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The book of spies: an anthology of literary espionage
By Alan Furst. 2003
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Spy storiesAnthologies
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Excerpts from great spy novels. Authors include Eric Ambler, Anthony Burgess, Joseph Conrad, Maxim Gorky, Graham Greene, Baroness Orczy, and Rebecca West, among others. 2003
Up in Honey's room: A Novel
By Elmore Leonard. 2007
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Historical fiction, Spy stories, Women sleuths, Mysteries and crime stories, Family stories, Adventure stories, General fictionAnthologies
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Federal marshal Carl Webster, from Hot Kid (DB 60336, BR 16125), travels to Detroit in 1944 to search for escaped…
German POWs. Webster interviews beautiful Honey Deal, the divorced wife of Nazi meatcutter Walter Schoen, and investigates Ukrainian spy Vera Mezwa. Strong language and some violence. 2007The Eagle Turns: Agents of Independence Series (Agents Of Independence Ser. #3)
By James Green. 2013
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Mysteries and crime stories, Historical fiction, Spy stories, Suspense and thrillersHistory, Writing
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1850 and America is violently divided on the issue of slavery. When President Zachary Taylor dies, suddenly and under questionable…
circumstances, it is left to his Vice President, Millard Fillmore, a weaker man, to find ways to keep the North and the South apart.In New York, child of Irish immigrants, Matthew O’Hanlon is fired from his job as a newsman on the Herald but, surprisingly, finds work as Foreign Correspondent for the Associated Press in Panama City. There he is given accommodation with a Dr Couperin, his wife and beautiful daughter, Edith, but finds himself caught up with the secret agents protecting America’s commercial interests during the struggle for control of Panama’s trade routes and, as it crashes about him, realises that he has been living in a house of cards. Set against the Gold Rush and the opening up of California and the OregonTerritories, when the United States walked a narrow and dangerous line, The Eagle Turns charts the course of history as America’s Secret Services struggle to bring prosperity amid the conflict.The Big Book of Espionage
By edited by Otto Penzler. 2020
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Spy stories, Suspense and thrillersAnthologies
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Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest…
secret agents, declassified in these pages for the first time.Statesecrets. Double agents. Leaks. Otto Penzler brings you all this and more with his latest title in the Big Book series. No need to wait for the government to release redacted information, Otto is ready to declassify confidential matters. Great stories from Lee Child and Charles McCarry are pulled from the shadows and into the light. So pull your fedora down, adjust your fake moustache, and get ready to settle in with some of the greats.