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41) Spy game
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
43) A colder war
Author
Series
Thomas Kell novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"A top-ranking Iranian military official is blown up while trying to defect to the West. An investigative journalist is arrested and imprisoned for writing an article critical of the Turkish government. An Iranian nuclear scientist is assassinated on the streets of Tehran. These three incidents, seemingly unrelated, have one crucial link. Each of the three had been recently recruited by Western intelligence, before being removed or killed. Then Paul...
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Description
Former military intelligence operative, Josh Katzen, had been enjoying retirement. New name, new job, new friends . . . he should have known it couldn't last.
When a skeleton, wearing an expensive wristwatch, is uncovered in an ancient Peruvian ruin, it sparks a chain of events that threaten to topple Katzen's new life like so many dominoes. The situation gets worse when the remains are identified as those of a notorious antiquities dealer who disappeared...
46) Secret agent
Publisher
Laserlight DVD
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An espionage thriller set in Geneva, seasoned with romance. Two British Intelligence Service agents pose as husband and wife in an attempt to eliminate an agent for the Central Powers.
47) The Ipcress file
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is the height of the cold war, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
An ex-agent on the run from her former employers must take one more case to clear her name and save her life.
She used to work for the U.S. government, one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came without warning, and they killed the only other person she trusted. When her former handler offers her a way out, it is her only chance to erase the giant target...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Formats
Description
Blamed for the terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, IMF operative Ethan Hunt is disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates 'Ghost Protocol'. Left without any resources or backup, Ethan must find a way to clear his agency's name and prevent another attack. To complicate matters further, Ethan is forced to embark on his mission with a team of fellow IMF fugitives whose personal motives he does not fully know.
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The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a...
52) Sleepers
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
c2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs ( ca. 211 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/ 4 in.
Description
A four-part spy satire about two long-forgotten KGB agents in England who have no intention of coming in from the cold. In fact, their 25 years as 'sleeper' agents -- during which time they had no contact with the Kremlin --have been quite comfortable. Albert Robinson (Warren Clarke) has a wife, three children, and a good job in a Lancashire brewery; and bachelor Jeremy Coward (Nigel Havers) is a London investment banker with a couple of residences...
Series
Criterion collection volume 224
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Petty crook Skip McCoy has his eye set on the big score. When the three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy, he finds a haul bigger than he ever could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by the Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption.
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"An exhaustively researched book that reads like an investigative thriller, Fallout reveals how Obama's "Russian Reset" led to corruption, scandal, and a desperate bid to impeach Donald Trump. In 2015, a a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton's role in approving the sale of American uranium assets to the Russian state nuclear agency, Rosatom. Not only did the sale of Uranium One put 20 percent of America's domestic uranium supply under the control...
57) Waiting time
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A suspenseful tale of espionage and death unfolds in this post Cold War drama. Tracy Barnes and Joshua Mantle find themselves involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse with the infamous East German State Secret Police, The Stasi."
Author
Publisher
Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Description
For decades, private eyes from Allan Pinkerton, who formed the first detective agency in the U.S., to Jules Kroll, who transformed the investigations business by giving it a corporate veneer, private spies were content to stand in the shadows. Now, that is all changing. High-profile stories grabbing recent headlines - the Steele Dossier, Black Cube, the Theranos scandal, Harvey Weinstein's attacks on his accusers - all share a common thread, the...
60) Mr. Standfast
Author
Series
Richard Hannay adventures volume 3
Description
World War I espionage thriller meets modern-day morality tale in „Mr. Standfast", the third of five Richard Hannay novels written by acclaimed storyteller John Buchan. In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Set, like „Greenmantle", durinig World War I, it deals Brigadier-General Hannay's recall...
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