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Author: Elizabeth Cage Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442482273 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 704
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A top-secret organization has chosen three teen girls to be trained as spies to protect the world. But the girls have no idea what's in store when they have real missions in the field. This bind up includes "License to Thrill, Live and Let Spy, " and "Nobody Does It Better."
Author: Elizabeth Cage Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442482273 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 704
Book Description
A top-secret organization has chosen three teen girls to be trained as spies to protect the world. But the girls have no idea what's in store when they have real missions in the field. This bind up includes "License to Thrill, Live and Let Spy, " and "Nobody Does It Better."
Author: Jennet Conant Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439168504 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 418
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By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt and behaved with bravery and honor. Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China. The eager, inexperienced six foot two inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and thirty years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSS’s ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia. Her first post took her to the mountaintop idyll of Kandy, the headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the supreme commander of combined operations. Julia reveled in the glamour and intrigue of her overseas assignment and lifealtering romance with the much older and more sophisticated Paul Child, who took her on trips into the jungle, introduced her to the joys of curry, and insisted on educating both her mind and palate. A painter drafted to build war rooms, Paul was a colorful, complex personality. Conant uses extracts from his letters in which his sharp eye and droll wit capture the day-to-day confusion, excitement, and improbability of being part of a cloak- and-dagger operation. When Julia and Paul were transferred to Kunming, a rugged outpost at the foot of the Burma Road, they witnessed the chaotic end of the war in China and the beginnings of the Communist revolution that would shake the world. A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young reporter. In Paris after the war, Julia and Paul remained close to their intelligence colleagues as they struggled to start new lives, only to find themselves drawn into a far more terrifying spy drama. Relying on recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents, as well as previously unpublished letters and diaries, Conant vividly depicts a dangerous time in American history, when those who served their country suddenly found themselves called to account for their unpopular opinions and personal relationships.
Author: Elizabeth Cage Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 144248229X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 640
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Expertly trained by a top-secret organization as spies, a trio of anything-but-average girls is tasked with protecting the world from danger and disasters. This bind-up contains "Spy Girls Are Forever, Dial V for Vengeance, " and "If Looks Could Kill."
Author: Misty Evans Publisher: Beach Path Publishing, LLC. ISBN: 1948686767 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 208
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She can’t remember what happened that night in Berlin. He can’t forget it. The fourth novel in the SEALs of Shadow Force: Spy Division Series! NSA psychologist, Dr. Genevieve Montgomery, broke her one cardinal rule—don’t fall in love with a SEAL. As therapist to special operatives and spies, her brain is filled with secret identities and covert intelligence. When her own cutting-edge therapy is used on her, she’s branded a traitor, and the man sent to terminate her is the same one she’s fallen in love with. Ian Kincaid understood what he would face when he became a Navy SEAL. Knew the enemies he would be tasked to eliminate to protect his country, the challenges he would confront. Never did he imagine one of them would be the woman he trusted with his secrets. One night changes everything between them. Once lovers, they’re now enemies. Can Genevieve prove she’s innocent? Or will Ian have to eliminate this threat to his country—and his heart? Read this thrilling romantic suspense today!
Author: Joan Swan Publisher: Joan\Swan ISBN: 9780615673592 Category : Languages : en Pages : 360
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She is on a quest for answers; answers that could just get her killed. Six months after the mysterious yacht explosion that killed Cassie Christo?s mother and stepbrother, authorities still have no answers to the cause. Searching for closure, Cassie returns to her childhood home on the Pacific Coast of Baja, Mexico, where she launches her own investigation into the accident. She never expected to find an adversary in the man who had once touched her heart with kindness in her darkest moment.Rio?s been fantasizing about reconnecting with Cassie for months. But not here and sure as hell not now. As an undercover agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he?s working the biggest sting operation in all of northern Mexico, and he definitely doesn?t have time for the wild attraction he feels for Cassie.Not only is his cover on the line, so is his heart. Because as the end of a yearlong operation draws closer, Rio knows if he tells Cassie the truth about who and what he is, it won?t only jeopardize his mission, it may result in him losing her forever. And if he doesn?t, his lies and deception could get them both killed.
Author: Rosalie Knecht Publisher: Tin House Books ISBN: 1947793020 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 189
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Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award – G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards An NPR Best Book of the Year "Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." —The New York Times Book Review "A delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature’s mystery canon—one we hope sticks around long beyond this snappy, intimate debut." —Entertainment Weekly New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself. An exhilarating page-turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, Who Is Vera Kelly? introduces an original, wry, and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.
Author: Lindsey A. O'Rourke Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501730681 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 329
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O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreignimposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.― Political Science Quarterly States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d'état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups. In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O'Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O'Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways. Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O'Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals?
Author: Austin Carson Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691204128 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 342
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Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions “backstage” helps control escalation dynamics, insulating leaders from domestic pressures while communicating their interest in keeping a war contained. Carson shows that covert interventions can help control escalation, but they are almost always detected by other major powers. However, the shared value of limiting war can lead adversaries to keep secret the interventions they detect, as when American leaders concealed clashes with Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Escalation concerns can also cause leaders to ignore covert interventions that have become an open secret. From Nazi Germany’s role in the Spanish Civil War to American covert operations during the Vietnam War, Carson presents new insights about some of the most influential conflicts of the twentieth century. Parting the curtain on the secret side of modern war, Secret Wars provides important lessons about how rival state powers collude and compete, and the ways in which they avoid outright military confrontations.
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