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Clayton Stone, at your service

2015
Twelve-year-old Clayton Stone gets a taste of life as a special agent when he goes undercover as a decoy in a high-stakes kidnapping operation.

The last kind word

2013
Millionaire and unlicensed P.I. Rushmore McKenzie agrees to go undercover to help the ATF track a cache of stolen guns. After all, what could possibly go wrong?.

Nanny X

2014
Ten-year-old Alison and eight-year-old Jake discover that their nanny is working undercover to catch criminals.

Hazardous Duty

2015
"Mexican drug cartels are shooting up the streets of Laredo and El Paso. Somali pirates are holding three U.S. tankers for ransom. Chaos reigns. The President has had enough -- he needs to get hold of Colonel Charley Castillo and his merry band of fighters and put them on the case. Unfortunately, that might be impossible. Everybody knows that the President hates Castillo's guts, having had him forcibly retired from the military. And Castillo's men are scattered far and wide, many of them in hiding. There are also whispers that the President himself is becoming mentally unbalanced. How will it all play out? No ones knows for sure, but for Castillo and company, only one thing is definite: it will be hazardous duty."--from back cover.

Spectres in the smoke

a creeping narrative
2005
Cat burgler and jewel thief Jethro finds himself thrown into a tangled web of violence, political intrigue, and black magic in 1948 England.

Collura

actor with a gun
1977
A biography of Steven Collura, who lived a double life for five years as an actor and an undercover narcotics agent.

Submergence

a novel
2013
James More, held captive by jihadists, and Danielle Flinders, diving in a submersible to the ocean floor, each remember the love they shared and the Christmas they spent together the year before.

Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws

my infiltration of America's deadliest biker gangs
2013
An account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms infiltrate three of America's most violent biker gangs.

Agent Storm

my life inside Al Qaeda and the CIA
Morton Storm was an unlikely jihadi. At six-foot-one, Storm was a red-headed Dane who spent his teens throwing punches with a biker gang and getting thrown in jail. After reading about Islam he converted and embarked on a decade-long transformation that would lead him to a close friendship with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. In time, his repudiation of extremism led him to atonement and a life of extreme danger as an undercover agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence. He single-handedly thwarted attacks in the West and led the CIA to some of the world's most dangerous terrorists, all the while knowing his own life was expendable.

Echoes of us

2014
Fifteen-year-old Addie and Eva, still sharing a body as they fight for hybrid freedom, jump at the chance to go undercover and film the wretched conditions of a hybrid institution, but the price they might pay for the hope of a better future is higher than they could have imagined.

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