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The Apocalypse Watchby Robert LudlumISBN 1568952384 (1-56895-238-4)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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Background to Dangerby Eric AmblerISBN 037572673X (0-375-72673-X)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Background to Danger'Book summary:It begins with a game of poker-dice that breaks Kenton. So when the stranger on the train offer him 600 marks for a small service, he can't refuse. He knows the man isn't to be trusted and his story is a lie. What of it? He needs the cash.
That small service puts Kenton in the middle of a nasty business. Military secrets have been stolen from the Russians. Kenton finds himself dead center and a perfect sitting target for both sides. [via]
Bodyguard of Liesby Anthony Cave BrownISBN 1585746924 (1-58574-692-4)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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The Chancellor Manuscriptby Robert LudlumISBN 0553260944 (0-553-26094-4)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chancellor Manuscript'Book summary:Did J. Edgar Hoover die a natural death?...or was he murdered? Inver Brass -- a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who see a monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unethical use of his scandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away with him -- quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Until best-selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles onto information that makes his precious books like harmless fairy tales. [via]
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The Confessorby Daniel SilvaISBN 1594130280 (1-59413-028-0)
Softcover, Gale / Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confessor'Book summary:Gabriel Allon, Daniel Silva's protagonist in an interesting series about a Mossad spy who doubles as an art restorer, returns in a fascinating tale of Vatican complicity in the Holocaust. Author Silva, a political journalist turned espionage writer, has done his homework on some recently unearthed documents and written a fast-paced novel that will reawaken the discussion regarding whether the Catholic Church turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied countries during World War II, and if so, why. Allon remains an enigmatic figure whose desire for revenge against the Leopard, the assassin who killed his wife and child, compels him to put down his paints and brushes and take arms against Israel's past and present enemies. The Confessor is a solidly plotted, well-crafted story that will appeal to fans of Allen Furst, John le Carré, and other standouts in the international espionage genre. --Jane Adams [via]
The Deceiverby Frederick ForsythISBN 0553297422 (0-553-29742-2)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Devil's Alternativeby Frederick ForsythISBN 0091388708 (0-09-138870-8)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Double-Cross Systemby J. C. MastermanISBN 0345297431 (0-345-29743-1)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945by J. C. MastermanISBN 0300014961 (0-300-01496-1)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Eagle Has Landedby Jack HigginsISBN 0425177181 (0-425-17718-1)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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- The Eagle Has Landed: ISBN 0671727737 (0-671-72773-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Eagle Has Landed: ISBN 0553233459 (0-553-23345-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books - Eagle Has Landed: ISBN 0671019341 (0-671-01934-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Eagle Has Landed: ISBN 0030137462 (0-03-013746-2)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - Eagle Has Landed: ISBN 0425177181 (0-425-17718-1)
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The Elusive Mrs. Pollifaxby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0449215237 (0-449-21523-7)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Communityby Yossi Melman, Dan RavivISBN 0395581206 (0-395-58120-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community'Book summary:The first comprehensive and balanced account of the most controversial and well-known espionage organization in the world, taking readers through the complex web of politics and personal ambition that led to such disasters as the brutal violence on the West Bank. 8 pages of photographs. [via]
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The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionageby Robert LindseyISBN 1585745022 (1-58574-502-2)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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The Gemini Contendersby Robert LudlumISBN 0440128595 (0-440-12859-5)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gemini Contenders'Book summary:December 9, 1939, Salonika, Greece. Five trucks enter the guarded encampment of the Order of Xenope, a harsh monastic brotherhood. All instructions and schedules have been meticulously planned. The objective: Deliver a small iron vault into the hands of one Savarone Fontini-Christi, a wealthy and influential padrone of northern Italy. The vault has been buried for over 15 centuries. What are its contents and why is there such a desperate urgency? [via]
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asiaby Peter HopkirkISBN 1568360223 (1-56836-022-3)
Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia'Book summary:In a phrase coined by Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, a "Great Game" was played between Tsarist Russia and Victorian England for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the security of India, key to the wealth of the British Empire. When play began early in the 19th century, the frontiers of the two imperial powers lay two thousand miles apart, across vast deserts and almost impassable mountain ranges; by the end, only 20 miles separated the two rivals.
