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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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It's 2030 and the story's background is set amongst climate change as a factor creating global food insecurity through droughts, floods and changing weather patterns reducing arable land worldwide. The climate change of the 20th and the early 21st century has led to massive immigration from African regions in Europe and South American regions below the US, where they can no longer provide sufficient food due to the loss of arable farming land. These...
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The first thriller in the WWII series featuring SOE agent Rosie Ewing, a "meticulously researched war novel" (Len Deighton).
Summer 1943: Rosie Ewing is an agent of SOE-Special Operations Executive-and a "pianist," Resistance slang for radio operator. Their average life expectancy is six weeks.
But Rosie is brighter than most, well aware of the consequences of a second's carelessness, or bad luck, or treachery. Or a fellow agent crumbling...
4) The Decoy
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Throughout her public life the eyes of the world were on Diana, Princess of Wales. But who else was watching her more closely? What were their motives? What was their agenda? And what was their role in her death? On the night she died two secret operations – one connected to the British Establishment and one involving major figures in the French government – collided unintentionally with catastrophic results. From Bosnia to Baghdad, from Paris...
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After a mission in Afghanistan leads to the death of a colleague, CIA agent Hayden Stone accepts what he thinks is a cushy assignment in the South of France. But on the Côte d'Azur, two terrorists, acting separately, attempt to murder him. Meanwhile, Stone meets an old love, a contessa, who he had seduced and abandoned years before. As Stone's love life heats up, he learns that a brutal Middle Eastern terrorist is in Provence to deliver a strain...
6) Intercept
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Black Ops Agent Blake MacKay never anticipated becoming a former ally's target, but his life takes a dangerous turn when he's caught in their sights. After Iran's ex-nuclear guru resurfaces to lead a new nuclear weapons program, Mossad dispatches elite sniper Solomon Zinn to eliminate him. However, Ansar al-Sharia, the former Benghazi militant group, also has its sights set on Fallahi, and they'll stop at nothing to get him.
As tensions mount...
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Steven Statton - a very working-class spy', is a thrill-a-minute story of intrigue and betrayal at the heart of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency.
Although set mainly in London, the story sees Steven Statton travel the world in an effort to counter an Iranian plot to use the Mafia to destabilise Britain by flooding its streets with heroin. However, Statton's task is made harder when he is betrayed by somebody working in the British Secret...
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The Bureau and the Mole is the sensational New York Times best-seller that tells the inside story of FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Philip Hanssen, a seemingly all-American boy who would become the perfect traitor, jeopardizing America's national security for over twenty years by selling top-secret information to the Russians. Drawing from a wide variety of sources in the FBI, the Justice Department, the White House, and the intelligence community,...
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Days after his seventeenth birthday, Edward Siedle received a series of cryptic messages indicating his father had suddenly disappeared in a remote region of Uganda, East Africa. Robert Siedle was last seen badly beaten at a Ugandan Army barracks, where he was captured while investigating a brutal massacre of hundreds of soldiers by President Idi Amin.
His disappearance, which was reported in Newsweek magazine within days, alerted the world that...
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CIA operative Hayden Stone has his work cut out for him. Abdul Wahab seeks to make a power grab in the exotic land of Yemen and establish a terrorist base from which to launch an attack on Europe.
Wahab lures Stone to Yemen by kidnapping his partner CIA officer Sandra Harrington in Sicily. Stone comfortably operates in this world where tribal leaders vie for power with the central government, al Qaeda exerts its influence through murder and mayhem,...
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Dos de la mañana en el metro de Nueva York, primera década del siglo XXI. En la ciudad está vivo el recuerdo del ataque a las Torres Gemelas. Jack Reacher y cinco pasajeros en un vagón. Algo no va bien con uno de ellos: cumple con todos los requisitos para ser un terrorista suicida. Reacher se los sabe de memoria y va a entrar en acción antes de que sea demasiado tarde. El reflejo de una guerra en el territorio menos pensado.
Así empieza a desenredarse...
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Ever fantasize what it would be like to step into James Bond's shoes? Then read THE KATKOV AFFAIR, an honest retelling of an incredible story. And THE KATKOV AFFAIR has 63 minutes of audio embedded into the narrative! Hear real spies in real conversations. I place an ad in the Computer Services Section of the New York Times. On December 6, 1983, Soviet GRU officer Mikhail Katkov answers the ad. He invites me to lunch to discuss a, "business arrangement...
13) The Final Gambit
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Prepare to continue this explosive, pulse-pounding action series by USA Today Bestselling thriller author Steve P. Vincent… A loved one secured. Or a life forgotten. Mitch Herron has given up thoughts of retirement. A life he thought was possible proved anything but, his enemies constantly dragging him back into a battle in the shadows that he wanted no part of. Done with hiding, Herron faces his final act - a do or die mission to save the one person...
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Embark on an eye-opening journey into the clandestine world of cyber espionage and international intrigue with this gripping book. Delve deep into the intricate web of covert operations orchestrated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA), exploring its far-reaching impact on the global stage, particularly within the Transatlantic region.Prepare to be captivated as this book navigates the intricate landscapes of cyber espionage, revealing...
15) Shadow Hunting
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On the hunt. On the run.Mason Nash thought he'd retired from the spy game until a new and deadly private spy agency, Tartarus, came to hunt him down.When Nash discovers Tartarus have double agents in every legitimate spy agency on the planet, there's only one place he can go-into the shadows.On the run, Nash has few he can trust. Is his new ally Eva Destruction everything she appears to be? And then there's the new arrival, Charles Bishop, a man with...
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A suspense novel of drugs, love, cyphers, and sailors from the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. A blind Royal Air Force veteran becomes entangled in a high-seas heroin heist in this gripping adventure from one of Britain's most renowned postwar writers. Though Henry cannot see, he is able to view the world through the radio waves, eavesdropping on global affairs and secret transmissions with his mastery of Morse...
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Rusia se ha enterado de que el robo de dos misiles nucleares tácticos paquistaníes se utilizará para provocar una guerra nuclear entre India y Pakistán.
Eso es un problema. Porque la invasión rusa de Ucrania la ha dejado con sólo dos amigos entre los países líderes del mundo. China e India.
Y Rusia ha hecho promesas secretas de respaldar a ambos en una guerra nuclear.
¿Podrán los agentes rusos, ayudados por una de...
18) In the Dark
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They almost had him in Los Angeles.The world's luckiest hitman was laying low in the city of Angels, doing wet work for bad men by taking out guys who were worse.Until they found him.Now he's on the run again and hiding in the van life on the edge of a National Forest in the least populated state in the country.But he's not alone.A serial killer is stalking the woods, and Brill plans to take him out before the killer's actions draw the wrong kind...
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A desperate woman in Edwardian London finds an unlikely new job with an undercover spy organization in this charming historical thriller.
London, 1905. Margaret Trant and her ailing mother have fallen on hard times. Living together in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood, Margaret's job with a ramshackle import-export company barely keeps them afloat. Then Margaret spots a newspaper advertisement promising to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest...
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Continue this explosive, pulse-pounding action series by USA Today Bestselling thriller author Steve P. Vincent… The last three action thrillers in the USA Today bestselling Mitch Herron series: The Crisis Vector, The Gilded Disciple and the Final Gambit. Mitch Herron has fought, bled and almost died trying to be free of the shackles of his past. But when he returns home to the United States for the first time in years, he soon finds he'll have...
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