces his toughest test yet. Except, this time, he's the target. But as he fights to overcome the Enclave, Herron finds a deeper truth that threatens to...
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Books 13-16 in the USA Today Bestselling Series... Double BarrelSomeone is after Mike Recker. After coming close with a drive-by shooting, Recker and the team try to figure out who is behind the operation, before they try again.As they uncover a name, they also discover his connections to Vincent's organization. Is Vincent secretly trying to finally take The Silencer out of the picture? Or is there someone else? Someone who may have a connection to...
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The New York Times bestselling author of Dark Invasion and The Last Goodnight once again illuminates the lives of little-known individuals who played a significant role in America's history as he chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission and two remarkable agents whose story has been called "the greatest secret of the Cold War."
In 1946, genius linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered...
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It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader, secretly interfering with the American presidential election to help elect the candidate of its choice. Now, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates the truth about the Kremlin's covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast...
87) The new girl
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At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful raven-haired girl who arrives each morning in a motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. In truth, her father is Khalid bin Mohammed, the much-maligned crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Once celebrated for his daring social and religious reforms, he is now reviled for his role in the murder of...
88) Spycatcher
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"Great talent, great imagination, and real been-there done-that authenticity make this one of the year's best thriller debuts."
-Lee Child
"Not since Fleming charged Bond with the safety of the world has the international secret agent mystique been so anchored with an insider's reality."
-Noah Boyd, New York Times bestselling author of Agent X and The Bricklayer
"A real spy proves he is a real writer-and a truly deft and inventive one. Spycatcher...
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Explore the origins of the mystery genre with these seven classic tales of suspense and intrigue from Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, John Buchan, and others. Classic Mysteries includes: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget,", "The Purloined Letter," The Moonstone, An Antarctic Mystery, The Lady in the Shroud, and The Thirty-Nine Steps.
90) Siren Song
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The world knows Ian Fleming best as the creator of that international sensation, James Bond, hero of countless novels and films. The real Ian Fleming was once an operative for British Naval Intelligence, ostensibly retired to a career in journalism after World War II. Rumors have long swirled that Fleming never completely left the spy game...
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At a posh New Year's Eve party in London, Fleming falls hard and fast for the glamorous Nora,...
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Atractiva novela de espionaje internacional antiterrrista donde personaejes tan dispares como un famoso agente secreto, un gran financiero, un estudiante milanés, el hijo de un jeque y otros personajes sobresalientes; se unen en una trama que intenta detener el accionar terrorista, planeando una operación perfecta, compleja y arriesgada, En ella los "malos" muestran ciertas perplejidades y los "buenos" un cinismo inesperado, ambos librando una guerra...
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An American woman-naked, wounded and alone-escapes her captors and runs screaming down an alleyway in a dangerous Caracas slum, terrified of a horrifying political agenda she has uncovered.
She scribbles a message on a piece of paper and orders a nearby gang to somehow get it to a young writer in Miami. Venezuela's fate depends on it.
Meet that writer, Street Brewer, a thirty-year-old reporter working for The Gateway, a Miami media startup. Street...
93) Los conjurados
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Mientras Nat King Cole brilla en el Tropicana, el guajiro Plácido lucha por su vida a los pies de Sierra Maestra. Un sargento de las tropas de Batista lo tiene en el punto de mira, más por cuestiones de faldas que por razones políticas. Como le sucede a muchos conspiradores, incluida Magalys, la mulata de la que se ha enamorado. Y no le queda más que echarse al monte con los barbudos... Con algo de picaresca, ritmo de novela de aventuras y la...
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In 15th Century England, a secret Star Chamber met to decide the interests of the Crown and the course of the nation. They dispensed justice as they saw fit. The Chamber was officially abolished in 1641. Lord Harold McMann, a critic of the government's adventurism into Iraq and its dependence on oil, is struck down by a sniper's bullet. Two unassuming detectives are assigned to the case: John Dimond––a divorcee, and his partner, Jack Muldown––a...
95) The Journey
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This is a story about Detroit in good times and bad. This is a story about a vibrant Jewish community in Detroit, its successes and its coping with anti-Semitism. This is a story about athletics in the Detroit community and its meaning to it. This is a story about the growth of a virulent cancer in Europe leading up to and including World War II and about those who tried to retard and overcome it.
Most of the events and people in this work are real....
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When Nick hears about the dead man found in the desert, he doesn't give it much thought. Only thirty minutes from the Mexican border, corpses have a funny way of turning up in the strangest places. But this is no ordinary corpse. The dead man's driver's license says he is 44 years old, but the medical examiner claims the body is that of a man named Alex Dodson in his 90's. Why the age discrepancy? Dodson's research was intended to study the effects...
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An electric thriller where spies go to battle, and the free world is at stake. In the final installment in William DeAndrea's Clifford Driscoll series, master spy Driscoll is "going tame" - that is, recovering from a near-death accident and enjoying domestic peace. Driscoll, now known as Allan Trotter, hasn't killed anyone in more than a year. He still works for the Agency - a super-secret intelligence unit of the US government known only to the president...
98) The Gamov Factor
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Inside the Kremlin, the Chairman is dying. Those who vie to replace him struggle in the shadows. Andropov is the leading contender, but the insane, brilliant Boris Gamov is preparing to make a move of his own-if he wins out, the U.S. and Soviet Union will be at war within the year. Enter Donald Briggs O'Meara, the Magic Man. His mission: infiltrate the Kremlin, fake an assassination attempt on the Chairman, and set Gamov up to take the fall. But when...
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Keep your friends close, your enemies closer. In Deception, the difference between friend and enemy quickly blurs. Dmitry, a hardened Russian spy in the Cold War, has no mercy for his adversary Olyesa in this spy thriller. Olyesa and Dmitry navigate their way through the murky waters of agents and double agents while simultaneously struggling against each other for survival. When their divergent plans collide, it threatens to destroy them both.
100) Codename Ryan
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It is an Action/Adventure yarn but also a deeply moving love story about two people who, despite all odds, never gave up on each other. The story spans four continents and twenty years.
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