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American spy

a novel
2018
Marie Mitchell, an FBI agent whose career has become stagnated, is given an opportunity to join a task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary president of Burkina Faso whose communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention.

A life in secrets

Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII
2007
Examines the life of Vera Atkins, who recruited and trained hundreds of agents in the Special Operations Executive, Great Britain's secret organization that helped build and supported the resistance in Nazi-occupied Europe, and chronicles her efforts to discover what happened to missing agents in France after the war.

A woman of no importance

the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: 'She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.' This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's 'ministry of ungentlemanly warfare,' and, before the United States had even entered the war, became the first woman to deploy to occupied France . . . At a time when sending female secret agents into enemy territory was still strictly forbidden, Virginia Hall came to be known as the 'Madonna of the Resistance,' coordinating a network of spies to blow up bridges, report on German troop movements, arrange equipment drops for Resistance agents, and recruit and train guerilla fighters"--Provided by publisher.

Need to know

a novel
2018
"Vivian Miller is a dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States. On track for a much-needed promotion, she's developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight. After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within America's borders. A few clicks later, everything that matters to her--her job, her husband, even her four children--are threatened. Vivian has vowed to defend her country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But now she's facing impossible choices. Torn between loyalty and betrayal, allegiance and treason, love and suspicion, who can she trust?"--.
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In Farleigh Field

a novel
2017
World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. As Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela's family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. Can he, with Pamela's help, stop them before England falls?.
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The road not taken

Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
2018
"A biography of Edward Lansdale, the CIA operative. Boot chronicles his rise and fall as a proponent of a visionary 'hearts and minds' diplomacy in Vietnam who was ultimately overruled by the American military bureaucracy, which favored bombs and troop build-ups over winning the people's trust."--OCLC.
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Agent M

the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
2017
"Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history, rumored to be the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character "M." He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this movement. He was also truly eccentric--a thrice-married jazz aficionado who kept a menagerie of exotic pets--and almost totally unqualified for espionage"--Jacket flap.
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Foxtrot in Kandahar

a memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the inception of America's longest war
2017
The memoir of CIA Officer Duane Evans.
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Forty autumns

a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall
2017
Tells the story of five women separated by the Berlin Wall for more than forty years, and the pain the family endured from a world divided by two.
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The Hunt for Red October

2013
The Soviets' new ballistic-missile submarine is attempting to defect to the United States, but the Soviet Atlantic fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs.
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