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In the first appearance of Mrs. Pollifax, Emily leaves New Brunswick, N.J., travels to Langley, V.A. and persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for a job in Mexico. It's a simple courier job, no real spy work. Soon, however, she finds herself kidnapped, taken to Albania and imprisoned in the company of the mysterious John Sebastian Farrell.

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...

Jack Ryan, CIA analyst, must rescue Colonel Filitov, America's highest agent in the Kremlin, from the KGB as the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system continues.

Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.

The last supper takes its readers back not only to the earliest days of Paul Christopher's life, but also to the origins of the CIA and the clandestine operations of the OSS during World War II. Moving seamlessly from tales of refugee smuggling in Nazi Germany to OSS-coordinated guerilla warfare against the Japanese in Burma to the confused violence of the Vietnam War.

CIA case officer Cameron Pryce thought he'd crushed the deadly cabal of powerbrokers and assassins. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Matarese dynasty is back. Now the countdown begins--and Pryce is already running out of time.

Suburban grandmother Mrs. Pollifax, an agent for the CIA, runs into a bit of trouble with terrorists when she is sent on an African safari to take pictures of her fellow travelers, one of whom is believed to be an international assassin.

The assassinations of the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the F.B.I. by Colombian drug lords trigger a mysterious covert response and an investigation of U.S. and Colombian actions by Jack Ryan.

Dr. Alice Austen, an officer with the Epidemic Intelligence Service branch of the Centers for Disease Control, goes to New York to investigate the hideous and mysterious death of a seventeen-year-old girl, and uncovers a terrorist plot involving the use of biological weapons.

After writing a quick note to her husband, Mrs. Pollifax is off to Hong Kong to rescue Sheng Ti. The young agent she had successfully smuggled out of mainland China earlier finds himself involved with an alleged double agent.