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Scot Harvath thrillers volume 17
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Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules--all of them.
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A powerful, timely novel that moves seamlessly between the euphoria of revolution and intimate dramas of love and loyalty. Once a senior diplomat in Kiev, Simon Davey lost everything after a lurid scandal. Back in London, still struggling with the aftermath of his disgrace, he is traveling on the Tube when he sees her. . . . This woman, Olesya, is the person Simon holds responsible for his downfall. He first met her on an icy night during the...
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Criterion collection volume 410
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 p.).
Description
Withering from alcoholism, British consul Geoffrey Firmin stumbles through a small Mexican village amidst the Day of the Dead fiesta, attempting to reconnect with his estranged wife, but only further alienating himself.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 DVD (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd and sometimes illicit jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
9) Indiscreet
Publisher
Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An American diplomat in London falls in love with an actress, but tries to protect himself by saying he is married.
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September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.The issue is to be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German...
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The bestselling author of "Devil in the White City" turns his hand to a remarkable story set during Hitler's rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning point in history.
14) The hostage
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Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
465 p. ; 24 cm.
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Department of Homeland Security agent Charley Castillo conducts a discreet investigation involving a murdered diplomat's brother-in-law, a man possessing key information about the scandalous United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq.
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
352 pages 24 cm.
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"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
16) Beirut
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (1 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set during the time of the Lebanese Civil War, tells the story of a former American diplomat who returns to Beirut to rescue his friend who was taken hostage by a terrorist group.
17) Kompromat
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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Loosely based on a true story, ''Kompromat'' stars Lellouche as a French diplomat working in Siberia who is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Accused of sexually abusing his own daughter and imprisoned, he realizes he is a victim of a Kompromat. Someone is working with the FSB (Federal Security Service) to frame him. His only way out is to escape.
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Stream raiders volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
554 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Description
As a child, Lu committed unforgivable acts to free Grace Loray from King Elazar of Argrid. Now Elazar's plan to retake the island has surpassed her darkest fears: He's holding her and his own son, Ben, captive in an endlessly shifting prison, forcing them to make a weapon which will guarantee Elazar's success. Escape is impossible, unless Lu becomes the ruthless soldier she hoped never to be again. Vex failed to save Lu and Ben, and that torments...
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