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1) The dog
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, a young man leaves New York to take an unusual job in the strange desert metropolis of Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la where he struggles with his new position as the "family officer" of the capricious and very rich Batros family.
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 41
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In an adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the present day, a thirty-year-old James Bond goes head-to-head against one of the most compelling and horrific villains in modern thriller fiction. This isn't the Cold War Bond: it's the best of Fleming and Deaver in one seriously sharp and stylish novel. Bond's license to kill meets Deaver's razor-sharp storytelling in a cat-and-mouse game that takes Bond from the Balkans to London to a searing climax on the...
3) Carta blanca
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
"James Bond ha sido reclutado por un nuevo servicio de inteligencia. Creado en un mundo que ha conocido los horrores de los ataques terroristas en Nueva York y Londres, este nuevo organismo no depende del M15, del M16 ni del MInisterio de Defensa. Es más: las altas esferas niegan su existencia. Su objetivo: proteger el Reino, por todos los medios."-- Front cover flap.
A James Bond thriller set in the present day finds the iconic British spy engaging...
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 41
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In modern-day Dubai, James Bond meets up with an old friend--and hunts down a villain. Given carte blanche on this mission, Bond must consider whether, with matters of national and international security, there are lines even he shouldn't cross.
5) Judas 62
Author
Series
Box 88 volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A spy in one of the most dangerous places on Earth...1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to post-Soviet Russia in the guise of a language teacher. In reality, he is there as a spy. Top secret intelligence agency BOX 88 has ordered Kite to extract a chemical weapons scientist before his groundbreaking research falls into the wrong hands. But Kite’s mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded in a hostile city with a former KGB officer on his...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Riya works for Discover Arabia, a rinky-dink tour guide company in the far-flung desert outpost of Dubai. It's 1990, and the city's iconic skyline, along with its global reputation, remains but a gleam in developers' eyes. For twenty-five year-old Riya, Dubai is a desert purgatory that spreads out between her family back home in India, and an as-yet-defined future ahead of her. If she belongs to anything, it is to the city's transient underclass...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of the population. Brought in to construct the towering monuments to wealth that punctuate the skylines of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this labor force works without the rights of citizenship, endures miserable living conditions, and is ultimately forced to leave the country. Until now, the humanitarian crisis of the so-called "guest workers" of the Gulf has barely been addressed in...
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