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Investigates stories of real-life spies who have operated in modern wars, such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, on both sides of the war, gathering intelligence and sabotaging their enemies, and explores the tools and methods they used to do their work. Includes black and white photographs, discussion questions, and a glossary.
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Investigates stories of real-life spies who operated in the Cold War for both sides of the war, gathering intelligence and sabotaging their enemies, and explores the tools and methods they used to do their work. Includes black and white photographs, discussion questions, and a glossary.
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Investigates stories of real-life spies who operated in the U.S. Civil War for both sides of the war, gathering intelligence and sabotaging their enemies, and explores the tools and methods they used to do their work. Includes black and white photographs, discussion questions, and a glossary.
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"Gives readers a thrilling, behind-the-scenes look into how World War I spies gathered information for the Allied and Central powers. Learn about the tools that daring spies used during this conflict, and how spies such as Louise de Bettignies and Edith Cavell worked in secret to help their side win the war"-- www.childsworld.com
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Investigates stories of real-life spies who operated in World War II for both sides of the war, gathering intelligence and sabotaging their enemies, and explores the tools and methods they used to do their work. Includes black and white photographs, discussion questions, and a glossary.
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"A bona fide thrill ride."
—Miami Herald
"Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot."
—People
Portrait of a Spy is Silva's eleventh thriller to feature art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon as he races from Great Britain to Washington to New York to the Middle East on the trail of a deadly and elusive terrorist network responsible for massacres in Paris, Copenhagen, and...
—Miami Herald
"Silva builds tension with breathtaking double and triple turns of plot."
—People
Portrait of a Spy is Silva's eleventh thriller to feature art restorer and master spy Gabriel Allon as he races from Great Britain to Washington to New York to the Middle East on the trail of a deadly and elusive terrorist network responsible for massacres in Paris, Copenhagen, and...
10) Spy: a novel
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"At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her...
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Overweight and non-athletic, twelve-year-old Hale may have been born and raised to be a spy for the Sub Rosa Society but it seems he is unlikely to become a Field Agent until his parents are captured by the evil League and Hale sets out on a solo mission to save them.
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Feyre returns to the Spring Court on a reconaissance mission about the invading king. As a spy, the future of the entire kingdom may rely on her ability to play her part perfectly, and her decisions about who to trust and which allies are best will decide the outcome of the coming war.
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Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.
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When Emily Pollifax answered the phone that Sunday morning she quickly forgot about her Garden Club tea in the afternoon. The last time she had heard the voice on the other end of the line it had sent her off on a journey that plunged her into a wild tangle of secret agents and high adventure. Now the man from the CIA was asking if she could leave immediately on a mission that would take her halfway across the world. What could Mrs. Pollifax say but...
20) A perfect spy
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When British intelligence agent Magnus Pym disappears, two desperate searches are initiated--the hunt of agents, East and West, for the missing spy and Pym's own quest to uncover the mysteries of his own past.