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1) Inception
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption....
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Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Dealing information to wealthy clients throughout the world, Vanessa Munroe hopes to leave her unconventional past behind her until a mission to find the missing daughter of a Texas oil billionaire forces her to return to the central Africa region of her youth.
3) Neuromancer
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Series
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Case was the sharpest data thief in the matrix--until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure.
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Series
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English
Description
"New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--now the star of a hit T.V. show--is back on the case again. When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating examination of the world of private investigators by a 21st-century private eye.Today's world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat these onslaughts, people everywhere -- rich and not so rich, in business and in their personal lives -- are turning away from traditional police, lawyers, and...
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Language
English
Description
"A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is convicted of trying to steal U.S. trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction. In September 2011, sheriff's deputies in Iowa encountered three neatly dressed Asian men at a cornfield that had been leased by Monsanto to grow corn from patented hybrids. What began as a routine inquiry into potential trespassing blossomed into a federal court case...
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Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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The bestselling author of the classic Mars trilogy and The Years of Rice and Salt presents a riveting new trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of global warming as they are played out in our nation’s capital—and in the daily lives of those at the center of the action. Hauntingly yet humorously realistic, here is a novel of the near future that is inspired by scientific facts...
8) Paranoia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Adam Cassidy hates his job as a low-level employee at a high-tech firm. When he fudges the rules to do a friend a favor, Corporate Security charges him with a crime--and gives him a choice: go to prison or become a spy in a competitor's headquarters. At the new firm he becomes a star, finding hidden talents, raking in the bucks, driving a Porsche, living in a chic apartment, and dating the perfect girl. All he has to do to keep this dream intact is...
9) Rising sun
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
On the forty-fifth floor of the Nakamoto Tower in downtown L.A.-the new American headquarters of the immense Japanese conglomerate-a grand opening celebration is in full swing. On the forty-sixth floor, in a empty conference room, the dead body of a beautiful young woman is discovered. The investigation begins...and immmediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue...a no-holds-barred conflict in which control of...
10) Crown jewel
Author
Series
Simon Riske novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Monte Carlo's lavish casinos have become the target of a sophisticated and brutal team of professional gamblers; a casino dealer has been put to death; a German heiress's son has been kidnapped. Who better to connect the crimes and foil a daringly brilliant plot than Simon Riske, freelance industrial spy? Riske-part Bond, part Reacher-knows Monte Carlo well: it's where he was once a thrill-seeking thief himself, robbing armored trucks and leading...
11) Blind eye
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Language
English
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Counting down to Chernobyl-scale disaster
THE CLOCK STARTS NOW…
Tick…
Scientist Marion Kagan is the sole survivor after gunmen attack the facility where her team was working on a top-secret project. Wounded and trapped in a collapsed building, Marion must stop radioactive test samples from leaking out and killing millions.
…tick…
In a Connecticut psychiatric hospital, Marion's twin sister, who has been in a comalike state for years, begins...
12) Quantum
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Series
Language
English
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The discovery of a blueprint for Quantum technology written by a murdered scientist has propelled the world to the brink of all-out war, with the United States and Russia locked in a ruthless fight over the ultimate power of the new millennium. Former Navy SEAL, Nolan Kilkenny, is caught in a lethal game of industrial espionage that threatens to upend the laws of physics.
13) Paranoia
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Fired from his telecom job, Adam Cassidy is forced by company CEO Nicolas Wyatt to infiltrate Wyatt's longtime rival's company to steal trade secrets. Soon, Adam realizes that he's caught between two ruthless players who will stop at nothing to win. But, desperate to win over an Ivy League beauty and help his blue-collar father, Adam risks everything in a dangerous race against time.
14) Zero history
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English
Description
"Hollis Henry worked for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend once before. She never meant to repeat the experience, but she's broke. Milgrim is thoroughly owned by Bigend. He's worth it for his gift of seeming to disappear in almost any setting. Garreth has a passion for extreme sports. He isn't owned by Bigend, but he has friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors that Bigend sometimes needs. Like now, when a Department of Defense...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
Discovering that he has been exchanging emails with a corporate spy from a rival company, seventh-grade innovator Billy Sure and his best friend set a trap to catch the culprit before he reveals Sure Things, Inc.'s valuable secrets. Simultaneous and eBook.
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English
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"To catch the spy in his family business, Zachary Stone needs a first-rate security specialist. But the new hire is none other than Frances Wickersham, the girl who challenged a younger Zach at every turn. She's always pushed him. This time around, the long-legged beauty is challenging his playboy ways. Now that they are all grown-up, can they ignore their undeniable chemistry?"-- Page [4] of cover.
17) The take
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Series
Language
English
Description
Simon Riske is a freelance industrial spy who, despite his job title, lives a mostly quiet life above his auto garage in central London. He is hired to perform the odd job for a bank, an insurance company, or the British Secret Service, when he isn't expertly stealing a million-dollar watch off the wrist of a crooked Russian oligarch. Riske has maintained his quiet life by avoiding big, messy jobs; until now. A gangster by the name of Tino Coluzzi...
20) Johnny Mnemonic
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In the 21st century, Johnny is a courier with a huge data storage chip in his brain. He is carrying smuggled information from a company that wants it back and is about to crash him permanently.
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