secret service

A brief history of spying and famous spies, as well as methods used to pass messages.

Presidents, vice-presidents, and presidential candidates perform onstage for the public and the media as though they were in a play. What the nation's leaders are really like behind the scenes remains hidden. Secret Service agents have a front-row seat on their private lives and those of their wives and children. And that's what this book is all about: an eye-opening, uncensored story of the out-of-the-limelight life of our highest elected, or soon-to-be elected, officials.

After the wife and daughters of Leo Demidov, a former member of Moscow's secret police, are killed while on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he watches helplessly from the other side of the world as the tragic event unfolds. Leo sets out on a quest to find out exactly what really happened that fateful night in New York even if it takes decades to get the answer from the one man who knows the truth.

Chronicles Adolf Hitler's sabotage campaign against the United States to disrupt the production of tanks and airplanes and blow up bridges and railroads.

Two young Englishmen set off on a leisurely sailing holiday in the period before the first World War; however, their lives are threatened after an encounter with a mysterious German yachtsman and his daughter off the North Sea coast of Germany.