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Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 16
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 444 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"19th-century Europe--from Turin to Prague to Paris--abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. In Italy, republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. In France, during the Paris Commune, people eat mice, plan bombings and rebellions in the streets, and celebrate Black Masses. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating conspiracies and even massacres. There are false beards, false lawyers, false...
4) Z
Series
Criterion collection volume 491
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Greek pacifist leader is murdered at a rally. Despite the official police report of accidental death, a journalist's persistent questioning leads to a full-scale investigation, revealing corruption in high places.
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"When private detective Dana Cutler is hired by an attorney with powerful political connections, the assignment seems simple enough: follow a pretty college student named Charlotte Walsh and report on where she goes and whom she sees. But then the unexpected happens. One night, Cutler follows Walsh to a secret meeting with Christopher Farrington, the president of the United States. The following morning, Walsh's dead body shows up and Cutler has to...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who killed President Kennedy? Mixing narrative sements with newsreel footage, the story of a group of powerful men who plot the assasination. First they must recruit and train a shooter, then frame Lee Harvey Oswald.
8) 1971
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores an incident in which eight civilians in Media, Pennsylvania, broke into an FBI field office and released documents that showed the government's actions in spying on Americans.
9) Blowback
Author
Description
US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they’ve sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The body of a young black naval officer is found chained in the boiler of a mothballed battleship in Philadelphia. Naval investigators Dan Collins and Grace Snow discover a link to a hushed sex scandal involving a senior naval officer and a young lieutenant. The discovery puts both their lives in peril. By the author of The Edge of Honor.
11) Cointelpro 101
Publisher
Freedom Archives
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Illegal surveillance, disruption, and outright murder committed by the U.S. government in the '50s, '60s, and '70s is exposed. Many of these crimes are still unknown. Through interviews with activists who experienced these abuses first-hand, and with rare historical footage, the film provides an educational introduction to a period of intense repression that draws relevant lessons for present and future movements. Includes interviews with Muhammad...
12) The conspirator
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President and others. Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, war hero Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) reluctantly agrees to defend the lone woman charged, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), before a military tribunal. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save...
13) A very expensive poison: the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium--a rare, lethal, and highly radioactive substance. Here Luke Harding unspools a real-life political assassination story--complete with KGB, CIA, MI6, and Russian mobsters. He shows how Litvinenko's murder foreshadowed the killings of other Kremlin critics, from Washington, DC, to Moscow, and...
14) Litvinenko
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Litvinenko, a former Russian spy dies in a London hospital, but not before naming his murderer. Poisoned with the deadliest substance known to man, detectives dive into a high-stakes murder investigation. Can they find justice for Litvinenko's family?
15) J. Edgar
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"J. Edgar Hoover [was] head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for nearly 50 years. Hoover was feared, admired, reviled and revered, a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it. His methods were at once ruthless and heroic, with the admiration of the world his most coveted prize. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
360 pages
Description
"A 50th anniversary reissue of the original 1970 Bantam book about perhaps the most notorious trial in American history (then titled THE TALES OF HOFFMAN), published to coincide with Paramount's release of "The Trial of the Chicago 7," written and directed by Aaron Sorkin"--
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