Kanon, Joseph
Summary: "From the bestselling author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German comes a fast-paced and richly imagined novel about an American spy, the Cold War's most notorious defector, who gave up his country for the safety--and prison--of Moscow, but never lost his gift for betrayal. In 1949, Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a Communist spy and fled the country to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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Summary: 1985. A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer--invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. With the East German secret police closing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "For decades, Taiwan has been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. New Chinese President Li Jian Jun has devised a secret military operation to take the island. Meanwhile, Lt. Commander Katie Ryan is deployed on the USS Jason Dunham to defend Taiwan and under pressure to find a flaw in the invaders' plan for her father to exploit. For his part, President Jack Ryan may have the power...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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Summary: "Whisked from his Manhattan town house to a gabled CIA safe house in Virginia, [CIA agent Jordan] Sandor faces off with a top terrorist agent from Iran's Revolutionary Guard. In exchange for protection from his own side, Ahmad Jaber is offering the CIA explosive information: word of a secret, unholy alliance forged among operatives in the Middle East, a ruthless South American, and Kim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2011
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Summary: "Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn't dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind-back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ReichCameron, Marc
Summary: "In 1985 an F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2022
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Summary: "In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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Summary: "1985 -- A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer -- invaluable details of his government's espionage plans in return for asylum. It's an offer they can't pass up... if...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction CameronWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Summary: Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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Summary: Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father, Charlie. But Amanda's posting in Rome is a sleepy one. She's listless and looking for action when, on a hot summer day, it walks right through the door of her office. A lowly Russian operative is desperate, begging to speak to her. He tells her that a US Senator is about to be assassinated on an overseas trip...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Summary: In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures, but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the United States, he becomes the accidental hero of a real-life espionage thriller. Now he's stuck with the actress - and suffering a nasty case of writer's block - when he stumbles into a secret Russian plot using "fake news" to outrage Americans into believing a terrifying lie. The only weapon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2020
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Summary: A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia's most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. Closely monitored by the United States, no one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it's going or what it's carrying. A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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Summary: A member of the homicide department of the people's militia, State Security Officer Brano Sev is sent to the village of his birth to interrogate a potential defector, but his mission is complicated by a murder in which he becomes the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2005
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Summary: Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espan̋ol 2014