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What if you were offered a gig by some shadowy and well-financed interests to funnel five million dollars to rebels holed up in the Philippine mountains? They need to fund a revolt against the Aquino government and a resourceful and gutsy team to engineer it. And what a team it is: Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert, is the only man the rebel leader trusts as a liaison; Georgia Blue is a colorful, statuesque female bodyguard; " Otherguy"...
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The untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its day. Author John A. Nagy has become the nation's leading expert on Revolutionary spies, discovering hundreds who went behind enemy lines to gather intelligence during the American Revolution, many of whom are completely unknown to most historians. Using Washington's diary as the primary source, Nagy tells of...
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"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite...
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"An Eye for an Eye": The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, which states that some Jews in Eastern Europe took revenge on their former captors while overseeing over 1,000 concentration camps in Poland for German civilians. The book provides details of the imprisonment of 200,000 Germans „many of them starved, beaten and tortured" and estimates that „more than 60,000 died at the hands of a largely Jewish-run security organisation."...
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For thousands of years, espionage and covert operations have been powerful but shadowy forces. Much of world history has been shaped by the dramatic exploits of men, women, and organizations devoted to the perilous tasks and undercover missions that are part of a spy's life. Consider that covert operations have played critical roles in epic conflicts such as the Trojan War, the Crusades, World War II, and the War on Terror; political upheavals such...
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From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat
On a vacation in Las Vegas, a man wakes up in a hotel room that isn't his with a dead woman he doesn't recognize in the bathtub.
Panicked, he runs. Before he can get far the police have caught him, and two detectives inform him that he's the one who murdered the woman-they've even found the weapon. Only the man has...
9) Crash
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A woman loses her memory in a car accident except for the memory of a man who she swears was in the car with her, but no one else ever saw the man.
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Rick Behringer is an outside contractor working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He owns a small company that, in the light of day, provides communications security for government offices, including the CIA. In the shadows, though, Rick's a spy. He runs overseas agents for the CIA and, through his firm, buys foreign military technology that the Agency wants to inspect but can't be seen purchasing.
The divorced father of two little girls, Rick...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Spy Among Friends" chronicles the intertwined lives of British intelligence officers Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby, the latter a notorious double agent for the Soviet Union. Elliott, from a privileged background, joined MI6 and developed a close bond with Philby, who was also recruited into British intelligence despite...
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Greg Dinallo's blockbuster Rockets' Red Glare earned rave reviews for its ingenious use of the Cuban Missile Crisis and detailed knowledge of current military technology. Now, with Purpose of Evasion, Dinallo proves he's a master of the techno-thriller genre. Seven Americans languish in captivity somewhere in the Middle East. Soon they will begin to die. In desperation, CIA Director Bill Kiley authorizes the shadowy air force colonel Richard Larkin...
13) Navegando claro
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Niñas desaparecidas, dinero perdido, hombre desaparecido, yates de lujo y la gente que los persigue.
Una antigua misión encubierta del MI6 para evitar que los terroristas ingresen al Reino Unido a través de rutas de tráfico sexual salió mal. El agente encubierto es asignado a un nuevo rol.
Un hombre perdido en las sombras maneja las finanzas ocultas de los servicios de seguridad pero sueña con una vida mejor navegando por el Mediterráneo. Cuando...
14) Snark
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In the follow-up to Cronus, an American spy travels to London to locate a high-profile missing person, and is faced with terror from the past If they're going to take you, let them take you with your eyes open. That's the credo of Clifford Driscoll, the American spy at the center of Snark, the follow-up to William DeAndrea's Edgar Award–winning Cronus. Driscoll has gone by many names in his short, eventful life, and he's just borrowed another: that...
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La obra periodística más influyente de la historia, que acabó con un presidente y que ganó del premio Pulitzer.
"El libro que acabó con un presidente... Tal vez la obra periodística más influyente de la historia." Así definió la revista Time este libro, publicado por primera vez en 1974, ganador del premio Pulitzer y considerado como uno de los 100 mejores libros de no ficción de todos los tiempos. "Todos los hombres del presidente" vuelve...
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Ex-clandestine operations pilot Guy Cook is down and out, working unfulfilling jobs on the fringes of the air racing circuit. When his one-time boss from a covert air contractor shows up with a surprising offer, Cook jumps at the chance. But, what starts out as an exciting reentry into his former life quickly goes sideways as the danger stacks up, and only his skills and abilities can bring him out alive...
17) The Magic Man
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Donald Briggs O'Meara can be who he needs to be, when he needs to be. It's one of the reasons he's had such an extraordinarily successful career as a con man. And it's why, when the government needs someone special-someone with the gift of gab, who can speak Russian like a native, who can blend into any crowd, with an intimate knowledge of the world of espionage-they call for Briggs.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital...
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When American expat journalist Steve Collins sets off for the middle of the Amazon Jungle to cover a plane crash with a U.S senator aboard, he has no idea how his life is about to change. The Peruvian military is claiming the Shining Path rebel insurgency launched a missile attack on the aircraft, and the U.S. State Department is backing the military's claim. Steve just ain't buying it. He smells complicity, but has nothing to go on except the word...
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In this stunning adventure set in war-torn France-a British agent finds herself in Nazi territory-and unsure about who to trust . . .
It's the spring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France, by air, this time.
She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany.
With D-Day looming, Rosie fears that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight...
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Heute geschehen, morgen vergessen, heute gewusst, morgen verdrängt! Ereignisse faszinieren, inspirieren, berühren oder ängstigen. Fallen unbeachtet unter den Tisch oder geraten ganz in Vergessenheit. Von Äthiopiens Gipfeln bis in die Tunnel Palästinas. Über den Dschungel Vietnams in die Fernsehstudios Europas. Von Nacktbildern, Mördern und der Erinnerung an Tragödien und Katastrophen vergangener Tage. 22 Kurzgeschichten und Erzählungen rund...
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