In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, Dr. Charles Wilson, an Army bio-weapons scientist, died when he "jumped or fell" from the ninth floor of a Washington hotel. As his wife and children grieve, the details of his death remain buried...
Spy fiction
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Author:Vidich, PaulSummary: - Author:Berenson, AlexSummary:
Unable to prevent the assassination of a CIA station chief by Iranian hostiles who are allegedly plotting a nuclear attack on the United States, John Wells goes undercover to discern the truth.
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
The eighth case in Charles Stross' Laundry Files, the Hugo Award-winning series described by Kirkus Reviews as "a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror." Bob Howard...
- Author:Tapper, JakeSummary:
Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington, DC, long for a rest, but Attorney General Robert Kennedy asks them to look into a threat to the presidency, and the security of the nation.
- Author:Carr, JackSummary:
It's been twenty years since 9/11. Two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and embarked on twenty years of war. The enemy has been patient, learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new...
- Author:Jenoff, PamSummary:
1945. Marta marries a caring British diplomat and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. But her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British intelligence.
- Author:Ignatius, DavidSummary:
In David Ignatius' gripping new novel, spies don't bother to steal information . . . they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks...
- Author:Sheldon, SidneySummary:
Navy Commander Bellamy is assigned to investigate the crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps. However, for him it is also the beginning of a journey of terror into the incomprehensible.
- Author:MacInnes, HelenSummary:
When American historian John Craig's old college professor turns up dead, Craig's search for the truth takes him from Paris to the island of Mykonos, where he must unmask a dangerous and powerful foe.
- Author:Stone, DavidSummary:
When his "company" friend is gruesomely slain in a sleepy Tuscan village and the dead man's family later butchered in their London home, CIA "fixer" Micah Dalton takes action. Soon he is on the trail of an elusive fiend whose flair for...
- Author:Gilman, DorothySummary:
While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received urgent orders for a daring mission to aid an escape. Soon, the unlikely-looking international spy was sporting a beautiful new hat that hid...
- Author:Kasper, JasonSummary:
While on a mission half a world away from his home in Virginia, elite assassin David Rivers uncovers an imminent attack on US soil in four days. The target is in his hometown. And his wife and daughter are mentioned by name.
- Author:Silva, DanielSummary:
Madeline Hart is a rising star in British government: beautiful, intelligent, driven to succeed by an impoverished childhood. But she also has a dark secret. She is the lover of the Prime Minister, Jonathan Lancaster. When she...
- Author:Silva, DanielSummary:
She is an iconic member of the British Royal Family, beloved for her beauty and charitable works, resented by her former husband and his mother, the Queen of England. But when a bomb explodes aboard her holiday yacht, British...
- Author:Brady, MichaelSummary:
Michael Brennan and Elif Turan must use their skills and tradecraft to stop ISIL from introducing the deadly Ebola virus into New York City.
- Author:Smith, Timothy JaySummary:
It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it's feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out of the...
- Author:Berenson, AlexSummary:
After proving his mettle obliterating an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, CIA operative John Wells must return to that strife-ridden land to fight a new crop of evil-doers--including deadly emissaries from China, North Korea, and Iran.
- Author:Stevenson, WilliamSummary:
A sprawling fictional account of the adventures of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the World War I military commander who created the first modern guerilla army. November 1914. In German-occupied East Africa during the Great War, British...
- Author:Jakober, MarieSummary:
An Englishman in the Canadian colonies is recruited to spy on the American rebels living there in hopes of inciting a war between Great Britain and the North.
- Author:Freemantle, BrianSummary:
Sherlock Homes has a son, Sebastian, just graduated from a top European university, and iteching to prove himself more than his famous father's equal. The opportunity presents itself in the run up to the First World War, when his uncle...
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