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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals,
out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption.
Welcome to 1890s Paris.
Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life
imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his
rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart,
an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus's guilt as
staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to
head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds
evidence that a spy still remains at large in the
military--indicating that Dreyfus is innocent. As evidence of the
most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the
uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question
not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held
beliefs about his country, and about himself.
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Guarani
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Warren D Gillies
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R587
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"Guarani" takes place in Paraguay, a small, landlocked, backwater
country struggling to catch up with its neighbors. It was the
cultural center of Latin America during the 17th and 18th
centuries. It claims to have been the first to build a railway, and
one of the first to have an opera house. The main protagonist of
this tale is Greg McIntyre, a petroleum geologist, who tries to
escape his part in the Vietnam War by leaving the U.S. behind him.
Another one is Iliana Amendula, Greg's secretary, who claims to be
politically neutral, until three members of her family are
murdered. A terrorist from Argentina, a crazy army captain, and a
professor of botany move the story along to it's explosive end.
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White Fox
(Hardcover)
Owen Matthews
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R568
R516
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The new novel from a master of the Cold War thriller . . . 'This is
Robert Harris storytelling territory' Daily Mail 'Outstanding'
Sunday Times 'Tense, exciting and authentic' Charles Cumming,
author of Judas 62 'Stunning' The Times 'Brilliantly plotted' John
Sweeney, author of Killer in the Kremlin 'A standout thriller'
Financial Times 1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio
broadcasts news of the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy... Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin's new posting as
director of a gulag camp in the middle of the frozen tundra is far
from a promotion. This is where disgraced agents, like Vasin,
disappear - sent to die forgotten. And quietly. But tensions in the
camp are running high and when a violent revolt breaks out, Vasin
finds himself on the run. With him is a mysterious prisoner - who
holds the key to the most dangerous secret in the world: who
ordered Kennedy's murder. In a breathless race that takes them
through the Soviet Union - from the barren Siberian wastelands to
the stunning halls of the Katerina Palace and the grey streets of
Leningrad and Moscow - Vasin must stay one step ahead of the most
ruthless spy and police organizations in the world . . . and keep
the most wanted man in Russia alive. It's a journey that will push
Vasin's loyalty, morality and his patriotism to the limit. And he
must confront the ultimate choice: fall in line, or die fighting
the system. With masterful storytelling that weaves together an
explosive moment in history with the cutthroat machinations of
Soviet politics, Owen Matthews' White Fox captures the
paradigm-shifting assassination from a unique Soviet point of view.
This is a page-turning thriller - a race against time across Soviet
Russia, where the participants face impossible odds and must decide
between truth, justice and all-out war.
Julia Lerner is one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley
and an icon to professional women across the country. She is the
COO of Tangerine, one of America's biggest technology companies.
She is also a Russian spy. Julia has been carefully groomed to
reach the upper echelons of the company and use Tangerine's
software to covertly funnel information back to Russia's largest
intelligence agency. Alice Lu works as a low-level analyst within
Tangerine, having never quite managed to climb the corporate
ladder. One afternoon, when performing a server check, Alice
discovers some unusual activity and is burdened with two powerful
but distressing suspicions: Tangerine's privacy settings aren't as
rigorous as the company claims they are and the person abusing this
loophole might be Julia Lerner herself. Now, she must decide what
to do with this information - before Julia finds out she has it.
The letter arrived shortly after the death of Jebidiah James
Carpenter II's parents in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Penned by
Jeb's father in 1999, the letter reveals the existence of the
Carpenter Family Secret Resolution and the existence of hidden
wealth in the Carpenter home in North Carolina. Enrolled in the
military academy, Jeb has just become the seventh Keeper of the
family.
That legacy began in 1825 when Jebidiah James Carpenter, JJ to
his friends and family, conceived the Carpenter Family Secret
Resolution. He was a respected US Army officer, a Confederate
officer, and a successful businessman. The resolution set a
specific course for his descendants and was designed to protect the
family's heritage and its wealth.
The Carpenter family wealth allows Jeb to serve his country
through his involvement with the CIA and military intelligence,
protecting the American way, though at considerable risk to himself
and more than average risk to his loved ones.
Providing a snapshot of a dark time in the nation's history,
Carpenter House presents a fictional story of love, espionage, and
one family's remarkable legacy.
America's most enduring hero, Jason Bourne, returns - with old
skills and new plot twists - in an explosive addition to the Bourne
canon. After the death of his wife in a mass shooting, secret agent
Jason Bourne is convinced that there is more to her murder than it
seems. Worse, he believes that the agency that trained him is
behind the killing. Bourne goes rogue, leaving Treadstone behind
and taking on a new mission to infiltrate and expose an anarchist
group, Medusa. But when a congresswoman is assassinated in New
York, Bourne is framed for the crime, and he finds himself alone
and on the run. In his quest to stay one step ahead of his enemies,
Bourne teams up with a journalist, Abbey Laurent, to figure out who
was behind the frame-up, and to learn as much as he can about the
ever-growing threat of the mysterious Medusa group. As more and
more enemies begin to hunt Bourne, it's a race against the clock to
discover who led him into a trap... and what their next move may
be.
