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1) Missionaries
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives. For Mason, a U.S....
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Marlowe Cobb, an early 20th-century newspaper war correspondent, travels to Mexico during that country's civil war and the American invasion of Vera Cruz. However, covering the war in enemy territory isn't enough of a challenge for Cobb. Soon he's falling in love with a young Mexican laundress who may not be as innocent as she seems, and he's also trying to track down a sniper and figure out why important German officials are coming into...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after being assailed by rebel forces while on assignment in Sarajevo in 1993, a cameraman and an interpreter return to the Balkans to work on a documentary about a powerful war criminal who is still in hiding.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Christopher Marlowe ("Kit") Cobb, an American war correspondent reporting on World War I, has been tasked to follow a man named Brauer, a German intellectual and possible covert SS agent, into perilous waters aboard the ship Lusitania, as the man is believed to hold information vital to the war effort. Aboard the Lusitania on its fateful voyage, Cobb becomes smitten with famed actress Selene Bourgani, who for some reason appears to be working with...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
When Esther, a war correspondent, disappears with her friend Mikhail, her husband, a well-known author, becomes the target of an investigation that leaves him questioning his own existence until Mikhail reappears to lead him on a journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches-though that hasn't stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher "Kit" Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission....
Author
Publisher
New Europe Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In his award-winning new collection, one of Hungary's top writers takes us to the edge--where fiction meets journalism Set mostly in contemporary Cairo and Iraq, as well as Israel, London, and Hungary, these twelve short stories are a staggering follow-up to those in the acclaimed collection The Devil Is a Black Dog by leading Hungarian writer/photojournalist Sándor Jászberényi. Told from the perspective of Cairo-based European war correspondent...
8) Tear it down
Author
Series
Peter Ash novels volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues."--
"In the new edge-of-your-seat adventure from national bestselling author Nick Petrie, Peter Ash pursues one case--and stumbles into another--in the City of the Blues. Iraq war veteran Peter Ash is restless in the home he shares with June Cassidy in Washington State. June knows Peter...
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