undercover operations

In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities of this group, which was thought to be possibly dangerous and potentially violent. This kneeling man is Leta McCollough Seletzky's father. Marrell McCollough was a Black man working secretly with the white power structure, a spy. This was so far from her understanding of what it meant to be Black in America, of everything she eventually devoted her life and career to, that she set out to learn what she could about his life, his actions and motivations. But with that decision came risk. What would she uncover about her father, who went on to a career at the CIA, and did she want to bear the weight of knowing?.

"After taking down a mole within their organization, the City Spies are ready for their next mission--once again using their unique skills and ability to infiltrate places adults can't. The sinister Umbra has their sights set on recruiting a North Korean nuclear physicist by any means necessary, and the City Spies plan to keep an eye on his son by sending Paris to the chess prodigy's tournaments in Moscow and Beijing. Meanwhile, Sydney's embedded as a junior reporter for a teen lifestyle site as she follows the daughter of a British billionaire on tour with the biggest act on her father's music label to uncover what links both the band and the billionaire have to a recent threat from an old Soviet missile base and it is up to the City Spies to figure it out"--Provided by publisher.

When two of the seven sisters--American assets who have been deep undercover in Russia for decades--cut off all communication with their handlers, Charles Jenkins, despite being on a Russian kill list, returns to the country, where he must track them down--or die trying.

Strong Ojibwe women are like the ride, reminding us of forces too powerful to control. Weak people fear that strength. Eighteen-year-old Daunis's mixed heritage has always made her feel like an outsider, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When she witnesses a shocking murder, she reluctantly agrees to be part of a covert FBI operation into a series of drug related deaths. But the deceptions - and deaths - keep piling up and soon the threat strikes too close to home. Now Daunis must decide what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she'll go to protect her community, even if it tears apart the only world she's ever known.

A high school teacher crosses paths with a variety of parents on the baseball field, but his entire identity is a lie.

"When rare paintings go missing, the InvestiGators are called on the scene...the art scene! Mango and Brash go undercover and under canvas as internationally renowned painters to expose a crook who has truly mastered the art of crime! Can they recover the missing masterpieces and save the city art museum's fundraising gala before it's too late...and they run out of appetizers?"--Provided by publisher.

Going undercover as a white girl to befriend the estranged son of a dangerous white supremacist, Latina teen spy Andr?a Hern?ndez-Baldoqu?n finds her first solo mission to trap a terrorist endangered by her crush on the target's best friend.

"[FBI field operative Michael R. McGowan takes] readers through some of his biggest cases, from international drug busts, to the Russian and Italian mobs, to biker gangs and contract killers, to corrupt unions and SWAT work"--Provided by publisher.

Upon the death of her father in 1920, Spanish chocolate shop proprietor Maria "Puri" Purificaci?n learns she, along with siblings from her father's clandestine marriage to another woman, have inherited a share of a cacao plantation in Ecuador. During the boat ride to claim her inheritance, Puri and her husband Crist?bal are attacked and Crist?bal is killed. Knowing the attacker was aiming for her, Puri dresses and impersonates her husband for protection while she investigates who wants her dead and what to do with her inheritance.

"On a case for the mysterious Secret Service Bureau, the daring Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lillian Rose must leave London for the boulevards and grand hotels of Paris. But danger lurks beneath the bright lights of the city and intrigue and murder lie in store. As aeroplanes soar in the skies overhead, our heroines will need to put all their spy skills to the test to face the peril that awaits them"--Back cover.