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Abelby Louise BernikowISBN 0671270540 (0-671-27054-0)
Hardcover, Trident Press
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The Amateurby Robert LittellISBN 0553283901 (0-553-28390-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Amateur'Book summary:With last year's publication of his New York Times bestseller The Company, Robert Littell reestablished his position as one of our top writers of intelligent, ironic, and always entertaining espionage thrillers. After many years The Amateur, a cult classic among aficionados, is finally available again as Overlook republishes Littell's best.
In this "first-rate thriller" (Chicago Tribune), Charlie Heller is an ace cryptographer for the Company. He's a quiet man with a quiet job in a back office. But when terrorists shoot his fiancée in cold blood and Heller learns that the Agency has decided not to pursue those responsible, his life takes an abrupt turn. He was not a blackmailer but he will force the CIA's hand. He was not an assassin but he will penetrate the Iron Curtain with the intent to kill. Driven by an obsessive need for revenge, targeted for elimination by the CIA itself, Heller is an amateur with a one-in-a-million chance of success. [via] 
The American Connection: U.S. Guns, Money, and Influence in Northern Irelandby Jack HollandISBN 0670808946 (0-670-80894-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Angels & Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 0671027360 (0-671-02736-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels & Demons'Book summary:It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Angels and Demonsby Dan BrownISBN 0739326759 (0-7393-2675-9)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels and Demons'Book summary:It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.
Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]
Archangelby Robert HarrisISBN 0679428887 (0-679-42888-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Betrayal : The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spyby Tim Weiner, David Johnston, Neil A. LewisISBN 067944050X (0-679-44050-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betrayal : The Story of Aldrich Ames, an American Spy'Book summary:Aldrich Ames, according to this account by a team of New York Times reporters, was an incompetent, office-bound, alcoholic spy in the middle of an undistinguished career. Even so, he was promoted to lead the counterintelligence branch of the CIA's central Soviet division, and there, in 1983, he began calling for the files on every important CIA operation involving Soviet spies in every corner of the world. He sold these files to the Soviets in order to fund tastes not appropriate to his salary; dozens of U.S. operatives were exposed, and many were killed.
Until his arrest and conviction for espionage in 1994, Ames received nearly $3 million for his treason, about which he was quite unsubtle. Yet the CIA took years to wonder why Ames could afford an expensive home in a Washington, D.C., suburb and frequent weekend trips to Europe. The agency was so slow to act, the authors suggest, because its leadership was more concerned with institutional self-preservation than with doing its job properly. This suspenseful book draws on interviews with Ames himself to show that major housecleaning is in order at Langley. [via]
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Beyond Top Secret Ultraby Ewen MontaguISBN 0698108825 (0-698-10882-5)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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The Boys from Brazilby Ira LevinISBN 0553290045 (0-553-29004-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Boys from Brazil'Book summary:It is 1974, but for Dr Mengele and his group of Nazis, World War II is not yet over. They have a terrible plan to conquer the world, but how does it involve a group of boys that come from different countries, yet all look exactly the same? Only one man can find out. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class. [via]
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Chessplayerby William PearsonISBN 0670568317 (0-670-56831-7)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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The Clocks: A Hercule Poirot Mysteryby Agatha ChristieISBN 0553350714 (0-553-35071-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Cold Harbourby Jack Higgins, Bill GroseISBN 0671684264 (0-671-68426-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Conduct of Major Maximby Gavin LyallISBN 0670237116 (0-670-23711-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Convenient Spy : Wen Ho Lee and the Politics of Nuclear Espionageby Dan Stober, Ian HoffmanISBN 0743223780 (0-7432-2378-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cover Storyby Colin ForbesISBN 0689118333 (0-689-11833-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Cyclopsby Oliver CusslerISBN 0671704648 (0-671-70464-8)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cyclops'Book summary:A wealthy American financier disappears on a treasure hunt in an antique blimp. From Cuban waters, the blimp drifts toward Florida with a crew of dead men -- Soviet cosmonauts. DIRK PITT discovers a shocking scheme: a covert group of U.S. industrialists has put a colony on the moon, a secret base they will defend at any cost. Threatened in space, the Russians are about to strike a savage blow in Cuba -- and only DIRK PITT can stop them. From a Cuban torture chamber to the cold ocean depths, Pitt is racing to defuse an international conspiracy that threatens to shatter the earth! [via]
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Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bombby Richard RhodesISBN 0684824140 (0-684-82414-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb'Book summary:An engrossing history of the scientific discoveries, political maneuverings, and cold-war espionage leading to the creation of mankind's most destructive weapon.
