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Mrs. Pollifax volume 13
Language
English
Description
Working with her retired CIA friend John Farrell, Mrs. Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan, a document that encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign. Hardly are the two airborne when the coils of Middle Eastern intrigue begin to unwind. Mrs. Pollifax's seatmate is not the affable Arab businessman he pretends to be. It is not imagination that persuades Mrs. P. that wherever they go, she and Farrell are followed. To elude their...
22) The rhesus chart
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry--the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats--Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on things best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do--especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus. Traders employed by a merchant bank...
23) I am the cheese
Author
Language
English
Description
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
24) A perfect spy
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
British intelligence agent Magnus Pym disappears, two desperate searches are initiated, one by agents looking for the missing spy and Pym's own quest to uncover the mysteries of his past.
Episode one: From a tense stakeout, the scene flashes back to the troubled boyhood of Magnus Pym. After his father and mother disappear without explanation, Magnus discovers deceit as a tool for self-preservation.
Episode two: His father, Rick, enlists the now...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
An official handbook for kids who dream of one day becoming a spy or working in the intelligence field. Have you ever wondered what spies really do: What kind of training is involved? Do you have to go to a special school or take a polygraph test? How doyou live your 'cover'? How does your work life affect your relationships with your friends and family? Is there danger involved? This fun, fact-filled book answers all these questions and more while...
Author
Series
[Johnson Johnson series] volume 6
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
The narrator is a Scots-born flower child who has become a celebrity make-up artist despite seemingly insurmountable handicaps. She becomes involved with Johnson Johnson in a sometimes deadly, sometimes hilarious, romp across the Atlantic Ocean and various Caribbean islands in pusuit of drug smugglers, who use murder and piracy to gain their ends.
28) The ghost war
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Series
Language
English
Description
Returning to Washington after a harrowing case in the Middle East, CIA agent and al-Qaeda infiltrator John Wells is selected to investigate a surge in Taliban activity with possible Asian ties.
31) Spook Street
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don’t remember they’re secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good?
These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold War–era operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding into dementia, and questions his grandson, River, must figure out answers to now that the spy...
These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold War–era operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding into dementia, and questions his grandson, River, must figure out answers to now that the spy...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both the CIA and the NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and momentous change For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect yourself, but you will be less successful in protecting America. "Play to the edge" was Hayden's...
34) I am the cheese
Publisher
Empire Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005].
Language
English
Description
Adam Farmer is 14 and seeks to uncover a secret lost in his subconscious that will help him to locate his parents, who mysteriously disappeared. Adam pieces together fragments of the story that uncovers government corruption and espionage.
35) Divine justice
Author
Series
Camel Club volume 4
Language
English
Description
In this fourth installment of Camel Club adventures, with two bullets Oliver Stone silences his foes. Those assassinations set off a manhunt of enormous proportions by some of the highest officials in government. The Camel Club must fend for itself, all the while protecting their elusive leader, Stone, as he avoids capture by the sometimes uninformed Joe Knox, the man in charge of the hunt.
36) Who's on first
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Series
Language
English
Description
Suspense: Blackford Oakes' new assignment is to delay a Soviet space shot.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"In Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken car crash. In London, Sean Dillon and his colleagues, fresh from defeating an al-Qaeda operation, receive a warning: You may think you have weakened us, but you have only made us stronger. In Washington, D.C., a CIA special projects director, frustrated at not getting presidential permission for his daring anti-terrorism plan, decides to put it in motion anyway. Soon, the ripples from...
39) Transcription
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Description
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly...
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