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Oregon files volume 12
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Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only take...
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Oregon files volume 13
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"Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men--and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind. Soon, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives aboard the...
3) The heist
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Just when it seems that international crook Nicolas Fox has been captured for good, he pulls off his greatest con of all: he convinces the FBI to offer him a job, working side by side with Special Agent Kate O'Hare. Problem is, teaming up to stop a corrupt investment banker who's hiding on a private island in Indonesia is going to test O'Hare's patience and Fox's skill -- if the two don't kill each other first.
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Once again the irrepressible Mrs. Pollifax, that very special agent with her own very special brand of logic, is off on an incredible escapade of international intrigue . . . from the exotic towns and countryside of Turkey to a mysterious rendezvous with a gypsy caravan.
“You are in effect replacing a dead man, Mrs. Pollifax. . . .”
When Emily Pollifax answered the phone that Sunday morning she quickly forgot about her Garden...
“You are in effect replacing a dead man, Mrs. Pollifax. . . .”
When Emily Pollifax answered the phone that Sunday morning she quickly forgot about her Garden...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
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The Soviets' new ballistic-missile submarine is attempting to defect to the United States, but the Soviet Atlantic fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs. Can Red October reach the U.S. safely?
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 8
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Razio Yamata is one of Japan's most influential industrialists, and part of arelatively small group of authority who wield tremendous authority in the Pacific Rim's economic powerhouse. He has devised a plan to cripple the American greatness, humble the US military, andelevate Japan to a position of dominance on the world stage. Yamata's motivation lies in his desire to pay off a Debt of Honor to hisparents and to the country he feels is responsible...
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John Farrell, former CIA operative-turned art dealer, has apparently walked into a good deal gone wrong in Sicily. He now waits, wounded and in hiding, for the calvary--and, according to his SOS, only Mrs. Pollifax will do. Within the hour, she is on her way. A youngish-looking female partner named Kate, her mysterious aunt whose farm is mroe heavily guarded than Fort Knox, multimillionaire art collectors, and an uncomfortably familiar assassin await...
9) Mirage
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Oregon files volume 9
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"In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax--but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America's interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
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One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and, with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster.
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 1
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In the first appearance of Mrs. Pollifax, Emily leaves New Brunswick, N.J., travels to Langley, V.A. and persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for a job in Mexico. It's a simple courier job, no real spy work. Soon, however, she finds herself kidnapped, taken to Albania and imprisoned in the company of the mysterious John Sebastian Farrell.
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In her eleventh adventure, a missing salami leads Mrs. Pollifax to a shocking discover: a woman is hiding in her house. Even more unsettling is the revelation that ever since the young woman had a chance encounter with the heir to the throne of Ubangiba, she has been followed by deadly hit-men. What do these men want?
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Mrs. Pollifax mysteries volume 5
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Suburban grandmother Mrs. Pollifax, an agent for the CIA, runs into a bit of trouble with terrorists when she is sent on an African safari to take pictures of her fellow travelers, one of whom is believed to be an international assassin.
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 5
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Jack Ryan, CIA analyst, must rescue Colonel Filitov, America's highest agent in the Kremlin, from the KGB as the race to build the first Star Wars missile defense system continues.
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A new spy agency has been created to target America's enemies. Field operative Scot Harvath has just returned from his first assignment when a bombing in Rome kills a group of American college students. Simultaneously, a young woman is struck by a taxi in a hit-and-run in Chicago. The family's attorney uncovers a shocking connection to the Rome bombing and the perpetrators; plans for America.
18) The last supper
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Paul Christopher novels volume 4
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2006.
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The last supper takes its readers back not only to the earliest days of Paul Christopher's life, but also to the origins of the CIA and the clandestine operations of the OSS during World War II. Moving seamlessly from tales of refugee smuggling in Nazi Germany to OSS-coordinated guerilla warfare against the Japanese in Burma to the confused violence of the Vietnam War.
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Paul Christopher novels volume 3
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2006
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Receiving a handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel only to find his courier murdered, Cold War operative Paul Christopher secretly arranges the publication of the novel as part of a larger plan to destabilize the Soviet system, an effort that is complicated by an affair between Christopher's wife and a famous film director.
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"Vivian Miller is a dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States. On track for a much-needed promotion, she's developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight. After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within America's borders. A few clicks later, everything...