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1521) La búsqueda
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En el prefacio a la segunda edición de El retrato de Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde se sintió en la obligación de realizar una especie de petición de derechos. Por si las moscas, enfatizó la doble condición del arte, a la vez superficie y símbolo, y agregó, que internarse en una u otra faz de esa doble condición iba por cuenta del lector. Pero, la doble hélice del texto a sopesar palpita, incluso titila -hasta dónde llega la anécdota, hasta...
1522) Absolute Honour: A Novel
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But in order to restore his own, he must pay the price in blood. Blooded on the battlefields of Canada, fresh from a winter spent in a voluptuous widow's bed, the dashing Jack Absolute has every reason to feel good. And life only gets better when the ship returning him to England captures a rich prize, with Jack's sword winning him a large share of the booty. But gold is not all the enemy ship holds. Fever nearly kills Jack, his life barely saved...
1523) The Henchmen's Book Club
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Mark Jones is a henchman for hire. He guards bunkers, patrols perimeters and stands around in a boiler suit waiting to get knocked out by Ninjas. This is his job. He has worked for some of the most notorious super-villains the world has ever known – Doctor Thalassocrat, Victor Soliman, Polonius Crump; Mark was with each of them when they met their makers at the hands of British Secret Service super-spy, Jack Tempest, and lived to tell the tale –...
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Estamos en los últimos días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en una Alemania a punto de ser estrangulada definitivamente por los aliados, de una parte, y por las tropas soviéticas, del otro. En medio de este panorama, alguien de Washington "sugiere" que quizás fuese oportuno retardar la marcha sobre Berlín e intentar llegar a un pacto agónico con los nazis para, juntos ambos ejércitos, frenar a los "rojos" que llegan arrasando desde el Este. A...
1525) Blowback
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One family's life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine. A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program.Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe agents in the Domestic Sleeper program...
1526) The Black Hand
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What if America's future came down to a "Dream Team" of twelve men, three women and a single word? After the murders of seven NBA All-Stars on the return flight from the 2020 Summer Olympics, a small clandestine team as diverse as America, must save the country from itself. On August 9th, 2020, the world is celebrating the close of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo Japan. The date of the closing ceremonies was chosen to commemorate the 75th anniversary...
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Après Attaques sur la capitale, découvrez la nouvelle intrigue riche en rebondissements de Firmin Le Bourhis !
À la suite de l'attentat du Stade de France s'est créée l'USI, Unité Spéciale Internationale, composée de membres d'élite et dirigée par Jean-Hervé de la Buissonnière, qui a perdu son épouse et leurs deux filles dans le drame. Jean-Hervé est sollicité par la veuve d'un ami de Limoges, chercheur reconnu, dont le corps vient...
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It is the early 1980s. The most sensitive clandestine document on the planet is missing, and to find it, the free world can turn to only ONE man:
STEEP DANGERHILL, SPY FOR HIRE!
But when he discovers a manic Romanian noblewoman, he may find more than he ever thought to look for...
...including the attention of the KGB's deadliest assassin.
Book Features:
*Individual Chapter Titles
*Cliches
*Tropes
*Testosterone
*A two-fisted, "B-movie"-style plot
*A...
1529) Yellow Rain
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When an Afghan village becomes paralyzed by the Soviets' new warfare, and a thick nerve gas suffocates innocent people, rumors of a deadly weapon find their way to the Pentagon-and into the hands of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Schad. Along with his three-man team, Lieutenant Colonel Schad will lead one of the riskiest covert operations known to the US Department of Defense in order to find one unexploded cylinder of Yellow Rain. But are these men up against...
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A sovereign fund, Tengli, loses its bid to buy IndoTel, an Indonesian telecoms player. Russian Mafiya-backed interests acquire IndoTel, pointing to a Mole within the Singapore establishment. Tara Banks, an undercover agent, traces the leak to Moscow. The trail turns cold when several people are murdered. Meanwhile, human traffickers kidnap Annette Liam, a Singaporean student. Her father, Michael, sets off to Moscow in search of Annette. Completely...
