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1) Slow horses
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Slough House volume 1
Language
English
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Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.
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KGI novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Grace Peterson is desperate, in hiding, and on the run after escaping a shadowy group determined to exploit her extraordinary ability to heal others. Her only lifeline—an unerring telepathic ability she shares with her sister—has been severed, leaving her alone and vulnerable. And time is running out... Enlisted to bring Grace home is Rio, relentless member of the KGI. He's unprepared for his reaction to this wounded, damaged woman, and he's...
3) London rules
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Series
Slough House volume 5
Language
English
Description
"London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in...
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John Wells novels volume 1
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English
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“A well-crafted page-turner that addresses the most important issue of our time. It will keep you reading well into the night.”–Vince Flynn
A New York Times reporter has drawn upon his experience covering the occupation in Iraq to write the most gripping and chillingly plausible thriller of the post-9/11 era. Alex Berenson’s debut novel of suspense, The Faithful Spy, is a sharp, explosive story that...
A New York Times reporter has drawn upon his experience covering the occupation in Iraq to write the most gripping and chillingly plausible thriller of the post-9/11 era. Alex Berenson’s debut novel of suspense, The Faithful Spy, is a sharp, explosive story that...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan must prepare the President to meet the challenge of new enemies striking not only U.S. territory but, also the heart of the U.S. economy.
6) Slough house
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Series
Slough House volume 7
Language
English
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"At Slough House-MI5's London depository for demoted spies-Brexit has taken a toll. The "slow horses" have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House wiped from Service records-and fatal accidents keep happening. No wonder Jackson Lamb's crew is feeling paranoid. But are they actually targets? With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's...
7) Spook street
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Series
Slough House volume 4
Language
English
Description
"What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services...
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Camel Club novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this fourth of the Camel Club series, two bullets silence Oliver Stone's 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.
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English
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When his handler is accused of treason, British spy George Smiley is also dismissed from his agency. To clear his name and prove his loyalty, Smiley takes a job from Oliver Lacon, the Permanent Undersecretary to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in an attempt to identify and capture the real traitor.
10) Transcription
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English
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Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet Armstrong is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 6
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English
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"Posing as a tourist in China, Mrs. Pollifax meets the sinister challenges of the Orient to safeguard a treasure for the CIA...and all but loses her life in the bargain"--Cover.
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English
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After a fatal bar fight, black ops agent Ben Treven finds himself serving an indefinite sentence in a Manila prison. There, Ben receives a visit from Col. Scott Horton, who secures his release in exchange for a favor: he must track down and eliminate Daniel Larison, a former war buddy who is blackmailing the government with stolen CIA torture tapes.
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"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her...
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George Smiley novels volume 9
Language
English
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The undisputed master returns with a riveting new book--his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations...
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Counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath takes over his mentors game of saving the world. In Europe, diplomats are being attacked by a secret organization, while the United States is dealing with demands of the identity of a highly placed covert assest. Scot must navigate both problems in order to stop the next world war from happening.
"Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands...
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English
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Into an ordinary vacuum cleaner salesman's life slithers the Secret Service with a not-so-ordinary proposition, and Wormold, high on incredulity but low on cash, accepts the offer: a $300 a month assignment as England's new "man" in Havana. To keep the job and, more importantly, the cash flowing, Wormold fabricates non-existent agents, fake expense accounts, false stories, even a phony weapons conspiracy. But the stakes change when people start turning...
18) The whole truth
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this international thriller, Nicholas Creel, the head of the Ares Corporation, a huge defense contractor, hires a perception management firm to start a second cold war by planting fake news stories on the Internet about Russian atrocities. A shadowy operative, A Shaw, allies himself with a disgraced female journalist in an effort to thwart Creel's evil plot.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do...
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Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bonds illustrious career and the formation of his identity. "M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. “We have no choice. Were just going to bring forward this other chap youve been preparing. But you didnt tell me his name.” “Its Bond, sir,'” the Chief of Staff replied. “James Bond.”"...
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