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Takedown / by Leather, Stephen,author.;
When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, carrying out an attack at a US army base in Syria leading to the death of two men, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button is hired to work out what his plan is and to take him down before he can carry it out. When the man returns to the UK it looks like the threat will be a lot closer to home. Charlotte puts her best man on the case - hitman Lex Harper. It's up to Lex to assemble a crack team and get to the soldier before he carries out what could be a massive terrorist attack. But Charlotte might require Lex's help with a more personal problem too.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Great Britain. MI5; Intelligence service; Special operations (Military science); Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Box 88 / by Cumming, Charles,1971-author.;
"Lachlan Kite is a member of BOX 88, an elite transatlantic black ops outfit so covert that not even MI6 and the CIA are certain of its existence--but even the best spy can't anticipate every potential threat in a world where dangerous actors lurk around every corner. At the funeral of his childhood best friend, Lachlan falls into a trap that drops him into the hands of a potentially deadly interrogation, with his pregnant wife, also abducted, being held as collateral for the information he's sworn on his own life to protect. Thirty years earlier Lachlan, then just out of the upper class boarding school where he was reared, was BOX 88's newest recruit. In the haze of a gap year summer, in which the study of spycraft was intertwined with a journey of self-discovery, he cut his teeth on a special assignment on the coast of France, where a friendship allowed him special access to one of Iran's most dangerous men. Today, Lachlan's nostalgia for the trip is corrupted by recollection of the deceit that accompanied it but, in order to save his family, he'll be forced to revisit those painful memories one last time."--Amazon.com.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Great Britain. MI5; Espionage, British; Intelligence officers; Secrecy; Terrorism; Undercover operations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Twice a spy / by Thomson, Keith,1965-;
Subjects: Spy stories.; Suspense fiction.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Alzheimer's disease; Fathers and sons; Kidnapping;
© c2011., Doubleday,
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Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall / by Willner, Nina,1961-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. But the price of freedom--leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home--was heartbreaking. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own. Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna's daughter, Nina Willner became the first female Army intelligence officer to lead sensitive intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives--grandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team--a bitter political war kept them apart. In Forty Autumns, Nina recounts her family's story--five ordinary lives buffeted by circumstances beyond their control. She takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer, running secret operations behind the Berlin Wall that put her life at risk. A personal look at a tenuous era that divided a city and a nation, and continues to haunt us, Forty Autumns is an intimate and beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and love--of five women whose spirits could not be broken, and who fought to preserve what matters most: family. Forty Autumns is illustrated with dozens of black-and-white and color photographs"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Willner, Nina, 1961-; Willner, Nina, 1961-; Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; German Americans; Intelligence officers; Women intelligence officers; Women;
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Moonbound : the last book of the Anth / by Sloan, Robin,1979-author.;
"Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure. In Moonbound, Robin Sloan has written a novel with the full scope and ambitious imagination of the very books that lit the engines of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive it, mixing science fiction, fantasy, good old-fashioned literary storytelling, and unrivaled enthusiasm for what's next. It is eleven thousand years from now ... A lot has happened, and yet a lot is still very familiar. Ariel is a boy in a small town under a wizard's rule. Like many adventurers before him, Ariel is called to explore a world full of unimaginable glories and challenges: unknown enemies, a mission to save the world, a girl. Here, as they say, be dragons. But none of this happens before Ariel comes across an artifact from an earlier civilization, a sentient, record-keeping artificial intelligence that carries with it the perspective of the whole of human history--and becomes both Ariel's greatest ally and the narrator of our story."--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Artificial intelligence; Dragons; Imaginary places; Quests (Expeditions); Wizards;
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This is the night they come for you / by Goddard, Robert,author.;
On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, with not even an air-conditioned office to show for his long years of service, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay, he is assigned to work with Agent Hidouchi, an intimidating representative of the country's feared secret service, who makes it clear she intends to call the shots. They are instructed to pursue a former agent, now on the run after twenty years in prison for his part in a high-level corruption scandal. But their search will lead them inexorably towards a greater mystery, surrounding a murder that took place in Paris more than fifty years ago. Uncovering the truth may be his responsibility, but Taleb is well aware that no-one in Algeria wants to be reminded of the dark deeds carried out in the struggle for independence - or in the violence that has racked the nation since. Before long, he will face a choice he has long sought to avoid, between self-preservation and doing the right thing.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Spy fiction.; Novels.; Intelligence service; Murder; Police; Secrecy; Secret service;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Swift vengeance : a novel / by Parker, T. Jefferson,author.;
Returning hero and private investigator Roland Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene. His troubled friend Lindsay Rakes is afraid for her own life and the life of her son after a fellow flight crew member is killed in brutal fashion. Even more terrifying is the odd note the killer left behind: "Welcome to Caliphornia. This is not the last." Ford strikes an uneasy alliance with San Diego-based FBI agent Joan Taucher, who is tough as nails but haunted by what sees as the Bureau's failure to catch the 9/11 terrorists, many of whom spent their last days in her city. As the killer strikes again, Ford and Taucher dash into the fray, each desperate for their own reasons -- each ready to risk it all to stop the killer from doing far more damage.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Women intelligence officers; Murder; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Swift vengeance [sound recording] : a novel / by Parker, T. Jefferson,author.; Damron, Will,narrator.; Books on Tape, Inc.,publisher.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Will Damron.Returning hero and private investigator Roland Ford is on the trail of a mysterious killer who is beheading CIA drone operators and leaving puzzling clues at each crime scene. His troubled friend Lindsay Rakes is afraid for her own life and the life of her son after a fellow flight crew member is killed in brutal fashion. Even more terrifying is the odd note the killer left behind: "Welcome to Caliphornia. This is not the last." Ford strikes an uneasy alliance with San Diego-based FBI agent Joan Taucher, who is tough as nails but haunted by what sees as the Bureau's failure to catch the 9/11 terrorists, many of whom spent their last days in her city. As the killer strikes again, Ford and Taucher dash into the fray, each desperate for their own reasons -- each ready to risk it all to stop the killer from doing far more damage.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Women intelligence officers; Murder; Private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tom Clancy commander in chief / by Greaney, Mark,author.; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013.;
Subjects: Political fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Ryan, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character); Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Tom Clancy commander in chief [sound recording] / by Greaney, Mark,author.; Brick, Scott,narrator.; Clancy, Tom,1947-2013.; Random House Audio Publishing,publisher.;
Read by Scott Brick.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Political fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Ryan, Jack, Jr. (Fictitious character); Ryan, Jack, Sr. (Fictitious character);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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