1531) Ghost Order
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Frank Bowen attempts to piece together a fractured life at home, but finds himself pulled back into the dark state, once again.
Only, this time, he's playing both sides.
Hired by John Rhodes, founding father of the Liberatus movement, his mission is to escort a valuable asset to South America. Then the spectre of Carl Paterson emerges and Frank finds he has to work once again with his old agency, Ghost 13.
Later, in the depths of the Colombian...
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What does the intriguing stranger interrupting Coreopsis Fairholm-Mendoza's peaceful morning want? Visitors to Majorca who need an Independent Agent don't skulk about spying on one before asking for help.
Honoree Durand, Envoy to the embargoed Great Britain, needs Core's talents as a truth reader for a most delicate diplomatic matter. Success could benefit Britain's down-trodden: workers, Travelers, women. Step one: convince Core.
1533) Berlin Reload
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"The time of reckoning is here, Gorilla Grant." Jack "Gorilla" Grant, retired assassin and former spy, is living a new life as a peaceful, successful businessman. But when his daughter is kidnapped in Rome, it is just the opening gambit in a series of events that pushes him back into the "Redaction" business that he once walked away from. Unseen forces are moving against Gorilla and dangerous enemies from his past are threatening his future, intent...
1534) Brush Contact
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BRUSH CONTACT One family's life is changed beyond anything they could ever imagine. A major foreign power has been funneling key intelligence personnel into the United States for nearly a year, hiding them as embassy and consulate staffers, students, and plain immigrants. In response, the FBI activates its Domestic Sleeper program. Scattered across the country as architects, cab drivers, and other innocuous roles, failsafe agents in the Domestic...
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More precious than gold...;
Cole "Lucky" DuMont is off to forge his future in the Alaskan hills. Standing in his way? A dark-haired beauty in need of rescue.
Maddie Stockwell's life has always been ruled by men. And now, to ensure her freedom, she strikes a deal with her gorgeous savior: she'll help Lucky in his quest, and find her own fortune along the way! Except when Maddie has to pose as Lucky's wife, she feels a thrill she could never have...
1536) Honourable Intentions
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This historical thriller set in 1914 brings the acclaimed British author's splendidly entertaining Honour series to an explosive conclusion.
As Europe hurdles toward World War I, the French American anarchist Grover Langhorn is arrested in London. But before he can be extradited to face trial, he reveals a secret more threatening to the crown than any bomb: Langhorn is King Henry V's illegitimate son-and heir to the throne.
Now Cpt. Matthew Ranklin...
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Dangerous and mysterious events are afoot in a peace-loving land...
Someone is killing Swiss colonels, and painting a hammer and sickle at the scene. When Dr. Fritz Rubenstein, a physicist in Zurich, is gunned down in his office, the only clue is a letter in his trash requesting assistance for the French Resistance. Swiss Intelligence is new, underfunded, and understaffed, and they ask the U.S. government for help. Martin Schuller is sent to Switzerland...
1538) Scorpion One: Books #1-3
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Book 1 The Army doesn't want them, they're too much trouble!MI6 does, they're the best at what they do, and they need the best.MI6 have a problem.A missing agent kidnapped and taken to hostile territory for interrogation.Only one option is open, and that's a high-risk rescue operation over two hundred miles into hostile territory with no support.A 'do or die mission' where the stakes are high and failure isn't an option. Book 2All they wanted was...
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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599—August 6 1660), known as Diego Vélasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV. Along with Francisco Goya and Le Greco, he is generally considered to be one of the greatest artists in Spanish history. His style, whilst remaining very personal, belongs firmly in the Baroque movement. Velázquez's two visits to Italy, evidenced by documents...
1540) Remembrance Day
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Winner of two Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, continued to challenge readers' minds with literate, thought-provoking, and inventive science fiction. Ray and Ruby Tebbutt are a Norfolk couple struggling to pay off a loan they could not afford. Peter Petrik, a small-time Czech film director, is involved with an Irish arms smuggler. Dominic Mayor,...
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