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The Queen's agent
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J. P. D. Cooper |
Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, bu… |
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Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels
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Kieren McMullen |
It is early 1916 and the world is at war. Sherlock Holmes is well into his spy persona as Altamont following the capture of the German spy Von Bork at the opening of the Great War. Watson is called t… |
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Written On Your Skin
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Meredith Duran |
THE SOCIETY BEAUTY WHO SAVED HIS LIFE ...
Beauty, charm, wealthy admirers: Mina Masters enjoys every luxury but freedom. To save herself from an unwanted marriage, she turns her wiles on a darkly … |
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Pryde And The Infernal Device
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Malcolm Archibald |
"1805. England is in the midst of her war with France. Matthew Pryde, engineer at a coal mine in Kent, is regarded as the perfect 'spy' to send across the English Channel to investigate rumours that … |
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The madness of July
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James Naughtie |
"Will Flemyng was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines, but now he is in politics--and rising to the top. But when a bizarre death starts to unravel some of the most sensitive secrets of hi… |
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Russian roulette
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Giles Milton |
"In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II, a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin's communist revolution was now underway. But Leni… |
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The sunken gold
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Joseph A. Williams |
On January 25, 1917, HMS Laurentic struck two German mines off the coast of Ireland and sank. The ship was carrying 44 tons of gold bullion to the still-neutral United States via Canada in order to f… |
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The watchers
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Stephen Alford |
A gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, code breakers, ambassadors and confidence-men who sought to protect Elizabeth I from the most powerful rulers of Europe who conspired to destroy … |
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Madame Fourcade's Secret War
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Lynne Olson |
From Penguin/Random House: *The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author o… |
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Live and let spy
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Steve Gibson |
BRIXMIS (The British Commander-In-Chief's Mission to the Group Soviet Forces of Occupation in Germany) is one of the most little-known and covert elite units of the British Army. They were dropped in… |
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Red centre
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Frederick W. Nolan |
"Moscow, 1986. The Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet General Staff is preparing to launch the Death Bird, an ultra-secret assault satellite. A pre-emptive measure to ensure the West could … |
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The secret pilgrim
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John le Carré |
The Berlin Wall is toppled, the Iron Curtain swept aside. The secret pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, and he has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. He is now app… |
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British clandestine activities in Romania during the Second World War
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Dennis Deletant |
"British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War is the first monograph to examine the activity throughout the entire war of SOE and MI6. It was generally believed in Britain's … |
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Tremor of Intent
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Anthony Burgess |
Denis Hillier is an aging British agent based in Yugoslavia. His old school friend Roper has defected to the USSR to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must bring Roper b… |
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The Night of Wenceslas
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Lionel Davidson |
Young Nicholas Whistler, dissolute and disillusioned, lives a life of dull monotony in London. Caught up in a petty money-lenders dispute, he finds himself sent to Prague to discharge the debt by car… |
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A spy for freedom
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Ida Cowen |
A biography of the woman who, during World War I, led an espionage group whose goal was to help free the Jews of Palestine from the oppression of Turkish rule. |
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