In an enthralling historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.

1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the "Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose.

Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.

Roger Kimball’ s incisive essays examine the art world from a fresh, skeptical perspective.From Gauguin and the Pre-Raphaelites to the latest exercises in artistic absurdity, Kimball’ skeen eye and lucid prose makes for bracing, entertaining reading. He sets himself dead against theshallow rhetoric and celebrity/money culture of the contemporary art world, breathing new excitementinto debates over what we value in art and why. "Art’ s Prospect is savage and hilarious indebunking chalatanism, but at the same time informed and insightful in revealing the best ofcontemporary art.

Whether he is meditating on the concept of kitsch in the Pre-Raphaelites, thecultural pathology that has led critics to compare Gilbert and George’ s preposterous images withthe Isenheim altarpiece, or the genius of such disparate painters as Paul Gauguin and RichardDiebenkorn, Kimball proves himself to be one of the liveliest critical minds in the art worldtoday.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE 2018 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER WINNER, NUCLEUS. Can a ruthless spy ring change the course of war? In a great English house, a young woman offers herself to one of the most powerful and influential figures in the land - but this is no ordinary seduction. She plans to ensure his death . . . On holiday in France, Professor Tom Wilde discovers his brilliant student Marcus Marfield, who disappeared two years earlier to join the International Brigades in Spain, in the Le Vernet concentration camp in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Wilde secures his release just as German tanks roll into Poland. Meanwhile, a U-boat sinks the liner Athenia in the Atlantic with many casualties, including Americans, onboard. Goebbels claims Churchill put a bomb in the ship to blame Germany and to lure America into the war. As the various strands of an international conspiracy begin to unwind, Tom Wilde will find himself in great personal danger. For just who is Marcus Marfield? And where does his loyalty lie? For readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and William Boyd, this is a thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat - by Sunday Times bestseller and author of Corpus and Nucleus, Rory Clements. Praise for RORY CLEMENTS 'A dramatic, twisty thriller' DAILY MAIL 'Dramatic...pacy and assured' Daily Mail 'Political polarisation, mistrust and simmering violence' The Times 'A standout historical novel and spy thriller' Daily Express 'Enjoyable, bloody and brutish' Guardian 'Sends a shiver down your spine' Daily Mail 'A colourful history lesson . . . exciting narrative twists' Sunday Telegraph

A 40-year cover up of JFK's assassination by the US government is described in this fictional, Hitchcockian thriller of actual events. The reader can identify and connect-the-dots of who, why, and what in this controversial novel. Written by an author who secretly researched and investigated the event for over 35 years.

Three times in one week intruders trespass on the property of well known espionage author, Sidney Mason. The first two intruders belong to the same group--their infractions motivated by radio evangelist T. Tommy Dump. The third intruder, when apprehended by Sidney's bodyguards, has no tongue. His legs are a maze of scars. Through his garbled speech two words are barely comprehended. One is Sidney's name. The other is the word 'bell'. Within days, Sidney and her lifetime partner are attacked in their car, and the young intruder with no tongue is on a slab in Baltimore.

The young man's death and the disappearance of three small children appear to correlate to Sidney's latest book research. In a feverish race against time, she and Parker must unravel the hours leading up to the young man's death to discover the identity of their attackers.

When the leader of North Korea is catastrophically injured, his incapacitation inadvertently triggers a "dead-man's switch," activating an army of sleeper agents in South Korea and precipitating a struggle for succession. Jack Ryan, Jr. is in Seoul to interview a potential addition to the Campus. But his benign trip takes a deadly turn when a wave of violence perpetrated by North Korean operatives grips South Korea's capital. A mysterious voice from North Korea offers Jack a way to stop the peninsula's rush to war, but her price may be more than he can afford to pay.

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.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The trouble from which great events were to come began when Everard Dominey, who had been fighting his way through the scrub for the last three quarters of an hour towards those thin, spiral wisps of smoke, urged his pony to a last despairing effort and came crashing through the great oleander shrub to pitch forward on his head in the little clearing. It developed the next morning, when he found himself for the first time for many months on the truckle bed, between linen sheets, with a cool, bamboo-twisted roof between him and the relentless sun. He raised himself a little in the bed. "Where the mischief am I?" he demanded. A black boy, seated cross-legged in the entrance of the banda, rose to his feet, mumbled something and disappeared. In a few moments the tall, slim figure of a European, in spotless white riding clothes, stooped down and came over to Dominey's side.

Frank McNeill, a young architect and grandson of a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, finds his family's security as well as his honor and loyalty challenged by an evil far beyond his imagination or control; an evil orchestrated by an unlikely nemesis, Ishmael, a foreign exchange student in Frank's university crowd.

