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"It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG Claiborne was on an innocuous mission to open a sea lane between an oil field off the coast of Guyana and the refineries of southern Louisiana. The destruction of the ship, tragic as it is, won't stop that mission from continuing. So who would sacrifice twenty-two men and women just to slow down the plan? That's the question plaguing Jack Ryan...
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"January 1942. The Avallon Hotel & Spa is where high society goes to see and be seen. Located deep in the West Virginia mountains, where healing sweetwater flows, the hotel is managed by a local, June Hudson, whose skills were noted by the wealthy Guilfoyles who own the place. War has begun, and June is trying to shield the Avallon from it, but when the owner's son makes a deal with the State Department to house dozens of Axis diplomats, June must...
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"Ms. and Ms. Smith meets The Pairing in this heart-racing romance of secrets, spies, and steam. A few rules for the international superspy: (1) Never blow your cover. (2) Never accept the first plan. (3) Never fall for anyone at the agency. Especially if she's your ex-girlfriend. Yardley Whitmer, code name "the Unicorn," can do no wrong. She's honed her spycraft and become an instant legend in the field. If only breaking up with her girlfriend were...
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"The fifth and final installment in the Electra McDonnell series brings safecracker Ellie on a mission across World War II-era Europe to Lisbon, Portugal to rescue a key group of escaped POWs. Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all but...
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"A sultry, immersive, and heart-pounding historical reimagining of the Robin Hood ballads, told through the piercing eyes of one of his spies Jane Crow spends her long days working hard, trying to make ends meet for her family. When her mother takes a new man, abruptly abandoning Jane, her lover Bran offers to take her to the woods to walk a new path--that of the infamous Lord of the Greenwood: Robin Hood. While no one else has ever seen Jane for...
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"Alex Matthews thought he had left it all behind: his CIA career, the viper's den of bureaucracy at headquarters, the deceits of the cat-and-mouse game of double agents, and the sudden trips to Russia, which poisoned his marriage and made him an absentee husband and father, with tragic results. But then the Director came asking for a favor. Something that only Alex could do because it involved the asset Byron--a Russian agent whom Alex had recruited....
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"The New York Times bestselling series returns with Lord Alexander Hawke facing his greatest challenge-to find the missing King of England. Lord Alexander Hawke is looking forward to some quiet time at Teakettle Cottage, his home in Bermuda, along with his wife and son. But he's not a man who can avoid trouble. The chief of MI6, David Trulove, calls him with stunning news. King Charles has disappeared while vacationing at Balmoral Castle. The prime...
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When the shadowy circumstances of a relative's death are brought to light, Jane and Lila are plunged into the recesses of an underground drug operation with links to a burgeoning fascist movement.
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All Hanna Fischer ever wanted to do was to study physics under the great Albert Einstein. But when, as a teenager in 1919, her life is suddenly turned upside-down, she is catapulted into a new and extraordinary life - as a secretary, a scientist, a sister and a spy. From racist gangs in Berlin to gangsters in New York City, Nazis in the 1930s and Hitler's inner circle during the Second World War, Hanna will encounter some of history's greatest minds...