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Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent… Retirement sounded so good. When Mitch Herron's plans go up in flames, he hunts down the crime cartel responsible, but his simple quest for vengeance soon twists into an unpredictable and deadly game. With his future and his identity on the line, Herron is forced to deal with old friends and new enemies down the barrel of a gun. Yet none...
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Enjoy this explosive, pulse-pounding action thriller series by USA Today Bestselling author Steve P. Vincent… One shot to stop an empire. Mitch Herron has a bullet in his gut and a cell to call home. But when a problem arises that only Herron's unique brand of carnage can solve, he's put to work for his captor in return for the chance to keep breathing. As he plays his part in a gambit that will kill thousands and enslave millions, Herron baulks...
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Prepare to continue this explosive, pulse-pounding action series by USA Today Bestselling thriller author Steve P. Vincent… An old foe returns. To save the United States intelligence community from a catastrophe, Mitch Herron came out of the shadows and into the spotlight, exposing himself to plenty of foes who want payback. But only one of them has the resources and the ruthlessness to take down Herron, an old foe returned from the grave. Previously...
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From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood comes another bone-chilling thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat
On a vacation in Las Vegas, a man wakes up in a hotel room that isn't his with a dead woman he doesn't recognize in the bathtub.
Panicked, he runs. Before he can get far the police have caught him, and two detectives inform him that he's the one who murdered the woman-they've even found the weapon. Only the man has...
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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...
6) The Decoy
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Throughout her public life the eyes of the world were on Diana, Princess of Wales. But who else was watching her more closely? What were their motives? What was their agenda? And what was their role in her death? On the night she died two secret operations – one connected to the British Establishment and one involving major figures in the French government – collided unintentionally with catastrophic results. From Bosnia to Baghdad, from Paris...
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In this stunning adventure set in war-torn France-a British agent finds herself in Nazi territory-and unsure about who to trust . . .
It's the spring of 1944 and Rosie Ewing is returning to German-occupied France, by air, this time.
She's carrying a radio, half a million francs, a pistol, and two cyanide capsules to Finistere in north-west Brittany.
With D-Day looming, Rosie fears that the man who'll be meeting her on the ground tonight...
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When American expat journalist Steve Collins sets off for the middle of the Amazon Jungle to cover a plane crash with a U.S senator aboard, he has no idea how his life is about to change. The Peruvian military is claiming the Shining Path rebel insurgency launched a missile attack on the aircraft, and the U.S. State Department is backing the military's claim. Steve just ain't buying it. He smells complicity, but has nothing to go on except the word...
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Charles Jay Tice was a spy's spy--a legendary figure in the CIA, and the intelligence world in general, towards the end of the Cold War. But he was also a traitor, having sold secrets that seriously compromised the U.S. for years to come. Since his conviction, he's been kept in the tightest maximum security prison under the tightest security. Until one morning, his cell is discovered empty--Tice has disappeared without even the hint of trace.
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10) Crash
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A woman loses her memory in a car accident except for the memory of a man who she swears was in the car with her, but no one else ever saw the man.
11) 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...
12) Final Epidemic
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A Japanese doomsday cult releases a deadly virus and former CIA op Beck Casey races to find a vaccine-in this high-octane thrill ride . . . The first case appears in Miami, initially diagnosed as a common cold-perhaps a mild flu. Then patients start dying. Dr. Carol Mayer begins to suspect a strain she hasn't seen before, one that has the potential to rapidly escalate to epidemic proportions. As more cases arise, the state of Florida is quarantined,...
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While looking for the man who shot them six months earlier, two U.S. intelligence officers search islands in the Indian Ocean only to get entangled in a web from which escape is difficult. A body washes ashore on a remote island in the Maldives. Normally the incident would go unnoticed by intelligence organizations; however, this corpse is carrying the passport of Craig (Coop) Cooper, a spy working for the U.S. Agency.Coop, who is very much alive,...
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Steven Statton - a very working-class spy', is a thrill-a-minute story of intrigue and betrayal at the heart of Britain's most secretive intelligence agency.
Although set mainly in London, the story sees Steven Statton travel the world in an effort to counter an Iranian plot to use the Mafia to destabilise Britain by flooding its streets with heroin. However, Statton's task is made harder when he is betrayed by somebody working in the British Secret...
15) Into the Fire
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The first thriller in the WWII series featuring SOE agent Rosie Ewing, a "meticulously researched war novel" (Len Deighton).
Summer 1943: Rosie Ewing is an agent of SOE-Special Operations Executive-and a "pianist," Resistance slang for radio operator. Their average life expectancy is six weeks.
But Rosie is brighter than most, well aware of the consequences of a second's carelessness, or bad luck, or treachery. Or a fellow agent crumbling...
16) Desert Fire
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Joseph Assad-Sherif is one of the world's most dangerous assassins. Known as Saddam Hussein's "Jackal," his bloody hit list includes the 1972 Israeli Olympic athletes, the South Yemen cabinet, and the 20,000 slaughtered citizens of Hamma, Syria.
Now Assad-Sheriff has been called upon for his most vicious task, acquiring and transporting nuclear technologies for Iraq. When this psychopath takes the life of Sharazad Razmarah, an American citizen...
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Cuando un brillante pianista y su curiosa compañera se entrometen en los asuntos de los demás, las consecuencias pueden ser imprevisibles... Max (pianista de bar) y Fabienne (pintora) pasan su vida en hoteles de lujo, en los lugares más prestigiosos frecuentados por clientes internacionales, entre cócteles y menús refinados. El encuentro fortuito con el director de orquesta chino Wang Shi, de gira por Europa y temporalmente en Roma, los involucra...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben Macintyre chronicles the life of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer born into a Soviet intelligence family. Despite his father's staunch Communist beliefs and his own KGB career, Gordievsky harbored doubts about the regime. His espionage skills were honed at KGB's School 101, and despite initial...
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It's 2030 and the story's background is set amongst climate change as a factor creating global food insecurity through droughts, floods and changing weather patterns reducing arable land worldwide. The climate change of the 20th and the early 21st century has led to massive immigration from African regions in Europe and South American regions below the US, where they can no longer provide sufficient food due to the loss of arable farming land. These...
20) Spy Trade
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Spycatcher novels volume 6
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When a mission goes awry in Syria, senior CIA officer Bob Oakland is captured by aspiring members of ISIS, who demand the release of one of their own, Arzam Saud, in U.S. captivity. When their hands are tied by Washington's refusal to negotiate, the CIA turns to MI6 officer Will Cochrane to find out what's really going on. The threats are escalating quickly, and in order to save the CIA officer, Cochrane must uncover why Saud is truly so important...
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