Peter Hopkirk, a former reporter for The Times of London with wide experience of the region, tells an extraordinary story of ambition, intrigue, and military adventure. His sensational narrative moves at breakneck pace, yet even as he paints his colorful characters--tribal chieftains, generals, spies, Queen Victoria herself--he skillfully provides a clear overview of the geographical and diplomatic framework. The Great Game was Russia's version of America's "Manifest Destiny" to dominate a continent, and Hopkirk is careful to explain Russian viewpoints as fully as those of the British. The story ends with the fall of Tsarist Russia in 1917, but the demise of the Soviet Empire (hastened by a decade of bloody fighting in Afghanistan) gives it new relevance, as world peace and stability are again threatened by tensions in this volatile region of great mineral wealth and strategic significance. --John Stevenson [via]
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Greenmantleby John BuchanISBN 1406821071 (1-4068-2107-1)
Softcover, Echo Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greenmantle'Book summary:Great Edwardian prose, adventure and political intrigue that is stunningly familiar considering the book was written nearly a century ago [via]
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The Gun Sellerby Hugh LaurieISBN 1569470871 (1-56947-087-1)
Hardcover, Soho Pr Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gun Seller'Book summary:Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" (Vanity Fair) -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.
Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot. [via]
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The Holcroft Covenantby Robert LudlumISBN 0553260197 (0-553-26019-7)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Holcroft Covenant'Book summary:The Fourth Reich is waiting to be born. The only man who can stop it is about to sign its birth certificate. In 1945 the children of the Third Reich were secretly hidden all over the world-to be concealed until the 1970's, when they would come of age. Then the most elaborate plans and $780 million in a Swiss bank would be waiting. There would even be an unsuspecting outsider to set the plan into action. that outsider is Noel Holcroft, the American son of a high-ranking Nazi. He's just been shown an amazing document, the Holcroft Covenant. If he signs, it will be his own death warrant and a devastating threat to the security of the world.
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Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group - The Holcroft Covenent: ISBN 081614060X (0-8161-4060-X)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Holcroft Covenant: ISBN 081614074X (0-8161-4074-X)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co - The Holcroft Covenant: ISBN 0553260197 (0-553-26019-7)
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Icebreakerby John E. GardnerISBN 1557732000 (1-55773-200-0)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Janson Directiveby Robert LudlumISBN 0312989385 (0-312-98938-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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London Matchby Len DeightonISBN 0345332687 (0-345-33268-7)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Man Who Never Wasby Ewen MontaguISBN 1557504482 (1-55750-448-2)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Never Was'Book summary:As plans got under way for the Allied invasion of Sicily in June 1943, British counter-intelligence agent Ewen Montagu masterminded a scheme to mislead the Germans into thinking the next landing would occur in Greece. The innovative plot was so successful that the Germans moved some of their forces away from Sicily, and two weeks into the real invasion still expected an attack in Greece. This extraordinary operation called for a dead body, dressed as a Royal Marine officer and carrying false information about a pending Allied invasion of Greece, to wash up on a Spanish shore near the town of a known Nazi agent.
Agent Montagu tells the story as only an insider could, offering fascinating details of the difficulties involved-especially in creating a persona for a man who never was--and of his profession as a spy and the risks involved in mounting such a complex operation. Failure could have had devastating results. Success, however, brought a decided change in the course of the war. [via]
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The Messengerby Daniel SilvaISBN 1597222003 (1-59722-200-3)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc
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The #1 national bestseller from the author of Prince of FireOn the trail of a deadly al-Qaeda operative, Gabriel Allon returns in a spellbinding story of deception, power, and revenge by the New York Times bestselling "world-class practitioner of spy fiction" (Washington Post).
