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James Bond takes on dangerous SMERSH operative Mr. Big to free the alluringly mystifying fortune-teller Solitaire.

Bond uses a beautiful nemesis in order to infiltrate a diamond-smuggling business that stretches from Africa via London to America, but once inside the States, he becomes the hunted instead of the hunter.

"This is a historical nonfiction book about Virginia Hall, an American spy in France who the Nazis dubbed 'the most dangerous of allied spies.' It tells the story of her youth and her work in Europe during the second world war"--Provided by the publisher.

"The world's largest bounty has just been placed upon America's top spy [Scot Harvath], His only hope for survival is to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get the truth"--OCLC.

When the United States President is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East, it is up to ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath, the only survivor of the Secret Service detail to survive the kidnapping, to find the President before it is too late.

"Drawing on interviews with active and former British, American, Russian, European, and Asian intelligence officers and agents, . . . creates a layered portrait of why spies spy, what motivates them, and what makes them effective. Love, sex, money, patriotism, risk, adventure, revenge, compulsion, doing the right thing--focusing on the motivations, [this book] presents a wealth of spy stories, some previously unknown and some famous, from the very human angle of the agents themselves. The accounts of actual spying extend from ancient history to the present, and from running agents inside the Islamic State and al-Qaeda to the recent Russian active measures campaigns and operations to influence votes in the UK, European Union, and United States, penetrating as far as Trump Tower if not the White House"--Provided by publisher.

"With Sophie still missing in action after their explosive mission in Paris, Lil decides to take matters into her own hands. On a new mission for the Secret Service Bureau, can Lil find Sophie in misty, mysterious St Petersburg? Can they uncover the identity of their true enemy and can they trust anyone--even the Bureau? It's time for Sophie and Lil to put their spy skills to the test"--Provided by.

"It's November 1944. Willi Graf, a German rocket engineer, is launching Nazi Germany's V2 rockets at London from Occupied Holland. Kay Connolly, once an actress, now a young English Intelligence officer, ships out for Belgium to locate the launch sites and neutralize the threat. But when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a suspect. Unknown to each other, Graf and Connolly find themselves on opposite sides in the hunt for the saboteur. Their twin stories play out against the background of the German missile campaign, one of the most epic and modern but least explored episodes of the Second World War. Their destinies are on a collision course"--OCLC.

A biography of CIA chief, James Angleton, and how this hidden chapter of history shaped America's national destiny.