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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction - New Arrivals Shelf
FICTION LECKY 2023
1 available

Description

"Her letters can save the country. But can she be trusted? A double agent. As World War Two rages, MI5 agent Sarah Gillespie is faced with her toughest challenge yet: handling Adeline Vernier, a mysterious double agent from Paris. A dangerous mission. Adeline’s coded letters could help the Allies defeat the Germans – but, in return, she demands that her boyfriend is rescued from Nazi-occupied France. Adeline is not above threatening...

2) The final witness: a Kennedy secret service agent breaks his silence after 60 years

Author

Landis, Paul

Publisher

Chicago Review Press

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
973.922 LANDIS 2023
2 available

Description

"Special Agent Paul Landis is in the follow-up car directly behind JFK’s and is at the president’s limo as soon as it stops at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He is inside Trauma Room #1, where the president is pronounced dead. He is on Air Force One with the president’s casket on the flight back to Washington, DC; an eyewitness to Lyndon Johnson taking the oath of office. What he saw is indelibly imprinted upon his psyche. He writes and files his...

3) Beverly Hills spy

Author

Drabkin, Ronald

Publisher

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

[2024]

Language

English

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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
940.5487 DRABKI 2024
1 available

Description

"In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars-who flipped to becomea spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor"-- ""A beguiling tale of espionage and double-dealing in the years leading up to World War II. ... Strap in for a narrative that demands...

4) Agent of the Iron Cross: the race to capture German saboteur-assassin Lothar Witzke during World War I

Author

Mills, Bill

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - New Arrivals Shelf
940.4874 MILLS 2023
1 available

Description

"Full of drama and intrigue, with master spies and double agents, diabolical sabotage devices, secret codes, and invisible ink, this is the true story of a German agent sent to the United States during World War I to launch a terror campaign of sabotage and murder, and the American counterintelligence effort that led to his capture"-- "From Publishers Weekly: "Devotees of cloak-and-dagger intrigue will revel in this thrilling and complex account."...