Amazon Exclusive Essay: Daniel Silva on Gabriel Allon and the "Accidental Series"
Writers tend to be solitary creatures. We toil alone for months on end, then, once a year, we emerge from our dens to publish a book. It can be a daunting experience, especially for someone like me, who is not gregarious and outgoing by nature. But there is one aspect of promotion I truly love: meeting my readers and answering their questions. During each stop on my book tour, I reserve the bulk of my time for a lively conversation with the audience. I learn much from these encounters-indeed, some of the comments are so insightful they take my breath away. There is one question I am asked each night without fail, and it remains my favorite: "How in the world did you ever think of Gabriel Allon?" The answer is complicated. In one sense, he was the result of a long, character-construction process. In another, he was a bolt from the blue. I'll try to explain.
In 1999, after publishing The Marching Season, the second book in the Michael Osbourne series, I decided it was time for a change. We were nearing the end of the Clinton administration, and the president was about to embark on a last-ditch effort to bring peace to the Middle East. I had the broad outlines of a story in mind: a retired Israeli assassin is summoned from retirement to track down a Palestinian terrorist bent on destroying the Oslo peace process. I thought long and hard before giving the Israeli a name. I wanted it to be biblical, like my own, and to be heavy with symbolism. I finally decided to name him after the archangel Gabriel. As for his family name, I chose something short and simple: Allon, which means "oak tree" in Hebrew. I liked the image it conveyed. Gabriel Allon: God's angel of vengeance, solid as an oak.
Gabriel's professional résumé-the operations he had carried out-came quickly. But what about his other side? What did he like to do in his spare time? What was his cover? I knew I wanted something distinct. Something memorable. Something that would, in many respects, be the dominant attribute of his character. I spent many frustrating days mulling over and rejecting possibilities. Then, while walking along one of Georgetown's famous redbrick sidewalks, my wife, Jamie, reminded me that we had a dinner date that evening at the home of David Bull, a man regarded as one of the finest art restorers in the world. I stopped dead in my tracks and raised my hands toward the heavens. Gabriel Allon was complete. He was going to be an art restorer, and a very good one at that.
Over my objections, the book was entitled The Kill Artist and it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. It was not, however, supposed to be the first book in a long-running series. But once again, fate intervened. In 2000, after moving to G.P. Putnam & Sons, my new publishers asked me what I was working on. When I mumbled something about having whittled it down to two or three options, they offered their first piece of advice. They really didn't care what it was about, they just wanted one thing: Gabriel Allon.
I then spent the next several minutes listing all the reasons why Gabriel, now regarded as one of the most compelling and successful continuing characters in the mystery-thriller genre, should never appear in a second book. I had conceived him as a "one off" character, meaning he would be featured in one story and then ride into the sunset. I also thought he was too melancholy and withdrawn to build a series around, and, at nearly fifty years of age, perhaps a bit too old as well. My biggest concern, however, had to do with his nationality and religion. I thought there was far too much opposition to Israel in the world-and far too much raw anti-Semitism-for an Israeli continuing character ever to be successful in the long term.
My new publishers thought otherwise, and told me so. Because Gabriel lived in Europe and could pass as German or Italian, they believed he came across as more "international" than Israeli. But what they really liked was Gabriel's other job: art restoration. They found the two opposing sides of his character-destroyer and healer-fascinating. What's more, they believed he would stand alone on the literary landscape. There were lots of CIA officers running around saving the world, they argued, but no former Israeli assassins who spent their spare time restoring Bellini altarpieces.
