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Do you have the locksmith's phone number on speed dial? Find yourself spending a fortune on new locks after someone lost their keys again? Forgot your keys in the car one too many times? Free yourself once and for all from ever having a keyless crisis again with The CIA Lockpicking Manual. With this clever pocket- sized guide, you'll quickly learn how to get yourself into-and out of-tight spaces. With clear explanations and detailed illustrations,...
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A sweeping international thriller that explores the geopolitical faultlines of South Asia.
Colonel Imtiaz Afridi, India's legendary spymaster, has zeroed in on a new threat emanating from the borderlands over which he keeps watch from his surveillance center in the Himalayan foothills. An elusive warlord-faceless, nameless, and known only by his nom de guerre Guldaar, meaning "leopard" in Urdu-has built an illicit empire throughout the lands that...
2203) [Leave a message]
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Ronnie Tracey's world is turned upside down when a missing intelligence officer contacts her, triggering a nail-biting chain of events in Cat Connor's spy/PI thriller [Leave a Message]. In Upper Hutt, New Zealand (a smallish city in the Wellington Region) there is a private investigation agency called, Wherefore Art Thou, with a reputation for excellence. The agency is run by Veronica (Ronnie) Tracey and her two best friends: Steph and Jenn. Domestic...
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Since 2001, the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around the world. But, how effective is this beleaguered agency, and is it really keeping us safe from terrorism? In this riveting expose, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley reveals the secrets behind the agency's ongoing battle to outthink and outmaneuver terrorists, illuminating the flawed, broken...
2205) Before Spin
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Before Spin is the eye-opening autobiography by Keith McDowall. It reveals an exciting wartime childhood, how the author became a local reporter chasing the news in South London to eventually working in Fleet Street where he covered industry, trade unions and Cabinet level politics. At the height of his career in the Government Information Service, Keith was a close adviser to both Labour and Conservative Cabinet Ministers throughout the 1970s and...
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This extraordinary story of a high-class Berlin brothel-taken over by the Nazi secret service-is one of the last untold tales of World War II.
There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution.
"Salon Kitty" was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic-the city of "Cabaret." But after the Nazis...
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The objective of this e-book is to share information theory that was emailed to the Aljazeera network in Palestine and the Western government offices in Canada and the USA and Great Britain. The articles explore political corruption and how that corruption can play a role in destroying a super power; by covertly convincing the terrorism networks and generals and politicians to implement some of this war strategy on the battlefield Ritthaler tries...
2208) The Mentor
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Paul Aston thrillers volume 1
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Spying, lying and dying. Fans of 'Spooks' will be swept away by Steve Jackson's explosive novel. They say lightning never strikes twice. They are wrong. London has been bombed for the second time in 2 years, but this time the enemy is a lot closer to home. Paul Aston, a young MI6 Agent, is sent to investigate. But nothing could have prepared him for the scenes of horror and devastation that he sees. Images that will stay with him for the rest of his...
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All is fair in love and war. At least the Nazis thought so. They deployed sex like any other weapon in the service of the Third Reich. Al Camino examines many shocking cases, where brothels were hotbeds of bugging and blackmail, and pillow talk could topple nations.
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• The bugging of Salon Kitty, a high-class brothel in Berlin which was taken over by the SS.
• Nazi spy Lilly Stein, a 'good-looking nymphomaniac' who slept with US...
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Early espionage organizations like Walsingham's Elizabethan spy network, were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe. Formal use of spies and counter spies only really began in the years after 1909, when the official British secret service was, founded. Britain became the first major proponent of secret information gathering and other nations quickly followed.
The outbreak of war in 1914 saw a sudden and...
2211) Akarat de Ragoon
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Akarat, el mercenario más afamado y mejor pago de las Tierras Occidentales, acaba de asesinar en combate singular a Tara, su amiga y paladina del Baronato de Gromberg. Él no sabe siquiera por qué ella le obligó, pero esa deuda de honor con el Baronato le llevará a aceptar una misión que normalmente rechazaría.El poblado agrícola de Barum ha sido arrasado hasta su último habitante, y todas las flechas apuntan como culpable al vecino Ducado...
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The prewar history of the Japanese intelligence community demonstrates how having power over much, but insight into little can have devastating consequences. Its postwar history-one of limited Japanese power despite growing insight-has also been problematic for national security.
In Special Duty Richard J. Samuels dissects the fascinating history of the intelligence community in Japan. Looking at the impact of shifts in the strategic environment,...
2213) False Idols
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Layla el-Deeb left Egypt for good eleven years ago, after a childhood spent in Cairo's slums. Now she's a language expert for the FBI . . . and she's right back where she started, in Cairo, investigating a terrorist organization that's funding its activities through fraudulent art sales. But this isn't the Cairo she knew. She's landed right in the middle of the city's glittering elite, whose dealings in the art world may be the key to infiltrating...
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Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications companies and other corporations. As made startlingly clear, the National Security Agency (NSA) has collected information on every phone call Americans have made over the past seven years. In that same time,...
2216) A Loyal Spy: A Thriller
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Winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, a Contemporary Spy Thriller for Fans of Brad Thor and John Le Carr.
The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face-down in a pool of icy water in the Khyber Pass. He thought he had killed him, but now the trail of betrayal has come full circle.
Friends since childhood, Jonah and Nor ed-Din had been groomed for the intelligence service, with Jonah as handler for Nor's penetration of ISI. But...
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Joseph Farny, dans une retraite forcée, découvre les règles et les coutumes bouddhistes...
Quand un Français en cavale pousse la porte d'un monastère tibétain, il cherche juste un refuge. Là-bas, au Ladakh, une rencontre providentielle change radicalement sa vision du monde et de la vie. Sept jours plus tard, c'est un homme nouveau qui retournera chez lui. ''Sept jours pour renaître'' est un court récit sur la découverte du bouddhisme tibétain...
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The author of Shooting the Sun blends a spy story with a love story in this tale of the secret mission to find the conspirators in Lincoln's assassination.
The assassination of Abraham Lincoln set off a hysterical burst of international conspiracy theories, with all eyes turning first to Canada-once a hotbed of Confederate plots-and then, as evidence mounted, to the Catholic Church and Rome...
Now from bestselling author, Max Byrd, comes a long...
2219) The Secret
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A dark secret and a deadly score to settle.
In 1997 teenager Sophie White and her three girlfriends decide they want to lose their virginity before summer is over.
Roping in her childhood buddy Gareth and his mates, Sophie holds a party to get the deed over and done with, but the night doesn't end as planned.
Twenty years later, the group are brought back together when Gareth is killed in a car accident and Sophie begins receiving threatening messages....
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National Geographic
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[2016]
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351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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"From the authors who created Eyewitness to World War II and numerous other best-selling illustrated reference books, this is the shocking story behind the covert activity that shaped the outcome of one of the world?s greatest conflicts?and the destiny of millions of people. National Geographic?s landmark book illuminates World War II as never before by taking you inside the secret lives of spies and spy masters; secret agents and secret armies; Enigma...
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