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Dan Fesperman
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Unmanned: a riveting new thriller that unfolds in New York City four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor--a story that pits the guardians of possibly traitorous secrets against two men who are intent on bringing those secrets to light. February 1942: Woodrow Cain arrives in New York City from a small North Carolina town having left behind a wife (who'd abandoned him), a daughter, and a career as a police officer marred by questions...
2) Safe houses
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins to chase down these startling secrets from her past. West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nat Turnbull is a history professor who specializes in the German resistance. When his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of stolen World War II archives, Nat's hardly surprised that the eighty-four-year-old has gotten himself into trouble. But what's in the archive is staggering. Yet key documents are still missing, and Nat believes Gordon has hidden them. Then Gordon is found dead in jail, and the FBI dispatches Nat to track...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets. As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout-drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Safe Houses--An electrifying new novel about a CIA agent and a young Moroccan ex-pat who becomes ensnared in the world of radical Islam. When CIA agent Claire Saylor is told that she'll be going undercover to pose as the dowdy wife of a stuffy academic who has posited a controversial new interpretation of the Quran's promise to martyrs she assumes the job is a punishment for past unorthodox behavior. But when she discovers her...
8) Winter work
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, about a Stasi officer investigating the murder of a colleague who is helped by Claire Saylor. Emil Grimm, a Stasi colonel, has decamped to his dacha in the woods outside of Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. On a walk one morning, he discovers the body of a fellow intelligence officer with whom he was involved in a clandestine mission. Now Emil is...
11) Layover in Dubai
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Corporate auditor Sam Keller finds himself surrounded by Dubai's underworld violence in the wake of a colleague's murder and turns for help to unlikely detective Anwar Sharaf, a partnership that tests the dark regions of each man's heart.
