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Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax volume 10
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The assignment is a snap: Mrs. Pollifax just has to shoot some pictures at a quiet funeral outside Washington and take them to Sicily, where her old friend Farrell a former CIA agent turned art dealer anxiously awaits them. But like all Mrs. P's assignments, so ostensibly suitable for the CIA's favorite garden club member, this one quickly turns lethal. Her welcoming committee in Palermo includes a most unlikely CIA agent and several...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day. Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,' it tells of MI6's man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations...
Author
Series
Treadstone volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn't mutual. Levi Shaw, Treadstone's director, calls...
24) Puppets: a novel
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The New Jersey State Police had started calling him Howdy Doody, after the famous TV puppet of the 1950s. Three people killed in northern New Jersey, then three in Manhattan and another in the Bronx, in a thirteen-month period. And all of them hung up with strings attached to their limbs, like puppets. Finally the murderer was caught in New York City. Or so it seemsuntil State Police detective Mo Ford finds another victim, killed and arranged...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax volume 12
Language
English
Description
In response to a desperate SOS, Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood friend, Sammat, is soon to be crowned king. Mrs. Pollifax, reluctant to allow the girl to venture alone into what she fears may be grave danger, crashes the party. On arrival, Kadi and Mrs. P. soon discover that Sammat has dangerous enemies. Rumors are springing up that he is a sorcerer who is responsible for a rash of shocking murders in which...
Author
Series
Treadstone volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Adam Hayes promised his wife that he won't put his life on the line any more, and there's nothing that will make him break a promise to his wife. Well, almost nothing. Ten years ago Abdul Nassir saved Hayes's life, and the time has come for repayment. Nassir is the only eyewitness to a massacre committed by a rouge team of CIA contractors. He can identify the butcher who directed the bloodbath-- and has photographic proof. With America withdrawing...
27) Debt of honor
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Series
Language
English
Description
Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of a relatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, and elevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage. Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off aDebt of Honor to his parents and to the country he feels is responsible...
Author
Series
Ike Schwartz mystery volume 6
Publisher
Poisoned Pen
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
On the same evening that a body is found in Picketsvilles urgent care clinic, a mysterious break-in occurs at the house of one of Callend Universitys faculty. Both seem to be connected to an icon, The Virgin of Tenderness, in the faculty members possession. The fact that the body is that of the faculty members ex-wifes lover who, more interestingly seems to have entered the country under an assumed name only...
Author
Series
[Christian Gillette series] volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
"Dynamic chief financial officer Michael Rose is looking to add an exciting and profitable new dimension to energy conglomerate Trafalgar Industries via the major acquisition of CIS, a global information technology company. But its far from a done deal, thanks to fierce resistance from CIS, and from certain members of Trafalgars own board, to Roses takeover proposal. But Rose isnt about to sacrifice his best shot at...
30) The Vulture
Author
Series
Ike Schwartz mystery volume 10
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The smoking remains of a car belonging to sheriff Ike Schwartz are found just outside Picketsville, Virginia. Since leaving the CIA, the sheriff has made many enemies at home and abroad. Is this a cop killing, or domestic terrorism? While the Picketsville sheriff's department mounts a manhunt for the responsible party, Ike's old CIA colleague, Charlie Garland, who has been monitoring Ike's life, joins the hunt.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This You Choose adventure is told from three different perspectives--White Snow is a secret agent in Good Prince's army, looking for a computer with secret codes for a bomb; Mrs. White desperately searches for her runaway daughter Snow; and Charming, towed by his seven loyal sleddogs, goes to rescue his friend and mentor Meteorologist Snow-White, who is trapped in a raging blizzard in the Arctic--the reader chooses which plot to pursue.
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