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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller
Coming of age during the Vietnam War, Mike McCurry decides to
join the U.S. Army rather than be drafted or take a fl ight to
Canada. He is assigned to the Army Security Agency and begins a
life of covert operation as a voice interceptor.
In the late 1960s, McCurry arrives at Teufelsberg, a
super-secret listening station in West Berlin. McCurry and his
fellow operatives have direct access to some of the most sensitive
conversations of top offi cials of the East German government's
Central Committee in East Berlin. Unfortunately, McCurry's group of
interpreters and analysts are supervised by regular Army personnel,
who have no idea of the tasks being carried out by those under
their command.
McCurry's supervisors are more interested in how their troops
perform on the drill field than how they are fulfilling their
assigned intelligence mission, and that doesn't sit well with
McCurry when national security is at stake. It doesn't take him
long to recognize that it will require a combination of guile and
humor to overcome the obstacles put in his path by clueless
supervisors.
But the incompetence of the leadership ultimately becomes
deadly, forcing McCurry to make a choice between following orders
... or facing a court martial.
Autumn 1960. Nikita Khrushchev is politically adept, visionary, and
locked in a fight with the Politburo and a battle with Mao and the
Chinese. His country and his political future are in trouble
because he has opened doors to the West and espoused the doctrine
of peaceful coexistence. Meanwhile, the arms race is crushing the
Soviet economy and there is unrest throughout the Communist empire.
Changes are imperative. The army must be reduced, money redirected
to a consumer economy, and the US neutralized. But the old boars of
the Red Army will not be easily displaced; its leaders are intent
on saving their country from Khrushchev. A cabal of senior Red Army
patriots are led by a man who the world thinks is Khrushchev's
unswerving toady. The game is treason, and the tools are Albania's
mad-dog leaders, for whom assassination is second nature. What
begins subtly soon turns brittle. A rocket technician disappears
before a major accident at the Soviet Space Center. In Belgrade a
psychotic CIA agent escapes an ambush, vows revenge, and
disappears. Khrushchev turns to the Special Operations Group, the
elite hunting team featured in the author's prequel, THE BERKUT. In
Washington the Bay of Pigs invasion is in the final planning
stages, and its timing is tied to the missing CIA agent. He must be
found. Two teams, one from Russia and one from the United States,
begin a desperate hunt that leads them on an inward spiral toward
each other and to a lethal showdown at the 1961 summit in Vienna.
There they find themselves in an uneasy alliance as they race to
find the American renegade and the Albanian death team, both groups
pawns in a global chess game. With a vast canvas of disparate
characters and events, The Domino Conspiracy is a coruscating tour
de force. Breathtakingly suspenseful, it lays open the myths of the
Soviet monolith and reveals the delicate seeds of glasnost and
perestroika, movements that were not to flower until three decades
later. Readers know how the Soviet story ended; now they will see
how it all began.
"With Campbell in the lead, they proceeded down a long,
monotonously gray corridor, turned a corner, and doubled back. A
tall, slope-shouldered young man passed them with a deliberate
wariness and glanced back defensively. The place certainly was
"different," as well as the humanoids which inhabited it. Not a
window was visible. The corridors were like subterranean tunnels.
What lurked behind the cold gray walls and unmarked doors? Feeling
a permeating, clammy chill, Anderson grimaced as he buttoned his
coat. Now he thought he knew why they were called spooks. If the
human zombies he had seen, including his peculiar companion, were a
reflection of what he himself might become, maybe he should head
for daylight. But even that was prohibitively risky. He probably
wouldn't be able to find his way back to the damn elevators on his
own. That was incentive enough for him to spurt ahead and overtake
Campbell. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life wandering
through this eerie maze."
In the wake of the 2001 September eleventh terrorist attacks, the
New York Times reported that the New York CIA station, headed by a
woman, was located in a building of the World Trade Center complex.
When the Trade Towers came down, the adjacent CIA office was
destroyed as well. Business people and students going overseas were
recruited by this CIA station to gather intelligence information
while abroad. This is the story of one such person, the challenges
he faced, and the affect of his longstanding relationship with the
CIA Station Chief.
"The Pachinko Connection" takes the reader into a world of espionage, extortion and perversion, as CIA operative Adam Carver and pachinko parlor owner Noriko Kaneda attempt to follow the trail of money extorted from gambling halls in Japan and sent to North Korea, where, it is suspected, it is being used to help fund the development and sale of weapons of mass destruction.
From the NY Times Bestselling author of the Dave Riley Green Beret
series Maverick federal employee Sammy Pintella, obsessed with
uncovering the fate of her MIA father, makes a startling discovery
while rifling through some inactive government files. A dozen,
faded black and white photos seem to point to the existence of a
secret US Military base built in the frozen wastelands of
Antarctica during the height of the Cold War. Aided by Special
Forces veteran Dave Riley, she heads for Antarctica. But they
aren't alone. Spies, North Koreans and other shadowy forces are
also en route, because deep inside Eternity Base is something
people will go to extreme lengths to get: a cache of nuclear
warheads. "A federal employee intent upon discovering the truth
about her missing in action father stumbles upon a closely-held
secret about an Antarctic military base - a base illegally
constructed and which has been kept a secret by a serious of
murders. When she and her reporter sister fly to the base for an
in-depth probe, murder begins to stalk them in this tense novel.
