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62) Ilium
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fast-paced and powerful, gripping and immersive, this subtly crafted and suspenseful novel, set in the present and the immediate past, in the dark world of international espionage in London, Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret is told through its young female protagonist who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a special op. The young English narrator briefly tells us of her unhappy family life in London, wanting...
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified in these pages for the first time. Statesecrets. Double agents. Leaks. Otto Penzler brings you all this and more with his latest title in the Big Book series. No need to wait for the government to release redacted information, Otto is ready to declassify confidential matters."--Provided by publisher....
Author
Series
Paul Samson novels volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this soaring third installment in internationally bestselling author Henry Porter's "timely and terrific" (Mick Herron) Firefly series, former MI6 agent Paul Samson must dodge several attempts on his own life in order to expose a shadowy and dangerous enemy of western democracy. Paul Samson is working for a private security company in London, tailing a mysterious and gifted young employee of a powerful environmental NGO when he is almost killed...
Author
Series
Spy toys volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fresh from the success of their first mission, our heroes the Spy Toys - Dan the Snugaliffic Cuddlestar Bear, Arabella the Loadsasmiles Sunshine Doll and Flax the custom-made police robot rabbit - are ready for their next task. This time, the secret code that controls every Snaztacular Ultrafun toy has been stolen and all over the world toys are revolting and turning against the children who own them. Can Arabella disguise herself as a super-sweet...
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Never before published spy fiction from today's most exciting authors: Lee Child, Joseph Finder, Stephen Hunter, Charles McCarry, David Morrell, Robert Wilson, James Grady, John Lawton, John Weisman, Gayle Lynds, Andrew Klavan, Dan Fesperman, Stella Rimington, Olen Steinhauer.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Trust no one. Justine Byrne can't trust the people working beside her. She can't trust the women who live down the hall. She can't even trust the man in front of her, and she just might love him. Inside the walls of Arlington Hall, a former women's college in Virginia that has been taken over by the United States Army, hundreds of men and women sit, bent over stacks of paper. Pencils in hand, they labor to decode countless pieces of communication...
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 8
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School and her first assignment is serving as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot to unseat Bonaparte, and Laura's mission is to report any suspicious findings. Soon, Laura and Jaouen are forced on the run with the children, and with the help of the...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face-down in a pool of icy water in the Khyber Pass. He thought he had killed him, but now the trail of betrayal has come full circle. Friends since childhood, Jonah and Nor ed-Din had been groomed for the intelligence service, with Jonah as handler for Nor's penetration of ISI. But when Nor is cut loose after the Soviets are forced to withdraw from Afghanistan, the pattern of engagement and abandonment...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"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
Simon Riske novels volume 3
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When a man to whom he owes his life reaches out from prison, international spy Simon Riske recruits a daring investigative reporter and a rogue Mossad agent to thwart an international conspiracy targeting major European cities.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 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...
Maggie Hope has come a long way since serving...
75) McGarvey
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 25
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Kirk McGarvey investigates the long-ago, mysterious death of his parents, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head to head and mano a mano with . . . Vladimir Putin. When Mac calls Putin out, the Russian dictator decides he wants him dead. Battling Russian hit squads as well as enemies at home, McGarvey must fight like the devil to save the himself, his friends, and the US of A. With this sweeping, epic novel, David Hagberg takes the...
76) Dangerous allies
Author
Series
Forgotten five volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Forgotten Five work to stop President Fuerte from using his supernatural army to sabotage Magdalia Palacio's campaign"--
77) The take
Author
Series
Simon Riske novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich, an international spy thriller featuring Simon Riske: one part James Bond, one part Jack Reacher.
Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central London. He is hired to perform the odd job for a bank, an insurance company, or the British Secret Service, when he isn't expertly stealing a million-dollar...
Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central London. He is hired to perform the odd job for a bank, an insurance company, or the British Secret Service, when he isn't expertly stealing a million-dollar...
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Agent Amy Cornwall excels at working from the shadows--until a botched field operation reveals dark dealings between her bosses and an informant. And a hidden plot by a terrorist genius that could kill thousands of Americans. Among them: her husband and daughter. She has to go dark. The Division wants to erase her. And they know every detail about her identity, her history, and her family. Agent Cornwall's countdown has begun"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this elegant and action-packed stand-alone sequel to the international bestselling thrillers The Swimmer and The Believer, fierce heroine Klara Walldéen must save her dearest friend Gabriella and maneuver the politics of a Swedish diplomat--while also falling in love. November 2015. Klara Walldéen returns to the Stockholm archipelago to bury her beloved grandfather, her best friend Gabriella by her side. What should be a trip of mourning and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kregel Publications
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of her parents' mysterious disappearance, a society girl discovers her dilettante father and flighty mother were leading double lives as government spies. With the help of her uncle and mentor, she determines to continue her parents' work-a decision that takes her from the ballrooms of London to the fox hunts and regattas and soirees of high society, chasing down artfully hidden clues while trying to keep her mission a secret from her...
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