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"October 1942: it's been two years since Kate Rees was sent to Paris on a British Secret Service mission to assassinate Hitler. Since then, she has left spycraft behind to take a training job as a sharpshooting instructor in the Scottish Highlands. But her quiet life is violently disrupted when Colonel Stepney, her former handler, drags her back into the fray for a dangerous three-pronged mission in Paris. Each task is more dangerous than the next:...
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Liam Devlin thrillers volume 1
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English
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As Ian Devlin plans the rescue of a German paratrooper being held in the Tower of London during World War II, Himmler, the head of the SS, plots Hitler's assassination.
3) Secret honor
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Honor bound volume 3
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English
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In Wolf's Lair, a German general works toward the assassination of Adolf Hitler. In Buenos Aires, the general's son, code-named Galahad, falls under suspicion by the SS after a Nazi operation suddenly goes bad. In the middle of it all is OSS agent Cletus Frade, who knows the identity of father and son and what they will do... if they can survive that long. For not only are SS and Abwehr officers hot on their trails in both countries, but the OSS has...
4) The book spy
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"President Roosevelt sends an unlikely new taskforce on a unique mission: librarians and microfilm specialists, trained in espionage, are deployed to neutral cities throughout Europe to work with a special branch of the Office of Strategic Services. By acquiring and scouring Axis publications, these librarians can gather information about troop location, weaponry, and military plans. Maria Alves, a microfilm expert working at the New York Public Library,...
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Men at war volume 5
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting and sinking U.S. supply ships. Ships are burning at their moorings in U.S. ports, and a series of explosions has afflicted trains and train stations around the country - is it all accidental or is it sabotage? Meanwhile, Allied forces are secretly preparing to invade first Sicily and then Italy, and there is a lot of work that needs to be done beforehand, some with the...
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Men at war volume 6
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English
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Canidy, Fulmar, and their colleagues in the Office of Strategic Services work to convince Axis forces that an invasion of the European continent will take place on the beaches of Nazi-occupied France, an effort that is undermined by traitor spy activities.
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Night soldiers volume 8
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Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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In 1941, E. M. DeHaan, the captain of the Noordendam, a Dutch tramp freighter, is recruited by the Dutch Naval Intelligence Section for a series of dangerous secret missions against the Germans that take the ship and its crew behind enemy lines in Europe and North Africa, disguised as a neutral Spanish freighter that becomes a haven for fugitives.
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Honor bound volume 5
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English
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August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Red Cat Tales Publishing
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2019.
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English
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"Return to Berlin" is the long-awaited sequel to Noel Hynd's classic million-selling espionage novel, "Flowers From Berlin". It is early 1943 and the United States has been at war for more than a year. William Cochrane, an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who was the central character in "Flowers From Berlin", has enlisted in the United States Army. He has the commission of a major and is in New Jersey training for combat. Suddenly his...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 16
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English
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September 1941. While on a delivery, young Freddie Hackett, a message runner for a government office, witnesses an argument that ends in murder. Crouching in the doorway of a bombed-out house, Freddie waits until the coast is clear. But when he arrives at the delivery address, he's shocked to come face to face with the killer. Dismissed by the police when he attempts to report the crime, Freddie goes in search of a woman he once met when delivering...
13) The starlet spy
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In 1943, movie director Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film. But he actually has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie's homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war. But with rumors swirling about their quiet partiality to Germany, the U.S. government needs someone unexpected to spy on the Swedish elite. Who better than an "all beauty, no brains" blond starlet...
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"Londoner Madeleine Grant is studying at the Sorbonne in Paris when she marries charismatic French journalist Giles Martin. As they raise their son, Olivier, they hold on to a tenuous promise for the future. Until the thunder of war sets off alarms in France. Staying behind to join the resistance, Giles sends Madeleine and Olivier to the relative safety of England, where Madeleine secures a job teaching French at a secondary school. Yet nowhere is...
15) The swiss spy
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Spy masters volume 2
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English
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"All spies have secrets, but Henry Hunter has more than most. When stopped by British Intelligence on the eve of the Second World War, Henry discovers a devastating truth. He embarks on a series of perilous missions into Nazi Germany, under various identities and for competing spymasters. In Berlin, haunted by a dark episode from his past, he must make a fateful decision. It will lead him to the Swiss frontier, and to confront the shocking scale of...
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Night soldiers volume 3
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English
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September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to Bucharest. Then, in the back alleys and black-market bistros of Paris, in the tenements of Warsaw, with partizan guerrillas in the frozen forests of the Ukraine, and at Calais Harbor during an attack by British...
17) Zero option
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Men at war volume 9
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"Dick Canidy races to stop an assassin from disrupting a vital conference that will shape the course of World War II in the latest electrifying entry in W.E.B. Griffin's New York Times bestselling Men at War series"--
"November 1943. Stalin is pressing the Allies to open a second front in Europe in order to ease the pressure on the bloody war grinding on in the East. Roosevelt and Churchill agree to meet the Soviet premier at a top-secret conference...
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His code name was "the Needle." He was a German aristocrat of extraordinary intelligence--a master spy with a legacy of violence in his blood and the object of the most desperate manhunt in history... But his fate lay in the hands of a young and vulnerable English-woman whose loyalty, if swayed, would assure his freedom--and win the war for the Nazis....
19) Jackdaws
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An unlikely, motley team of six women must invade and destroy a German telephone exchange in World War II.
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"Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at a private school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she's recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his "glorious amateurs" who are becoming Anna's fast friends: Maggie, Anna's down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who's struggling to find support from her husband...