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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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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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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.
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George Smiley novels volume 9
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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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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.”"...
6) 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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English
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Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West.
8) 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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Series
Quiller adventures volume 18
Publisher
Otto Penzler Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
10) 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...
11) Spy sinker
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Series
Bernard Samson novels volume 7
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
14) Breaking cover
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Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 9
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Spycatcher novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Scouring the European underworld for an important document that has fallen into the wrong hands, special agent Will Cochrane must face two adversaries--a former high-ranking East German Stasi officer and a rogue operative whose skills rival his own.
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 16
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Captured by the FSB, the Russian intelligence service, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin struggles to survive and discern the fate of his family while British intelligence forces engage in contentious infighting to discover who revealed Charlie's identity.
17) Doctor No
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 6
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1958
Language
English
Description
Doctor No, a sinister recluse with mechanical pincers for hands and a sadistic fascination with pain, holds James Bond firm in his steely grasp. Bond and Honey Rider, his beautiful and vulnerable Girl Friday, have been captured trespassing on Doctor No's secluded Caribbean island. Intent on protecting his clandestine operations from the British secret service, Doctor No sees an opportunity to dispose of an enemy and further his diabolical research....
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Series
James Bond series volume 5
Language
English
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James Bond is marked for death by the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH in Ian Flemings masterful spy thriller, and the novel that President John F. Kennedy named one of his favorite books of all time. SMERSH stands for "Death to Spies" and theres no secret agent they'd like to disgrace and destroy more than 007, James Bond. But ensnaring the British Secret Services most lethal operative will require a lure so tempting even he cant resist....
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