Fiction set during the Cold War.
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A Legacy of Spies: A Novel
JOHN LE CARRE - Viking
Format: Hardcover
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe undisputed master returns with a riveting new book - his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family... |
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The Coil: A Novel
Gayle Lynds - St. Martin's Press; 1 edition
Format: Book
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Liz Sansborough thought she had left her past behind forever. A former CIA field agent as well as the daughter of perhaps the most notorious Cold War assassin, the man known to the world only as The Carnivore, Liz is now a university professor in Southern California specializing in the psychology... |
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Stardust: A Novel
Joseph Kanon - Atria Books
Format: Book
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Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier has just arrived from war-torn Europe to find his brother has died in mysterious circumstances. Why would a man with a beautiful wife, a successful movie career, and a heroic past choose to kill himself? Ben enters the uneasy world beneath the glossy shine... |
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Woman From Shanghai
Xianhui Yang - Pantheon
Format: Book
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In Woman from Shanghai, Xianhui Yang, one of China’s most celebrated and controversial writers, gives us a work of fact-based fiction that reveals firsthand—and for the first time in English—what life was like in one of Mao’s most notorious labor camps.
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Safe Houses: A novel
Dan Fesperman - Knopf
Format: Book
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In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband,... |
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London Restoration
Rachel McMillan - Thomas Nelson
Format: Paperback
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From author Rachel McMillan comes a richly researched historical romance that takes place in post-World War II London and features a strong female lead.Determined to save their marriage and the city they love, two people divided by World War II's secrets rebuild their lives, their love,... |
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The Saint of Wolves and Butchers
Alex Grecian - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover
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From the bestselling author of The Yard, a chilling contemporary thriller about an enigmatic hunter on the trail of a Nazi who has secretly continued his devilish work here in America. Travis Roan and his dog Bear are hunters: they travel the world pursuing evildoers in order to bring... |
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Fiction from the Korean War era.
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The Surrendered
Chang-rae Lee - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Read an essay by Chang-rae Lee here. The bestselling, award-winning writer of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft returns with his biggest, most ambitious novel yet: a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime. With his three critically acclaimed novels,... |
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The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War
JEFF SHAARA - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The master of military historical fiction turns his discerning eye to the Korean War in this riveting new novel, which tells the dramatic story of the Americans and the Chinese who squared off in one of the deadliest campaigns in the annals of combat:... |
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The Manchurian Candidate
Richard Condon - Thunder's Mouth Press; First edition & printing in this form edition
Format: Paperback
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Everyone knows the controversial 1962 film of The Manchurian Candidate starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, even though it was taken out of circulation for 25 years after JFK's assassination. Equally controversial on publication, and just as timely today, is Richard Condon's... |
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An Unfinished Life
Mark Spragg - Knopf
Format: Book
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"One of the truest and most original new voices in American letters," as Kent Haruf has written, Mark Spragg now tells the story of a complex, prodigal homecoming. Jean Gilkyson is floundering in a trailer house in Iowa with yet another brutal boyfriend when she realizes this... |
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The Wonderful
Saskia Sarginson - Flatiron Books
Format: Paperback
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A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fiction. It's hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad's job means... |
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