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81) 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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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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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[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.
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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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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.
86) Pearl Harbor
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Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
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.
88) Secret Spy Hacks
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Pub. Date
[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!"--
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"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
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November Man novels volume 11
Pub. Date
[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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Pub. Date
[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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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.
"Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?"
John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.
"Fielding and Jebedee were dead, Steed-Asprey vanished. Smiley—where was he?"
John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.
Miss Ailsa Brimley is in a quandary. She's received a peculiar letter
...93) 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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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 16
Pub. Date
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.
98) 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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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 33
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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.