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"An electrifying thriller from the author of The Night Agent now on Netflix, an attack on the White House sends the President and his top aides to take shelter in a top secret government facility buried deep underground—but they soon discover the threat is locked inside with them. Assume the worst. Code Black. The day that every secret service agent trains for has arrived. The White House has been breached; the President forced to flee to a massive...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or was it a personal quest gone wrong? Only when Wall Street Journal reporter Brett Forrest embarks on his own investigation does a picture emerge: of the FBI's exploitation of US citizens through a secretive intelligence program, a young man's lust for adventure within the world's conflicts,...
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
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Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"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...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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...
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Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome. Spies, codes, and guerrillas played unprecedentedly...
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
After the harrowing death of his partner, detective and best selling author Alex Cross has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal kidnaps a senator's young daughter, Alex is lured back into action. Teamed with the Secret Service agent assigned to protect the missing girl, Alex follows a serpentine trail of clues that leads him to a stunning discovery, the kidnapper wants more than just ransom, he wants Alex's help in documenting...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Revealing the sensational true story behind a forgotten part of espionage history, this book takes readers behind the doors of "Salon Kitty," a high-class Berlin brothel that, when the Nazis took power, became a dangerous spy center, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients.
'This extraordinary story of a high-class Berlin brothel—taken over by the Nazi secret service—is one of the last untold...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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."...
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Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1967, at a secret American military base located under the ice in Greenland, psychiatrist and CIA consultant Jack Miller must uncover Private Connor Murphy's memories to unravel a mystery surrounding the events of a deadly storm that claimed the life of two soldiers and soon realizes nothing is as it seems.
"In this chilling novel—introducing an exciting new talent in thriller-writing—a psychiatrist is tasked with unraveling a mystery at a...
Author
Series
Men at war volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Dick Canidy and the agents of the OSS scour war torn Poland looking for a rocket scientist who holds the secrets to the Nazis most dangerous weapon in this new entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series. April 1940. By terms of the Soviet Nazi Nonaggression pact, the two dictatorships divided the helpless nation of Poland. Now, the Russians are rounding up enemies of the state in their occupation zone, but one essential...
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