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Author
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This title takes a close look at the operatives who collected intelligence for the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War, introducing readers to these colorful characters and explaining how they carried out their risky missions."--Publisher's website.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
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Description
With the stakes high and few viable options left, the president of the United States orders CIA operative David Shirazi and his team to track down and sabotage Iran's nuclear warheads before Iran or Israel can launch a devastating first strike.
Author
Publisher
Regan Books
Pub. Date
©2004.
Language
English
Description
An investigative reporter presents evidence that the United States government has been covering up failures in its counterterrorism efforts, discussing how intelligence that pointed to the September 11 terrorist plot was ignored.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and, with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster.
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The North Korean government has agreed to host the test for the Russia's ultimate weapon, a nuclear-powered cruise missile. When the test goes catastrophically wrong, the North Korean dictator is severely injured. His coma triggers a dead-man's switch activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea.
Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. After surviving an attack by one of these sleeper teams, he meets with...
Author
Series
Marc Royce adventures volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Investigating the funding of Iran's nuclear program, Marc Royce must rely on an old ally to help him uncover the truth--before it's too late"--
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and revelatory memoir from former CIA director John Brennan, spanning his more than thirty years in government"--
"Brennan pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of the Central Intelligence Agency, describing the selfless, patriotic, and invisible work of the women and men involved in national security. He also examines the insularity, arrogance, and myopia that have, at times, undermined its reputation in the eyes of the American...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Six 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. So when it all went wrong, the...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Language
English
Description
Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Combining the pulsating drive of Showtime's Homeland with the fascinating historical detail of such of narrative nonfiction bestsellers as Double Cross and In the Garden of Beasts, Dark Invasion is Howard Blum's gritty, high-energy true-life tale of German espionage and terror on American soil during World War I, and the NYPD Inspector who helped uncover the plot--the basis for the film to be produced by and starring Bradley Cooper. When a "neutral"...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world--from riots in America to protests on the streets of Tehran. With her daughter in college, and working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex-Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the center of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A widowed matron decides to pursue her lifelong desire to be a spy, finds herself useful to the CIA, and successfully completes an assignment which takes her from New Jersey to Mexico City to Albania.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government--a response that goes horribly wrong ... As the newly named Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, Jack Ryan should be privy to operations like the one in Colombia, but he's been left completely in the dark. With the help of field officer John Clark, Ryan intends to find out what's...
15) Acid test
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
An action-adventure that rockets around the globe, "Acid Test" introduces diabolical medical research and the peril of nuclear warfare for an exciting amalgam of political intrigue and military action.
16) Masquerade
Author
Series
Liz Sansborough novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A woman awakens without memory to learn she is a CIA agent and her mission is to torpedo the European Union. Fortunately, before she can destroy Europe, she discovers who she is and that she has been changed physically and mentally. It's all part of a scheme by an unscrupulous CIA official to create turmoil on the financial markets so as to enrich himself.
17) Typhoon fury
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
As they hunt for a bunch of paintings worth a walloping half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew aboard the Oregon chance upon a much bigger problem. A Filipino rebel leader is not only using them to finance the insurgency but has discovered a drug developed yet never used by the Japanese during World War II that makes mega warriors of ordinary soldiers. Not so far-fetched given the revelations of Norman Ohler's recent Blitzed: Drugs in...
18) CIA agents
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Are CIA agents really spies? Find out in this book! Readers will get a short introduction to the CIA, including what it does and a bit of its history. Then readers will learn the job functions of a CIA agent and what it takes to become one.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With vivid storytelling and access to insider accounts, Weiner sets out to trace the roots of Russian-American political warfare--conflict waged without weapons--over the last seven decades to understand how a president landed in the White House with the help of an expansive, covert Russian campaign. Russia's modern revival of Soviet-era intelligence operations constitutes one of the most significant threats to democracy in the United States and...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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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...
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