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Oregon files volume 13
Description
"Two millennia ago, the Nine Unknown Men were charged with safeguarding history-changing secrets. Their descendants split into rival factions: both hope to save the world, but their tactics could actually destroy humankind. Juan Cabrillo and his team aboard the Oregon are caught between the two adversaries and threatened by a supercomputer at sea and satellites able to neutralize technology--including the Oregon's high-tech weapons. The crew needs...
2) Top secret
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Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
192 pages
Description
"Information about intelligence gathering and spy agencies for children"--
3) Modern spies
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Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Describes the dangerous missions of several modern-day spies"--Provided by publisher.
4) Watchman
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
xii, 175 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Miles Flint is a spy whose last assignment led to the death of a foreign official in London, then to a short stint in jail. Convinced there is a mole in British intelligence, he sets out to find him--only to be waylaid by a routine mission to Belfast that may be his last.
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Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Description
"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
6) The courier
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
The true story of a British businessman unwittingly recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. Forming an unlikely partnership with a Soviet officer hoping to prevent a nuclear confrontation, the two men work together to provide the crucial intelligence used to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.
7) Typhoon fury
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Series
Oregon files volume 12
Description
Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only take...
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Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
10 CDs ( 13 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When his handler is accused of treason, British spy George Smiley is also dismissed from his agency. To clear his name and prove his loyalty, Smiley takes a job from Oliver Lacon, the Permanent Undersecretary to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, in an attempt to identify and capture the real traitor.
9) Drone Strike
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
517 p. ;
Description
When the U.S. develops intelligence showing that Iran is in the final stages of assembling a nuclear bomb, the president orders Breanna Stockard and the Whiplash team to destroy it. Left with no other choice, Stockard sends young Air Force ace Turk Mako behind enemy lines. His orders: pilot a squadron of high-tech nano-UAVs from inside Iran to destroy the weapon and its assembly bunker.
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Publisher
Scribner, of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world's most powerful and influential intelligence service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these individuals plus several of their predecessors, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities--spying, espionage, and covert action--take place on every...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
A blistering critique of the forces threatening the American intelligence community, beginning with the President of the United States himself, in a time when that community's work has never been harder or more important.
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Series
Oregon files volume 11
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"The new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after...
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Alex Rider has been trained since birth for a career as a spy. It's not until his beloved uncle, Ian Rider, dies that Alex learns of his intended purpose in life. At just 14, Alex is not sure he can do all that is required of a super spy. Without much choice he is taken under the wing of Britain's secret intelligence service. The Special Operations Division of the MI6 sends Alex on a mission which could save or cost millions of lives. As Alex embarks...
14) Transcription
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly...
15) Escape velocity
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
344 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The Higher Institute of Villainous Education is in grave danger. It's leader, Dr. Nero, has been captured by the world's most ruthless security force. It's up to Otto to save Dr. Nero. But first Otto must escape Nero's sinister replacement and H.I.V.E. itself. Will Otto be able to break into M16 as no other villain has ever done?
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Elena Standish volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
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"Britain's secret service, MI6, has lost contact with its informant in northern Italy, just as important intel about the future plans of Austria and Nazi Germany is coming to light. And young Elena Standish, to her surprise, is the only one who can recognize MI6's man--because he's her former lover. Aiden Strother betrayed her six years before, throwing shame on her entire family. Now, with so much to prove, Elena heads to Trieste to track down Aiden...
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George Smiley novels volume 9
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Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
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CIA analyst Jack Ryan, tries to figure out if Russian submarine captain, Marko Ramius, is planning to attack the U.S. coast or planning to defect.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
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"It is M's funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M's murder--James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former SMERSH agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion's den--but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives? In a mission where treachery...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls comes the never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA--women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage(and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace) in the treacherous post-WWII era"--
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