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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller
In this final book of the first spymaster series, major brown once
more faces general tsygankov of the kgb. The race against the
general and his contract killers has to be won or the consequences
to the british economy will do untold damage. The action takes
place between russia and the uk with fast moving situations that
have to be dealt with by the british team if they are to save the
day. Back from the dead an assassin is sent to eliminate major
brown and his team and a new battle is on. Brigadier robinson, as
the head of the secret service team, again plays a vital part in
support and facilitates major brown's efforts to save the country
from ruin. Roger served for twenty four years in the Army and
seventeen in the oil and gas industry before becoming a specialist
consultant. His consultancy included work in several conflict
zones, in the UK for a government agency and with Russia, Nigeria,
Equatorial Guinea, Kosovo and Azerbijan thrown in for good measure.
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Westwind
(Paperback)
Ian Rankin
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After the killing of Osama Bin Laden, CIA deep cover officer Mitch
Vasari assumed there would be a couple months of peace on the
foreign front. It turns out he was mistaken. President Obama, on a
roll after the successful-and historic-terrorist assassination, has
repealed an executive order that bans further political
assassinations. This means Vasari is on call and ready for action.
The CIA's objective is to go after foreign heads of state who, for
reasons unknown to Vasari, represent threats to American freedom
and safety. The assassinations seem easy to plan and undertake,
especially with Vasari's skillful team at the helm. They even have
a new female agent, Gabriela Rivera Torres, who may be as lethal as
Vasari himself. What could possibly go wrong? Apparently, more than
they bargained for. Vasari gets the feeling the higher-ups haven't
told him everything he needs to know. What are the president's
reasons for going after these particular foreign heads of state? Is
there something about these men that makes them more dangerous than
other world leaders? Are they, perhaps, working as a team to
destroy the United States? Vasari has to carry out his mission and
keep his team safe, all while trying to find out the truth for
himself. It's just another day's work for a CIA officer.
With the goal of a regime-change the Central Intelligence Agency
believed that with Geary's insertion as a senior officer in the
country's military establishment he would be well placed to act as
a CIA NOC - a spy with no official cover. His mission was to
covertly provide intelligence gathered through his unique
friendships with the general officers of the country's Navy, Army
and Air Force. In possession of confidential, compromising and
possibly damaging personal details, the CIA believed that the
military forces of the country could be neutralized if they were
opposed to the regime-change that would be brought about through an
orchestrated coup d'etat planned and paid for by the Agency. In
reward for his spying efforts the CIA offers substantial payments
from a slush-fund that will be paid through a numbered bank account
in an off-shore jurisdiction. Following his refusal to become a spy
for the Agency they embark on a program to discredit him and
repeatedly attempted to kill him. A Deep Throat emerges from the
shadows of Washington who provides information that leads to
exposure of the CIA's nefarious activities through a CNN - Cable
News Network report. Prevailing in his lawsuit against the
Government allowed him to tell the story of the CIA's Venezuelan
Conspiracy brought about because of Oil. The Reverend of Caracas is
a fictionalized version of the saga.
Two young Parthians, brother and sister, are caught up in the great
rivalry between Rome and Parthia in Asia Minor during first century
A.D.. At that time Parthia was Rome's greatest enemy, fightng over
land as well as trade routes to Seres, land of silk. Larius and
Kyra become wards of Rome when their father, a Parthian nobleman,
is killed in battle. In order to save his sister from slavery and
possibly worse, Larius is caught up in political intrigue when he
agrees to become a spy for his would-be benefactor, the Roman
procurator, Publius. From this point on things become more
complicated for both Kyra and Larius. As their lives intertwine
with history, they experience the good and the bad. Most of all,
they survive, heroic and strong. Jack Adler is a widely published
author who teaches UCLA extension classes in Journalism and
writing.
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The Coup
(Hardcover)
John Charles Gifford
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R707
R636
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In 1980, the world is teetering on the edge of darkness. The
president of the Republic of Liberia, Charles Dunbar Cooper, is
preparing to sign a treaty with the Soviet Union that will remove
the presence of America in West Africa and signal the continued
spread of Communism on the continent--an event that both American
and European intelligence agents are working to prevent.
CIA officer Tom Walsh is used to traveling to Monrovia as an
undercover journalist who collects sensitive information--but Walsh
knows this trip will be unlike any before. Assigned to an operation
with French intelligence agent Yvette Dubois to prevent the Soviet
takeover of Liberia, Walsh knows they are under the gun. With just
days to organize key members of the Liberian government and army
and stop President Cooper from traveling to Moscow, Walsh and
Dubois soon find nothing is going as planned.
One of their key players is assassinated while another is
arrested and charged in a series of ritual murders. During a
demonstration in the capital protesting the government crackdown on
human rights, both civilians and soldiers are killed. The
government foils an attempted coup and then must defend itself
against another.
As the oldest republic and the most stable government on the
African continent tumbles headlong into a maelstrom of nightmare
and chaos, sucking in everything within its radius, two spies face
the mission of their lives, leaving them to wonder if either will
make it out alive.
