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Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
374 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the Secret Service covers assassinations and assassination attempts, presidential demands on the agency, the impact of a Secret Service career on its agents, and issues surrounding agency failures and gender gaps.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes account of the experiences of Secret Service agents draws on interviews with current and former agents who served during the administrations of such presidents as JFK, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.
Author
Series
An Elena Standish novel volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On her first trip to Washington, D.C., Elena Standish finally gets to visit her American mother's wealthy parents and their magnificent home. Elena's grandparents are marking a milestone anniversary by throwing an elaborate party with the influential friends of her grandfather, a prominent political industrialist. Even President and First Lady Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are there, and Elena takes pride in capturing the illustrious guests on camera....
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make--return, or submit his resignation. When his deadly past comes calling, though, he'll be left with no choice at all. Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a...
8) Black cross
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
An American doctor and a Jewish soldier embark on a perilous mission into Nazi Germany to ensure a D-Day victory for Allied forces by uncovering a doomsday weapon and committing a soul-destroying act of devastation
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One man must race against time to stop history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds as they get together to plot a war that could wipe out millions of people and destroy humanity.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square -- a place of many memories -- she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
308 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of Fritz Kolbe, a German bureaucrat who worked secretly with the Allies during World War II, describes his harrowing espionage work relaying valuable information on high-level Axis meetings and munitions factories to the Allies.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
x, 550 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how, after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, maverick Texas congressman Charlie Wilson persuaded his colleagues to fund the CIA's efforts to arm the mujahideen and the repercussions of the covert operation.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Teenage secret agent Cody Banks must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue and left the States with a mind-control microchip. Cody masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist who lives in London and is the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way, Cody hooks up with a demoted agent and a teenage Scotland Yard operative.
17) Code name: Lise : the true story of the woman who became World War II's most highly decorated spy
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Gallery Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 371 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
xi, 386 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the career of the late Danish-born spy, drawing on extensive interviews to recount some of his more dramatic missions, his two escapes from Denmark, and his imprisonment in England as a suspected double agent.
20) Without fail
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by the Secret Service to test their shield around the new vice president of the United States, ex-military cop Jack Reacher discovers that a team of assassins is already planning a hit on the vice president.