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"What's the one secret no one knows about you? Archie Mint has a secret. He's led a charmed life--he's got a beautiful wife, two impressive kids, and a successful military career. But when he's killed while trying to stop a robbery in his own home, his family is shattered--and then shocked when the other shoe drops. Mint's been hiding criminal secrets none of them could have imagined. While working on Mint's body before his funeral, mortician 'Zig'...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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"Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love...and flat broke. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd. --'willing to do anything, go anywhere.' But they get more than they bargained for when their first assignment for the sinister Mr Whittington draws them into a diabolical conspiracy. It isn't long before they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever could have imagined--a danger...
4) Charlie M
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 1
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2011
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A decidedly un-Bond-like British spy outwits the Soviets—and his bosses—in this thriller from a multimillion-selling author that offers "pure delight" (Chicago Tribune).
Charlie Muffin is an anachronism. He came into the intelligence service in the early 1950s, when the government, desperate for foot soldiers in the impending Cold War, dipped into the middle class for the first time. Despite a lack of upper-class bearing,...
Charlie Muffin is an anachronism. He came into the intelligence service in the early 1950s, when the government, desperate for foot soldiers in the impending Cold War, dipped into the middle class for the first time. Despite a lack of upper-class bearing,...
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2011
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Home is where the heat is for disgraced British spy Charlie Muffin, “a marvelous creation” from the multimillion-selling author (The Daily Mail). Charlie Muffin has come back to England. The ex-spy, a veteran of twenty-five years’ service to the Crown, was last seen in Berlin, where an attempt on his life by his own organization led to international embarrassment. They had expected Charlie—a disheveled,...
6) Dry bones
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Fintan Dunne trilogy volume 3
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"Fintan Dunne, the detective at the center of The Man Who Never Returned and Hour of the Cat, is back in this spellbinding story of an ill-fated OSS mission into the heart of the Eastern front and its consequences more than a decade after the war's end. As the Red Army continues its unstoppable march toward Berlin in the winter of 1945, Dunne and his fellow soldier Dick Van Hull volunteer for a dangerous drop behind enemy lines to rescue a team of...
7) Trigger city
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Ray Dudgeon novels volume 2
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Private investigator Ray Dudgeon takes on what he thinks will be a routine investigation only to find himself thrown into a battle between private contractors and the darkest sectors of the government and threatens to destroy everything Ray has fought to build.
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"It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. Alas, his postings are usually rather unglamorous, but thankfully he has a knack for doing well for himself even in unpromising situations. In divided Berlin, he smuggled coffee into the East, a rather profitable racket until he had to transport something else--a spy. After an aborted mission on Berlin's famous "Bridge of Spies,"...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme....
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme....
10) Dragonfire
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In master storyteller Andrew Kaplan's action-packed thriller, the CIA sends its top agent to Southeast Asia to stop a war that threatens to be even bloodier than the conflict in Vietnam The photograph in the CIA vault shows four men relaxing in the jungle, green berets draped over their rifles, enjoying a break from combat. On the day after the picture was taken, their friendship was torn apart forever. Now, ten years after the United States pulled...
11) O'Farrell's law
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On the eve of a vital CIA assignment, an agent's hesitation leads him to the brink of disaster His grandfather was a lawman too. That's how Charles O'Farrell rationalizes his work. He keeps a picture of his ancestor by his bed, a faded sepia portrait of a short, plain-looking man made remarkable only by the long-barreled Colt strapped to his hip. His grandfather killed to make the frontier safe-O'Farrell has the faded newspaper clippings to prove...
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El protagonista sin nombre es un traficante medio en la nómina de una Organización de la Costa Oeste americana. La acción transcurre en el año 1987. Él se encarga de narrar en primera persona los acontecimientos que le han llevado a ir drogado hasta las cejas y desangrándose en un coche que cruza el desierto en pos de los únicos que conocen los motivos por los que su propia organización quiere matarlo: un millón de dólares desaparecido en...
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Years after hijackers killed his father, an ordinary college student gets a chance to fight terrorists who have hatched a plan to destroy the United States A ringing phone awakes Dan Lennigin, college student, in the middle of the night, and the caller baffles him with a stream of panicked gibberish. It is a code, meant for someone else's ears, and it draws Dan inexorably into a tangled international conspiracy. Minutes after the call, an operative...
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The Mind Control technology is coming, and every world power wants it.
During the last year, Charlie Smythington becomes the insurance agent for two of the largest companies in Oregon, including MT Day's Atlan Sports, the world's largest sports apparel company, and Cognigate Inc., the developers of a top-secret mind control technology.
While exploring his new love life with Sonja Weyman, he receives an urgent late-night call from her father,...
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Ben Hope thrillers volume 26
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2022
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Some wars are destined to be fought forever…
They call it ‘The Graveyard of Empires’ for good reason. For thousands of years, Afghanistan has been the rock that generations of would-be conquerors have perished on. What chance does one man stand in this place?
So when ex-SAS major Ben Hope hears former bounty-hunter, Madison Cahill, needs his help he knows it will test him to his limits – and beyond. As the borders slam shut, he must trace...
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A diplomat's murder reunites Cowley and Danilov in a global search for the killer There's nothing surprising about the body. The wounds are precise, their meaning clear. The Washington, DC, cops have seen enough like them to know that they mean a mob hit. And when mobsters kill their own, there's not much the police can do about it. They're prepared to dismiss the case when someone looks at the dead man's ID. He was Russian-and a diplomat. William...
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*** The second book in the best-selling technothriller series ***"A female James Bond with a Matrix twist." ReviewerA cyber crime will rewrite history. Only she can stop it.Calla Cress took down the world's most dangerous man. She made one mistake. She let him live.A billionaire behind bars, once the secret service's most brilliant code breaker, is luring the world's smartest minds into his prison cell. They leave in a coma and seconds later a lethal...
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"Decrypted: Satoshi Nakamoto's Private Key Hidden In Plain Sight" is an adrenaline-fuelled ride through the cryptic depths of the crypto world, blending international espionage with a thrilling chase for the ultimate Bitcoin secret.
As the lone custodian of this explosive truth, the fate of the world rests on Adrian's shoulders. Join him on this nail-biting journey through the intricate realms of cryptography, digital currency, and global espionage,...
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Un roman policier qui ne manque pas de souffle !
John se trouve à la tête d'une société de construction immobilière florissante. Il a tout pour être heureux, une jeune et jolie femme, une fille de dix ans affectueuse et docile, une superbe villa entourée d'espaces verdoyants qui scellent un bonheur tranquille. Pourtant, toute cette plénitude va basculer par une nuit d'été...
Découvrez sans plus attendre ce thriller psychologique intense...
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To prevent the rebirth of one of the cruelest regimes in history, an ex-CIA agent goes Nazi hunting in master storyteller Andrew Kaplan's riveting thriller In the hell of Auschwitz, the devil was named Mengele. His atrocities were unspeakable, and among his victims were the wife and child of a man named Wasserman, who was forced to watch them die. Mengele survived the war, disappearing into hiding in South America, and Wasserman ran too-fleeing to...
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