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1) Night heron
Author
Series
Philip Mangan novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former British spy Peanut reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction from Beijing.
Author
Series
Roland Ford volume 1
Language
English
Description
"From three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestseller T. Jefferson Parker, a stirring new thriller about a private investigator tasked with hunting down a returned soldier broken and made dangerous by his experiences at war"--
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Discovering that his estranged hacker daughter is being targeted by an assassin determined to stop her from exposing Chinese secrets, Jim Pierce learns that the Chinese military has developed an artificial life form that is threatening humanity.
Author
Series
Inspector Pekkala volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Inspector Pekkala returns to find himself enlisted by Stalin to investigate the death of one of the Soviet Union's top military engineers. However, finding the truth in the Soviet Union is never easy.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is belittled, overlooked, and eventually stolen by her German...
8) Atomic love
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
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