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The good physician
By Kent Harrington. 2008
Mexico City. Dr. Collin Reeves has found a semi-comfortable niche performing occasional chores for the CIA, acting as a go…
to doctor for the U.S. embassy when American tourists need medical attention, and pursuing his avocation of painting. When CIA veterans Alex Law and Butch Nickels get wind of a possible terrorist bombing plot, they use any means to extract information that might prevent it. Reeves, pressed to keep alive suspects who are being tortured, faces both a moral dilemma and personal danger. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2008.The Halifax connection: A Novel Of Canada And The American Civil War
By Marie Jakober. 2007
1862. As the American Civil War heats up, Southern Confederates flood into Montreal and Halifax, planning secret missions against the…
Union, missions they hope will provoke a war between England and the United States. Erryn Shaw, a British aristocrat banished to the colonies, is convinced to spy for the British. On a mission to Montreal, he gets wind of a sinister plot - and he can't seem to find a way to stop it. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.The cabal (Kirk McGarvey adventures. #14.)
By David Hagberg. 2010
CIA operative Todd Van Buren meets with Joshua Givens, an investigative reporter who has uncovered a dangerous secret. Givens suspects…
that a lobbyist has formed a shadowy group called the Friday Club. The journalist is convinced that the "club" is powerful enough to topple the United States. That afternoon Van Buren, son-in-law of legendary spy Kirk McGarvey, is gunned down. The same evening, Givens and his family are killed. McGarvey is about to be drawn into the most far-reaching and perilous investigation of his career. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2010.Snow job
By William Deverell. 2009
Arthur Beauchamp has followed his wife, the leader and first elected member of the Green Party, to Ottawa. But he…
hates everything there: the cold, the politics, and his place in his wife's shadow. So when a delegation of government officials from Bhashyistan is blown sky high and the shares of a Calgary-based oil company promptly drop like a stone, Arthur is only too happy to jump to the defence of the missing suspected assassin. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2009.Fool's Gold (Camp X ; #3)
By Eric Walters. 2006
It's been months since brothers Jack and George's adventure in Camp 30, where they'd been sent to spy on the…
high-ranking German prisoners of war. Now they're hoping that life will return to normal, but they're proved terribly wrong when their mother is kidnapped by three thugs who seem to know all about the boys' pasts. Before they know it they're on a terrifying new adventure back to Camp X to unearth a buried stash of gold, without which they'll never see their mother again. Sequel to "Camp 30" (DC25492), followed by "Shell shocked" (DC38286). Grades 4-7. 2007, c2006. (Camp X ; 3)Expo 58
By Jonathan Coe. 2013
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent…
on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century. 2013.Munich: A Novel
By Robert Harris, Gemma Fowlie. 2017
September 1938. Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. The issue is to…
be decided in a city that will forever afterwards be notorious for what takes place there. Munich. As Chamberlain's plane judders over the Channel and the Fuhrer's train steams relentlessly south from Berlin, two young men travel with secrets of their own. Hugh Legat is one of Chamberlain's private secretaries; Paul Hartmann a German diplomat and member of the anti-Hitler resistance. Great friends at Oxford before Hitler came to power, they haven't seen one another since they were last in Munich six years earlier. Now, as the future of Europe hangs in the balance, their paths are destined to cross again. Bestseller. 2017.A legacy of spies
By John Le Carré. 2017
Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is…
living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications. 2017.The Afghan
By Frederick Forsyth. 2006
Retired British army colonel Mike Martin, from "The Fist of God", impersonates a former colleague, Taliban fighter Izmat Khan, who…
is locked up in Guantanamo, Cuba. Multilingual Martin tries to unravel an Al Qaeda plot in Afghanistan before it deploys in America. Strong language, and descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2006.Robert Ludlum's the Bourne betrayal: a new Jason Bourne novel (New Jason Bourne novel. #5)
By Robert Ludlum, Eric Lustbader. 2007
Amnesiac spy Jason Bourne rescues his CIA friend Martin Lindros in Africa. Lindros persuades Bourne to follow the trail of…
