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41) The irregular
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Irregulars volume 1
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"London 1909: The British Empire spans the globe, seen as an invulnerable imperial power. But Captain Vernon Kell, head of counter-intelligence at the War Office, knows better. In Russia, there is revolution in the wind; in Germany, an arms race; and in London, the streets are alive with foreign agents provocateur. Kell wants to set up a Secret Service, an agency with a mandate to act domestically and abroad to protect the Empire, but to convince...
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"While vacationing in Morocco, Ben and Jo McKenna are suddenly immersed in a dangerous situation after a French spy dies in Ben's arms. Discovering that their son has been kidnapped and taken to England, the McKennas are caught up in a nightmare of espionage, assassinations and terror. Soon, all of their lives hang in the balance as they draw closer to the truth that leads to a chilling climax in London's famous Royal Albert Hall"--Container.
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Criterion collection volume 643
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An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
44) The Ipcress file
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"It is the height of the Cold War, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it"--Container.
45) Petrograd
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"The year is 1916, and the First World War is tearing the European continent to shreds. It is an apocalyptic war, with the fate of millions of people in the balance. But in the Russian city of Petrograd, all that seems a world away. Especially to British intelligence officer Cleary. He drinks and parties with the rich and powerful; he flirts and cavorts with workers and countrymen--his life is all late, drunken nights, bleary-eyed mornings, and the...
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Queen and country (Novels) volume 3
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Burned out from a decade in Special Section clandestine ops, Tara Chance applies for a desk job so that she can spend more time with her daughter only to be drawn into a mission involving the Ayatollah's son's request to defect.
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"I am an old man now. But many years ago, when I was very young, I helped to defeat the greatest evil the world had ever known. I was little more than a boy when my beloved France fell to the Nazi invaders. But when Winston Churchill recruited me as a 'special' secret agent shortly thereafter, my youth did not matter. All that mattered was my determination to rid Europe of the Nazi scourge. The next four years of my life were spend behind enemy lines,...
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For a hundred years GCHQ--Government Communications Headquarters--has been at the forefront of British secret statecraft. Born out of the need to support military operations in the First World War, and fought over ever since, today it is the UK's biggest intelligence, security and cyber agency and a powerful tool of the British state. Based on unprecedented access to documents in GCHQ's archive, many of them hitherto classified, this is the first...
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"Beauty, charm, wealthy admirers: Mina Masters enjoys every luxury but freedom. To save herself from an unwanted marriage, she turns her wiles on a darkly handsome stranger. But Mina's would-be hero is playing his own deceptive game. A British spy, Phin Granville has no interest in emotional entanglements...until the night Mina saves his life by gambling her own. Four years later, Phin inherits a title that frees him from the bloody game of espionage....
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Catesby spy volume 6
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"Catesby takes over the South America Desk at MI6, only to discover that disaster in the South Atlantic is looming. Downing Street is slashing defence spending, but refusing to negotiate a Falklands deal. With hostilities imminent, Catesby's job is to prevent the Argentine Junta from obtaining more Exocet missiles. Catesby is summoned and given a secret and highly sensitive task by the Foreign Secretary. He is sent to Peru via Washington to help negotiate...
56) The red ribbon
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Irregulars volume 2
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English
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"In 1910 London, Captain Vernon Kell's fledgling secret intelligence service faces being shut down before it has even begun its job of saving the British Empire from German and Russian spies. Harassed by politicians like the ambitious Winston Churchill, bullied by Special Branch, undermined by his colleague's ill-advised foreign ventures, and alarmed at his wife's involvement with militant suffragettes, Kell is making no progress in tracking high-profile...
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Jamaican Inn: An Irish orphan girl goes to live with an uncle who is discovered to be involved in a group of smuggling highwaymen ravaging the area.
Sabotage: An undercover Scotland yard detective infiltrates the home of a theatre operator who is suspected of sabotage.
The 39 steps: Character Richard Hanney stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Easy virtue: A woman goes through a divorce and attempts...
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Harry Palmer, ex-army corporal, who unwillingly serves as a spy for Her Majesty rather than serve a long stint behind bars. Palmer is sent to Berlin, where he is to extricate a Russian general who wants to defect. He arranges for an escape plan, which includes a fake funeral, but unfortunately, the wrong body is transported out of Russia. Palmer keeps his cool and there's plenty of scenery as he wanders about Berlin and in and out of the arms of some...
60) Spies in the SIS
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"An early reader's guide to SIS spies, introducing British espionage history, famous agents such as Christine Granville, skills such as code making, and the dangers all spies face"--
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