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The Tourist
by Olen Steinhauer
Hardcover: Mar 2009
Paperback: 16 Feb 2010
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| Milo Weaver used to be a “tourist” for the CIA—an undercover agent with no home, no identity. But when the arrest of an assassin exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out who’s holding the strings once and for all. |
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The Spanish Game: A Novel
by Charles Cumming
Hardcover: Nov 2008
Paperback: 1 Nov 2009
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| Six years ago, Alec Milius got out of the spy game after unbearably great personal cost. Yet when a prominent politician goes missing, the urge that drove Milius to originally enter the spy game comes roaring back, and soon Alec finds himself in the midst of another international conspiracy. |
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The Innocent Spy: A Mystery
by Laura Wilson
Hardcover: 7 Jul 2009
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| London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced it is suicide. Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation. When Stratton’s path crosses Diana’s, the pair start to uncover the truth. |
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Winter In Madrid
by C.J. Sansom
Hardcover: Jan 2008
Paperback: 27 Jan 2009
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| A vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and riveting tale that offers a remarkable sense of history unfolding and the profound impact of impossible choices. |
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An Ordinary Spy: A Novel
by Joseph Weisberg
Hardcover: Dec 2007
Paperback: 1 Jan 2009
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| A former CIA case officer’s novel about two embattled spies who go to extraordinary lengths to keep their informants out of harm’s way, published as vetted by the agency itself. |
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A Spy by Nature: A Novel
by Charles Cumming
Hardcover: Jul 2007
Paperback: 11 Nov 2008
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| Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center-stage in a dangerous game of espionage.
In his new line of work, Alec finds that the difference between the truth and a lie can mean the difference between life and death—and he is having trouble telling them apart. |
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The Ghost
by Robert Harris
Hardcover: Oct 2007
Paperback: 19 Aug 2008
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| Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving prime minister of the last half century. Retiring to Martha's Vinyard to write his memoirs, his ghostwriter suddenly and mysteriously washes up, dead. Enter our hero -- Lang's new ghostwriter; and it doesn't take him long to realize he has made a fatal error in judgment, as he begins to unearth the circumstances of his predecessor's death. |
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The Walking Dead
by Gerald Seymour
Hardcover: 29 May 2008
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| A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. An armed protection officer is charged with neutralizing the growing menace to London's safety. With intelligence and deep understanding, Seymour shows us the world in which we live, with all its dangers and complexities, and the choices we are forced to make. |
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