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1) Red winter
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
"In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series"--
"1985 -- A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, twelve years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB- approved project almost certain to be an international bestseller, and has asked his brother Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It’s a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for. The book is sure to be filled with mischief...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Perry and Gail are idealistic and very much in love when they splurge on a tennis vacation at a posh beach resort in Antigua. But the charm begins to pall when a big-time Russian money launderer enlists their help to defect. In exchange for amnesty, Dima is ready to rat out his vory (Russian criminal brotherhood) compatriots and expose corruption throughout the so-called legitimate financial and political worlds. Soon, the guileless couple find themselves...
4) The defector
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allon is in Umbria, trying to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, when a colleague pays him a shocking visit. The man who saved Allon's life in Moscow and was then resettled in England has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, and they blame Allon for planting him. To discover the truth and clear his name, Allon must go immediately to London -- a decision that will prove to be the most...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A member of the homicide department of the people's militia, State Security Officer Brano Sev is sent to the village of his birth to interrogate a potential defector, but his mission is complicated by a murder in which he becomes the prime suspect.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
SPYING IS THE FAMILY BUSINESS. Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA officer following in the footsteps of her father, who was a spy during the Cold War. It takes grit to succeed in this male-dominated world—but one hot summer day, when a Russian defector walks into her post, Amanda is given the ultimate chance to prove herself.
The defector warns of the imminent assassination of a US senator. Though Amanda takes the warning seriously, her superiors...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, having jumped at the offer to join the CIA as a freelance analyst in the early 1980s, quickly finds himself in over his head when he uncovers a KGB plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
Author
Series
Queen and country volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
For nearly a decade Tara Chace has been Britain's top covert agent. But Chace is past her expiration date. Her body hurts. Her nerves are scrambled. She's ready for a desk job, the quiet role of mentor to a new generation of special operations officers. But before her replacement can be chosen, there's one last job for Queen and country... and it may be the last thing she does. Ever. The assignment begins with an enigmatic message from Iran -- a message...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 17
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union sent a convoy of nuclear missiles to Cuba. The crisis that followed almost triggered World War III. However, while all eyes were on the Caribbean, not all of the missiles were sent to Cuba. Several ships slipped from the flotilla and headed for a fishing village in a remote, frigid, northeastern Soviet frontier. There, a silo was constructed not far from Alaska. More than sixty years later,...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
264 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a Cold War spy story set in 1989 Berlin, an American woman married to an East German must confront the truth behind his mysterious disappearance when she discovers he was a spy reporting back to an East German counterintelligence officer known as the Matchmaker. Berlin, 1989. Protests across East Germany threaten the Iron Curtain and Communism is the ill man of Europe. Anne Simpson, an American who works as a translator at the Joint Operations...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the beloved award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a spectacular collection of unique stories, each confronting themes of identity, belonging, and the collision of cultures across countries and centuries.
A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly...
12) Litvinenko
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (197 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Litvinenko (David Tennant), a former Russian spy and Kremlin critic, dies in a London hospital bed, but not before accusing President Vladimir Putin of his murder. He had been poisoned with the deadliest substance known to man, and the police race to seal off contaminated sites, while detectives dive into a high-stakes murder investigation. In a dark world of political power games and fragile international relations, can the detectives find...
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