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Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...
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"An Eye for an Eye": The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans „many of them starved, beaten and tortured" and estimates that „more than 60,000 died at the hands of a largely Jewish-run security organisation."...
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From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat
On a vacation in Las Vegas, a man wakes up in a hotel room that isn't his with a dead woman he doesn't recognize in the bathtub.
Panicked, he runs. Before he can get far the police have caught him, and two detectives inform him that he's the one who murdered the woman-they've even found the weapon. Only the man has...
5) Triple Cross
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When Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov teams up once more with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, their attempt to thwart a unified global mafia makes for Brian Freemantle's most unique and explosive Danilov/Cowley thriller yet. Their mission: to stop the Mafias of the U.S., Russia, and Italy from forming themselves into an organized crime conglomerate with the power to, quite literally, rule the world.
Their investigation...
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It's 2030 and the story's background is set amongst climate change as a factor creating global food insecurity through droughts, floods and changing weather patterns reducing arable land worldwide. The climate change of the 20th and the early 21st century has led to massive immigration from African regions in Europe and South American regions below the US, where they can no longer provide sufficient food due to the loss of arable farming land. These...
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January, 2020. Two West Bank investors launch a surgical mask production process. A young hacker is assassinated in the outskirts of Reims. A pandemic is threatening Europe. Governments declare a state of emergency, their strategic stocks are empty and secret services throughout the world are trying to get their hands on mask stored in Asia. Hundreds of millions of masks disappear from the market. These events are linked.
All these conditions are...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben Macintyre chronicles the life of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer born into a Soviet intelligence family. Despite his father's staunch Communist beliefs and his own KGB career, Gordievsky harbored doubts about the regime. His espionage skills were honed at KGB's School 101, and despite initial...
9) Hollow Men
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Retired CIA agent Wallace Mahoney is approached by Sonja, an Israeli intelligence agent. There's a mole in the Mossad, and they need an outsider to help uncover him. Against his better judgment, Mahoney agrees to help-and finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of agents and double agents that crisscrosses the globe.
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Heute geschehen, morgen vergessen, heute gewusst, morgen verdrängt! Ereignisse faszinieren, inspirieren, berühren oder ängstigen. Fallen unbeachtet unter den Tisch oder geraten ganz in Vergessenheit. Von Äthiopiens Gipfeln bis in die Tunnel Palästinas. Über den Dschungel Vietnams in die Fernsehstudios Europas. Von Nacktbildern, Mördern und der Erinnerung an Tragödien und Katastrophen vergangener Tage. 22 Kurzgeschichten und Erzählungen rund...
11) Intercept
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Black Ops Agent Blake MacKay never anticipated becoming a former ally's target, but his life takes a dangerous turn when he's caught in their sights. After Iran's ex-nuclear guru resurfaces to lead a new nuclear weapons program, Mossad dispatches elite sniper Solomon Zinn to eliminate him. However, Ansar al-Sharia, the former Benghazi militant group, also has its sights set on Fallahi, and they'll stop at nothing to get him.
As tensions mount...
12) The Case Officer
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The book the CIA wanted to keep off the bookshelves! In the murky world of espionage, where shadowy intelligence operatives struggle against one another to gain tactical advantage, things can often go very, very wrong. This is one such story. Told by a former master CIA spy, truth is woven with fiction to create a gripping yet authentic action packed tale of real intelligence operatives at war.
13) False Flag
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A young, female CIA officer under non-official cover has been snatched off of the streets of Beirut by Hezbollah.
This is the kind of situation that CIA's legendary Deputy Director of Operations Edwin Rothmann needs solved fast-but he can't involve the agency. Instead, he enlists the renegade Ft. Lauderdale outfit he refers to as "CIA, Inc." headed by former CIA case officer Mac MacMurphy.
As the kidnapped officer faces a battle of wits with her...
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When CIA Agent Alisha MacAleer's cover is blown by ex-lover Frank Reichart, she's forced into a spy game that draws a curtain back on a world she never even suspected existed...The clandestine Sicarii have hired Brandon Parker, the brilliant, estranged son of Alisha's handler, to develop an artificial intelligence capable of enforcing their divine right to rule. No one, not even Brandon's father, imagines he can do it not until Alisha herself faces...
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English butlers are a league of their own. More prude than their masters and more steeped in conventions of the English customs, they can get a shock of their lives, if only they could come to America. Something similar happens to our hero, Ruggles, who is staked by his owner in a game of cards and handed over to an American couple. What happens next is a riot of colors and experiences. So, come along on this comedy of situations with our hero who...
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Alex Spellman blames himself for a covert operation that went wrong in Northern Spain.
A sniper known only as Kapusta is a deadly assassin
with a dark and complex past.
The Russian, Vasili Dragunov needs to clear his name at
The Kremlin and will go to any lengths to do so.
Three men, all in need of redemption, brought together to face their demons. And each other.
Alex Spellman is on the run with his American compatriot,
Deanna...
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Tommy Atherstone, last of the "Knights of Rookhurst", isn't quite old enough to enlist for the Great War but persuades his strangely reluctant father to-who then goes missing, pitching Tommy into No Mans Land and the Castle of Time. His stop/go affair with his feisty Anglo-Indian girlfriend Ruth Rani Westall takes place against a background of civil unrest, the Russian Revolution and new ways of thought coming back to Britain from the Empire. Meanwhile,...
18) 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...
19) Cadenas de vela
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El Capitán Tom Larring apenas escapó con vida de una misión en Afganistán. Ahora tiene otra tarea. Effi Miani ha estado encubierto en el Medio Oriente pero es necesario para la misma operación. Juntos deben encontrar a Bravo-One-One, que es el objetivo de mayor prioridad para el MI6. Se cree que está construyendo un arma química en el noroeste de Pakistán. Una operación anterior del MI6 ya ha fallado. Una filtración o un traidor dentro del...
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Nunca La Habana fue tan fascinante…Ni tan peligrosa.
Una intriga con el sabor de las novelas clásicas de espías. Un caleidoscopio de personajes que se mueven por intereses no siempre lícitos.
"Lo que dejan ver las sombras" retrata una ciudad en la que las relaciones de poder se
mantienen en un frágil equilibrio. En 1953 Stanley Mortimer, un analista de la CIA se debate entre la vida y la muerte en un hospital mientras su jefe trata de averiguar...
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