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Carnivia trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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When a U.S. Army officer's daughter is kidnapped from an American base in Venice, Second Lieutenant Holly Boland, Venetian police captain Kat Tapo, and a genius webmaster join forces to find the missing girl and unravel a plot that reaches back to Italy's wartime past.
2) Intelligence
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Intelligence agent Maddie James and her colleagues unsuccessfully convey an impending terrorist threat to an election-minded administration focused on stressing its victories and wrongly blaming an adversarial nation.
Author
Series
Vanessa Pierson novels volume 1
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot's upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran -- in only a few days. But just as Pierson's informant is about to give her the location, they're ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.
Author
Series
Dark Talents novels volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Now officially working for the Secret Intelligence Service, Kim Tavistock is back to solve another mystery--this time a serial killer with deep Nazi ties--in the sequel to At the Table of Wolves."--
"Summer, 1936. In England, an assassin is loose. Someone is killing young people who possess Talents. As terror overtakes Britain, Kim Tavistock, now officially employed by England's Secret Intelligence Service, is sent on her first mission: to the remote...
5) Belong to me
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Series
Wicked lovers volume 5
Language
English
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"She's undercover and in over her head... When FBI analyst Tara Jacobs's fellow agent and best friend goes missing while investigating a sex ring, Tara goes undercover as a submissive in a Dallas BDSM club called Dominion. But no man can top a woman with Tara's moxie convincingly enough--until an edgy, dangerous Dom takes control of the scene and sets her heart racing with a single, commanding glance. Too bad he's also the man who stole her innocence...
Author
Series
Killing Eve novels volume 3
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Leaving behind everything and everyone she has ever known, Eve has walked out of her old life and into a shipping container headed for Russia. Locked in the darkness with her is Villanelle, whose sights are set on her most high-profile targets to date. Unable to deny their longing for each other, the former adversaries face their greatest challenge yet: a relationship. While Eve adjusts to a terrifying new world of treachery, conspiracy, and murder,...
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English
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"An utterly enchanting, immersive novel about an irrepressible young heroine who becomes an undercover agent during World War II-a sparkling debut, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. One blustery night in 1928, a whale washes up on the shores of the English Channel. By law, all whales belong to the King, but twelve-year-old Cristabel Seagrave has other plans. She and the rest of the household and their guests-her sister, Flossie (known affectionately...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A group of female warriors from the nation's most elite counter-terrorism unit-- the United States Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta--deploys on a dangerous international assignment. Their code name: Athena Project.
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. It is empty. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum: locate and liberate an unnamed captive in forty-eight hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten-year-old daughter are dead. Now, and in open defiance of Army Command, Amy must employ every lethal tactic she has to save them. To succeed,...
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English
Description
"It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might never return from. But if Bianca wants to go back to her...
11) The wild side
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English
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Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
Author
Series
Killing Eve novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. Eve has discovered that a senior intelligence officer is in the pay of the Twelve-the secretive and subversive organization that employs Villanelle-and she is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. The duel between the two women intensifies,...
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Liz Carlyle, MI5's liaison with French intelligence, investigates Birmingham's New Springfield mosque, which has disturbing ties to Pakistan and terrorism. Meanwhile, UCSO in Athens, worried that its ships are being specifically targeted by pirates, wonders if there's a leak in the organization.
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Language
English
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"Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery. Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, knows that her undercover work has its risks. So she doesn't hesitate when asked to infiltrate Scimitar, the terrorist group that has stolen lethal environmental technology. But when...
16) Quinn
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English
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As a former Navy seal turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance- no matter how devastating. With the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, they make a shocking discovery that sheds new light on young Bonnie's...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...
18) A hidden affair
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Discovering that Jared, her college boyfriend who supposedly had drowned a decade earlier, is actually alive, Jordan Weiss resigns from her State Department job to track him down, a search that leads her to a mysterious elusive woman and a handsome Israeli man with his own agenda.
Publisher
AMC Networks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The story of two women with brutal pasts addicted to each other but now trying desperately to live their lives without their drug of choice. For Villanelle, the assassin without a job, Eve is dead. For Eve, the ex-MI6 operative hiding in plain sight, Villanelle will never find her. All seems fine until a shocking and personal death sets them on a collision course yet again. The journey back to each other will cost both of them friends, family, and...
20) Present danger
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 4
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. It's a promotion, and she'll be running agents - her favourite activity - but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old boss, recently widowed and a very close friend. Attachments in the Intelligence Services are not encouraged: it seems her superiors know more about Liz's life than she thinks. In Belfast, Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal...
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