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"Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a "contract wife," a second-class citizen who was hired as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Switzerland. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to her apartment, and she performed menial duties for the CIA. Despite battling sexism at all levels of the agency, Mendez's talent for espionage was clear, and she soon took on bigger and more significant...
2) Matterhorn
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"Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind-back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya-his close friend, his rival in love....
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Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau...
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Death comes for everyone. Deep in the Florida Everglades, the body of a woman is discovered in pieces, presumably ravaged by an alligator. Upon closer inspection, it's determined no animal could make such perfectly precise cuts. Only a blade could do that. Wielded by a human. Soon, dozens of oil drums emerge amid the river of grass. Each one packed to the brim with body parts. FDLE special agent Amy Larson and her partner, FBI special agent Hunter...
5) Wilde love
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Dark Horse Dive Bar novels volume 1
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"When Lyric Wilde's not whipping up the best food in town at the Dark Horse Dive Bar, she's making a name for herself as a rising singer-songwriter. And if any of her online followers cross the line from friendly to fanatical, well, Lyric figures it goes with the territory--she can take care of herself. But there's one fan she wants to get to know better--a silent, sexy biker named Viper. A man who makes her think mine every time she looks at him....
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In Grace Sinclair's bestselling crime novels, the good guys win and the bad guys always get caught. As the FBI's top profiler, she knows that real life is rarely so straightforward. But her new case isn't just brutal--it's also personal. The victims look like Grace. And the FBI recruit assigned to her team is trouble of another kind. This isn't how Special Agent Gavin Walker imagined running into Grace again. Two years ago they shared one earth-shattering...
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Amnesia may be keeping Ella Weiss from remembering her past--but not from saving the little boy who has been her fellow prisoner the last seven years. After managing to escape her cell, all she wantsis to find where little Joseph is being kept. Instead she runs straight into CIA agent Kyle Jennings. Kyle isn't sure if Ella is actually a kidnap victim or if she is working for the gunrunner he has been after. One thing he is cetain of is her uncanny...
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Surviving the holidays…
with a kidnapper closing in.
Hadley Logan's Christmas break turns into a holiday nightmare when an intruder breaks into her home and then bullets start flying. Only the quick actions of security specialist Ryan Vincent save her. Now she must rely on him to guard her and her five-year-old daughter as they go on the run. And when attempted murder turns to kidnapping, can Ryan keep this family together for Christmas?
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10) Marked to die
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When Eleni Townsend's daughter is poisoned, the investigative reporter turns to FBI special homicide agent Chris Springfield for answers. But after another attack, it becomes clear that someone wants Eleni dead. The key to solving the case lies in Eleni's past...and unraveling the mystery from her childhood is the only way to survive the diabolical plan against her.
11) The fight: a Secret Service agent's inside account of security failings and the political machine
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What events led a veteran Secret Service agent at the top of his profession, with no political experience, to resign his position and run for office, nearly pulling off the unlikeliest of upsets as a Republican in a deep-blue state? More importantly, what insight on issues from national and personal security to big politics can be gleaned from his successes as a Secret Service agent and failures in politics? As a former member of the elite Presidential...
13) Vagabond
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"It was a dirty job in a dirty war. Danny Curnow, known in the army by his call sign, Vagabond, ran agents and informers. He played God with their lives and their deaths, and was the best at his job--and he quit when the stress overwhelmed him. Now he lives in quiet isolation, until the call comes from an old boss: Violence in Northern Ireland is on the rise again. Weapons are needed for a new campaign. Gaby Davies of MI5, sparky and ambitious, runs...
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The true story of a girl whose mastery of a domestic art propelled her to the elite NASA sisterhood who shielded the space shuttle astronauts from heat and radiation. Did you know that the white material on the outside of space shuttles was not metal or glass but actually fabric? Specialized quilts, two inches thick, covered the space shuttles and protected the astronauts from deadly heat and radiation. Jean Wright was one of the eighteen "Sew Sisters"...
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"A beautiful, gracious act of connection with a man who kept his secrets." - Kirkus Reviews
Readers will not only find absorbing narratives but also the early signs of America's now highly contentious culture wars. - Booklist
An exceptional work ... about a man ... whose family album is pasted into a book of American history. - Baltimore Sun
A passionately researched and engaging memoir...poignantly distanced. - New York Times Book Review
16) Facing the enemy
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"For the past five years, FBI Special Agent Risa Jacobs has worked in the violent crimes against children division of the Houston FBI. She's never had reason to believe there's a target on her back. . . until now. When the long-awaited reunion between Risa and her brother, Trenton, ends in tragedy, Risa is riddled with guilt, unable to cope with the responsibility she feels over his death. On leave from the FBI, Risa returns to her former career as...
17) The innocent spy
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Winner of the Crime Writers of America Historical Award
London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters.
Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss...
18) Seeking justice
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"With her partner gravely injured in the line of duty, FBI agent Tiandra Daughtery has one shot to complete her mission. She'll have to convince her partner's twin brother, Officer Elijah Kenyon, to take his place undercover in a deadly drug ring. Together they must find justice for his brother and dismantle the gang. But the target is now on them, and the mission could prove fatal."--Back cover.
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"From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi, comes a riveting and unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been...
20) A spy like me
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Double 0 novel volume 2
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"An elite team of MI6 agents trained by James Bond must go undercover to unravel a band of violent terrorists in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood. James Bond is alive. Or at least, he was when he left a clue at the black site where the insidious private military company Rattenfänger held him captive. MI6 cannot spare any more lives attempting to track down one missing agent--no exceptions, even for Bond....
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