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1) Slow horses
Author
Series
Slough House volume 1
Language
English
Description
Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Starting a new life with a new identity, Zoe finds her resolve to never risk her heart again weakened by Joe Kelly, a KGI agent who puts his life on the line to save her when the secrets of her past resurface.
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shea has been on the run from people who will stop at nothing to exploit her unique abilities. She never wanted to drag Nathan into more danger, but she doesn't have a choice, so she reaches out to him for help. Finally face-to-face after having already formed a soul-deep bond in hell, their emotion connection is even more powerful than their telepathic one.
4) Spook street
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services...
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Reserved KGI team leader Steele tries to fight his attraction to Maren Scofield, a doctor on a mission who is hiding devastating secrets and whom he must protect from danger.
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last person Sam Kelly expected to pull wounded from the lake was Sophie Lundgren. Once they had shared a brief, intense affair while Sam was undercover, and then she vanished. She's spent the last five months on the run, knowing that any mistake would cost her life and that of her unborn child -- Sam's child.
Author
Series
Laundry files novels volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Laundry Files' "fast-paced blend of espionage thrills, mundane office comedy and Lovecraftian horror" (SFX) continues as Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross assigns a day trader to a permanent position on the night shift... After stumbling upon the algorithm that turned him and his fellow merchant bankers into vampires, Alex Schwartz was drafted by The Laundry, Britain's secret counter-occult agency that's humanity's first line of defense...
Author
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
In gripping narrative that spans five decades,
Author
Series
Laundry files novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire for "The Laundry," must stop ruthless billionaire Ellis Billington from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue," from the ocean's depths for the purpose of ruling the world...
10) The whole truth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In this international thriller, Nicholas Creel, the head of the Ares Corporation, a huge defense contractor, hires a perception management firm to start a second cold war by planting fake news stories on the Internet about Russian atrocities. A shadowy operative, A Shaw, allies himself with a disgraced female journalist in an effort to thwart Creel's evil plot.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF's targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as "arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter." The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first." This instinct to take every measure, even the most aggressive, to defend the Jewish people is hardwired into Israel's DNA. From the very beginning of its statehood in 1948, protecting the...
Author
Series
Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents. But what starts as a simple mission in the States--intended to keep them out of trouble--suddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen. Even with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical,...
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been one year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly last saw his wife, Rachel, alive. Overwhelmed by grief and guilt over his failures as a husband, Ethan shuts himself off from everything and everyone. His brothers have tried to bring Ethan into the KGI fold, tried to break through the barriers he's built around himself, but Ethan refuses to respond...until he receives an anonymous note claiming Rachel is alive. To save her, Ethan will have to dodge...
14) After the storm
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Donovan Kelly, one of the elite agents of Kelly Group International, must protect a beautiful stranger and her younger siblings who, on the run from their past, are searching for a safe place to start over.
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...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own. In the Virgin Islands, former president Jake Cazalet receives a warning. He is recuperating on a diving trip after successfully helping Sean Dillon and the rest of the "Prime Minister's...
18) Breach of trust
Author
Series
Call of duty volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Former CIA agent Paige Rogers' entire team is killed in a covert mission. She blames Keary, their leader for betraying them. After Keary announces his candidacy for governor, Paige must choose between her life in hiding or risk everything to right old wrongs.
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Take a look inside the covert world of espionage - its history, the hi-tech spy gadgets and aspects of spycraft from surveillance to assassination. DK's Ultimate Spy is filled with stunning, specially commissioned photographs that show details of equipment including spycams, bugs, weapons and drone aircraft. From the earliest intrigues at royal courts through the covert operations of the CIA and KGB during the Cold War to the revelations from Wikileaks...
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