The more they talked, the more I could see their point. I told them I had an idea for a story involving Nazi art looting during the Second World War and the scandalous activities of Swiss banks. "Write it with Gabriel Allon," they said, "and we promise it will be your biggest-selling book yet." Eventually, the book would be called The English Assassin, and, just as Putnam predicted, it sold twice as many copies as its predecessor. Oddly enough, when it came time to write the next book, I still wasn't convinced it should be another Gabriel novel. Though it seems difficult to imagine now, I actually conceived the plot of The Confessor without him in mind. Fortunately, my editor, Neil Nyren, saved me from myself. The book landed at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list and received some of the warmest reviews of my career. After that, a series was truly born.
I am often asked whether it is necessary to read the novels in sequence. The answer is no, but it probably doesn't hurt, either. For the record, the order of publication is The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor, A Death in Vienna, Prince of Fire, The Messenger, The Secret Servant, and Moscow Rules, my first #1 New York Times bestseller. The Defector pits Gabriel in a final, dramatic confrontation with the Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov, and I have been told it far surpasses anything that has come before it in the series. And to think that, if I'd had my way, only one Gabriel Allon book would have been written. I remain convinced, however, that had I set out in the beginning to create him as a continuing character, I would surely have failed. I have always believed in the power of serendipity. Art, like life, rarely goes according to plan. Gabriel Allon is proof of that.
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Mexico Setby Len DeightonISBN 0345314999 (0-345-31499-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thiefby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0449149056 (0-449-14905-6)
Softcover, Gold Medal
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Mrs. Pollifax on Safariby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0385075065 (0-385-07506-5)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Mrs. Pollifax on the China Stationby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0449208400 (0-449-20840-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Once again, Mrs. Pollifax, the cheerful little woman with the flyaway white hair and a penchant for old hats is plunged headfirst into another hair-raising CIA mission. Posing as a tourist in China, Emily Pollifax meets the sinister challenges of the Orient to safeguard a treasure for the CIA...and all but loses her life in the bargain. [via]More editions of Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station:
Mrs. Pollifax Pursuedby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0449149560 (0-449-14956-0)
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The Naive and Sentimental Loverby John Le CarreISBN 0340156503 (0-340-15650-3)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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The New Meaning of Treasonby Rebecca WestISBN 0140073795 (0-14-007379-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Op Centerby Tom ClancyISBN 8408031155 (84-08-03115-5)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifaxby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0385091346 (0-385-09134-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Private Warsby Greg RuckaISBN 0553584936 (0-553-58493-6)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Private Wars'Book summary:Only Greg Rucka, the thriller genres most fearless writer, would dare create a spy so edgy, so explosive, so extreme, she should be rated X.
Tara Chace was once the most dangerous woman alive. And now that the international spy network thinks shes as good as dead, shes even more dangerous than ever.
Only one thing could coax Tara back into the game: a chance to vindicate herself. The torture and execution of Dina Malikov has set off a cutthroat grab for power in strategically crucial Uzbekistan. Taras job is to slip into the country and extract Dinas pro-Western husband and their young son before they are murderedby his ruthless sister.
But there are a couple of wild cards in the deck, including a missing mobile weapons system that can bring down a commercial airliner, not to mention powerful political careers. Now, as she vanishes into hostile territory with a man who may or may not be what he seems, Tara is going to find out that the war on terror is more terrifying than anyone knows. For in a battle where betrayal is a conventional weapon, loyalty is a weakness, and anyoneeven a childis a legitimate target: its every spy, every woman, for herself.
Combine a thriller that defies every expectation with a heroine for whom nothing is out of bounds, and the result is Private Wars, a suspense novel so explosively realistic, it should be classified. [via]
The Prometheus Deceptionby Robert LudlumISBN 0312978367 (0-312-97836-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Queen and Countryby Greg Rucka, James Lucas Jones, J. Alexander, John RogersISBN 1929998686 (1-929998-68-6)
Softcover, Oni Pr
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The Reckoningby Charles NichollISBN 0226580245 (0-226-58024-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marloweby Charles NichollISBN 0151759812 (0-15-175981-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Trade Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe'Book summary:A first full-length investigation into the death of Christopher Marlowe, the sixteenth-century author tragically stabbed to death in a lodging house, reveals the secrets behind the enigmatic literary legend. [via]
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Red Goldby FurstISBN 0375758593 (0-375-75859-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Red Gold'Book summary:If you enjoy mysteries set against the rich background of World War II Europe (Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir trilogy and the fine French series by J. Robert Janes are prime examples), you should also know about Alan Furst. He began by writing such excellent, original books as Dark Star and Night Soldiers, all set in Eastern Europe. The locale then moved to Paris for The World at Night, where we first met the enigmatic film producer and reluctant Resistance hero Jean Casson.