The author of Beyond Enkription and the rest of The Burlington
Files series is Bill Fairclough who was born in England in 1950. In
1978 he founded a niche global intelligence organisation known as
"Faire Sans Dire." The series is based on Bill Fairclough's life
and some of Faire Sans Dire's activities. Beyond Enkription is the
first novel in the series of six novels to be published. The series
covers events involving Bill, his beguiling family and his
double-dealing colleagues ranging from the First World War to 9/11,
the related Nisha incidents and beyond. The series even covers new
revelations about the Edward Snowden affair and has been or is
being written with film adaptation in mind. Nevertheless each book
is or will be a standalone novel albeit each one might comprise
several films and/or television series. The first novel is set in
1974 in the heart of the Cold War. It is about a wayward
accountant, Edward Burlington aka Bill Fairclough. In 1974 he is
unwittingly working as an agent for MI6 by night whilst auditing
beans during the day and is nearly murdered not just once but four
times between March and June 1974. For his own safety Edward is
underhandedly despatched to work as an accountant in Nassau only to
be recruited by the CIA and face more death defying moments in the
Bahamas, Brazil and Haiti before the year's end. Meanwhile his
family are sucked inexorably into the perfidious mess and intrigue
surrounding Edward's double life and their own machinations. The
repercussions of the Burlington family's activities resonate from
Kinshasa to Islamabad via Washington and Westminster and back.
Nothing is what it seems to be in this treacherous novel where
disinformation is the norm. Beyond Enkription is a family yarn and
history; a spy novel and espionage reference book; a mystery and
suspense thriller and more besides: a realistic tale of a dynastic
duplicitous family that knows instinctively the knack of survival.
The brutal opening contrasts well with the tantalising and
duplicitous Prologue yet the physicality of the opening chapter is
arguably far less vicious than the cerebral scheming that ensues.
The book is a distinctive memorable and realistic read full of
captivating characters. Its intertwined plots would have challenged
Aristotle's intellect. So, when you read it, if you don't think so
then you may have lost the plot! As one connoisseur put it
succinctly ... "question everything you assume isn't
disinformation." Critics described Beyond Enkription as "A
compelling, provocative and beguiling spy novel: a must for
connoisseurs ..." and "Brutal ab initio, cerebral thereafter but
forever realistic ..." As for its realism you can always contrast
Bill Fairclough's past on WikiTree or LinkedIn with Edward
Burlington. Just how real can you get? We hope you enjoy reading it
and succeed in differentiating between fact, fiction and
disinformation. Please see http: //www.theburlingtonfiles.org,
http: //www.fairesansdire.org, http:
//uk.linkedin.com/in/billfairclough and http:
//www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Fairclough-119&public=1 for
more information ... assuming the authorities haven't closed down
our websites by now and the other websites haven't tried to
extinguish all evidence of knowledge of The Burlington Files!
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Force No One
(Hardcover)
Daniel Charles Ross
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R700
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The Reluctant Spy is the timely story of Calvin Evan, a smart, but
flawed CIA agent, beginning with the 1979 Iranian revolution. Cal
develops a critical Iranian operative and becomes embroiled in the
audacious, yet little honored effort to liberate the American
embassy hostages. Romantically, he's caught between his love for a
rescued refugee and the aggressive intentions of his boss'
manipulative daughter. Ensnaring him, the savvy daughter navigates
his career away from the political fallout of the mission's failure
and directs him to the battleground of the 1980's- the Nicaraguan
Contra war where Cal runs an illegal funding operation. Morally
conflicted and victimized by his erratic behavior, he slips into a
burned out funk, posted to Switzerland. There, amidst the rise of
Middle Eastern terrorism, his past pulls him into conflict with his
former Iranian asset, possibly a double agent, and reunites him
with his long ago betrayed love, now a death squad target. The
Reluctant Spy is the tale of Cal's torment in trying to reconcile
his heroic and destructive behaviors, his successes and failures,
and his search for happiness and contentment. The backdrop of his
struggles is the American foreign policy establishment's often
futile efforts to influence and control global events while
carrying on insidious bureaucratic warfare. John H. Goodwin is a
1981 graduate of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, Magna Cum
Laude. John used his experience living abroad and knowledge of
foreign cultures and American political and military affairs
history in writing The Reluctant Spy. John manages global
investment portfolios for wealthy American and international
families at Morgan Stanley's Private Wealth Management business.
Everyone knows huge problems exist in "Greenpoint." Everyone
wants change in this Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood. Everyone
wants justice-but they all want someone else to do the dirty
work.
When New York State Senator Nicky Collins returns to his boyhood
home of "Greenpoint" to care for his dying mother, he realizes the
extent of the crime problem in this once-idyllic place. Worse, he
understands that the root of much of the organized crime is his
brother, Jack, whose business interests include extortion,
prostitution, drugs, and murder. Jack harbors pure hatred for
Nicky, and his one goal in life is to orchestrate Nicky's collapse.
Jack's other ambition includes wiping out competing crime
families-a bloody and deadly endeavor.
As the violence escalates, Nicky, and boyhood friend, District
Attorney Simon Banks, join forces to take out the center of the
crime ring. In the process, they discover a deeper, more sinister
conspiracy at work.
A story of a deteriorating neighborhood and two brothers on
opposite sides of the law, "Greenpoint" tells a saga of family,
greed, and murder.
Was the financial crisis of 2008 caused by a small group of
greedy Wall Street bankers-or was there something more sinister at
work? Did it begin when free-market politicians gained control of
Washington DC, or was it linked to a longer history, starting
decades-or even centuries ago?
Points On A Line narrates an epic tale of manipulation of
economic and political events by a secretive group of privileged
citizens determined to regain control over the world order.
For Jude Anders, the blue-collar kid of a single mom, the
journey begins in campus protests of the Vietnam War. Fleeing to
Toronto to dodge the draft, he meets eventual lifelong friend Anton
Tomasin, an enigmatic young man adopted into wealth and privilege.
Their apparently coincidental meeting sets the course of Jude's
future, dragging him into the heart of American economic policy
during the military coups in Chile and Argentina in the 1970s
through the complicated chain of events that ultimately brought
about the collapse of the world economy in 2008.
As an advisor to the newly elected President with an
intransigent Congress, Jude offers him a chance to reset America's
financial future with a drastic economic elixir called Plan B.
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