Islamic terrorists purchasing nuclear material. Agent Soraya Moore joins Bourne’s search, but a spy lurks inside the agency. Sequel to "The Bourne Legacy"; followed by "The Bourne Sanction". Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2007.Robert Ludlum's The Bourne imperative: a new Jason Bourne novel (New Jason Bourne novel. #10)
By Robert Ludlum, Eric Lustbader. 2012
Robert Ludlum's The Bourne dominion: a new Jason Bourne novel (New Jason Bourne novel. #9)
By Eric Lustbader. 2011
Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources. He needs…
the help of his long-time friend, General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy agency, FSB-2. Karpov is one of the most determined, honourable, and justice-hungry men that Bourne knows. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil; in order to remain head of FSB-2, he must hunt down and kill Bourne. Sequel to "The Bourne objective", followed by "The Bourne imperative". 2011.Deliver us from evil
By David Baldacci. 2010
Agent Shaw, from "The Whole Truth", stalks human trafficker and nuclear-arms smuggler Evan Waller. Regina "Reggie" Campion also targets Waller,…
a.k.a. ex-KGB mass murderer Fedir Kuchin, for her own clandestine vigilante agency. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010.The dark deeps: the hunchback assignments II (The hunchback assignments ; #2)
By Arthur G Slade. 2010
Modo, teenage spy and temporary shape-shifter, is plunged once more into the world of international espionage. This time he's on…
the trail of a mysterious underwater creature and he's not alone. Sequel to "The hunchback assignments" (EB75089). Followed by "Empire of ruins". Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. 2010. (The hunchback assignments ; 2)The hunchback assignments (Hunchback assignments (New York, N.Y.) #1.)
By Arthur G Slade. 2009
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect…
the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild. Grades 5-8. Some descriptions of violence. Followed by "The dark deeps" (EB75415). 2009. (The hunchback assignments ; 1)Robert Ludlum's the Bourne retribution: a new Jason Bourne novel (The Jason Bourne novels ; #11)
By Robert Ludlum, Eric Lustbader. 2013
When Director Yadin learns of a mysterious connection between Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a recently…
deceased Mexican drug lord, he asks Jason Bourne to investigate. Bourne agrees, but only because he has a personal agenda: Ouyang Jidan is the man who ordered Rebeka--one of the only people Bourne has ever truly cared about--murdered. Bourne is determined to avenge her death, but in the process he becomes enmeshed in a monstrous world-wide scheme involving the Chinese, Mexicans, and Russians. 2013.Trigger mortis: a James Bond novel
By Ian Fleming, Anthony Horowitz. 2015
James Bond has just returned victorious from his showdown with Auric Goldfinger in Fort Knox. By his side is the…
glamorous and streetwise Pussy Galore, who played no small part in his success. As they settle down in London, the odds of Galore taming the debonair bachelor seem slim-- but she herself is a creature not so easily caught. Meanwhile, the struggle for superiority between the Soviet Union and the West is escalating. In an attempt to demonstrate Soviet strength, SMERSH plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix in the hot zone of West Germany. At the Nürburgring Racing Circuit, Bond must play a high-speed game of cat and mouse to stop them. When he observes a secretive meeting between SMERSH's driver and a notorious Korean millionaire, it becomes clear that this is just the infamous organization's opening move. Bestseller. 2015.The matchmaker of Kenmare: a novel of Ireland
By Frank Delaney. 2011
1943. Searching for purpose after his wife disappears, Ben MacCarthy works for the Irish Folklore Commission, and goes to profile…
Kate Begley, the Matchmaker of Kenmare. Then Charles Miller, an American military intelligence officer, arrives, asking for a dangerous favour. Under the cover of their neutrality as Irish citizens, Kate and Ben travel to London and effectively operate as spies, but as they are drawn more deeply and painfully into the conflict, both discover the perils of neutrality - in both love and war. Descriptions of violence. 2011.Dr. No
By Ian Fleming. 1958
The chemist: a novel
By Stephenie Meyer. 2016
She used to work for the U.S. government, one of the darkest secrets of an agency so clandestine it doesn't…
even have a name. And when they decided she was a liability, they came without warning, and they killed the only other person she trusted. When her former handler offers her a way out, it is her only chance to erase the giant target on her back. But the information she acquires only makes her situation more dangerous. And now she finds herself falling for a man who can only complicate her likelihood of survival. As she sees her choices being rapidly whittled down, she must apply her unique talents in ways she never dreamed of. Bestseller. 2016.