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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.By Robert Ludlum. 1976
A small vault of documents is hidden from the Nazis at the beginning of World War II. The location of…
the vault is kept secret for thirty years, until a power struggle forces a search for it. Strong language. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1976.By Melody Carlson. 2004
After the death of her mother, a college student discovers she was adopted. When she goes in search of her…
biological family, she finds a shocking lineage. Carlson's tale of loss, recovery, and acceptance will captivate current fans and create new ones. 2004.By Gerald Seymour. 1976
In the early hours of the morning three Arab guerrillas make their way across northern France to Boulogne. Their mission…
is to assassinate a senior Israeli nuclear scientist, due to arrive in London in three days time. 1976.By Robert Muchamore. 2008
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted…
by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. Includes violence and strong language. Junior high readers. 2008.By Alan Furst. 2006
In Paris, on a winter night in 1938, a murder/suicide at a discreet lovers' hotel is not romantic tragedy -…
it is the work of the OVRA, Mussolini's fascist secret police, and meant to eliminate the editor of Liberazione, a clandestine emigre newspaper. In the desperate politics of a Europe on the edge of war, a foreign correspondent is a pawn - worth surveillance, or blackmail, or murder. 2006.By Joanna Bourne. 2010
French Revolution. British spy William Doyle, disguised as a book salesman, meets French aristocrat Marguerite de Fleurignac. Believing she knows…
about a list of men targeted for murder, William offers to escort her to Paris - not realizing Marguerite's dangerous secret. Some descriptions of violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2010. (Spymaster series)By Jeffrey Archer. 1994
As a thirteen-year-old Roman boy living in Judaea returns home at night after having done an errand for his mother,…
he sees a sight he never forgets -- a man and his pregnant wife are turned away from an inn, and are preparing to spend the night in a stable. Grades 3-6. 1994.By Sarah Morgan. 2018
The McBride sisters all have different reasons for finding the holiday season challenging, but their adoptive mother is determined this…
year will be different. Will they be able to make this the magical family Christmas their mother has always dreamed of? 2018.By Jon Cleary. 1982
By Robert Muchamore. 2007
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.…
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning! For Junior High readers. Sequel to "Man vs beast" (DC38144). Followed by "Mad dogs". 2007. (CHERUB ; 7)By Ronald Hardy. 1973
By Daniel Silva. 2015
The target is royal; the game is revenge. Stretched topless upon the foredeck, drink in hand, her flawless skin baking…
in the sun, was the most famous woman in the world. And one deck below, preparing an appetizer of tuna tartare, cucumber, and pineapple, was the man who was going to kill her. But when a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British intelligence turns to one man to track down her killer: legendary spy and assassin Gabriel Allon. Sequel to "The heist", followed by "The black widow". 2015.By Debbie Macomber. 2015
That summer - more than ten years ago, while they were still in high school - Noelle McDowell and Thomas…
Sutton fell secretly in love. Secretly because their mothers had been locked in a bitter feud for decades. But despite the animosity between Sarah McDowell and Mary Sutton, Noelle planned to elope with Thom. Until he jilted her. This Christmas Noelle McDowell is home to celebrate the holidays with her family. After all, December 25 is also her birthday. Unfortunately, Noelle's feelings about home - or rather, her hometown of Rose, Oregon - were changed forever the day Thomas Sutton broke her heart. This Christmas the feuding mothers find themselves working together to fill Christmas baskets for charity. What irony! And what an opportunity for reconciliation ... if only they could see it. This Christmas Noelle and Thom discover they're still in love. Regardless of their mothers' reactions, they want to be together. Is that possible? Can old rivalries be set aside? 2015.By David Ignatius. 2014
By Alex Berenson. 2014
Senator Vinny Duto, a former CIA director, sends ex-agent John Wells to investigate leads about a station chief’s planned assassination.…
Meanwhile, John’s girlfriend Anne has given John a month to give up either his job or her. 2014.By John Kruse. 1987
Soviet intelligence officer Andrei Yakushev is pledged to destroy the leader of an underworld network in Afghanistan. CIA agent Mike…
McCabe is dropped behind the lines and is destined to play a crucial role in the series of events that unfold. 1987.By Richard Hugo. 1983
By John Le Carré. 1977
By R. L Stine. 1995
Steve Boswell thought that Carly Beth's Halloween mask was great. This year he goes to the store where Carly Beth…
got her mask. His mask is a creepy old man, definitely the scariest mask around. But soon Steve himself is feeling old -- and creepy. Grades 4-7. c1995. (Goosebumps ; 36)