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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
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It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square -- a place of many memories -- she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret...
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Anna Resnikov novels volume 2
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Ex-KGB colonel Anna heads to America, where she is sought out by Adrian, the former boss of her deceased, ex-spy husband, who wants answers and information that only she possesses.
5) Red to black
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Anna Resnikov novels volume 1
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In a resurgent Russia fueled by oil money and run by a corrupt oligarchy, a beautiful and brilliant KGB colonel, Anna, and her British counterpart in the MI6, Finn, are caught in a precarious secret mission to uncover the deadly threat a possible new Russian empire poses to the world.
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2022.
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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 as "The Veg"); her brother Digby, the long-awaited heir to Chilcombe manor; Maudie Kitkat, maidservant; Taras, a hot-tempered visiting artist-build a theatre within the whale's skeleton....
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Irregulars volume 1
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Quercus
Pub. Date
2017.
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294 pages ; 24 cm
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"London 1909: The British Empire spans the globe, seen as an invulnerable imperial power. But Captain Vernon Kell, head of counter-intelligence at the War Office, knows better. In Russia, there is revolution in the wind; in Germany, an arms race; and in London, the streets are alive with foreign agents provocateur. Kell wants to set up a Secret Service, an agency with a mandate to act domestically and abroad to protect the Empire, but to convince...
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Hanover Square Press
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[2022]
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360 pages ; 22 cm
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In a novel based on the little-known story of the British Army's X Troop, a German Jew and soldier seeking revenge for the deaths of his family in Berlin is recruited by a British major to join the newly formed X Troop, all "lost boys" driven not by patriotism but by vengeance.
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