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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Black Flags, the thrilling unknown story of America's mission in Syria: to find and…
destroy Syria's chemical weapons and keep them out of the hands of the Islamic State In August 2012, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was clinging to power in a vicious civil war. When secret intelligence revealed that the dictator might resort to using chemical weapons, President Obama warned that doing so would cross "a red line." Assad did it anyway, bombing the Damascus suburb of Ghouta with sarin gas, killing hundreds of civilians and forcing Obama to decide if he would mire America in another unpopular Middle Eastern war. When Russia offered to broker the removal of Syria's chemical weapons, Obama leapt at the out. So begins an electrifying race to find, remove, and destroy 1,300 tons of chemical weapons in the midst of a raging civil war. The extraordinary little-known effort is a triumph for the Americans, but soon Russia's long game becomes clear: it will do anything to preserve Assad's rule. As America's ability to control events in Syria shrinks, the White House learns that ISIS, building its caliphate in Syria's war-tossed territory, is seeking chemical weapons for itself, with an eye to attacking the West. Red Line is a classic Joby Warrick true-life thriller: a character-driven narrative with a cast of heroes and villains, including weapons hunters, politicians, doctors, diplomats, and spies. Drawing on astonishing original reporting, Warrick reveals how the United States embarked on a bold adventure to prevent one catastrophe but could not avoid a tragic chain of events that empowered America's enemiesINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Seen on Today What to Read in 2021 — The Washington Post Book of the…
Month — Palm Beach Book Festival Best Books to Read This February — Town & Country The international bestselling author of the "exciting, suspenseful, inspirational" (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Code Name: Lise weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring spies in World War II before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and Code Girls . When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live "a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious " ( Time ). As the US enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline's life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services—forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans, any of whom could be an enemy agent. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties, she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage to counter Nazi tactics in Madrid. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, one of the wealthiest men in Spain, Aline secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections. Filled with twists, romance, and plenty of white-knuckled adventures fit for a James Bond film, The Princess Spy brings to vivid life the dazzling adventures of a remarkable American woman who risked everything to serve her countryThe incredible untold story of WWII&’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by our great modern master of wartime intrigue…
Britain&’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young, gadabout aristocrat whose aimlessness in early life belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a battlefield map of World War II&’s African theater and saw a protracted struggle with Rommel&’s desert forces, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite, well-trained men, he could parachute behind enemy lines and sabotage their airplanes and war material. Paired with his constitutional opposite, the disciplined martinet Jock Lewes, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. He faced no little resistance from those who found his tactics ungentlemanly or beyond the pale, but in the SAS&’s remarkable exploits facing the Nazis in the Africa and then on the Continent can be found the seeds of nearly all special forces units that would follow. Bringing his keen eye for psychological detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to SAS archives to shine a light inside a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy. The result is not just a tremendous war story, but a fascinating group portrait of men of whom history and country asked the mostA "Manchurian Candidate" is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John…
Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide. Marks worked from thousands of pages of newly released documents as well as interviews and behavioral science studies, producing a book that "accomplished what two Senate committees could not" (Senator Edward Kennedy)Trial lawyer recounts his most challenging case, in which he represented five Cuban spies marooned in the US prison system.…
Explains the role of the Cuban Five in the following decade of Cuban-American relations. 2019Citizen spies: the long rise of America's surveillance society
By Joshua Reeves. 2017
An examination of ways in which political states and allied institutions have used average citizens to inform on others. Describes…
efforts such as the junior police, Neighborhood Watch, AMBER Alerts, and more. Discusses how political and social fears have long been exploited for recruitment into such efforts. 2017Lenin on the train
By Catherine Merridale. 2017
An account of Vladimir Lenin's journey from exile in Zurich, across a chaotic Germany, and back to Russia. Discusses the…
German hopes of sowing confusion in Russia through this plan, the journey itself, and Lenin's ecstatic reception by the revolutionary crowds in Petrograd. 2017The angel: the Egyptian spy who saved Israel
By Uri Bar-Joseph. 2016
An account of the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, a senior official in Egypt who spied on…
behalf of Israel under the codename "the Angel" and who was responsible for alerting the Mossad in advance of the 1973 Egyptian-Syrian attack on Yom Kippur. 2016Investigative report of the 2006 death of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in London and died twenty-two days…
later. The cause was found to be polonium, a rare radioactive substance. Tracks the crime and the preceding events, following the deadly trail all the way back to the Russian government. 2016The man with the poison gun: a Cold War spy story
By Serhii Plokhy. 2016
An account of KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky's defection to the West. Stashinsky's testimony, which implicated Kremlin rulers in political assassinations…
carried out abroad, had a significant impact on international politics. His story inspired many works of fiction, including Ian Fleming's last James Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun (DB 10777). 2016Stalin's Englishman: Guy Burgess, the Cold War, and the Cambridge spy ring
By Andrew Lownie. 2016
A member of the Cambridge Spies--a group of British men recruited to pass intelligence to the Soviets during World War…
II--Guy Burgess was first approached in the 1930s. The author examines the depths of Burgess's betrayal of the British Intelligence Service, his personal relationships, and his final escape to Russia. 2016Queen of spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
By Paddy Hayes. 2015
A recounting of the evolution of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from World War II until the Cold War…
as seen through the life of Daphne Park, one of its most unusual and highest-ranking agents. Discusses how Park was able to rise through the ranks of a predominantly male field. 2015The life of Dusko Popov, a Serbian playboy who eventually came to serve the Abwehr, MI5, MI6, and the FBI…
as a spy. Discusses his entanglements with espionage, murder, assassins, and lovers, as well as his role as the inspiration for the fictional James Bond. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. 2016The secret war: spies, ciphers, and guerrillas 1939-1945
By Max Hastings. 2016
Author of Retribution (DB 66833) and Catastrophe 1914 (DB 78009) examines the use of spycraft and guerrilla warfare during World…
War II. Discusses individual countries' intelligence programs, major personalities, technology, and specific programs considered and implemented. Considers the impact of these programs on the outcome of the war. 2016A former top Pentagon official traces how war has transitioned from being considered, typically, a temporary state of affairs between…
times of peace to a continuous state. Argues that when the boundaries around war disappear, one risks destroying the founding values of America and invites chaos. 2016A chronicle of the fourteen-year manhunt and capture of Balkan war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, as well as…
the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for war crimes. Some violence. 2016Missing man: the American spy who vanished in Iran
By Barry Meier. 2016
In 2013, it was revealed that former FBI agent turned private investigator Robert Levinson, who had disappeared in Iran six…
years prior, had been there on a mission for the CIA and was captured. Interviews and CIA files weave together the story of Levinson's time in Iran and the efforts to rescue him. 2016Near and distant neighbors: a new history of Soviet intelligence
By Jonathan Haslam. 2015
An account of Soviet intelligence services from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War. The author examines…
Nikita Khrushchev and his successors' use of codes and ciphers, as well as the reasons they discarded ideological recruitment in favor of blackmail and bribery. 2015Cyberphobia: identity, trust, security and the Internet
By Edward Lucas. 2015
Senior editor at the Economist examines the culture surrounding cybercrimes--crimes involving computers--in the early twenty-first century. Topics include hackers, identity…
theft, corporate and political warfare using computers, the darknet where illegal and morally questionable transactions occur, and how to understand and protect oneself against these risks in everyday life. 2015Portrait of Allen Welsh Dulles and his reign as the longest-serving director of the CIA. Utilizes government documents, intelligence sources,…
personal correspondence, journals, and exclusive interviews to characterize Dulles, his work, and his questionable behavior and tactics. Bestseller. 2015