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It Can't Always Be Caviar

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Declare

Tim Powers · 528 pages

As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the

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Red Gold

Alan Furst · 277 pages

Set in the underworld of Paris in 1941. Reluctant spy Jean Casson returns to occupied Paris under a new identity. He is wanted by the Gestapo therefore must stay away from the civilised circles he knew as a film producer and learn to survive in the shadowy backstreets and cheap hotels of Pigalle. Yet as the war drags on, he finds himself drawn back into the dangerous world of resistance and sabota

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A Single Spy

William Christie · 391 pages

""A single spy--in the right place and at the right moment--may change the course of history." Alexsi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Alexsi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secre

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The Honor of Spies

W.E.B. Griffin, William E. Butterworth IV · 481 pages

Griffin's Honor Bound novels have been hailed as "terrific" (Newark Star-Ledger) and "immensely entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews), with "enough derring-do, romance and action to satisfy Griffin's legions of fans and bring him new ones" (Rocky Mountain News). The new book is his best yet. August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has alr

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The Key to Rebecca

Ken Follett · 350 pages

His code name: "The Sphinx." His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo ... and ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. And in all of Cairo, only two people could stop this brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent. One was a down-on-his-luck English officer no one would listen to. The other was a young Jewish girl ...

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Riptide

John Lawton · 334 pages

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Assignment in Brittany

Helen MacInnes · 336 pages

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December 6

Martin Cruz Smith · 383 pages

Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings. Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true allegiances lie, as he tries to juggle his Japanese mistre

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Christopher's Ghosts

Charles McCarry · 272 pages

During World War II sixteen-year-old Paul Christopher, who is half American and half German and in love with a Jewish girl, is continually harassed by SS officer Major Stutzer, and twenty years later has the opportunity to seek revenge when he is hired by the CIA to investigate the Soviets' intention of gaining power in the Middle East with Stutzer training their soldiers.

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Blood and Honor

W.E.B. Griffin · 553 pages

As did his three immensely popular series Brotherhood of War, The Corps and Badge of Honor, W.E.B. Griffin's novel of World War II espionage Honor Bound became an immediate bestseller: "A superior war story" (Library Journal) "whose twists and turns keep readers guessing until the last page" (Publishers Weekly). Now the characters of Honor Bound are back, in an adventure as exciting as anything Gr

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Where Eagles Dare

Alistair MacLean · 270 pages

One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.

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The Berlin Deception

Jeffrey Vanke · 297 pages

John Becker is hot on the trail of Adolf Hitler's fatal weakness, but he is also running and gunning for his hide and for the world. Hitler's Third Reich is rearming and planning for war. Becker has mere days to ward off disaster.

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Field Gray

Philip Kerr · 435 pages

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Cold Harbour

Jack Higgins · 278 pages

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The Wolf's Hour

Robert McCammon · 480 pages

The Wolf's Hour is a 1989 WWII horror novel by Robert R. McCammon about Michael Gallatin, a British secret agent who is a werewolf, sent on a mission to infiltrate Nazi-occupied France to stop a plan that threatens the D-Day invasion. The book blends historical thriller, espionage, and werewolf fiction, detailing Gallatin's past and his current mission, which involves confronting the German spy wh

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Los Alamos

Joseph Kanon · 517 pages

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The Angry Hills

Leon Uris

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The Sands of Sakkara

Glenn Meade · 448 pages

Glenn Meade's electrifying novels capture the intrigue of nations, the brutality of war, and the heroism of brave men and women. The Sands of Sakkara is his most satisfying novel yet-a heart-pounding thriller set against the backdrop of wartime Egypt, where a breathless chase across the arid desert explodes, as two people race against time to stop a dark plot in the heart of World War II... Onc

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Potsdam Station

David Downing · 340 pages

The third in the 'John Russel' series of novels, set in WWII Berlin.

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Winter in Madrid

C.J. Sansom · 200 pages

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N or M?

Agatha Christie · 228 pages

This novel, set during World War II, sees Tommy and Tuppence Beresford appointed as spies by the intelligence service. Their mission: to seek out the Nazis in disguise, a man and a woman from among the colourful guests at a seaside hotel.

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Spandau Phoenix

Greg Iles · 720 pages

One of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II is - to some people - a secret worth killing for... The greatest remaining mystery of World War II will be solved... West Berlin, 1987: Spandau Prison is being torn down. Amongst the rubble, the diary of enigmatic Nazi Rudolph Hess is found, and the secrets it reveals plunge the world into chaos. The Spandau Diary- what was in it? Why did the sec

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The Swiss Spy

Alex Gerlis · 437 pages

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The Red Moth

Sam Eastland · 380 pages

As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down. Contained within the briefcase of its passenger is the seemingly inconsequential painting of a hyalophoria cecropia, otherwise known as a red moth.

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