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A chilling tale of espionage and terrorism by a literary master. On the surface, Adolf Verloc is a bookstore owner in London. Beneath his carefully crafted persona dwells a spy for a foreign government. When his handlers decide it is time for action, Verloc is tasked with blowing up the Royal Observatory. This modern novel is still as fresh and relevant as ever and makes an exciting and thought-provoking read.
4) Golden Gate
Author
Series
City spies volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.
After thwarting a notorious villain at an eco-summit in Paris, the City Spies are gearing up for their next mission. Operating out of a base in Scotland, this secret team of young agents working for the British Secret Intelligence Services MI6 division have honed their...
5) Spy school
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Lexile measure
740L
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English
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Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
6) Hapgood
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Pub. Date
1994
Edition
"Broadway edition"
Physical Desc
77 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With his characteristically brilliant wordplay and extraordinary scope, Tom Stoppard has in Hapgood devised a play that 'spins an end-of-the-Cold-War tale of intrigue and betrayal, interspersed with explanations of the quixotic behavior of the electron and the puzzling properties of light' (New York Times). It falls to Hapgood, an extraordinary British intelligence officer, to try to unravel the mystery of who is passing along top-secret scientific...
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Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1020L
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1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Examines the 9/11 terrorist attacks and details how modern espionage has changed because of them. Discusses characteristics of a good spy, myths about becoming a spy, and how spies are recruited and trained. Also explores the future of espionage. Includes profiles of spies, a timeline, photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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"The never-before-told story of one woman's heroism that changed the course of the Second World War. In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her." This spy was Virginia Hall, a young American woman--rejected from the foreign service because of her gender and her prosthetic leg--who talked her way into the spy organization dubbed Churchill's "ministry of ungentlemanly...
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"Mrs. Pollifax is sent on a safari to smoke out an international assassin whose next target is the president of Zambia. 'Just take a lot of pictures of everyone on that safari,' the CIA man told her. 'One of them has to be our man.' It sounded simple enough. But it wasn't. Because shortly after she started taking pictures, someone stole her film. And right after that she was kidnapped by Rhodesian terrorists. And right after that--well, read for yourself..."...
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[2016]
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English
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Time magazine called her "the Mata Hari of Minnesota"; OSS Chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan called her "the greatest unsung heroine of the war." But for decades, the extent of Betty Pack's achievements as an agent during World War II, first for Britain's MI6 and then for America's OSS, remained classified. Now, the truth about this femme fatale--her dangerous liaisons and death-defying missions, the heartaches that haunted her life, her vital contributions...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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""Sadie Smith" is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural commune of French subversives on whom she is keeping tabs, and to the reader. We never learn her real name. Sadie has met her lover, Lucien, a young and well-born Parisian, by "cold bump"-- making him believe the encounter was accidental. And like everyone she chooses to interact with, Lucien is useful to her, used by her. Sadie operates on strategy and dissimulation,...
17) Spies I knew
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Pub. Date
1934
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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xxiv, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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In 1941 Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, lifelong rebel against her country's conservative, patriarchal society, became the leader of a vast intelligence organization. Her group's name was Alliance, and used the names of animals as their aliases. Fourcade was Hedgehog: a tough little animal, unthreatening in appearance. The Gestapo pursued them relentlessly, capturing, torturing, and executing hundreds of its three thousand agents. Captured twice by the...
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Court of thorns and roses volume 3
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
Feyre will bring vengeance. She has left the Night Court--and her High Lord--and is playing a deadly game of deceit. Her former lover Tamlin is making deals with Feyre's enemies and she is determined to uncover his plans. But can she make him believe she has come back to him when every fibre of her being yearns for Rhysand? As mighty armies clash, Feyre will discover she is not the only one hiding something. And as the web of secrets, lies and betrayals...
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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Surveys the lives and exploits of some of the most famous spies that operated during World War II, including a beauty queen spy, a spy who actually was dead while counter-spies were looking for him, and a spy who actually had to get his mother's permission to go on missions.
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