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Author
Series
Guardian volume 3
Language
English
Description
It took one hell of an effort for the authorities to finally get the jump on master manipulator Bianca St. Ives, but now that they have, it's far from the capture she expected. Instead of taking her in, there's an offer on the table, a one-shot deal that would allow Bianca to walk away scot-free as if they'd never found her. And all she has to do is run one last mission--the kind she might never return from.
2) Red swan
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Preston Allender is called in to investigate when an agent who was integral to damaging China's spy ring in Washington D.C. mysteriously dies, suggesting that the CIA may be suffering from retaliatory actions by the Chinese.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone's surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it's a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Reveals the inside story of how U.S. special forces and intelligence agencies led the largest manhunt in history to capture and contain Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful outlaws.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The former Republican presidential nominee chronicles his political career from the election of Barack Obama through the divisive 2016 election, offering his opinions of the current developments in Washington as well as his recommendations for ongoing international challenges.
8) K blows top: a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 327 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America against the backdrop of the Cold War and a capitalist America living under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of American traitor Noel Field, who spied for Stalin during the 1930s and 1940s before he was kidnapped and tortured by the KGB and forced to testify against his Communist comrades, sharing insight into his decision to defect in spite of his privileged background and Ivy League education.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
437 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the author's tour along the Spanish-American War battle trail to assess the historical conflict's enduring role in shaping relations between the United States and Cuba, discussing such topics as American imperialism and Guantánamo.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the fascinating and fateful "daughter diplomacy" of Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, three glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning days of World War II"--
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Draws on years of interviews and previously undisclosed CIA files to chronicle the disappearance of CIA contractor Robert Levinson on a mission in Iran and the international manhunt to find him.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 297 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This disturbing new account of Henry Kissinger's Vietnam years shows a blundering, self-serving man who led America to tragedy and Vietnam to waste in an unnecessarily dragged-out, ill-conceived war"--
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"While getting into his car on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA's Moscow station was handed an envelope by an unknown Russian. Its contents stunned the Americans: details of top-secret Soviet research and development in military technology that was totally unknown to the United States. From 1979 to 1985, Adolf Tolkachev, an engineer at a military research center, cracked open the secret Soviet military research establishment,...
16) Fear itself
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
429 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thriller set in the Depression-era years before World War II finds fledgling FBI Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim dispatched to infiltrate the pro-Nazi German-American Bund organization and discovering a sinister plot targeting the White House.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st United States ed.
Physical Desc
xxxvi, 566 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the creation of the Communist regimes that took hold in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II and describes what daily life was like in these countries.
19) Hard choices
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 635 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hillary Clinton's candid reflections about the key moments during her time as Secretary of State, as well as her thoughts about how to navigate the challenges of the 21st century.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration’s most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. Now, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again.
Mike Pompeo is the only person ever to have served as both America’s most senior diplomat and the head of its premier espionage agency. As the only four-year national security member of President Trump’s Cabinet, he worked to impose crushing...