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Halfhyde and the guns of arrest
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Philip McCutchan |
Royal Navy Lieutenant St Vincent Halfhyde is once again despatched to Africa. This time his mission is to help capture a British traitor who carries secret blueprints of British warships. Even the th… |
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Double agent
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Peter Duffy |
An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal f… |
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Lenin on the train
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Catherine Merridale |
A meticulously researched account of Lenin's fateful rail journey across Europe to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian revolution and forever changed the world. In the early spring of 1917, as t… |
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Mata Khari
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Irena Garda |
Ona byla glavnym «seks-simvolom» epokhi. Yee prekrasnoe telo, yee «ekzoticheskie tantsy» (kotorye syeĭchas obozvali by striptizom) svodili s uma tysyachi muzhchin. Govorili, chto yee imya perevodit·s… |
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Double cross blind
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Joel N. Ross |
December 1, 1941It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while on a mission to take down the Twenty Committee, a G… |
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The Heat of the Day
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Elizabeth Bowen |
**Wartime London, where the 'hot yellow sands of each screen's bring little relief from the fears of the night before and the dead—alive yesterday—still inhabit the city.**
A new intimacy evolves … |
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