Includes 94 archival photographs and a glossary with brief descriptions of the hundreds of people interviewed and discussed in the book. Author Richard Rhodes won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his previous atomic tome, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. [via]
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The Dealerby Robert MuchamoreISBN 0689877803 (0-689-87780-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Deep Sixby Clive CusslerISBN 0671557971 (0-671-55797-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deep Six'Book summary:For the President of the United States, the crisis point is approaching fast. With his new Soviet initiative entering its most crucial phase, the President suddenly finds himself faced with a pollution disaster of potentially cataclysmic proportions. And then - incredibly - he vanishes into thin air, leaving his country poised on the brink of chaos. It's left to troubleshooter extraordinaire Dirk Pitt to hotwire the connections between these two shattering events. From the icy Alaskan waters to a Korean shipbreaker's yard; from a Caribbean shipwreck to a blazing inferno in the Mississippi Delta, he tracks down a conspiracy so fiendish and sophisticated that even the superpowers are helpless in its grip ... [via]
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Doctor Frigoby Eric AmblerISBN 0689706170 (0-689-70617-0)
Softcover, Antheneum
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The Eagle Has Flownby Jack HigginsISBN 0671724584 (0-671-72458-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Eagle Has Flown'Book summary:Higgins he picks up where he left off in The Eagle Has Landed with Nazi commando Kurt Steiner and killer/Irish patriot Liam Devlin. 2 cassettes. [via]
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Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIAby Mark PerryISBN 0688093868 (0-688-09386-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eclipse: The Last Days of the CIA'Book summary:Based on interviews with top ranking C.I.A. insiders, Mark Perry's Eclipse is at once a history of the governmental agency and an expose of its most recent cover operations. From George Bush to William Casey to William Webster to Robert Gates, the author examines both the triumphs and the blunders made on behalf of the American public.C., New York, and Chicago. [via]
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The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphersby Michael SmithISBN 0593046420 (0-593-04642-0)
Softcover, Bantam Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park and the Breaking of Japan's Secret Ciphers'Book summary:While Allied Forces understandably pursued a "Europe-first" policy in the Second World War, the Japanese threat in the Far East grew with every month. Popular history credits the Americans with breaking Japanese codes and saving perhaps two years of conflict. This is not Michael Smith's view. Building on the success of Station X, which heralded British success in cracking the German Enigma cipher, The Emperor's Codes uses recently released British archive records to fill in the details of British and Australian involvement in the Far East. In fact, Smith goes further, and controversially concludes that internal bickering in the US military, compounded by a less than open exchange of information with the British, "must have cost many lives, the majority of them American". In addition, he observes that the Allies knew a Japanese "unconditional surrender", dependent on Emperor Hirohito remaining on the throne, was on the cards before the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, throwing into considerable doubt the need for such demonstratively horrific tactics.
