intelligence officers

A master class in spycraft from one of its greatest practitioners. Jack Devine is one of the legendary spymasters of our time. He was in Chile when Allende fell; he ran Charlie Wilson's war in Afghanistan; he had too much to do with Iran-Contra for his own taste, though he tried to stop it; he caught Pablo Escobar in Colombia; he tried to warn George Tenet that there was a bullet coming from Iraq with his name on it. Devine served America's interests for more than thirty years in a wide range of covert operations, ultimately overseeing the Directorate of Operations, a CIA division that watches over thousands of American covert operatives worldwide. Good Hunting is his guide to the art of spycraft, told with great wit, candor, and commonsense wisdom. Caricatured by Hollywood, lionized by the right, and pilloried by the left, the CIA remains one of the least understood instruments of the United States government. Devine knows more than almost anyone about the CIA's vital importance as a tool of American statecraft. Now, as he sees it, the agency is trapped within a larger bureaucracy, losing swaths of turf to the military and, most ominous of all, being transformed into a paramilitary organization. Its capacity to do what it does best has been seriously degraded. In wonderfully readable prose, Good Hunting aims to set the record straight. This is a revelatory inside look at an organization whose history has not been given its real due.

Former American spy Pilgrim races against time to stop an enemy and save the United States by linking the murder of an unidentified woman in New York, a public beheading in Mecca, the killing of a Syrian biotech expert, and burning of human remains in a remote part of Afghanistan.

Collects three novels about the adventures of British spy James Bond.

A biography of Robert Ames, one of the most important CIA operatives in history.

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.

As a favor to a Miami money launderer, ex-covert op Michael Weston helps Bruce, who is an ex-legendary gentleman thief, but with an ailing mother to support, Bruce returns to his illegal vocation.

Covert spy Michael Westen, under FBI surveillance with his assets frozen, tries to figure out who is responsible for his current state of affairs while helping Cricket O'Connor find her husband whom she believed was a government agent and who has disappeared with most of her money.

The second novel based on the hit USA Network series finds Michael Westen hired by a helmsman for a yacht in a winner-take-all race financed by the superrich. The man's family has been taken hostage, and to see them again, he'll have to throw the race.

"Jason Bourne is back in this new novel in Robert Ludlum's legendary series written by New York Times bestselling author Eric Van Lustbader"--.

"When a beautiful young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a prime minister's career is threatened with destruction. Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a game of shadows where nothing is what it seems... and where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth"--Amazon.com.