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Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
82) Never say die
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 11
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider travels around the world on a dangerous mission to destroy the deadly terrorist organization, Scorpia, once and for all.
83) The glass spare
Author
Series
Glass spare volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After discovering that she has the ability to turn people into gemstones, Wilhemina, the fourth daughter of the wealthiest nation's king, seeks redemption putting herself in the path of a cursed prince who has his own ideas about Wil's power.
84) The black hawk
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
After a brutal attack leaves her close to death, agent Justine DeCabrillac, known as "Owl", turns for help to Adrian Hawkhurst, whom she once loved but now hates, and as she heals, they work together to uncover her assailant.
85) Rebel spy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
1776. A shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity for Frannie Tasker to escape her brutal stepfather. Assuming the identity of drowned Emmeline Coates, Frannie is rescued by a British merchant ship and sails with the crew to New York. For the next three years, Frannie lives a lie as Miss Coates, swept up in a courtship by a dashing British lieutenant. But after witnessing the darker side of the war, she realizes...
Author
Series
Spy toys volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Three toys with tiny computerized brains, rejected because they are not good with children, are recruited by Auntie Roz to be spy toys, whose first mission is to save the President's son from being kidnapped."--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Hard-up Russia expert Dr Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for a book that could set his career back on track. He has staggering new information about an unknown sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring-- a man who has evaded detection for his entire life. But when his source suddenly dies, Gaddis is left with just shreds of his investigation, and no idea that he is already in too deep.
Author
Series
John Wells novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
John Wells has just barely managed to stop an operation designed to drive the United States and Iran into war, but the instigator himself disappeared behind an impenetrable war of security. Now it's time for him to pay, and Wells has made it his personal mission. There are plenty of crosscurrents at work, though. The White House doesn't want anybody stirring the pot; his old CIA bosses have their own agendas; other countries are starting to sniff...
Author
Series
Publisher
AuthorContact
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"A secret Russian expedition returns with a devastating new pathogen, harvested from the frozen corpses of mammoths. It's the biological super-weapon they've been looking for, an apocalypse-level pathogen, a virus more deadly than anything ever to come from a Russian lab. Something that will stop NATO and the Americans in their tracks. A Biological Chernobyl. When Lance Spector quit the CIA, he swore he was out for good. One more government lie and...
Author
Language
English
Description
At nearly fifty, Nat is certain his years as an agent runner are over, but Britain's Secret Intelligence Service offers him an alternative to retirement: take over a small substation with a group of rough and unready spies. With this new assignment come some alarming developments that all seem to revolve around Nat's new badminton partner, of all people, and he has to stage one last plot to keep everything in check.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When ex-military contractor John Knox receives a text from partner Grace Chu warning that she fears her cover may have been blown while on assignment, he jumps into action. Knox must locate her overseas handlers, convince them of the danger, and then attempt to retrace the well-hidden steps of a woman who had been investigating how one million euros' worth of AIDS vaccine disappeared, all while eluding angry poachers on a parallel trail. Corruption...
Author
Series
Nina Soni volume 5
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Nina is prepared to show her new friends, who moved to Wisconsin, how to have fun in the snow. And then Nina notices a strange car at her neighbors' house while they're out of town. Clearly, it's time to be a Snow Spy and identify the MP (mystery person) -- edited from jacket flap by cataloger.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Maddie Robinson has always been overlooked: by her parents (who disappeared), by her friends (who are nonexistent), and even science fair judges (who think she has "so much... potential"). So when a mysterious man called The Recruiter invites her to join a secret society of spies, Maddie is floored. Then she discovers that these super secret super spies are the Illuminati--the world's most covert organization rumored to control, well, everything....
Author
Series
Ladies of Lantern Street volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight. But Amity Doncaster barely escapes with her life after she is trapped in a carriage with a blade-wielding man in a black silk mask who whispers the most vile taunts and threats into her ear. Her quick thinking, and her secret weapon, save her . . . for now. But the monster known in the press as the Bridegroom, who has left a trail of female victims in his wake, has survived...
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
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jack Lynch was a once-promising C.I.A. operative. On the even of his retirement, looking back at a failed career, he is tasked with one final mission...that goes horribly wrong. He wakes years later to a changed world-and deeper changes within himself. And when a shadowy group offers Lynch a second chance at a life of adventure, he's paired with the last person he ever could've imagined.
98) Never
Author
Language
English
Description
"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"January 1946: Two WACs leave an officers' club in Munich, and four Soviet NKGB agents kidnap them at knifepoint in the parking lot and shove them in the back of an ambulance. That is the agents' first mistake. And their last. One of the WACs, a blond woman improbably named Claudette Colbert, works for the new Directorate of Central Intelligence, and three of the men end up dead and the fourth wounded. The 'incident, ' however, will send shock waves...
100) Nightshade
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
British spy Livy Nash questions her loyalties when she responds to a lost colleague's call sign years after World War II, before encountering a Russian spy who invites her to become a double agent.
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