As well as major players such as John Tiltman, Eric Nave and Joe Rochefort, Smith plays out the controversy, as well as the intricacies of cryptography, through recourse to witness statements from the "ordinary" men and women slavishly dedicated to "stripping"--that is, removing the cipher additive. The urgencies and peculiarities of war saw numerous marriages, Oxbridge linguists learning Japanese in six months (experts had predicted five years), a radio broadcast of a concert from Britain's most secret location and an over-optimistic colour-coded ticket scheme at Bletchley Park for meals; bread and butter, so to speak, for the hungry workers. Charting efforts in Ceylon, Singapore, India, Kenya, Australia and, of course, Bletchley Park, Smith's revisionist reading gives proper due to the grass roots co-operation between Allied intelligence which, though unable to prevent the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, helped accelerate Hirohito's surrender. As he makes plain, that it succeeded more in spite of than due to senior US Navy command scathingly undermines the conventional heroic narrative the American military was so quick to proclaim. It's a damning conclusion, but an enthralling read. --David Vincent [via]
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The English Patientby Michael OndaatjeISBN 0679745203 (0-679-74520-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Patient'Book summary:Three people--nurse Hana, thief Caravaggio, and Kip--are brought together in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II by a nameless and hideously burned English patient. Reissue. Movie tie-in. 150,000 first printing. [via]
Espionageby Michael TregenzaISBN 0600330850 (0-600-33085-0)
Hardcover, Hamlyn
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Family of Spies : Inside the John Walker Spy Ringby Pete EarleyISBN 0553282220 (0-553-28222-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Fist of Godby Frederick ForsythISBN 0553572423 (0-553-57242-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fist of God'Book summary:From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal, international master of intrigue Frederick Forsyth, comes a thriller that brilliantly blends fact with fiction for one of this summer's--or any season's--most explosive reads!
From the behind-the-scenes decision-making of the Allies to the secret meetings of Saddam Hussein's war cabinet, from the brave American fliers running their dangerous missions over Iraq to the heroic young spy planted deep in the heart of Baghdad, Forsyth's incomparable storytelling skill keeps the suspense at a breakneck pace. Somewhere in Baghdad is the mysterious "Jericho," the traitor who is willing--for a price--to reveal what is going on in the high councils of the Iraqi dictator. But Saddam's ultimate weapon has been kept secret even from his most trusted advisers, and the nightmare scenario that haunts General Schwarzkopf and his colleagues is suddenly imminent, unless somehow, the spy can locate that weapon--The Fist of God--in time.
Peopled with vivid characters, brilliantly displaying Forsyth's incomparable, knowledge of intelligence operations and tradecraft, moving back and forth
between Washington and London, Baghdad and Kuwait, desert vastnesses and city bazaars, this breathtaking novel is an utterly convincing story of what may
actually have happened behind the headlines. [via]
Flood Tideby Clive CusslerISBN 0671000314 (0-671-00031-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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A Gathering of Saintsby Christopher HydeISBN 0671875817 (0-671-87581-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Icebergby Clive CusslerISBN 0684826895 (0-684-82689-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Iceberg'Book summary:Just seventy-two hours ago, Dirk Pitt was lying in the hot California sun with a beautiful woman, a Scotch-rocks in one hand, but an urgent call from Admiral James Sandecker, his commander at the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), brings Pitt out of the warm Pacific breezes and straight into a North Atlantic deep freeze. The reason: the dis- covery of a long-missing luxury yacht, en route to a secret White House rendezvous, frozen solid in a mil- lion-ton tombstone of ice. Tunneling his way into the core of the berg, Pitt comes upon a gruesome scene -- a crew of corpses, hor- ribly incinerated at their posts -- but the vessel's price- less cargo, which could alter the balance of world power and put the threat of annihilation at America's doorstep, has vanished. This discovery is the springboard from which Clive Cussler -- The