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HarperCollins Publishers Inc With a Mind to Kill
Book SynopsisIt?s almost uncanny how well Mr. Horowitz summons Bond?s mindset . . . Yet this Bond also feels the winds of change: ''He had his licence to kill. But was it possible that in this new, more questioning age, that licence might have expired?'' A drop of retro pleasures, a pinch of things to come; shaken, not stirred.?Wall Street JournalInternationally bestselling author Anthony Horowitz?s third James Bond novel, after Forever and a Day.It is M''s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M''s murder?James Bond.Behind the Iron Curtain, a group of former Smersh agents want to use the British spy in an operation that will change the balance of world power. Bond is smuggled into the lion''s den?but whose orders is he following, and will he obey them when the moment of truth arrives?In a mission where treachery is all around and one false move means death, Bond must grapple with the darkest questions about himself. But not even he knows what has happened to the man he used to be.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Arctic Storm Rising
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Stolen Lady
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Woman on Fire
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Rose Code Low Price CD
Book Synopsis“The hidden history of Bletchley Park has been waiting for a master storyteller like Kate Quinn to bring it to life. THE ROSE CODE effortlessly evokes the frantic, nervy, exuberant world of the Enigma codebreakers through the eyes of three extraordinary women who work in tireless secrecy to defeat the Nazis. Quinn’s meticulous research and impeccable characterization shine through this gripping and beautifully executed novel.”Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of HER LAST FLIGHTThe New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The London Bookshop Affair
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Daughter of the Reich, an historical drama set in London about a bookshop involved in an espionage network.An utterly atmospheric and completely compelling read!” —Julia Kelly, international bestselling author of The Lost English GirlTwo courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the brink of war.London, 1962: The world is teetering on the brink of nuclear war but life must go on. Celia Duchesne longs for a career, but with no means or qualifications, passes her time working at a dusty bookshop. The day a handsome American enters the shop, she thinks she might have found her way out of the monotony. Just as the excitement of a budding relationship engulfs her, a devastating secret draws her into the murky world of espionage.France, 1942: Nineteen-year-old Anya Moreau was dropped behind enemy lines to aid the resistance, sendin
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HarperCollins A Death in Cornwall CD
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HarperCollins A Death in Cornwall
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HarperCollins A Death in Cornwall
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HarperCollins Death in Cornwall a Muerte En Cornualles Spanish Edition
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc You Only Live Twice
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Method
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Penguin Putnam Inc Our Kind of Traitor
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Penguin Publishing Group The Little Drummer Girl
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Our Kind of Traitor; now a miniseries on AMC starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael Shannon, and Florence Pugh.You want to catch the lion, first you tether the goat.On holiday in Mykonos, Charlie wants only sunny days and a brief escape from England’s bourgeois dreariness. Then a handsome stranger lures the aspiring actress away from her pals—but his intentions are far from romantic. Joseph is an Israeli intelligence officer, and Charlie has been wooed to flush out the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group responsible for a string of deadly bombings. Still uncertain of her own allegiances, she debuts in the role of a lifetime as a double agent in the “theatre of the real.” Haunting and deeply atmospheric, John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl is a virtuoso per
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Perfect Spy
Book Synopsis“The best English novel since the war.” -- Philip Roth Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend—and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father’s death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus? In A Perfect Spy, John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces, interweaving a moving and unusual coming-of-age story with a morally tangled chronicle of modern espionage.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Call for the Dead
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Murder of Quality
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Looking Glass War
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Small Town in Germany
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Penguin Putnam Inc A Delicate Truth
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies. A novel that beckons us beyond any and all expectations.—Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostA counter-terrorist operation, code-named Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister’s personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Three years later, a disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be—or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher “Kit” Probyn, retired British diploma
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Penguin Putnam Inc Triple
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Penguin Random House India The Phoenix
Book SynopsisAryaman Khanna, ex-intelligence officer, released from prison, seeks wife's attackers in Mumbai. On a secret mission to stop bioweapon strike by terror group on 26/11 anniversary. Tale of espionage, global terror, hope, and love for family and country.
