Spy Fiction Literary

A dazzling, compassionate and deeply moving audiobook from one of world literature's rising stars. A mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi dreams of being a tourist until he is driven from Sri Lanka by devastating events. Around these two superbly drawn characters, a double narrative assembles an enthralling array of people, places and stories.

6 dias, 13 horas e 37 minutos... No final de "A Filha Pródiga", Florentyna Kane é eleita presidente - a primeira mulher Presidente dos Estados Unidos. Após décadas de luta, sacrifício e tragédia pessoal, ela finalmente alcançou seu objetivo. No entanto, enquanto ela faz seu discurso inaugural, aqueles que se opõem a ela estão tramando para silenciá-la para sempre. Às 19h30 de certa noite, o FBI descobre uma conspiração para matá-la - a 1.572ª ameaça do ano. Às 20h30, cinco pessoas sabem todos os detalhes. Às 21h30, quatro delas já estão mortas.

Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey. As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert—a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption—he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories.

Tony Colletti, a good suburban cop and father of a child with autism, finds himself drawn into the controversy over the apparent but rarely acknowledged connection between childhood vaccines and autism. His quest to uncover the truth forces him to risk all he holds dear while confronting corrupt government officials, the powerful pharmaceutical industry, and disturbing elements of his own past. Even while holding down his job and dealing with family crises, Colletti spearheads the drive to contend with industrial espionage, Russian gangsters, and sexual predators.

During the summer of 1997, a series of bombings terrorize Havana hotels. The targets are tourists, and the terrorists are exiles seeking to cripple Cuban tourism and kill the revolution. After Mano finds himself helpless to save one of the victims, his nemesis Colonel Emilio Perez of the National Revolutionary Police recruits him into Havana's top-secret Wasp Network of spies for a job that only he can perform - but for reasons he never would have believed or expected.

Darcy, a restless young artist, travels to the Soviet Union to visit his elusive half-sister, Fin. Upon his arrival in the depths of a bleak Moscow winter, Darcy is immediately embroiled in Fin's mysterious life there and also drawn to Moscow's forbidden underground, finding himself swept up in political and sexual intrigues of a nature he could never have imagined.

Under Den Kolde Krig er kapløbet mellem Vesten og USSR om videnskab og atomkraft i fuld gang. Derfor bliver briterne ellevilde, da den russiske oberst Stok foreslår en handel: Han vil levere den geniale russiske videnskabsmand Semitsa over Berlinmuren - ved bevidsthed eller ej - til gengæld for en svimlende sum. Topagenten Harry Palmer bliver sendt til Berlin af den britiske efterretningstjeneste for at sørge for den lyssky aftale, men intet går som planlagt ... Len Deighton (f.

Historical fact-based fiction about the famous spy who played a key role in Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. This narrative takes place between July 1861 and July 1862 and is the first in a series about the Confederate Secret Service and the women who were its most effective agents. Belle Boyd was the first woman in American History to be formally commissioned an army officer.

Dee Aldrich rebelled against her off-center upbringing when she married the most conventional man she could imagine: Patrick, her college sweetheart. But now, years later, her marriage is falling apart and she's starting to believe that her husband wants her gone... for good.

From its official sanction in 1953 to its shutdown in 1973, the CIA clandestinely conducted methods of mind control on unwitting American and Canadian citizens. This covert and illegal operation, Project MKULTRA, eventually made national headlines upon the declassification of thousands of documents in 2001. Intrigued by the people empowered to enact such abuses and the legacy of such an operation, Scott O'Connor weaves the nuanced and compelling story of Henry March, a CIA agent forced to spearhead a series of insidious mind-control experiments in San Francisco.

A young, handsome, charismatic Southern governor is elected president of the United States in a landslide. He was so popular that world leaders were scrambling to attend his inauguration. Among the attendees were the pope, the queen of England, and other royalties. He had, however, an Achilles' heel-he was a philanderer. It will not take long for his misdeeds to leak out to the media and the opposition party. While he was being investigated, the noose was getting tighter around his neck. Pressured by his wife to save his power, he decided to do the unthinkable.

June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it’s a suicide, he’s nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing’s war record. What’s more, Turing’s sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services – could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies?

Ne LA TRAPPOLA DI ZERO (Libro 4) un nuovo leader fanatico sale alla guida di a cellula terroristica nel Medio Oriente, con l'intento di orchestrare l'attacco più letale mai concepito contro il suolo americano. Potrà l'agente Zero svelare il complotto e fermarlo in tempo? Sebbene le figlie dell'agente Zero siano a casa sane e salve, l'angoscia e il terrore in seguito all'esperienza subita mettono a dura prova la serenità della loro piccola famiglia.

In questo esordio molto atteso di un'epica serie spy thriller dello scrittore di bestseller Jack Mars, i lettori sono trascinati per tutta l'Europa in un'avventura al cardiopalma, mentre il presunto agente della CIA Kent Steele, perseguitato dai terroristi e dalla sua stessa identità, deve risolvere il mistero di chi lo vuole morto, quale sia l'obiettivo dei terroristi, quale sia la sua stessa identità e chi è la bellissima donna che continua a vedere nella propria mente.

In DOSSIER ZERO (Libro 5), la memoria dell'agente Zero finalmente ritorna, e con essa, vengono alla luce rivelazioni scioccanti sulla trama segreta della CIA per scatenare una guerra e per togliergli la vita. Espulso dall'agenzia e in fuga, riuscirà a fermarli in tempo? Quando un incidente nello Stretto di Hormuz minaccia di far scoppiare una guerra mondiale, la memoria dell'Agente Zero ritorna e, con essa, la possibilità di scoprire cosa ha causato la sua perdita di memoria.

In LA CACCIA DI ZERO (Libro 3), quando l'agente della CIA agente Zero scopre che le sue giovani figlie sono state rapite e spedite a un giro di traffico umano nell'Europa dell'Est, si getta in un inseguimento al cardiopalma per tutta l'Europa, lasciandosi alle spalle una scia di devastazione, in cui rompe gin regola, rischia la sua stessa vita, e fa di tutto per riprendersi le figlie. Kent, nonostante gli ordini della CIA, rifiuta di farsi da parte.

In questo seguito del primo libro (AGENTE ZERO) della serie di spy thriller Kent Steele, "Obiettivo Zero" (Libro 2) ci porta in un'altra avventura ricca d'azione per tutta l'Europa, quando l'agente Kent Steele viene richiamato in servizio per fermare un'arma biologica prima che devasti il mondo, lottando al contempo con la sua perdita di memoria. La vita torna brevemente alla normalità per Kent, prima di essere richiamato dalla CIA per dare la caccia ai terroristi e fermare un'altra crisi internazionale, una persino più potenzialmente devastante dell'ultima.

A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an 11th-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counterintelligence agency brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth league, and soon dispatches him to Washington, DC.

French Academician and Nazi sympathiser Paul-Jean Husson writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942. Tormented by an illicit passion for Ilse, his German daughter-in-law, Husson has taken a decision that will devastate several lives, including his own.

Absolute Friends is a superbly paced novel spanning 56 years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier’s son born 1947 in a new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife, who have sought sanctuary in the West.