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Series
Alexander Vasin novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, this gripping novel of suspense follows KGB Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin as he chases an American spy embedded at the highest echelon of Soviet power and uncovers an ominous top-secret undertaking called Operation Anadyr.
42) The interim
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This monumental novel about an anguished East German writer interrogates with bitter wit the detritus of late twentieth-century life: alcoholism, car culture, consumerism, God, love, statelessness, and above all else, the writer's place in a "century of lies.""--
43) Tiempos recios
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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Una historia de conspiraciones políticas e intereses encontrados durante la Guerra Fría. Una mentira que pasó por verdad y cambió el devenir de América Latina.
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Language
English
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"In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins to chase down these startling secrets from her past. West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Our American Friend is a propulsive Cold War era spy thriller crossed with a fictional biography of a First Lady. Spanning from the 1970s to the present day, traveling from Moscow and Paris to Washington and New York, Anna Pitoniak's novel is a gripping page-turner about power and complicity and how sometimes, the fate of the world is in the hands of the people you'd never expect"--
47) The human factor
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Maurice Castle is a high-level operative of the British Secret Service during the Cold War era. Deeply in love with his African wife, Castle decides with misgivings to act as a double agent to help his in-laws in South Africa. Eventually Castle begins passing information to the Soviets. In order to evade detection, he allows his assistant to be wrongly identified as the source of the leaks. But when suspicions remain, Castle is forced to make an even...
48) Hawke: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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A modern-day swashbuckler and one of England's most decorated naval heroes, Lord Alexander Hawke heads for the Caribbean on a top-secret mission for the U.S. government to locate an experimental stealth submarine built by the Soviets just prior to the end of the Cold War which has fallen into the hands of an unstable government planning a preemptive strike against the U.S.
49) La otra mujer
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Series
Language
Español
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Description
"From Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayal" --
"El autor número 1 del New York Times regresa con esta obra maestra del espionaje, el amor y la traición. En un pequeño y aislado pueblo de la serranía de Cádiz, vive una misteriosa mujer de nacionalidad francesa que ha empezado a escribir unas memorias más que peligrosas. Es la historia de un hombre al que una vez...
50) Fail-safe
Author
Publisher
Distributed by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1962
Language
English
Description
A malfunction in a computer defense system leads to a nuclear cataclysm between two superpowers.
In a world still reeling from the fallout of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a group of American bombers armed with a deadly payload of nuclear weapons heads towards Moscow, their motives mysterious. Suddenly, a nuclear apocalypse looms closer than it ever has and the lives of millions of people depend on the high-stakes diplomacy of leaders on both sides of...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin. 1963. The height of the Cold War. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, or at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and a lower level CIA operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist...
52) An Affair state
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From Pat Frankauthor of the classic apocalyptic sci-fi novel Alas, Babyloncomes a political thriller set, and written, at the dawn of the Cold War, now back in printingIn Pat Franks riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel, young, outspoken Jeff Baker comes out of World War II determined to work for the State Department. When he lands his assignment in 1949, he becomes the third secretary of the US embassy in Budapest, an observation post...
53) Moscow exile
Author
Series
Joe Wilderness novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From "quite possibly the best historical novelist we have" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, DC to a KGB prison near Moscow's Kremlin. In Moscow Exile, John Lawton departs from his usual stomping grounds of England and Germany to jump across the Atlantic to Washington, DC, in the fragile postwar period where the Red Scare is growing noisier every day. Charlotte is a British expatriate...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world--and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer--code name GAMBIT--has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who defected...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
56) The dissident
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A novel set in 1970s Moscow following a group of Jewish dissidents"--
"A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a U.S. official, have been axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in the Soviet Union because the government has denied his application to leave for...
Author
Series
George Mueller novels volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Paul Vidich follows up his acclaimed debut spy thriller with a suspenseful tale of Cold War espionage set in 1950s Cuba, as foreign powers compete to influence the outcome of a revolution. Former CIA Agent George Mueller arrives in Havana in August 1958--the last months before the fall of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista--to look into the activities of Toby Graham, a CIA officer suspected of harboring sympathies for the rebel forces fighting the...
58) Dead lions
Author
Series
Slough House volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
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Description
London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work....
59) Before the storm
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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In 1948 Berlin, Sara Sturm, a German woman working for the U.S. Department of Public Affairs, is dispatched to investigate a store vandalized with swastikas and helps two Jewish Holocaust survivors track down a Nazi nuclear scientist whose knowledge may determine the course of countless wars to come.
Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Kristin Hannah, and Pam Jenoff, this thrilling, high-stakes Cold War novel from a bestselling author follows one couple’s...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bookshop involved in an espionage network, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff"--
"Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war. London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with...
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