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Chasing shadows Chasing shadows Fred Burton "There's nothing like opening a cold terrorism case and finally finding the truth, one that will open the door to what we're up against today. Burton's done it with gripping narrative, and a straight… OL15414737W
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré Spy Novel OL15723140W
Bomb Bomb Steve Sheinkin In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific rac… OL16216256W
Sweet Tooth Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan An Anglican bishop's daughter gets in over her head with British Intelligence in this John le Carre-esque caper from the author of *Atonement*. Brash, bookish Serena just might make a perfect spy-if… OL16599900W
Top secret Top secret William E. Butterworth IV,William E. Butterworth III,William E., IV Butterworth,Alexander Cendese "From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a brand-new series about the Cold War-and a different breed of warrior. In the first weeks after World War II, a squeaky-clean new second lieutenant na… OL17701970W
The madness of July The madness of July 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… OL17824333W
Iron curtain Iron curtain Patrick Wright Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron Curtain' quickly became a brutal reality in the Cold War between Capitalist West and Communist East. Not surprisingly, for many years, people on both side… OL17868431W
Mystery Writers of America presents ice cold Mystery Writers of America presents ice cold Jeffery Deaver,Raymond Benson Collects twenty short stories depicting spies, double agents, femme fatales, and the weaponry of the Cold War written by such modern authors as Joseph Finder, Sara Paretsky, and T. Jefferson Parker. OL17873014W
Why did the Cold War happen? Why did the Cold War happen? Harrison, Paul Includes firsthand speeches, letters, diary entries, and other primary source materials that give the reasons these unforgettable events unfolded as they did, this book describes what caused the Cold… OL17893366W
The Cold War The Cold War Elizabeth Sirimarco Presents the history of the Cold War through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, speeches, and songs dating from the period. Includes review questions. OL17905383W
Spy master Spy master John le Carré 3 Novels OL18167264W
Underworld Underworld Don DeLillo Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a bl… OL1921185W
The Québec affair The Québec affair Robert Penbrooke "As the Vietnam war rages, a Princeton University graduate is drafted by the CIA to intercept classified fusion energy information from a defecting Soviet nuclear scientist in China. What starts simp… OL19663652W
When the world seemed new When the world seemed new Jeffrey A. Engel "Based on unprecedented access to previously classified documents and dozens of interviews with key policymakers, here is the untold story of how George H. W. Bush faced a critical turning point of h… OL19725976W
The Nazis next door The Nazis next door Eric Lichtblau "The shocking story of how America became one of the world's safest postwar havens for Nazis. Until recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, a… OL19988074W
Ike and McCarthy Ike and McCarthy David A. Nichols "Describes how President Eisenhower used surrogates to orchestrate a secret campaign against the powerful Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy best known for his anti-Communist witch hunt, that ultimat… OL20052238W
Raven Rock Raven Rock Garrett M. Graff "The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Pr… OL20058439W
God's Spies God's Spies Elisabeth Braw This book tells the real-life cloak-and-dagger story of how East Germany's notorious spy agency infiltrated churches here and abroad. East Germany only existed for a short forty years, but in that ti… OL20139864W
Rex Zero and the end of the world Rex Zero and the end of the world Tim Wynne-Jones In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own … OL47001W
Final run Final run David E. Meadows In the Cold War, nuclear submarines lead the fight. But the USS Squallfish is one of the old school—as is her skipper, Captain Chad Shipley. While on a routine patrol, he is ordered to infiltrate the… OL5805295W
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