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A Novel
by Joseph Weisberg
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by Lea Carpenter
Published Feb 2025
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by Noah Boyd
Published Jan 2011
Read ReviewsSomeone gives you a dangerous puzzle to solve, one that may kill you or someone else, and you're about to fail... And there is no other option. No one who can help. No one but the Bricklayer.
by Olen Steinhauer
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsMilo Weaver used to be a tourist for the CIAan undercover agent with no home, no identity. But when the arrest of an assassin exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice but to go back undercover and find out whos holding the strings once and for all.
by Charles Cumming
Published Nov 2009
Read ReviewsSix years ago, Alec Milius got out of the spy game after unbearably great personal cost. Yet when a prominent politician goes missing, the urge that drove Milius to originally enter the spy game comes roaring back, and soon Alec finds himself in the midst of another international conspiracy.
by Charles Cumming
Published Nov 2008
Read ReviewsAlec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center-stage in a dangerous game of espionage. In his new line of work, Alec finds that the difference between ...
by Tim Weiner
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsFor the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, burying its blunders in top-secret archives. Its mission was to know the world. When it did not succeed, it set out to change the world.
by Richard Flanagan
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Goulds Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear
by John Le Carre
Published Nov 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of loyalty and betrayal set in the West Berlin of the 1960s through to the present day of terrorism and new alliances.
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