Unlike most military stories this will appeal to general audiences
as a fine thriller. Highly recommended, indeed." -- Midwest Book
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They call it "Wet Eye": a biological weapon that literally eats out
the eyes of its victims. Now, deep within the belly of the U.S.
military establishment, one small silver canister of Wet Eye is
missing-lost because a career pencil-pusher has cut a
million-dollar deal and signed it in blood.
For David Stafford, a Defense Department investigator, finding the
missing canister means ripping through layers of cover-ups,
bureaucracy, and one man's murderous determination to sell Wet Eye
to an international arms dealer. But the military would rather
silence Stafford than admit to a security breach. And now, the only
person who can stop a biological conflagration is an innocent
child-who has looked into the face of evil, and seen it with her
own two eyes...
James Pharmaceutical Company (JPC) is on the verge of a colossal
breakthrough in the world of pharmaceuticals: a cure for
Alzheimer's disease. JPC has developed the formula, but cannot
perfect the product due to side effects as well as a cash shortage.
When the president of JPC discovers that an unknown yet trusted
key employee has made a copy of a secret document outlining the
cure, he calls in a favor from his old friend, Jean Paul Koenig,
PhD. Jean Paul, or J. P., an expert in herbal pharmaceuticals,
reluctantly agrees to get involved. Along the way, J. P. befriends
a Japanese intelligence officer who has been trying to find a new
product for a small innovative Japanese pharmaceutical company in
Bandai, Japan. Together they evaluate the situation and work
through deceit and violence as major international pharmaceutical
companies fight for the highly coveted pharmaceutical, its raw
material, and the rights to market it.
Time: World War II Place: England - the summer's heat wave, 1944
Young widow and mother Valerie Sinclair is a candidate for British
Naval Intelligence when she is handpicked for a treacherous
assignment and personally approved by Winston Churchill because of
the unique way her mind works. After a brutal training program and
an elaborate scheme to hide her true identity, she will meet the
challenge of her life on Operation GOLDILOCKS, an ultra-secret
mission scheduled for launch behind German lines, into Occupied
France. Transformed by surgery, and disguised as a French
schoolgirl, the purpose of Valerie's mission will be to effectively
transfer the secrets of the first Atomic Bomb from German labs, via
German and British banking partners, for the postwar benefit of the
London Financial District. To succeed she must avoid a faceless
pursuer. Fitting his movements to hers like a hand to a glove, is
The Spy, the eerie mysterious figure who haunts her dreams. Moving
with relentless resolve, The Spy becomes an uncanny part of the
weavings in this startling revelation of international intrigue.
Based on the memoirs of the real life British espionage agent
Valerie Sinclair, this is the story of a war for information that
affects the national prosperity of England and the United States
for years to come.
All NEW from bestselling psychological thriller writer Keri
BeevisWhen you're a kid, you imagine monsters to have horns and
fangs. That they hide under the bed or in the wardrobe. And you
believe they can only come after you when it's dark. You don't
expect them to look like everyday people or that they may be
someone you already know... The summer in question started out with
hot, fun-filled days and new friendships. We had just turned
thirteen and had our whole lives ahead of us. But that was before
her... Before we became known as the Hixton Five and our lives
become defined by one night. It's hard to believe twenty years have
passed since she was locked away. But now she's free and strange
things have started to happen. When I close my eyes, the creeping
anxiety and fear is overwhelming and all too real. Because the
monster is back, and I know she has a score to settle with
us.Praise for The Sleepover 'Another winner from Ms Beevis. A
gripping story with plenty of twists and turns.' - J.A. Baker'An
atmospheric thriller that grips until the last page. Beevis at her
best!' - Diana Wilkinson 'One of my favourite authors! Keri Beevis
does it again, with this fast-paced, chilling thriller!' - Amanda
Brittany 'Beevis delivers again with a creepy unsettling tale that
had me looking nervously over my shoulder.'- Valerie Keogh 'A
twisty psychological thriller that will have you racing towards the
big finale at breakneck speed. Don't expect to sleep until you've
devoured the very last page. Loved it!' - Carla Kovach 'I couldn't
sleep. I HAD to finish this book' - NJ Moss 'Another suspenseful
page-turner from this very talented author.' - John Nicholl
'Brilliant, chilling, and unputdownable.' - - Gemma Rogers'Beevis
has created a dark psychological thriller thick with atmosphere.
Cleverly woven threads pull together in a heart-stopping conclusion
in this satisfyingly clever tale. Highly recommended.' - Diane
Saxon 'Another cracker from Beevis. A dark, twisty 5 star read' -
Dan Scottow 'A disturbingly chilling thriller which is completely
gripping. The Sleepover is an intense mystery full of clever twists
which I didn't see coming.' - Alex Stone
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