Grand Master of Adventure -- launches a compelling and powerful story that takes Dirk Pitt from the remote, uninhabited tundra of Iceland to the frigid abyss of the North Atlantic, determined to force his deadly, unseen opponent -- a multibillionaire in the business of playing God -- to make his next move. But first Pitt will have to penetrate the shroud of mystery concealing a titanic network of international financial intrigue -- and mass murder. Lives, nations, continents are at stake. And although his enemies may have the firepower as always, Dirk Pitt has the skill and the daring, the ruth- lessness and resourcefulness to meet it. He also has Kirsti Fyrie, an Icelandic beauty whose twin brother died on the ice-encased yacht and who carries in her heart the secret that Pitt needs to destroy his opponents in this deadly game. Iceberg is classic Cussler. [via]
Inside the Company: CIA Diaryby Philip AgeeISBN 055326012X (0-553-26012-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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James Bond:the Authorized Biography of 007;by John PearsonISBN 0688002161 (0-688-00216-1)
Hardcover, Morrow
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Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spyby Robert C. WilliamsISBN 0674505409 (0-674-50540-9)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Klaus Fuchs, Atom Spyby Robert Chadwell WilliamsISBN 0674505077 (0-674-50507-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in Americaby Ellen SchreckerISBN 0691048703 (0-691-04870-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIAby Malcolm McConnell, Antonio J. MendezISBN 0688163025 (0-688-16302-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA'Book summary:The problem with memoirs by ex-secret agents is that they usually make their careers sound about as exciting as that of $6-an-hour bowling alley security guard, unless you're of the opinion that filing papers and making phone calls is the epitome of thrills. Antonio Mendez, however, has produced a tome that makes the life of a CIA agent sound every bit the slam-bang world of intrigue and skulking in the shadows that movies like Mission: Impossible make it out to be.
Honored by the CIA on its 50th anniversary as being one of the agency's 50 "Trailblazers," the now-retired Mendez spins a fast-paced tale of intriguing characters partaking in skullduggery in exotic locales, made all the more appealing because Mendez himself is the featured star of the proceedings. In an almost offhand manner, he writes about seeing and doing things that would wilt the flower of courage in almost any reader. "Was I proud to be enlisting," he rhetorically ponders at one point, "on our side in the Cold War? You bet." Originally drafted by the CIA as a "technical artist" to provide cover for agents behind enemy lines, Mendez worked his way up the ladder and progressed to a full-fledged agent in the field, sneaking diplomats past enemy guards and spiriting informants into the night, eluding capture and torture at every turn--and using his artist's eye for detail to paint vivid word pictures of his predicaments. Mendez possesses a remarkably keen sense of the mechanics of a good cloak-and-dagger story, and fortunately pours it on in abundance here in his quite hefty--and surprisingly lively--autobiography. --Tjames Madison [via]
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Beganby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0679748407 (0-679-74840-7)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds Historyby Art SpiegelmanISBN 0606241817 (0-606-24181-7)
Hardcover, Demco Media
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History'Book summary:Some historical events simply beggar any attempt at description--the Holocaust is one of these. Therefore, as it recedes and the people able to bear witness die, it becomes more and more essential that novel, vigorous methods are used to describe the indescribable. Examined in these terms, Art Spiegelman's Maus is a tremendous achievement, from a historical perspective as well as an artistic one.
Spiegelman, a stalwart of the underground comics scene of the 1960s and '70s, interviewed his father, Vladek, a Holocaust survivor living outside New York City, about his experiences. The artist then deftly translated that story into a graphic novel. By portraying a true story of the Holocaust in comic form--the Jews are mice, the Germans cats, the Poles pigs, the French frogs, and the Americans dogs--Spiegelman compels the reader to imagine the action, to fill in the blanks that are so often shied away from. Reading Maus, you are forced to examine the Holocaust anew.