Casson returns in fascinating form in Red Gold, washing up broke and depressed in his home city, now totally ground down by its German occupiers. Recruited by a sympathetic cop, Casson joins a group of officers working undercover inside the Vichy government to help de Gaulle. Casson's job is to convince justifiably skeptical French communists to cooperate; to do so he must organize a complicated, extremely dangerous transfer of weapons. There's nothing glamorous about the work or its result, but Furst is such a persuasive writer that we come to realize what a success it is for Casson just to stay alive. This innovative and gripping novel eloquently transports us back to a different era and a different world. --Dick Adler [via]
Restlessby William BoydISBN 1596912367 (1-59691-236-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Road to Gandolfoby Robert LudlumISBN 0553271091 (0-553-27109-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Road to Gandolfo'Book summary:In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines the explosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy with a bitingly witty send-up of everything from government bureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, and organized religion. War hero and infamous ladies' man, General MacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story had even been sold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historic monument in China's Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking, with a case against him pending in Washington, it looks like the end of Mac's illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own--and it includes kidnapping the Pope. What's the ransom? Just one American dollar--"for every Catholic in the world." Add to the mix a slew of shady "investors," Hawkins's four persuasive, well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier who wants nothing more than to return to private life--and you've got one relentlessly irreverent page-turner. Here Robert Ludlum combines a motley cast -- characters all -- with the U.S. Army's latest fall guy in a mad plot to kidnap the most beloved pontiff since John XXIII. The ransom: one American dollar for every Catholic in the world. The problem: Pope Francesco I says: "Gentle Souls, why not?" Originally published under the pseudonym Michael Shepard. [via]
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Stained Glassby William F. BuckleyISBN 1888952296 (1-888952-29-6)
Softcover, Cumberland House
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Triple: A Novelby Ken FollettISBN 006136472X (0-06-136472-X)
Softcover, Harper Torch
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Uncommon Dangerby Eric AmblerISBN 000615011X (0-00-615011-X)
Hardcover, Fontana
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifaxby Dorothy GilmanISBN 0449208281 (0-449-20828-1)
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Where Eagles Dareby Alistair MacLeanISBN 1560254556 (1-56025-455-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Eagles Dare'Book summary:Forbidding peaks, resourceful commandos, beautiful spies, nonstop action, and neck-snapping plot twists make this the classic adventure thrillerthe kind of page-turner that readers actually will find impossible to put down. A team of British Special Forces commandos parachutes into the high peaks of the Austrian Alps with the mission of stealing into an invulnerable alpine castleaccessible only by aerial gondolathe headquarters of Nazi intelligence. Supposedly sent in to rescue one of their own, their real mission turns out to be a lot more complicatedand the tension climbs as team members start to die off, one by one. Written by Alistair Maclean, author of the Guns of Navarone, this is the novel that set the pace for the modern action thriller (the film version, with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, also helped), and it still packs twice the punch of most contemporary best-selling thrillers. What's more, the cast of spooks, turncoats, and commandos who drive this story are more relevant than ever in our new era of special forces, black ops, and unpredictable alliances.[via]More editions of Where Eagles Dare:
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Witnessby Whittaker ChambersISBN 0895267896 (0-89526-789-6)
Softcover, Regnery Pub
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El Negociador/ The Negotiatorby Frederick Forsyth, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497597443 (84-9759-744-3)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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