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Tom Clancy Target Acquired

Don Bentley - Putnam
Format: Hardcover

Jack Ryan Jr would do anything for Ding Chavez. That's why Jack is currently sitting in an open air market in Israel helping a CIA team with a simple job. The man running the mission, Peter Beltz, is an old friend from Ding's army days. Ding hadn't seen his friend since Peter's...
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Guilty Minds

Joseph Finder - Dutton
Format: Print book

New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by gossip, and how the lies we tell one another - and ourselves - can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme...
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The Secrets We Kept: A novel

Lara Prescott - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKA thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda,...
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Diary of a Dead Man on Leave

David Downing - Soho Crime
Format: Hardcover

From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm,...
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Codename Villanelle

LUKE JENNINGS - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

The basis of BBC America's April 2018 release "Killing Eve," starring Sandra Oh--A stylish game of spy vs. spy played by Villanelle, a peerless international assassin, and Eve, the fiercely intelligent MI6 analyst whose mission is to take her outVillanelle (a codename, of course)...
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I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller

Terry Hayes - Atria/Emily Bestler Books; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM:"Unputdownable." —Booklist "The best book of 2014." —Suspense Magazine "The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." —The New York PostA breakneck race against time…and an implacable enemy.An anonymous young...
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Pursuit of Honor

Vince Flynn - Atria Books
Format: Hardcover

The action begins six days after a series of explosions devastated Washington, D.C., targeting the National Counterterrorism Center and killing 185 people, including public officials and CIA employees. It was a bizarre act of extreme violence that called for extreme measures on the part...
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The Day of the Jackal

Frederick Forsyth - Readers Digest
Format: Hardcover

After the advent of the spy novel, it was Forsyth who 're-internationalized' the thriller and reintroduced the broad political background missing since John Buchan. The Day of the Jackal triumphantly makes us empathize with a cold-blooded assassin, and believe in the possibility...
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Secret Service

Tom Bradby - Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Hardcover

To those who don't really know her, Kate Henderson's life must seem perfectly ordinary. But she is in fact a senior MI6 officer, who right now is nursing the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb. While heading up the Russia Desk of the Secret Intelligent Service, one of Kate's undercover...
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Transcription: A Novel

Kate Atkinson - Back Bay Books
Format: Paperback

A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings...
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The Sympathizer: A Novel

Viet Thanh Nguyen - Grove Press
Format: Hardcover

A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking...
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Forever and a Day: A Novel

ANTHONY HOROWITZ - Harper
Format: Hardcover

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James...
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An Officer and a Spy: A novel

Robert Harris - Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This is the story of the infamous Dreyfus affair told as a chillingly dark, hard-edged novel of conspiracy and espionage. Paris in 1895. Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted...
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Impostor Syndrome: A Novel

Kathy Wang
Format: Hardcover


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