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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.Le clandestin (Best-sellers)
By John Grisham, Patrick Berthon. 2006
La question n'est pas de savoir s'il va être tué, mais qui va le tuer. Lobbyiste sans foi ni loi,…
Joel Backman a été condamné à vingt ans de prison pour avoir vendu à une puissance étrangère un superlogiciel capable de contrôler un ensemble de satellites espions. Six ans plus tard, à sa grande surprise, il est gracié par le président des États-Unis sortant et exfiltré dans une jolie ville d'Italie. Sous une nouvelle identité, le Clandestin découvre l'art subtil d'être heureux. Il est libre, mais transformé en appât. Car, si la CIA a obtenu sa grâce, c'est pour mieux savoir qui va le tuer : les Israéliens ? les Saoudiens ? les Chinois ? La chasse à l'homme a commencé. Quelques descriptions de violence et quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 2006, c2005. Titre uniforme: The broker.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.Légendes
By Robert Littell, Natalie Zimmermann. 2005
On ne vit que deux fois ($(James Bond 007).)
By Ian Fleming, Jean-François Crochet. 2001
Il ne manque rien à cet avant-dernier James Bond, paru en 1964 : ni les belles geishas, ni les coups…
tordus de la guerre froide, ni le savant démoniaque, ni l'action et le suspense. Mais on y découvrira aussi un Bond plus complexe que le personnage fixé par le cinéma : à la dérive depuis la mort tragique d'une femme aimée, et livrant, pour retrouver l'estime de soi, un combat qui lui coûte. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: You only live twice.Opération tonnerre ((James Bond 007))
By Ian Fleming, André Gilliard. 2001
C'est à Paris, boulevard Haussmann, que se trouve le siège de la FIRCO, une organisation humanitaire d'aide aux victimes de…
guerre et aux réfugiés. Qui songerait que ces bureaux discrets servent de couverture aux activités du SPECTRE - la plus puissante et la plus impitoyable organisation de banditisme planétaire qui ait jamais existé ? Aujourd'hui, le SPECTRE veut cent millions de livres sterling, en lingots d'or fin. Sinon, il déchaînera le tonnerre atomique. Dans quelques jours... Raison plus que suffisante pour rappeler aussitôt l'agent 007, en cure de repos à Brighton sur ordre de ses chefs. Comme si les héros pouvaient être fatigués ! -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Thunderball.Un sentiment plus fort que la peur: roman
By Marc Levy. 2013
C'est dans l'épave d'un avion que Suzie Baker retrouve le document qui pourrait lui permettre de rendre justice à sa…
famille, accusée de haute trahison. Mais cette découverte met Suzie en danger, traquée par les services secrets américains. Dans la poursuite de ses investigations, elle sera épaulée par Andrew Stilman, un grand reporter, avec lequel elle devra déjouer pièges et illusions. 2013.1630, la vengeance de Richelieu (L'espion de la couronne. #1.)
By Jean-Michel Riou. 2009
"1630. La journée des Dupes se prépare. Richelieu est en danger. Son ennemie ? Marie de Médicis. La mère de…
Louis XIII, soutenue par les puissants et le parti dévot, veut faire révoquer le conseiller du roi. Un complot de plus ? Pire. Car l'espion Antoine Petitbois, aidé de l'architecte Lemercier et de Théophraste Renaudot, découvre que la mise à l'écart du Cardinal constitue la première étape d'une menace plus grave encore. Quo ultimus exigussimus bello evadit cultorem. Cette phrase en latin est-elle la clef d'une conjuration cherchant à éliminer le souverain et à déstabiliser la couronne de France ? Et que vient faire dans cette cabale la Compagnie des Cent-Associés, chargée de coloniser le Québec ? Argent, puissance, trahisons et haines, les mobiles d'un crime d'État ne manquent pas. Une lutte sans merci s'engage, des rives sauvages du Saint-Laurent aux troubles coulisses du palais du Louvre, du Paris de tous les dangers aux mystères du château de Blois. Mais qui oeuvre dans l'ombre ? Et qui l'emportera vraiment ?" -- 4e de couv.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)