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Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A former CIA officer reveals the never-before-told story of the post-Cold War hunt for a KGB spy in the top ranks of the CIA, led by three women who squared off against a man who could have been the most damaging spy in U.S. history.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Here is the hidden history of the CIA: why eleven presidents and three generations of CIA officers have been unable to understand the world; why nearly every CIA director has left the agency in worse shape than he found it; and how these failures have profoundly jeopardized our national security. For sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its...
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Series
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Kate O'Hare is known for her fierce dedication and discipline on the job, chasing down the world's most wanted criminals and putting them behind bars. Her boss thinks she is tenacious and ambitious; her friends think she is tough, stubborn, and maybe even a bit obsessed. And while Kate has made quite a name for herself for the past five years, the only name she's cared about is Nicolas Fox, an international crook she wants in more...
10) The spy who tried to stop a war: Katharine Gun and the secret plot to sanction the Iraq invasion
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
n January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine’s assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the British press. Katharine’s decision would change her life forever, as she was arrested under...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010, c1992
Language
English
Description
When a Soviet captain uses one of the fleet's most destructive yet valuable nuclear submarines as an escape vehicle, the United States and the Soviets race to stop the sub. The Soviets are ordered to find and destroy the renegades at any cost. But if the United States fleet can find the sub first and get her safely to port, it will be considered one of the highest intelligence achievements of all time.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"The 16th Amendment to the Constitution legalized federal income tax, but what if there were problems with the 1913 ratification of that amendment? Problems that call into question decades of tax collecting, and could even bring down the US economy. There is a surprising truth to this possibility a truth wholly entertained by Steve Berry, a top-ten New York Times bestselling writer, in his new thriller, The Patriot Threat. His protagonist, Cotton...
15) Typhoon fury
Author
Series
Novel of the Oregon Files volume 12
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only take...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Nine years ago, terrorists hijacked a plane in Vienna. Somehow, a rescue attempt staged from the inside went terribly wrong and everyone on board was killed.Members of the CIA stationed in Vienna during that time were witness to this terrible tragedy, gathering intel from their sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground with a series of texts coming from one of their agents inside the plane. Had their agent been compromised,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A historian and former CIA officer explores the birth, infancy, and adolescence of modern American intelligence during World War II, combining little-known history and gripping spy stories to illuminate its key role in securing Allied victory.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera...
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