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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 5
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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.
83) An American Spy
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Milo Weaver is still haunted by his last job. As an expert assassin for the Department of Tourism, an ultra-secret group of super-spooks buried deep in the corridors of the CIA, he fought to keep himself sane in a paranoid and amoral profession. Now, the Department has been destroyed, and with it Weaver's livelihood. Finally he can spend time with his family - without constantly looking over his shoulder and fixing one eye on the exits. Weaver's former...
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2023.
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helpedtransform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...
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"The Russia Account pits CIA officer Tommy Carmellini against a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia, to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself--putting Admiral Jake Grafton, the head of the CIA, in the crosshairs of an assassin."--
The daughter of an official at a minor bank in Estonia is kidnapped....
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2017.
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From the writer Kai Bird calls a "wonderfully accessible historian," the first major history of the CIA in a decade, published to tie in with the seventieth anniversary of the agency's founding. During his first visit to Langley, the CIA's Virginia headquarters, President Donald Trump told those gathered, "I am so behind you…there's nobody I respect more," hinting that he was going to put more CIA operations officers into the field so the CIA could...
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American secret agent Drew Latham joins forces with Karin de Vries, a beautiful NATO analyst, to battle neo-Nazis planning world domination. The novel features such high-tech schemes as replacing a captured U.S. agent's memory with a chip programmed with disinformation. By the author of The Scorpio Illusion.
88) Secret spy gear
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[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Spies have to be innovative to not get caught during missions. Readers will learn about wartime spies and the disguises and gadgets they used to gain intel"--
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 7
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[1985]
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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.
90) Secret Spy Hacks
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[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Spies have lots of tools and tricks up their sleeves that help them do the jobs they do. This book gives the inside scoop on all the fascinating tricks of the trade!"--
91) Pearl Harbor
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c2001
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IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Describes the Japanese attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, resulting in the deaths of more than 2,000 American officers and servicemen.
92) The ghost war
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John Wells novels volume 2
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CIA agent John Wells returns to Washington. His wounds have healed, but his mind is far from clear. He is restless, careless with his safety, uneasy in his skin. When the CIA finds evidence of a surge in Taliban activity backed by an unknown foreign power, it takes little to convince Wells to return to Afghanistan to investigate. But what he finds there is far from what he expected.
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[2023]
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"As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated...
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November Man novels volume 11
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[1990]
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Henry McGee, former spy turned terrorist for money, has a plan to extort five million dollars from an airline executive, but first he must eliminate Devereaux. When McGee shoots Devereaux's estranged lover, Rita Macklin, Devereaux comes out of hiding and into McGee's trap.
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[2022]
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"Longlisted for the Airey Neave Book Prize, Airey Neave Trust" Amy Zegart is senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her books include Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (Princeton) and (with Condoleezza Rice) Political Risk: How Businesses and Organizations Can Anticipate Global Insecurity. She lives in...
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For decades now, America's national security state has grown ever bigger, ever more secretive and powerful, and ever more abusive. Only once did someone manage to put a stop to any of it.
Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning...
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 16
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2013
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In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by the FSB, Russia's intelligence-service successor to the infamous KGB. Charlie is Russia$1 (Bs long-term target in British counter-intelligence, and Moscow is determined to extract, by whatever means necessary, every secret of British---and Western---espionage over Charlie$1 (Bs thirty-year career.--Publisher's description.