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PRH Grupo Editorial La apelación The Appeal
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St Martin's Press Tree of Smoke
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNEROne of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearThe God I want to believe in has a voice and a sense of humor like Denis Johnson''s. Jonathan Franzen Named A Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Slate, The National Book Critics Circle, The Christian Science Monitor. . .Tree of Smoke is the story of William Skip Sands, CIA--engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong--and the disasters that befall him. It is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert and into a war where the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In the words of Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times, Tree of Smoke is bound to become one of the classic w
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Not Stated Big Time A Novel
Book SynopsisIn this 'virtuoso,” “jaw-dropping” and “stellar technological thriller” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review), a mother engulfed by her own mid-life crisis stumbles upon a dark conspiracy to harvest and sell people's time. What if time could be taken from us—the minutes, the hours, the years of our lives, extracted like organs taken for transplant? What would it mean for the world? And what would it do to the person from whom it’s taken? Grace Berney is a mid-level bureaucrat in the Food and Drug Administration, a woman who once brimmed with purpose but somehow turned into a middle-aged single mom with a dull government job and a melancholy sense that life has passed her by. Until the night a strange photo comes across her desk, of a young woman in a hospital bed who has been subjected to a mysterious procedure. Against orders and against common sense, Grace sets out to br
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Back Bay Books The Chemist
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Mulholland Books Tombland
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Back Bay Books Westwind
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Mulholland Books Rip Crew
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Little Brown and Company Buzz Kill
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Little Brown and Company Final Orbit
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Random House USA Inc The Secret Pilgrim
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Random House USA Inc The Litigators
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • After leaving a fast-track legal career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg, a self-described “boutique law firm” that is anything but. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are in fact just two ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. But now the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make the partners rich—without requiring them to actually practice much law. A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, a pharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, alleging that Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wally smells money. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of Krayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true ... and it is.Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
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Random House USA Inc The Valhalla Prophecy
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group An Officer and a Spy
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals, out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption. Welcome to 1890s Paris. Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus's guilt as staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds evidence that a spy still remains at large in the military—indicating that Dreyfus is innocent. As evidence of the most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held beliefs about his country, and about himself. Winner of the
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Random House USA Inc Back Channel
Book SynopsisOctober 1962. The Soviet Union has smuggled missiles into Cuba. Kennedy and Khrushchev are in the midst of a military face-off that could lead to nuclear conflagration. The only way for the two leaders to negotiate safely is to open a “back channel” by way of a clandestine emissary. The fate of the world rests unexpectedly on the shoulders of that emissary, nineteen-year-old Cornell sophomore Margo Jensen. Pursued by the hawks on both sides, and protected by nothing but her own ingenuity and courage, Margo is drawn ever more deeply into the crossfire as the clock ticks toward World War III.Stephen L. Carter’s gripping novel Back Channel is a brilliant amalgam of fact and fiction—a suspenseful reimagining of the events that became the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Random House USA Inc A Coffin for Dimitrios
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Brethren
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride.Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich—very fast.And so they sit, sprawled in the prison library, furiously writing letters, fine-tuning a wickedly brilliant extortion scam—while events outside their prison walls begin to erupt. A bizarre presidential election is holding the nation in its grips, and a powerful government figure is pulling some very hidden strings. For the Brethren, the timing couldn’t be better. Because they’ve just
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Broker
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive—there is no chance of that. The ques
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Random House USA Inc The Client
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb.... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer for all of four years. Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And Reggie will do anything to protect her client—even take a last, desperate gamble that could win Mark his freedom... or cost them both their lives.Don&rsqu
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Random House USA Inc The Broker
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive—there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him?
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Random House USA Inc White Fox
Book SynopsisA page-turning thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race across Russia and against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK.1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio blares the news of President Kennedy’s death. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin’s new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen tundra is far from a promotion. This is where disgraced agents, like Vasin, are sent to disappear and die quietly. But when tensions in the camp mount and a violent revolt breaks out, Vasin finds himself on the run with a mysterious prisoner holding the most dangerous secret in the world: who ordered the murder of President Kennedy.In a breathless chase that leads them throughout the Soviet Union, from the barren Siberian wastelands, to the stunning halls of the Catherine Palace, and into the gritty streets of Leningrad and Moscow, Vasin must stay one step ahead of the deadliest spy and police o
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WW Norton & Co Tremor of Intent
Book SynopsisA brilliantly funny spy novel, this morality tale of a Secret Service gone mad features sex, gluttony, violence, and treachery. From the author of the ground-breaking A Clockwork Orange.Trade Review"Tremor of Intent has more wit and comic invention than the books which it so boisterously ridicules…The talent is as unsettling as it is prodigious." -- New Republic"A gleaming novel of ideas…brazenly clever. He is possessed by a black sense of humor…Burgess is nothing if not outrageous." -- Webster Schott - New York Times Book Review"One of my favorite Burgess books. I think he set out to write a satire of a spy novel but he made the story, the writing, the characters, so good that it became an amusing spy novel." -- Alan Furst"[The] spy novel to end all spy novels." -- Francis Brown, former editor of the New York Times Book Review
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Penguin Publishing Group Trojan Odyssey A Dirk Pitt novel
Book SynopsisIn his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image. Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when two startling things happen: Summer discovers an artifact, something strange and beautiful and ancient. And the worst storm in years boils up out of the sky, heading straight for them and a nearby floating luxury resort hotel called Ocean Wanderer. The peril for everybody concerned is incalculable. And now that Dirk Pitt has learned he’s a father, he will stop at nothing to protect his two children. He rushes into the chaos, only to find that what’s left in the storm’s wake makes the furies of na
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Penguin Putnam Inc Golden Buddha
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Penguin Putnam Inc Skin Tight
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPraise for Skin Tight“A hell of a story...If there is a patron saint for bestsellers, this one will inspire a hallelujah chorus.”—New York Daily News“Good, mean fun...a twisting, high-speed ride on a roller coaster without brakes.”—San Francisco Chronicle“A high-speed tale of murder cover-ups and gonzo revenge...Hiaasen delivers every time.”—Seattle Times “Hiaasen display[s] his manic sense of humor at every turn...wickedly amusing.”—Publishers Weekly
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Penguin Putnam Inc Die Trying
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Penguin Publishing Group The Hunt for Red October
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