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Inspired by True Events
An assassin on their trail, a buried secret, and time is running out... Former Delta Force operator John Stone had no idea a nuclear device was out in the open. But when he accepts an assignment to protect a beautiful Israeli Mossad agent, she reveals the terrifying plot, and the chase is on.
The weapon, secretly stolen and hidden for fifty years, was known to exist by only one man. Now, that man is dead and the weapon disappears...
62) Limones negros
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Tánger, otoño de 2015. La corrupción española atraviesa el estrecho en busca de nuevas oportunidades. Lola Martín, capitana de la Guardia Civil, sigue la pista en la ciudad marroquí de los tejemanejes de Arturo Biescas, presidente de BankMadrid. Sepulveda profesor del Instituto Cervantes, le ayuda en sus pesquisas. ¿Hasta donde puede soportarse la corrupción? ¿Es lícito tomarse la justicia por su mano cuando la vía oficial resulta inoperante?...
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When traveling salesman Paul Howard unwinds in a hotel bar, he's pleasantly surprised to attract the attention of a beautiful woman. But after the best night of his life, he finds that she is not who she seems. Her life as a professional thief-for- hire pulls him into a breathtaking world of secrecy and danger.
Tracked at every turn, they join forces with a disillusioned assassin and a hostage victim bent on revenge, and go on a life-threatening...
64) Snark
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In the follow-up to Cronus, an American spy travels to London to locate a high-profile missing person, and is faced with terror from the past If they're going to take you, let them take you with your eyes open. That's the credo of Clifford Driscoll, the American spy at the center of Snark, the follow-up to William DeAndrea's Edgar Award–winning Cronus. Driscoll has gone by many names in his short, eventful life, and he's just borrowed another: that...
65) Desamor
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La vida de Julián Verdesoto cambia drásticamente cuando una de sus amigas es encontrada muerta en un viaje a la playa. Desde aquella muerte, la culpa, la traición y las mentiras comenzarán a deteriorar la frágil relación que tiene con sus amigos, levantando cada vez más sospechas de un crimen que es más de lo que aparenta...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Spy Among Friends" chronicles the intertwined lives of British intelligence officers Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby, the latter a notorious double agent for the Soviet Union. Elliott, from a privileged background, joined MI6 and developed a close bond with Philby, who was also recruited into British intelligence despite...
67) Green Hazard
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British secret agent Tommy Hambleton is believed to have been killed in an explosion, but will spies inside wartime Germany find out that a famous explosives expert cooperating with the Nazis is really Hambleton?... He is impersonating a scientist who has developed a new and powerful explosive.
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Sometimes people happen into a life of crime. But for this assassin a life of crime happened upon the gun. Follow along as this gun moves from job to job while trying to maintain a decorum of humanity. Until that is the day the gun meets the one client who will change the guns life forever.
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"Isn't life wonderful! Everybody else gets the fun and I carry the spades and quicklime."
Quayle is the master of a British spy ring in World War II. He is unprepared to deal with tough guy Foden, a man newly arrived in London from Morocco armed with information about German troop movements. This intelligence could change the course of the war - but is Foden the patriot he seems, or something else entirely?
Quayle leads his agents through the twists...
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As owner of every team in the league, Henry is flush with pride in a young rookie who is pitching a perfect game. When the pitcher completes the miracle game, Henry's life lights up. But then the rookie is killed by a freak accident, and this'death' affects Henry's life in ways unimaginable. In a blackly comic novel that takes the reader between the real world and fantasy, Robert Coover delves into the notions of chance and power.
71) Oldogs
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The CIA, beset with draconian budget cuts and increasing problems, decides on an unprecedented strategy. Every week, the agency gets requests from older people, who want to volunteer their services -- often to fill lives made barren by the loss of their partners. In the past, these requests have always been ignored and filed. Now, some will be addressed.
A class of fifty "OLDOGS" volunteers is recruited and trained at the agency's secluded site at...
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La obra periodística más influyente de la historia, que acabó con un presidente y que ganó del premio Pulitzer.
"El libro que acabó con un presidente... Tal vez la obra periodística más influyente de la historia." Así definió la revista Time este libro, publicado por primera vez en 1974, ganador del premio Pulitzer y considerado como uno de los 100 mejores libros de no ficción de todos los tiempos. "Todos los hombres del presidente" vuelve...
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In them he maintains a clear, lively, intensely emotional and existentialist style, where the dive in feelings, passions, dreams and illusions are mixed to give this work, the character of universal poetry.
There is no theme or feeling that the author does not understand and transmit, always maintaining a humanist and positive sense, in front of the wonder of the written word.
This is an invitation to the heart, to enjoy in silence, when the soul...
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At every turn the gripping writing reminds you of a world of spies and betrayal that was so much a part of life in post-war Europe... Superb from start to finish.' JEREMY VINE
On 3 May 1961, after a trial conducted largely in secret, a man named George Blake was sentenced to an unprecedented forty-two years in jail.
At the time few details of his crimes were made known. By his own confession he was a Soviet spy and rumours later circulated that his...
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The Venetian Light is a novel about espionage, terrorism and redemptive love. Set in Venice, Washington and the Middle East, its story mirrors events in Reagan Administration and deals with tragedy and survival in the world of spies and politicians. A covert CIA officer provides information that leads to the indictment of a rogue operative who provided explosives to Libyan terrorists. The operative, who has fled justice, plots his revenge and tragedy...
76) Plausible Denial
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When the CIA can't get the job done, its legendary director of operations turns to "Mac" MacMurphy, in this exciting sequel to Rustmann's first best-selling novel, The Case Officer. Mac is the best. A proven talent in fighting fire with fire. Able to be as ruthless as any enemy, showing no mercy where none is due. The perfect man to pit against an out-of-control drug lord who has declared war on the U.S. Consulate in Northern Thailand. But do the...
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A British diplomat, looking natty in a green hat, walks into the brooding hills above Lake Como and disappears. The police investigate but can uncover no clues or evidence. This is a job for British Intelligence in the person of none other than the intrepid Tommy Hambledon.
Hambledon takes on Italy's vicious underworld, is diverted by some society types, and side-steps some unrepentant fascists in this rapid-transit chase for a mastermind and a hidden...
78) Concrete Crime
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It started the night a safe-cracker was shot on a Stepney street by a soft-spoken killer. Through an ingenious piece of detection - and with the help of his underworld friends - Tommy Hambledon succeeded in identifying the killer as the notorious Louis Magid. The problem was to find a man so vicious and so feared that even the criminals let him walk alone. The trail led to a small French village, an old castle and a mysterious woman. And, as Hambledon...
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La segunda misión del super agente soviético Maxim Isáiev, protagonista de Diecisiete instantes de una primavera (Hoja de Lata). «El sexto año de revolución llegó a Rusia junto con el hambre». Al término de la guerra civil entre bolcheviques y zaristas el país está devastado. Por si fuera poco, en la costa del Pacífico Japón pretende seguir expansiéndose sobre el territorio ruso.
Por ello, Lenin decide crear un Estado tapón que se interponga...
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In Paris, France, special ops agent Ian McKinley carries out a most unusual 'retirement' operation, aiming to stem the flow of ultra high-tech rifles to terrorist groups. But when he returns to the Covert Operations And Surveillance Team base, he learns that a navy supply vessel has foundered in the Persian Gulf with the loss of all hands, and is dispatched with his teammates to secure the thermonuclear warheads that the ship was carrying. At the...
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