Ishmael, the heir apparent to the Islamic tribe of Kuhmaad is the only one who knows of Frank's apparent murder of a prostitute during his graduation party. Frank's panic to conceal this act forces him to supply information to Ishmael for his hired terrorist so he can infiltrate the ranks grandfather Jasper McNeill's International Gateway to Freedom project and make the kill. Ishmael is unaware that the man has contracts to eliminate all the high profile international board members including the United States President. Frank realizes too late that he alone must avert the horror he has unleashed.

Brigitte Sharp is a brilliant but haunted young MI6 hacker. When she decodes encrypted online messages, which she believes are connected to her best friend's murder, Bridge uncovers evidence of a mole inside a top secret Anglo-French military drone project. Forced back into the field by MI6, after three years deskbound and in therapy, she discovers that the truth behind the Exphoria code is far worse than she could have imagined. Soon she's on the run, desperate and alone, as a nuclear terrorist plot unfolds around her...

Lost Marsh ---- the second novel in the continuing saga of Cole Damon. Once again, our hero finds himself involved in a web of romance, adventure, hilarious intrigue and mystery. Cole is just a man who is quite content to live his life in a laid back peaceful manner. He is happy to let the fast paced world in which we live just pass him by. A house full of high energy teenagers ---- a delightfully pregnant wife ---- a cantankerous mother in law ---- the local bad guy ---- his ex wife ---- a gorgeous she-devil ---- a fanatical mayor ---- a very special aunt and uncle ---- a best friend ---- all make sure his life is anything but quiet and peaceful. Cole is constantly up to his elbows with problems and special situations, the kind that drives us all crazy in our everyday lives. Most of which are humorous and harmless ---- until he makes a discovery. Our hero makes a discovery that will turn his world upside down. He makes a discovery so hideous and gruesome, that it threatens to totally consume his sanity. It takes all his courage and inner strength to face this horrible twist of fate. Sometimes the lessons we learn in life give us more knowledge than we really want. The question is can we handle this knowledge, and what do we do with it. It is in this sense that Cole is of a special caliber. He finds himself responding to his twist of fate with the knowledge of knowing he is in a situation way over his head. He knows his peaceful little existence is over, but he cannot turn his back on fate. He has to face it head on.

In this high-powered, high-octane international thriller, Barry Koch brings his gripping characters to life in this riveting and poignant story-telling. Filled with political intrigue of the highest order, your heart will race when you follow CIA agent Tyler Cahill in his quest to find the terrorists responsible for hijacking fifteen billion dollars worth of drugs from the DEA. The global conspiracy threatens to spiral out of control forcing Tyler to do what he does best-ignoring all the rules and finishing the job his way. Finishing the job means killing his way to the top. He's on the edge, he knows it and decides this has to be his final mission. His path is fraught with cartel kingpins, reptilian henchman and rival assassins. The treachery knows no boundaries as evil villains try to kill a man who simply refuses to die. His motivation and inspiration come in the form of a beautiful woman, the passionate woman he walked away from years ago. Can he regain his only true love? Can he save the world? You'll sit on the edge of your seat cheering him on with every new page as Koch redefines the concepts of action and romance.

After a concerned citizen comes forward with evidence of corruption within the New Orleans Criminal Sheriffs Department, Sheriff Ellis Grayden enlists the help of his best friend Danny Henderson, to help flush out whomever it is.

When a wealthy young man is found dead on the New Orleans Lakefront, with a suitcase full of cash, and a body in the trunk of his car, Ellis and Danny discover a connection between the dead man, and the corruption investigation within the Sheriff's Department, and are unknowingly drawn into a sinister scheme to steal a powerful piece of military hardware from the United States government.

During the course of the investigation, Ellis will indeed find out who is corrupt, and who is not. A revelation that might kill him. While Danny will come face to face with a dangerous figure from his past, whom he believed to be dead. Setting the stage for a meeting between the two of them that may very well kill both of them, and destroy all that they hold dear.

Drew Phillips is a modern day prophet whose only desire is to travel from town to town in his crusades helping people and healing the sick. He had no idea that when he called a beautiful young cancer victim forward for healing that it would change his life forever. Sam Hogue was the youngest Assistant Director in the history of the C.I.A. and he had just been handed the job of stopping an assassination attempt against the President. He knew was this was not a group of loose knit amateurs but professionals, well funded and better connected politically than he was. As you read this story you will see how time and fate twist these two very different men together. Drew refuses to work for the C.I.A. until Sam reaches into his bag of "Dirty Tricks" and forces the issue. When Drew decides to use his calling as a prophet to save the life of the President, his heart starts pumping red white and blue and not even Sam was ready for what Drew would see Who would have ever suspected that the wealthiest oil Sheik in the world would have such a diabolical plot that if not stopped it would forever change the fate of the world and launch "The Caliphate." As you read this book don't be surprised if you feel this is non-fiction. Some of the early edits were done by government employees and retired military officers and they were shaken by the elements of truth found within the pages. I will let you decide what is fiction and what is not.