This is neither easy nor pleasant. However, Vladek Spiegelman and his wife Anna are resourceful heroes, and enough acts of kindness and decency appear in the tale to spur the reader onward (we also know that the protagonists survive, else reading would be too painful). This first volume introduces Vladek as a happy young man on the make in pre-war Poland. With outside events growing ever more ominous, we watch his marriage to Anna, his enlistment in the Polish army after the outbreak of hostilities, his and Anna's life in the ghetto, and then their flight into hiding as the Final Solution is put into effect. The ending is stark and terrible, but the worst is yet to come--in the second volume of this Pulitzer Prize-winning set. --Michael Gerber [via]
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Moscow Rulesby Robert MossISBN 0671656821 (0-671-65682-1)
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Mother Russiaby Robert LittellISBN 055325457X (0-553-25457-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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N or M?by Agatha ChristieISBN 0708911560 (0-7089-1156-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroineby Peter FitzSimonsISBN 0732269199 (0-7322-6919-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nancy Wake: A Biography of Our Greatest War Heroine'Book summary:Appalled by what she'd seen of the Nazis in Berlin and Vienna, Nancy joined a resistance group in Marseilles helping to smuggle out escaped British prisoners. By 1943, Nancy had become the No 1 target on the Gestapo's most wanted list, and there was a five million-franc price on her head. [via]
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Night Watchby David A. PhillipsISBN 0689107544 (0-689-10754-4)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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The Ninjaby Eric Van LustbaderISBN 0708981496 (0-7089-8149-6)
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O Jerusalemby Laurie R. KingISBN 0553581058 (0-553-58105-8)
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Prince of Spies, Henri Le Caronby J. A. ColeISBN 0571132332 (0-571-13233-2)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber
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Quiller Bambooby Adam HallISBN 0688096964 (0-688-09696-4)
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Quiller Barracudaby Adam HallISBN 0688087841 (0-688-08784-1)
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Raise the Titanicby Clive CusslerISBN 0553258966 (0-553-25896-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raise the Titanic'Book summary:The President's secret task force develops the ultimate defensive weapon. At its core: byzanium, a radioactive element so rare sufficient quantities have never been found. But a frozen American corpse on a desolate Soviet mountainside, a bizarre mining accident in Colorado, and a madman's dying message lead DlRK PITT~ to a secret cache of byzanium. Now he begins his most thrilling, daunting mission -- to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century!
In a daring gamble, DIRK PITT locates the Titanic -- and suddenly his crew is in deadly jeopardy. Sabotaged by Russian spies and savage storms, Pitt must stop a diabolical plan for Soviet world supremacy -- or see the mighty Titanic blasted out of existence! [via]
The Recruitby Robert MuchamoreISBN 068987779X (0-689-87779-X)
Softcover, Simon Pulse
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The Revolutionistby Robert LittellISBN 0553277928 (0-553-27792-8)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Road to Omahaby Robert LudlumISBN 0553560441 (0-553-56044-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Schismby Bill GrangerISBN 0671452746 (0-671-45274-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold Warby Peter HennessyISBN 0713996269 (0-7139-9626-9)
Hardcover, Allen Lane
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The Shattered Eyeby Bill GrangerISBN 0671477560 (0-671-47756-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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Spy Versus Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in Americaby Ronald KesslerISBN 0684189453 (0-684-18945-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spy Versus Spy: Stalking Soviet Spies in America'Book summary:Acclaimed journalist Ronald Kessler takes readers inside the deadly world of espionage and counter-espionage to reveal how Russian agents operate in the United States, how greedy Americans can betray top military secrets with astonishing ease, and why most Russian spies walk away free. [via]
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Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novelby Anthony HorowitzISBN 0698119320 (0-698-11932-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel'Book summary:Spies are great currency for exciting storylines, but few authors manage to successfully concoct realistic scenarios for a willing readership expecting chases, gunshots and thrills aplenty. In the first of what could easily become his most memorable series of novels to date, Anthony Horowitz has added a tongue-in-cheek quality to Stormbreaker that lifts it above several others in the same genre.
Horowitz knows that his main character, 14-year-old Alex Rider, is a normal teenager and he never forgets this when he thrusts his young hero into the thick of several truly edge-of-seat scenarios. There is humour alongside the action too--some great characters and cutting one-liners--that helps to ensure that entertainment is high on the agenda throughout.
