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Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge before taking a job with MI5 in London. The year is 1972: Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism; the Cold War has entered a moribund phase but the fight goes on and British Intelligence hesitates at little to influence hearts and minds. MI5 sends Serena,...
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Slough house volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle--not unusual in this line of work. But they have one thing in common: they all want to be back in the action. And they'll do anything to...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British double-agent Kim Philby, it was Oleg Gordievsky. The son of two KGB agents and the product of the best Soviet institutions, the savvy, sophisticated Gordievsky grew to see his nation's communism as both criminal and philistine. He took his first posting for Russian intelligence in 1968 and eventually became the Soviet Union's top man in London, but from 1973 on he was secretly...
4) Spy runner
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Jake McCauley stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes American national security.
5) Red winter
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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...
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George Smiley novels volume 9
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years—a #1 New York Times bestseller and ideal holiday gift.
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service...
The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years—a #1 New York Times bestseller and ideal holiday gift.
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service...
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English
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From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, John Le Carre has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his highly anticipated memoir, Le Carre is as funny as he is incisive, reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with...
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from wartorn Europe to find that his brother, Daniel, has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful career in the movies, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Determined to uncover the truth, Ben enters the maze of the studio system and the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine of the movie business. For this is the moment when politics and the dream factories...
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A clandestine operations novel volume 4
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English
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"When Jim Cronley hears he's just won the Legion of Merit, he figures there's another shoe to drop, and it's a big one: he's out as Chief, DCI-Europe. His new assignments, however, couldn't be bigger: to protect the U.S. chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials from a rumored Soviet NKGB kidnapping, and to hunt down and dismantle the infamous Odessa, an organization dedicated to helping Nazi war criminals escape to South America. It doesn't take long...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Physical Desc
481 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the clandestine world of 1944 Lisbon, a man and a woman discover the perilous consequences of love in war, understand the true meaning of betrayal, and share a secret so dangerous and so intimate that it could save or destroy them both.
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Series
Smiley volume s. 1-4
Language
English
Description
The spy who came in from the cold: A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.
Call for the dead: It was after a routine check by security that Fennan of the Foreign Office shot himself. George Smiley, the cleverest and most self-effacing man in Security, uncovers new facts in an...
12) Code to zero
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English
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In January 1958, the midst of the Cold War, Luke Lucas wakes alone on the ground in a railway station with no idea how he got there--and finds that he must recover lost memories that others are glad he has forgotten if he is to save the launch of Explorer I, America's attempt to top the Soviet Union's Sputnik.
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that goes fatally wrong,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago."--
17) Bridge of spies
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American insurance lawyer is recruited by the CIA to rescue an American pilot detained in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
18) WarGames
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Series
George Mueller volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
August 1958: former CIA agent George Mueller arrives in Cuba's volatile capital, where he has been assigned to monitor the CIA's "man in Havana" and possible traitor, none other than his old friend Toby Graham. Under the guise of their brotherly affection, Mueller is recruited to vet rumors that Graham is putting weapons, covertly provided by the CIA to the unpopular Batista regime, in the hands of Castro's forces. It is up to Mueller to distinguish...
20) The bitter past
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English
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"In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C.J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck... Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his...
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