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by Rob Spillman
Published Feb 2017
Read ReviewsIn his intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt memoir, Spillman narrates a colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist's life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin.
by David Freed
Published Aug 2015
Read ReviewsThree American ex-POWs are accused of murdering their former prison guard, and Cordell Logan - pilot, aspiring Buddhist, and former military assassin - is sent to Vietnam to investigate.
by David Downing
Published Mar 2013
Read ReviewsWWII has ended But the danger has just begun for a spy caught between political superpowers.
by Philip Sington
Published Dec 2012
Read ReviewsA subtle, brilliantly plotted story set the twilight years of Communist East Germany.
by Ben Macintyre
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsEddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.
by Frederick Taylor
Published May 2008
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by Anonymous
Published Jul 2006
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by Robert Littell
Published Apr 2006
Read ReviewsCIA 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?
by Lee Child
Published Apr 2005
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by Jeffery Deaver
Published Feb 2005
Read ReviewsA conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin.
by John Le Carre
Published Nov 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of loyalty and betrayal set in the West Berlin of the 1960s through to the present day of terrorism and new alliances.
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