Orphan Alex thought he knew his Uncle Ian Rider--until the elusive banker is killed in a tragic car accident. Immediately, Alex's life starts to get stranger by the day as his guardian's friends and colleagues start showing up and contradicting everything Alex thought he knew about the man he'd called Dad for so long. Maybe Ian Rider was not a banker after all? Surely the bullet holes in his Uncle's totalled car reveal that he had not died in an accident, but was murdered? Everything is explained when Alex decides to track down Ian Rider's real employers, but Alex is in for a surprise when they decide to contact him. The truth is hard to take, but maybe by following in his uncle's secret footsteps he might get the chance for revenge.
Apart from a slightly over-the-top finale involving a helicopter and the roof of London's Science Museum, Stormbreaker is a refreshingly energetic yarn that is required reading for fans of the contemporary thriller. --John McLay [via]
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Sweet Reasonby Robert LittellISBN 0553255479 (0-553-25547-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sweet Reason'Book summary:A Vietnam era Catch-22 by the author of The Company
Robert Littell is often compared to John le Carre, Alan Furst, and Len Deighton. But in Sweet Reason, this master of the spy genre takes a dramatic departure to brilliantly satirize career militarists and other absurdities of war.
Somewhere off the coast of Southeast Asia, the U.S.S. Eugene F. Ebersole-a rusted World War II relic whose best days are far past- patrols the waters on a mission to protect American values in this suddenly-not-so-Cold War. The decrepit destroyer's mission is to apprehend or annihilate anything suspicious, but someone on board is preaching peace and the ship's motley crew is not quite as motivated as its ambitious commander. [via]More editions of Sweet Reason:
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Syrupby Maxx BarryISBN 0670886408 (0-670-88640-8)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Syrup'Book summary:An over-the-top debut about a young wannabe buzzmaker who will do almost anything to get ahead and get a date, for fans who laughed out loud at Nick Hornby and Helen Fielding.
He's young, he's in LA, and he's trying to carve a path in the most powerful, corrupt, and insane industry in the world: marketing. So when Scat (you don't get far in this business as plain old Michael) is hit with a million-dollar idea for a new soda, he teams up with 6, a woman whose cold-blooded political skill is the perfect counterbalance for his naivete. While she knows all the angles, her own angles leave Scat sleepless. Together, can they hold on to the idea when the stakes are seven figures? Or will success remain one knife in the back away?
Outrageously funny, smart, and hip, Syrup is a one-gulp adventure through the sticky worlds of corporate and sexual politics. In the book everyone will want to read this summer, Maxx (ne Max) Barry delivers a pitch-perfect sendup of our obsession with having it all. Self-absorbed and hilarious, Syrup is a Bright Lights, Big City for the late 90s. [via]More editions of Syrup:
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Transfer of Powerby Vince FlynnISBN 0671023209 (0-671-02320-9)
Softcover, Pocket Star
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transfer of Power'Book summary:A group of terrorists invades the White House -- taking hostages, leaving dozens dead, and driving the president to an underground bunker where he can't communicate with his government. Mitch Rapp, the CIA's top counterterrorism operative, sneaks into the executive mansion to take control and finds that the terrorists are the least of the president's -- and the nation's -- problems. [via]
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Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Teamby George JonasISBN 0671506110 (0-671-50611-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team'Book summary:Vengeance is a true story that reads like a novel. It is the account of five ordinary Israelis, selected to vanish into "the cold" of espionage secrecy -- their mission to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
This is the account of that secret mission, as related by the leader of the group -- the first Mossad agent to come out of "deep cover" and tell the story of a heroic endeavor that was shrouded in silence and speculation for years. He reveals the long and dangerous operation whose success was bought at a terrible cost to the idealistic volunteer agents themselves.
"Avner" was the leader of that team, handpicked by Golda Meir to avenge the monstrous crime of Munich. He and his young companions, cut off from any direct contact with Israel, set out systematically to find and kill the central figures of the PLO's Munich operation, tracking them down wherever they lived.