"Steve would never have guessed that his name would come up in a
conversation in the Oval Office, nor was he aware the discussions
involved a brutal Cold War standoff. He was rattled to the core
over images of battle he witnessed in a small Spanish town but
relieved to be headed home after a tumultuous semester-abroad
during his senior year of high school. He decided not to tell
anyone about his mishaps but still felt bothered by lingering
images of dead people with bloody holes in their bodies, trucks
with lifeless legs sticking out the back.He wrote to Katarina, the
Spanish girl he met and befriended, shortly after he returned to
Kansas, but had a hard time finding the words through a haze of
brain damage caused by Soviet poisonings. She remembered him too
for his na ve idealism and bravado. She couldn't stand the idea of
leaving him to face a desperate fate of political retribution,
wondering if she'd ever see him again."
From #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling
author Brad Thor, four deadly women from the top-secret Athena
Project join Delta Force as they undertake one of the nation's most
dangerous assignments. The world's most elite counterterrorism unit
has just taken its game to an entirely new level. And not a moment
too soon... From behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of
counterterrorism operator has emerged. Just as skilled, just as
fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Force's
newest members have only one thing setting them apart-their gender.
Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed The Athena
Project, four of Delta's best and brightest women are about to
undertake one of the nation's deadliest assignments. When a
terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena
Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex
Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer
responsible for providing the explosives. But there is more to the
story than anyone knows. In the jungles of South America, a young
US intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery. Surrounded by
monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of America's greatest
fears appears to have come true. Simultaneously in Colorado, a
foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the US
government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport. As
Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they
will soon learn that another attack-one of unimaginable
proportions-has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat
they face may be the secrets kept by their own government.
WHAT IF HITLER HAD SURVIVED? In the gripping new spy thriller from
the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge
spy must find the truth behind Hitler's death. But exactly who is
the man in the bunker? 'MASTER OF THE WARTIME SPY THRILLER' -
FINANCIAL TIMES ________________ Germany, late summer 1945 - The
war is over but the country is in ruins. Millions of refugees and
holocaust survivors strive to rebuild their lives in displaced
persons camps. Millions of German soldiers and SS men are held
captive in primitive conditions in open-air detention centres.
Everywhere, civilians are desperate for food and shelter. No one
admits to having voted Nazi, yet many are unrepentant. Adolf Hitler
is said to have killed himself in his Berlin bunker. But no body
was found - and many people believe he is alive. Newspapers are
full of stories reporting sightings and theories. Even Stalin,
whose own troops captured the bunker, has told President Truman he
believes the former Fuhrer is not dead. Day by day, American and
British intelligence officers subject senior members of the Nazi
regime to gruelling interrogation in their quest for their truth.
Enter Tom Wilde - the Cambridge professor and spy sent in to find
out the truth... Dramatic, intelligent, and brilliantly compelling,
THE MAN IN THE BUNKER is Rory's best WWII thriller yet - perfect
for readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and Joseph Kanon.
CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked in a souk while
infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his
cover had been blown or if the act was just an arbitrary attack on
Westerners. Months later, the incident remains a mystery. Now, Liz
Carlyle and her Counter Terrorism unit in MI5 have been charged
with the task of observing the international under-the-counter arms
trade. With the Arabic region in such a volatile state, British
Intelligence forces have become increasing concerned that extremist
Al-Qaeda jihadis are building their power base, ready to launch
another attack. As the pressure mounts, Liz and her team must
intercept illegal weapons before they get into the wrong hands. But
when MI5 learns that the source of the arms deals is located in
Western Europe, Liz finds herself on a manhunt that leads her to
Paris, to Berlin and into her own long-forgotten past. A past
buried so deep that she thought it would never resurface . . . THE
DEVIL'S BARGAIN, the brand-new thriller from Stella Rimington, is
out now.
'It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as
close as I've seen in a very long time' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'A bold
and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption' IRISH
TIMES 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: of
Vietnam and the dying days of war, and to face a final accounting
for what was done. 'Another compact marvel ... This is a meditative
novel that, while investing heavily in a patient build-up of
atmosphere, never forgets the need to put a foot on the gas' DAILY
MAIL 'David Park's novels are always elegantly written' INDEPENDENT
'Unflinching, courageous, wise, alert to the thrill and sorrow of
violence ... Adds to David Park's status as a superb novelist'
FRANK MCGUINNESS
In this crackerjack Cold War thriller, MI5 faces a deadly threat,
one only Richard Knox can avert. But he only has six days and the
clock is ticking fast. How long can you survive in the shadows?
Richard Knox, freshly returned to active duty after a year out of
the field, is ordered to uncover the invisible enemy that's
infiltrated the Service in his absence. His quest takes him to Hong
Kong, a city on the brink of chaos, where he discovers the lines
between friend and foe have never been more blurred. Who is behind
the assault on MI5? How long have they been operating in the
shadows? And what is their endgame?
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