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From the author of the runaway bestseller The Orphan's Tale comes a remarkable story of friendship and courage centered around three women and a ring of female secret agents during World War II. 1946, Manhattan. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens the suitcase, where she discovers a dozen photographs...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 9
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Mrs. Pollifax is on hand in Morocco to back up an inept CIA agent, and it's a good thing. Their first informant is killed, and Mrs. Pollifax begins to get the idea that her colleague is not who he says he is. Still, she forges ahead, checking out suspicious informants, and coming to the conclusion that someone is an imposter and someone wants her dead ...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 1
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In the first appearance of Mrs. Pollifax, Emily leaves New Brunswick, N.J., travels to Langley, V.A. and persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for a job in Mexico. It's a simple courier job, no real spy work. Soon, however, she finds herself kidnapped, taken to Albania and imprisoned in the company of the mysterious John Sebastian Farrell.
“Should delight you whether youre looking for smiles or thrills.”The...
24) The protector
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Crossfire trilogy (Gennita Low) volume 1
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Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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"In this breakneck, race-against-the-clock thriller, a British spy has twelve hours to deliver her asset across London after Russia hacks the city's security cameras. Can she make it without being spotted . . . or killed? Nothing about Emma Makepeace is real. Not even her name. A newly-minted secret agent, Emma's barely graduated from basic training when she gets the call for her first major assignment. Eager to serve her country and prove her worth,...
26) Spy: a novel
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"At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her...
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Ladies of Lantern Street volume 2
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Under Miss Beatrice Lockwood's plain gray gown, a pistol waits at the ready. Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission and with a secret past and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy ball and who then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. Joshua Gage is a cipher in the shadows with a hypnotically calm voice...
30) Girl in a box
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Rei Shimura mysteries volume 9
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 12
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Emily Pollifax accompanies her young friend Kadi back to Africa, where a mutual friend is to be crowned king of his small country. But when several people are slashed by murderous lion claws and Kadi disappears, Mrs. Pollifax must begin a perilous investigation. Fortunately for all, staunch determination and polished karate skills are on her side. In response to a desperate SOS, Kadi Hopkirk flies to the African country of Ubangiba, where her childhood...
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"Two former female spies, bound by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II-an extraordinary, propulsive historical novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since American Sofie Anderson and Frechwoman Arlette LaRue were imprisoned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. As a pair of spies known as the Golden...
34) The Paris spy
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Maggie Hope mysteries volume 7
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2017
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English
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"American-born spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope secretly navigates Nazi-occupied France to find two brave women during the darkest days of World War II in the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series--"a treat for WWII buffs and mystery lovers alike." (Booklist, on The Prime Minister's Secret Agent) Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving as a typist for Winston Churchill. Now she's working undercover for the Special...
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 10
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English
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Part-time CIA operative Mrs. Pollifax is dispatched to sunny Sicily to help her sometimes colleague Farrell who has been wounded and is trapped in a mountain village. But soon Mrs. Pollifax herself is a target for professional killers.
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Sentro volume 1
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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With memory lapses becoming more frequent from serial-concussion syndrome, a black ops specialist, Aubrey Sentro, must elude the pirates who have seized the cargo ship she's on, save the passengers and get home safely to her children.
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2023.
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"Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and she finds herself with an even bigger assignment: sent...
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"Maggie Hope is off to Hollywood to solve a crime that hits too close to home--and confront the very evil she thought she had left behind in Europe--as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues. Los Angeles, 1943. As the Allies beat back the Nazis in the Mediterranean and the United States military slowly closes in on Tokyo, Walt Disney cranks out wartime propaganda and the Cocoanut...
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