The mechanics, the horror, the day-by-day suspense of what they did surpass by far anything John le Carré or Robert Ludlum could imagine, as they themselves were tracked in turn (and some killed) by PLO assassins, changing identities constantly, moving from country to country, devoting their young lives to the brutal task of vengeance.
Vengeance is a profoundly human document, a real-life espionage classic that plunges the reader into the shadow world of terrorism and political murder. But it goes far beyond that, to explore firsthand the feelings of disgust and doubt that gradually came to torment each member of the Israeli team, and that in the end inexorably changed their view of the mission -- and themselves.
Vengeance opens a window onto a secret world, a book that at the same time inspires and horrifies. For its subject is an act of revenge that goes to the very heart of the ancient biblical questions of good and evil. [via]
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A Very Private Plot: A Blackford Oakes Novelby William F. BuckleyISBN 0688127959 (0-688-12795-9)
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The Vesuvius Club: A Bit of Fluffby Mark GatissISBN 0743257057 (0-7432-5705-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Vixen 03by Clive CusslerISBN 0553273906 (0-553-27390-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vixen 03'Book summary:1954. Vixen 03 is down. The plane, bound for the Pacific carrying thirty-six Doomsday bombs -- canisters armed with quick-death germs of unbelievable potency -- vanishes. Vixen has in fact crashed into an ice-covered lake in Colorado. 1988. Dirk Pitt, who heroically raised the Titanic, discovers the wreckage of Vixen 03. But two deadly canisters are missing. They're in the hands of a terrorist group. Their lethal mission: to sail a battleship seventy-five miles up the Potomac and blast Washington, D.C., to kingdom come. Only Dirk can stop them. [via]
War Gameby Anthony PriceISBN 0708918700 (0-7089-1870-0)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ringby Alexander RoseISBN 0553383299 (0-553-38329-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring'Book summary:Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrorsincluding the spymaster at the heart of it all.
In the summer of 1778, with the war poised to turn in his favor, General George Washington desperately needed to know where the British would strike next. To that end, he unleashed his secret weapon: an unlikely ring of spies in New York charged with discovering the enemys battle plans and military strategy.
Washingtons small band included a young Quaker torn between political principle and family loyalty, a swashbuckling sailor addicted to the perils of espionage, a hard-drinking barkeep, a Yale-educated cavalryman and friend of the doomed Nathan Hale, and a peaceful, sickly farmer who begged Washington to let him retire but who always came through in the end. Personally guiding these imperfect everyday heroes was Washington himself. In an era when officers were gentlemen, and gentlemen didnt spy, he possessed an extraordinary talent for deceptionand proved an adept spymaster.
The men he mentored were dubbed the Culper Ring. The British secret service tried to hunt them down, but they escaped by the closest of shaves thanks to their ciphers, dead drops, and invisible ink. Roses thrilling narrative tells the unknown story of the Revolutionthe murderous intelligence war, gunrunning and kidnapping, defectors and executionersthat has never appeared in the history books. But Washingtons Spies is also a spirited, touching account of friendship and trust, fear and betrayal, amid the dark and silent world of the spy.
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The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence, 1939-1945by R.V. JonesISBN 0698108965 (0-698-10896-5)
Hardcover, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
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The Wolf's Hourby Robert R. McCammonISBN 0671664859 (0-671-66485-9)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wolf's Hour'Book summary:On the eve of D-Day, a British secret agent with unique powers goes behind Nazi linesMichael Gallatin is a British spy with a peculiar talent: the ability to transform himself into a wolf. Although his work in North Africa helped the Allies win the continent in the early days of World War II, he quit the service when a German spy shot his lover in her bed. Now, three years later, the army asks him to end his retirement and parachute into occupied Paris. A mysterious German plan called the Iron Fist threatens the D-Day invasion, and the Nazi in charge is the spy who betrayed Michaels lover. The werewolf goes to France for king and country, hoping for a chance at bloody vengeance.[via]
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