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Series
Jack and Ivy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When destiny thrusts Ivy Olwen into the nest of a covert agency of assassins, she acquires a new set of lethal skills, but it's the hours she spends stargazing on the roof with Agent Jack Vale that make her heart fly. When the pair is sent on a mission to take down Russia's most dangerous arms dealer, they discover that no amount of training could have prepared them for a manhunt that takes them across the frozen tundra, to the Crimean Peninsula,...
42) Dog boy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two million children roam the streets in late twentieth-century Moscow. A four-year-old boy named Romochka, abandoned by his mother and uncle, is left to fend for himself. Curious, he follows a stray dog to its home in an abandoned church cellar on the city's outskirts. Romochka makes himself at home with Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs as he slowly abandons his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Able to pass...
43) Master, minion
Author
Physical Desc
428 pages.
Language
English
Description
Nick is an ex-Army translator whose facility for language allowed him to escape a difficult childhood in rural Connecticut. His mother is a former addict, now dying and requires expensive care. Desperate for money though ambivalent about finance, Nick is employed as a researcher at a Boston hedge fund. The head of the fund, the Boss, is a financial genius who believes US financial collapse is imminent, in part due to past inequities, including slavery....
44) The kill switch
Author
Series
Tucker Wayne novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who does the U.S. government call upon when a mission requires perfect stealth, execution, and discretion? Meet the newest recruits to the expanding Sigma Force universe -- former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, Kane, a military working dog of exceptional abilities. The mission seems simple enough: extract a pharmaceutical magnate from Russian soil, a volatile man who holds the secret to a deadly bioweapon. But nothing is as it...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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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
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
479 pages (large print) : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mitch Rapp races to prevent Russia's gravely ill leader from starting a full-scale war with NATO. With the Kremlin's entire security apparatus hunting him, Rapp must eliminate the threat. If his mission is discovered, it will plunge Russia and America into a conflict that neither will survive"--
Author
Series
Red widow volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"After her role in taking down a well-placed mole inside the CIA, Agent Lyndsey Duncan arrives in London fully focused on her newest Russian asset, deadly war criminal Dmitri Tarasenko. That is until her MI6 counterpart, Davis Ranford, personally calls for her help. Following a suspicious attack on Russian oligarch Mikhail Rotenberg's property in a tony part of London, Davis needs Lyndsey to cozy up to the billionaire's aristocratic British wife,...
Author
Series
Evan Ryder novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Evan Ryder is an extraordinary intelligence field agent now working for the security arm of Parachute, a private company and the world's leader in the application of quantum technology. In the past, Ryder has done lethal battle in the modern global wars of power politics, extremist ideology, corrosive disinformation, and outrageous greed. But now she finds herself in a battle arena whose dangers, while less obvious, are greater than anything the...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce,...
50) The bitter past
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"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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Series
Language
English
Description
Berlin, March, 1943. A month has passed since the stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Though Hitler insists Germany is winning the war, commanders on the ground know better. Morale is low, discipline at risk. Now word has reached Berlin of a Red massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. If true, the message it would send to the troops is clear: Fight on or risk certain death. For once, both the Wehrmacht and Propaganda Minister Goebbels...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 21
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
434 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Viktor Orlov tenía una cita con la muerte desed hace tiempo. El una vez hombre más rico de Rusia, vive ahora en un espléndido exilio en Londres, donde ha llevado a cabo una incasnable cruzada contra el autoritario cleptócrata que ha tomado control del Kremlin. Su mansíon en el exclusivo Cheyne Walk en Chelsea es una de las viviendas londienese más fuertemente protegidas, y aun así, es una tarde lluviosa, en medio de una pandemia global, en...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 16
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The brutal murder of an undercover agent reveals a plot to foment a full-fledged war between Russia and Ukraine. Former U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine Douglas Flannery meets with an old friend and former spy to help thwart a Russian plan to overrun her native Ukraine; but the group she's working for is planning a much more dangerous scheme in order to draw in NATO forces--and possibly ignite World War III. After the spy is killed following their meeting,...
Author
Series
Caroline Ferriday volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
432 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
Author
Series
Kyle Achilles volume 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The American president sent him.... The Russian president caught him.... The free world is counting on him.... But he doesn't remember. Journey beneath the diplomatic veneer of international politics and beyond the reach of conventional military operations into the epicenter of clandestine affairs -- where diplomats dance and spies collide in wars that never make the news. For the next step in its expansionist agenda, the Kremlin devises a covert...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 10
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Arkaday Renko risks his life when he heads to Ukraine shortly before the Russian invasion to find an anti-Putin activist who has mysteriously disappeared. It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 15
Language
English
Description
When Russian President Valeri Volodin’s ambitions are foiled in Dagestan, he faces a difficult choice. The oligarchs who support him expect a constant flow of graft, but with energy prices cratering, the Russian economy sputters to a virtual halt. Unable to grow the Russian market at home, his hold on power relies on expansion abroad — a plan that has been thwarted by the United States in the past. But this time Volodin has determined that an...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl wakes to discover an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken... When the station police are suspicious of the girl's elusive story, Maya finds herself having to search for her baby in this dangerous part of the city -- Three Stations -- without their help. Her only ally is a young man, Zhenya, who is drawn to her cause and who knows the dark underbelly of the city well. Increasingly...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime, an imprint of Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the last stages of decline, but remain opaque to the rest of the world--and still very dangerous. In this ever-shifting landscape, a senior KGB officer--code name GAMBIT--has approached the CIA Moscow Station chief with top secret military weapons intelligence and asked to be exfiltrated. GAMBIT demands that his handler be a former CIA officer, Alex Garin, a former KGB officer who defected...
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