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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father, Charlie. But Amanda's posting in Rome is a sleepy one. She's listless and looking for action when, on a hot summer day, it walks right through the door of her office. A lowly Russian operative is desperate, begging to speak to her. He tells her that a US Senator is about to be assassinated on an overseas trip to Cairo. Amanda believes he's telling the truth, but...
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Series
Vanessa Pierson novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot's upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran -- in only a few days. But just as Pierson's informant is about to give her the location, they're ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.
Author
Series
Amy Cornwall novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
In her career as an Army intelligence officer, Amy Cornwall has seen haunting sights half a world away. None compare to the chilling scene at her Virginia home. It is empty. A phone rings with a terrifying ultimatum: locate and liberate an unnamed captive in forty-eight hours, or her kidnapped husband and ten-year-old daughter are dead. Now, and in open defiance of Army Command, Amy must employ every lethal tactic she has to save them. To succeed,...
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English
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"Fenna Vos has learned to focus on her own survival-even now, with the Second World War raging in faraway countries. She works on-stage as the assistant to an unruly escape artist-behind the curtain as the mastermind of their act. After all, her honed ability to control her surroundings and elude entrapments, physical or otherwise, reliably suppresses the trauma and tragedy of her youth. For all her calculations, however, Fenna neglects to foresee...
5) Crisis four
Author
Series
Nick Stone novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
6) At risk
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 1
Language
English
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At a meeting of the British Intelligence Joint Counter-Terrorist Group an announcement is made that "the opposition may be about to deploy an invisible." An "invisible" is the ultimate intelligence nightmare: a terrorist who because he or she is an ethnic native of the target country can cross its borders unchecked, move around that country unquestioned, and infiltrate its institutions with ease. For Liz Carlyle, MI5, this report marks the start of...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"To those who don't really know her, Kate Henderson's life must seem perfectly ordinary. Civil servant, wife, parent of two teenagers, daughter of a sick and aging mother . . . But she's also a senior MI6 officer, and right now she is nursing the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Kate's mission to bug a Russian oligarch's super-yacht in Istanbul has yielded the startling intelligence that the British Prime Minister has prostate cancer-and that...
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English
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From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged. Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Force's newest members have only one thing setting them apart - their gender. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed the Athena Project, four of Delta's best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nation's deadliest assignments. (Bestseller)
Author
Series
Vanessa Pierson novels volume 2
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson has dedicated her career to capturing Bhoot, a notorious nuclear arms dealer. After escaping death in a devastating explosion at the Louvre, Vanessa immediately suspects Bhoot as the architect of the brazen attack. But then a previously unknown militant group claims responsibility and Bhoot contacts her.
11) Present danger
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 4
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. It's a promotion and she'll be running agents - her favourite activity - but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old boss, recently widowed and a very close friend.
Author
Series
Guardian (Karen Robards) volume 3
Language
English
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"It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might never return from. But if Bianca wants to go back to her...
13) Quinn
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance. With the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, they make a shocking discovery that sheds new light on the abduction and puts Quinn in the crosshairs...
Author
Series
Wayward volume 2
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Although told to stand down now that the Chechen rebel who killed her fiancé is dead, CIA Analyst Maggie Jenkins believes otherwise and goes rogue to track down the assassin. Soon it becomes clear that failure to find Zara will have repercussions far beyond the personal, as Maggie uncovers plans for a horrific attack on innocent Americans. Chasing Zara from Russia, to the war-torn streets of Chechnya, to London, and finally, to the suburbs of Washington,...
Author
Series
Killing Eve novels volume 2
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"In Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call. Eve has discovered that a senior intelligence officer is in the pay of the Twelve-the secretive and subversive organization that employs Villanelle-and she is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill. The duel between the two women intensifies,...
Author
Series
Killing Eve novels volume 3
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Leaving behind everything and everyone she has ever known, Eve has walked out of her old life and into a shipping container headed for Russia. Locked in the darkness with her is Villanelle, whose sights are set on her most high-profile targets to date. Unable to deny their longing for each other, the former adversaries face their greatest challenge yet: a relationship. While Eve adjusts to a terrifying new world of treachery, conspiracy, and murder,...
17) Fidelity
Author
Series
Kay Malloy novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Kay Malloy always knew hers would be a life of service. Following the tragic death of her humanitarian parents, Kay and her brother, Christopher, were raised in a world of wealth and culture by their godparents. With ambition and selflessness, Kay joins the FBI to honor her parent's legacy, even while Christopher's life grows increasingly aimless. Paramilitary and male-dominated, the FBI could be an intimidating employer to anyone less confident,...
Author
Series
Roland Ford volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Returning hero and private investigator Roland Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene. His troubled friend Lindsay Rakes is afraid for her own life and the life of her son after a fellow flight crew member is killed in brutal fashion. Even more terrifying is the odd note the killer left behind: "Welcome to Caliphornia. This is not the last." Ford strikes an uneasy...
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Series
Tinfoil dossier novels volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time. Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling. He wants to learn if she can stop the latest apocalypse. Ellison, once a unique and valuable asset,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Catherine Ling was abandoned in the streets of Hong Kong at the age of four, and was schooled in the art of survival. As a teenager, she came under the tutelage of the mysterious Hu Chang - a skilled assassin and master poisoner. As a young woman, she was recruited by the CIA and is now one of their most effective operatives. Then her old friend Hu Chang creates something deadly and completely untraceable - and the chase is on to be the first to get...
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