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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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...
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Series
Pike Logan volume 10
Language
English
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The Taskforce has stopped countless terrorist threats across the globe, operating outside of US law to prevent the death of innocents. But now, along the fault lines of the old Iron Curtain, the danger is far greater than a single attack. With Russia expanding its influence from Syria to the Baltic States, the Taskforce is placed on stand-down because of the actions of one rogue operator. Meanwhile, Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill travel to Poland,...
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Series
A Pike Logan thriller volume 13
Language
English
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"Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called...
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Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
xlii, 1011 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"Despite millions of words of analysis and reflection on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly. With this book--more than twenty years in the making--that changes. In Road to Disaster, Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of research, exclusive interviews, and previously...
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Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First HarperLuxe edition.
Physical Desc
x, 597 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader, secretly interfering with the American presidential election to help elect the candidate of its choice. Now two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates the truth about the Kremlin's covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast...
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
727 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a hugely insightful account, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Joseph Lelyveld untangles the narrative threads of Franklin Roosevelt's final months, showing how he juggled the strategic, political, and personal choices he faced as the war, his presidency, and his life raced to their climax.
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Language
English
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On a sunlit morning in September 1978, a sloop drifts aimlessly across the Chesapeake Bay. The cabin reveals signs of a struggle, and “classified” documents, live 9 mm cartridges, and a top-secret “burst” satellite communications transmitter are discovered aboard. But where is the boat’s owner, former CIA officer John Paisley?
One man may hold the key to finding out. Tennent “Pete” Bagley was once a rising star in America’s spy aristocracy,...