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54
by Wu Ming
Hardcover: 3 Jul 2006
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| Set during the height of the Cold War - with the world divided into East and West - 54 features Cary Grant as a real-life spy dealing with Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly. |
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At Risk
by Stella Rimington
Hardcover: Jan 2005
Paperback: 30 May 2006
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| Drawing from her experience as the first woman director general of MI5, Stella
Rimington gives us a story that is smart, tautly drawn, and suspenseful from
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Map of Bones
by James Rollins
Hardcover: May 2005
Paperback: 1 May 2006
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| During a service at a cathedral in Cologne, Germany, a band of armed intruders unleash a nightmare of blood and terror, ruthlessly gunning down worshippers and clergy alike. As they flee the carnage they carry a prize that could reshape the world. The Vatican is in turmoil, and Lieutenant Rachel Verona of Rome's carabinieri is assigned to lead the investigation with the help of SIGMA Force, an elite covert arm of the U.S. Defense Department. |
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Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation
by Robert Littell
Hardcover: Apr 2005
Paperback: 25 Apr 2006
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| CIA agents must lead many lives, have many identities - but what if those identities get confused, with past, present and future jumbled together? Is it multiple personality disorder, brainwashing, or simply exhaustion? |
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Night Fall
by Nelson DeMille
Hardcover: Nov 2004
Paperback: 1 Nov 2005
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| That rare novel that makes you think and feel in ways you never expected, it delivers superlative suspense and insights that will haunt you long
after its final page is turned. |
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The Warlord's Son: A Novel
by Dan Fesperman
Hardcover: Sep 2004
Paperback: 1 Sep 2005
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| A burned-out war correspondent hoping for a last hurrah in Afghanistan arrives on the Afghan border just as American bombs begin falling on the ruling
Taliban in this fast-paced, timely, and galvanizing novel. |
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Dark Voyage
by Alan Furst
Hardcover: Aug 2004
Paperback: 31 May 2005
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| Set in May 1941 Dark Voyage is taut with suspense and pounding with battle scenes; it is authentic, powerful, and brilliant. |
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Havana: An Earl Swagger Novel
by Stephen Hunter
Hardcover: Oct 2003
Paperback: 28 Apr 2005
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| Havana, the sultry spring of 1953. Earl Swagger knows only one thing for certain: that he's a pawn in somebody else's game, but a pawn with a Colt Super .38 and the skill and will to use it fast. |
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