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1) Skeleton key
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Series
Alex Rider volume 3
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Alex Rider travels from a mission at Wimbledon to an investigation on Cayo Esqueleto, Cuba. He begins to make links between several deaths, an illegal nuclear weapons deal and General Sarov's plans for the future of the world.
2) Safe houses
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Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2018
Description
West Berlin, October 1979. Helen Abell is a young American, employed by the CIA to oversee a number of safe houses. She arrives in Berlin, expecting excitement and intrigue, and is disappointed to find the city a 'Cold War backwater'. But one night she stumbles upon two dark but very different secrets. If made public, they could damage the careers of high-ranking people with powerful ambitions. But Helen decides that the price of silence might be...
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Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When Jane is caught in a deadly love triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre, she becomes entangled in a web of lust, hatred and deception, which sweeps all three of them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to all-out guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan. Jean-Pierre and Jane marry, and go to work as doctors in the Valley of the Five Lions to help the rebels fighting for their freedom against the Russians. Confronted by extreme violence and...
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Series
Jack Ryan volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Silently, beneath the chill Atlantic waters, Russia?s ultra-secret missile submarine, the Red October, is heading west. The Americans want her. The Russians want her back. With all-out war only seconds away, the superpowers race across the ocean on the most desperate mission of a lifetime. The most incredible chase in history is on? The Hunt for Red October? the classic story of a spellbinding battle of nerves, above and below the waves, unrivalled...
5) Shadow
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Series
Marc Dane volume 4
Pub. Date
2019
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Description
Ex-MI6 officer Marc Dane and his partner - former US Delta Force sniper Lucy Keyes - are pitted against their most terrifying challenge yet, when a genius bio-researcher with the ability to create a deadly biological weapon is kidnapped by a ruthless terrorist. Their desperate search for the missing scientist takes them across the world, from the desolate wilderness of Iceland to the slums of the Near East and the dark underbelly of a fracturing Europe,...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
A US Navy Commander is attacked while having dinner with his wife by an unidentified Russian man. A CIA operative travelling on a Canadian passport is intercepted and interrogated at Tehran Airport. A team of FBI officers are arrested by Indonesian police for travelling under fake passports in Jakarta. These apparently unrelated incidents point to a compromise in US government security, and Jack Ryan and his team must find out where it is coming from....
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Series
Alex Rider volume 2
Description
In the second book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex is sent by MI6 to infiltrate the exclusive Point Blanc Academy. But the academy hides a deadly secret. Can Alex alert the world to the truth before it?s too late?.
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Anyone can be a traitor. FBI Agent Peter Sutherland waits in the White House Situation Room. He monitors an emergency line for calls that might never come... Then the phone rings. A terrified young woman says two people have been murdered and the killer might still be in the house with her. One of the victims gave her this phone number with urgent instructions: 'Tell them OSPREY was right. It's happening...' The call thrusts Peter into the heart of...
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Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2020
Description
'Quirk has earned his spot in the front ranks of thriller writers. Opens with a bang and keeps exploding for three hundred pages' DAVID BALDACCI Think like a killer. Act like a hero His job is to protect them. As a secret service agent, Nick Averose spent a decade guarding the most powerful people in the US. Now, he's a mock killer, testing the security around the highest officials to find vulnerabilities, before America's enemies can. But now someone's...
11) Casino Royale
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At the casino in Deauville Bond's game is baccarat, for stakes that run into millions of francs. But away from the discreet salons, it's 007 versus one of Russia's most powerful and ruthless agents.
12) Dr No
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Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
336 p.
Description
M called this case a soft option. Bond can't quite agree. The tropical island is luxurious, the seductive Honey Rider is beautiful and willing. But they are both part of the empire of Dr No. His obsession is power, and his gifts are pain-shaped.
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Publisher
Clipper Large Print
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
480 p. (large print)
Description
Roger Ferris is one of the CIA's soldiers in the war on terrorism. His mission is to penetrate the network of a master terrorist known only as 'Suleiman'. His plan is to prepare a body of lies, literally the corpse of an imaginary CIA officer who appears to have accomplished the impossible by recruiting an agent within the enemy's ranks.
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Series
D.C.I. Daley volume 9
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2021
Description
When a light aircraft crash-lands at Machrie airport, Daley and Scott rush to the scene. But it soon becomes clear that both occupants of the plane were dead before take-off . . . Meanwhile, tending to his lobster creels, Hamish finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and back at the County Hotel, Annie is beginning to suspect her new boss Ian Macmillan may not be as he first appeared. A face from the past has returned to haunt Carrie...
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Series
Jane Hawk volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Her enemies will learn the true meaning of fear? The No.1 New York Times bestseller and master of suspense Dean Koontz returns with the new Jane Hawk blockbuster. I will come for you. Nothing can stop me!? Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is on the trail of the members of a murderous organization who drove her husband and scores of other fine individuals to commit suicide for no explicable reason. After discovering their plan to subjugate the world by means...
17) Scar tissue
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Pub. Date
2020
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Ex-Special Forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad. That's about to change. When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that his military son, Nathan, is missing...
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The second in The Grantchester Mysteries series: six detective novels spanning thirty years of British history. 1955. Canon Sidney Chambers, loveable priest and part-time detective, is back. Accompanied by his faithful Labrador, Dickens, and the increasingly exasperated Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney is called to investigate the unexpected fall of a Cambridge don from the roof of King's College Chapel, a case of arson at a glamour photographer's...
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In this landmark volume, Agent 007 recounts the story of his life, revealing breathtaking adventures only hinted at in Ian Fleming's iconic stories and showing a side of himself never before seen. The resulting book is one of the most extraordinary works of our times - the authorised life of a myth, the o cial biography of the one and only James Bond.
20) Know me now
Author
Series
Dan Forrester volume 3
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A gripping suspense thriller from CWA Debut Dagger winner CJ Carver, perfect for fans of Angela Marsons and Peter May. A SUICIDE. A MURDER. A CONSPIRACY. DIGGING UP THE PAST CAN BE DEADLY . . . A thirteen-year-old boy commits suicide. A sixty-five-year old man dies of a heart attack. Dan Forrester, ex-MI5 officer, is connected to them both. And when he discovers that his godson and his father have been murdered, he teams up with his old friend, DC...
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