women spies

Catherine Ling is instructed by assassin and master poisoner Hu Chang before being recruited by the CIA and pitted against a rogue operative in a race to obtain a deadly poison.

"The stifling summer streets of Lisbon are teeming with spies and informers when Andrea Aspinall, a brilliant English mathematician turned spy, disappears under a new identity. Double agent Karl Voss, experienced in the illusions of intrigue, arrives in Lisbon under the German Legation, though he is secretly plotting against the Nazis. In the lethal tranquility of a corrupted paradise, Andrea and Karl meet and embark on a brief, intense love affair."--back cover.

A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims may be the reason for his sudden disappearance. Agent Sydney Bristow and her father, Jack, close in on the kidnapper, but determining Magrite's location is only the first challenge in a chain of obstacles.

"Agent Sydney Bristow has always held her own in the traditional boy's club of espionage. In fact, she's grown comfortable in her well-earned role as respected go-to girl. But with the recent addition of her half-sister, Nadia, dynamics inevitably shift as Sydney finds herself with a new partner, roommate, and--even if unintentional--competitor."--back cover.

It is Sidney's sophomore year at UCLA. She receives her biggest mission yet, to retrieve top-secret KGB research in Berlin.

Contains biographies of 150 women spies from the Bible's Rehab Harlot to the Cold War era's Ethel Rosenberg. Includes black and white photographs of some of the spies.

Contents: Deborah Samson--Nancy Hart--Lydia Darragh--Mercy Otis Warren--Esther DeBerdt Reed--Elizabeth Martin--Sybil Ludington--Margaret Corbin--After the war.

Mrs. Pollifax decides to forego the Garden Club's Sunday tea when she is called upon by the CIA to accept a top secret assignment in Istanbul.