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201) Dr. No
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
James Bond, Agent 007, is sent to Jamaica to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a British secret service agent. He confronts the mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do...
204) The pirate king: the strange adventures of Henry Avery and the birth of the Golden Age of piracy
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Avery of Devon pillaged a fortune from a Mughal ship off the coast of India and then vanished into thin air--and into legend. More ballads, plays, biographies and books were written about Avery's adventures than any other pirate. His contemporaries crowned him "the pirate king" for pulling off the richest heist in pirate history and escaping with his head intact (unlike Blackbeard and his infamous Flying Gang). Avery was now the most wanted...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The little-known story of a spy on the atom-bomb project in World War II who had top security clearance -- American born, Soviet trained, he was never even suspected until after his information was in Soviet hands and he was safe in the USSR. It's LeCarre and "The Americans" for real"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable story of Fred Mayer, a German-born Jew who escaped Nazi Germany only to return as an American commando on a secret mission behind enemy lines. Growing up in Germany, Freddy Mayer witnessed the Nazis' rise to power. When he was sixteen, his family made the decision to flee to the United States--they were among the last German Jews to escape, in 1938. In America, Freddy tried enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor, only to be rejected...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After being mysteriously blacklisted from the intelligence community, former CIA operative Michael Westen must rely on his extraordinary and lethal set of skills to survive the hardboiled streets of Miami and somehow recover his stolen identity. With the help of Fiona, his sultry ex-girlfriend and a former IRA affiliate, she is every bit as deadly as she is gorgeous. Michael must track down his elusive nemesis and get to the bottom of his burn.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in London: its purpose was to plot the destruction of Hitler's war machine through spectacular acts of sabotage. The guerrilla campaign that followed was every bit as extraordinary as the six men who directed it. One of them, Cecil Clarke, was a maverick engineer who had spent the 1930s inventing futuristic caravans. Now,...
Publisher
AMC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Patriot cause has suffered the crushing loss of their capital city of Philadelphia to the British. Washington's army faces desertion and death, and the embattled General faces conspirators from within his own ranks, as well as personal demons he keeps hidden from the men he leads. Washington s closest ally in these dark times is also his most celebrated battle commander, Benedict Arnold a friend whose growing discontent will threaten the fate...
Author
Publisher
GCP
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, the war had reached its climax in continental Europe. News of secret diaries kept by Italy's former Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women-a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite-risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allied forces, who would use the papers as key evidence against the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. Just...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was clear, and she soon took on bigger and more significant...
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
En 2017, una investigación rutinaria para la televisión llevó a Ronan Farrow a una historia de la que hasta entonces solo había rumores: uno de los productores más poderosos de Hollywood era un depredador sexual, protegido por miedo, dinero y por una conspiración de silencio. A medida que Farrow se iba acercando a la verdad, desde abogados hasta espías expertos en guerras montaron una campaña secreta de intimidación para amenazar su carrera...
214) The Mueller report
Author
Publisher
Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The only book with exclusive analysis by the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff of The Washington Post, and the most complete and authoritative available. Read the findings of the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, complete with accompanying analysis by the Post reporters who've covered the story from the beginning. This edition from The Washington Post/Scribner contains: --The long-awaited report -- An introduction...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting, secret story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China. Spies is the history of the secret war that Russia and the West have been waging for a century. Espionage, sabotage, and subversion were the Kremlin's means to equalize the imbalance of resources between the East and West before, during, and after the Cold War. There was nothing "unprecedented" about...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy world of intelligence in China, but also the emotional tragedies that political extremism...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow. The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles away, was a pivotal, though less well known, part of Cold War history. With its population of Communist exiles from Cuba, its strategic value for military...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
There's trouble in paradise for former CIA operative Michael Western and his cohorts, and the streets of Miami are hotter, and deadlier, than ever before. In hot pursuit of his old nemesis, Michael must take down Anson Fullerton and find a way to free Fiona from prison, where she is being targeted by a murderous foe. Michael goes full force to save Fiona as he takes on cold-blooded assassins, diabolical drug cartels, uneasy alliances, and explosive...
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