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Need to know : World War II and the rise of American intelligence / by Reynolds, Nicholas E.,author.;
"The entire vast, modern American intelligence system-the amalgam of three-letter spy services of many stripes-can be traced back to the dire straits the world faced at the dawn of World War II. Prior to 1940, the United States had no organization to recruit spies and steal secrets or launch covert campaigns against enemies overseas and just a few codebreakers, isolated in windowless vaults. It was only through Winston Churchill's determination to mobilize the US in the fight against Hitler that the first American spy service was born, built from scratch against the background of the Second World War. In Need to Know, Nicholas Reynolds explores the birth, infancy, and adolescence of modern American intelligence. In this first-ever look across the entirety of the war effort, Reynolds combines little-known history and gripping spy stories to analyze the origins of American codebreakers and spies as well as their contributions to Allied victory, revealing how they laid the foundation for the Cold War-and beyond." --publisher's website.
Subjects: United States. Office of Strategic Services.; Espionage; Intelligence service; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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A court of wings and ruin / by Maas, Sarah J.,author.;
Feyre returns to the Spring Court on a reconnaissance mission about the invading king. As a spy, the future of the entire kingdom may rely on her ability to play her part perfectly, and her decisions about who to trust and which allies are best will decide the outcome of the coming war.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Fantasy fiction.; Spy fiction.; Women spies; Fairies; Courts and courtiers; Impostors and imposture; Imaginary wars and battles; Women spies; Fairies; Courts and courtiers; Impostors and imposture; Imaginary wars and battles;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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Sell us the rope : a novel / by May, Stephen,1964-author.;
"May 1907. Young Stalin - poet, bank-robber, spy - is in London for the 5th Congress of the Russian Communist Party. As he builds his powerbase in the party, Stalin manipulates alliances with Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg under the eyes of the Czar's secret police. Meanwhile he is drawn to the fiery Finnish activist Elli Vuokko and risks everything in a relationship as complicated as it is dangerous."--Publisher.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Political fiction.; Novels.; Stalin, Joseph, 1878-1953; Communism; Interpersonal relations; Social change;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stars and smoke / by Lu, Marie,1984-author.;
Nineteen-year old Winter Young, the world's hottest superstar, is recruited by a covert organization to take down a criminal tycoon and finds himself paired with Sydney Cossette, a fierce and unpredictable secret agent, but suspicions soon turn to sparks as the two are drawn into a tangled web of secrets and deception.012-017.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Celebrities; Interpersonal relations; Spies; Celebrities; Interpersonal relations; Spies;
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The secret agent [videorecording] / by Jones, Toby,1967-actor.; McClure, Vicky,1983-actor.; Hamblett, Charlie,actor.; McDougall, Charles,television director.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.; RLJ Entertainment,production company,distributor.;
Toby Jones, Vicky McClure, Charlie Hamblett.In this thrilling BBC adaptation of Joseph Conrad's timeless novel, Golden Globe nominee Toby Jones (Detectorists, The Hunger Games) stars as Anton Verloc, an unassuming Soho shopkeeper. Unbeknownst to even his loyal wife, Winnie (Vicky McClure, Line of Duty, Broadchurch), Verloc also works for the Russian embassy as a spy. Wishing to spur the London authorities into action against a group of local anarchists, Verloc's employers give him a mission: plant a bomb at the Greenwich Observatory to paint the anarchists as terrorists. Verloc abhors the idea of killing civilians, but if he fails, his identity as a spy will be exposed.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, anamorphic 16:9 widescreen; Dolby Digital stereophonic.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Television programs.; Spies; Espionage; Secrets; Anarchists;
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A divided spy / by Cumming, Charles,1971-author.;
"Thomas Kell thought he was done with spying. A former MI6 officer, he devoted his life to the Service, but it has left him with nothing but grief and a simmering anger against the Kremlin. Then Kell is offered an unexpected chance at revenge. Taking the law into his own hands, he embarks on a mission to recruit a top Russian spy who is in possession of a terrifying secret. As Kell tracks his man from Moscow to London, he finds himself in a high stakes game of cat and mouse in which it becomes increasingly difficult to know who is playing whom. As the mission reaches boiling point, the threat of a catastrophic terrorist attack looms over Britain. Kell is faced with an impossible choice. Loyalty to MI6--or to his own conscience?"--
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Spies; Revenge; Secrets; Terrorism;
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The librarian spy : a novel of World War II / by Martin, Madeline,author.;
Ava thought her job as a librarian at the Library of Congress would mean a quiet, routine existence. But an unexpected offer from the U.S. military has brought her to Lisbon with a new mission: posing as a librarian while working undercover as a spy gathering intelligence. Meanwhile, in occupied France, Elaine has begun an apprenticeship at a printing press run by members of the Resistance. It's a job usually reserved for men but in the war, those rules have been forgotten. Yet she knows that the Nazis are searching for the press and its printer in order to silence them. As the battle in Europe rages, Ava and Elaine find themselves connecting through coded messages and discovering hope in the face of war.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Librarians; Women librarians; Women spies; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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The night manager / by Le Carré, John,1931-author.;
In flight from a failed marriage and his own past, Jonathan has taken refuge in the luxury hotel trade. Driven partly by a desire for atonement and partly by an inherited patriotism, Jonathan, a veteran of clandestine operations in South Armagh, allows himself to be recruited as a British secret agent with a mission to expose the murderer of the woman he himself betrayed.
Subjects: Spy fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction);
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Black Widow. [graphic novel] / by Thompson, Kelly,1976-author.; Casagrande, Elena,artist.; De Latorre, Rafael,artist.; Bellaire, Jordie,colourist.; Petit, Cory,letterer.;
"The Widow has been a spy almost as long as she's been alive. And she's never stopped running, whether she was working for the good guys or the bad. But now something is very wrong with Natasha: she's ... happy?! Retirement definitely agrees with the world's deadliest woman, as she revels in the perfect life that she never dreamed she could have. But scratch the surface of that perfect life and you'll find something very wrong lurking beneath it ... and a woman like Nat just can't help but scratch."T+.
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Superhero comics.; Spy comics.; Black Widow (Fictitious character); Women superheroes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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First kill / by Hagberg, David,author.;
It is the beginning of Kirk McGarvey's career as a CIA black ops officer. Fresh out of the Air Force OSI, he receives his first assignment: assassinate a Chilean general known as the Butcher of Valparaiso, a monster who has tortured and killed more than one thousand dissidents at a soccer stadium in Valparaiso.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Adventure.; McGarvey, Kirk (Fictitious character); Assassins;
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