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Eye of the Needle

Ken Follett Β· 336 pages

One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies' greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin -- code name: "The Needle" -- who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory.Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously entered her life.All will come to a terrifying conclusion in Ken Follett's unsu

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The Berkut

Joseph Heywood

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The Boys from Brazil

Ira Levin Β· 280 pages

The man in white put his brandy snifter aside. "Let's get down to business now, boys." Tipping his cropped gray head, he lowered his glasses and looked at the men. They faced him attentively, cigars poised. Silence took the room. "You know what you're going out to do," the man in white said. "Ninety-four men have to die on or near certain dates in the next two and a half years... They're sixty-fi

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Marathon Man

William Goldman Β· 232 pages

Tom "Babe" Levy is a runner in every sense: racing tirelessly toward his goals of athletic and academic excellence--and endlessly away from the specter of his famous father's scandal-driven suicide. But an unexpected visit from his beloved older brother will set in motion a chain of events that plunge Babe into a vortex of terror, treachery, and murder--and force him into a race for his life ... a

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The Berlin Deception

Jeffrey Vanke Β· 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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Partisans

Alistair MacLean Β· 234 pages

In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die.

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The Eagle Has Flown

Jack Higgins Β· 335 pages

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Child 44

Tom Rob Smith Β· 480 pages

A propulsive, relentless page-turner.A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can be trusted.A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope and resilience.CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read."There is no crime."Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers, providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars is that its cit

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Spandau Phoenix

Greg Iles Β· 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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Running Blind

Desmond Bagley Β· 247 pages

"It'll be simple", they said at the Department. "You'll just be a messenger boy". But to Alan Stewart, on a deserted road in Iceland with a murdered man at his feet, it looks anything but simple. Someone very ruthless is after the innocent-looking parcel he carries, and Kenniken, a Russian agent with the best of reasons for hating him, has followed him to Iceland.

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The Wolf's Hour

Robert McCammon Β· 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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The Game

Tom Wood Β· 500 pages

Victor the assassin is living a solitary, peaceful life in Iceland when he's drawn into a job for an unidentified Swiss broker. Having passed the test, he's introduced to a group of mercenaries and killers who are tasked to perform the ultimate assassination. In this group, Victor meets someone from his past, someone who recruited him to the life he now knows, someone he thought was dead. And when

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Saving Faith

David Baldacci Β· 472 pages

In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had: a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and will tell too much. Feared by some of the most powerful men in the world, Faith has been targeted to die. But when a private investigator walks into the middle of the assassination att

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The Old Man

Thomas Perry Β· 543 pages

To all appearances, Dan Chase is a harmless retiree in Vermont with two big mutts and a grown daughter he keeps in touch with by phone. But most sixty-year-old widowers don't have multiple driver's licenses, savings stockpiled in banks across the country, and a bugout kit with two Beretta Nanos stashed in the spare bedroom closet. Most have not spent decades on the run. Thirty-five years ago, as a

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Panic

Jeff Abbott Β· 416 pages

"Things are going well for twenty-four-year-old Evan Casher: his career as a documentary filmmaker is booming and his relationship with his new girlfriend, Carrie, couldn't be better. After an urgent phone call from his mother, he makes an unexpected trip home to Austin. He arrives to find his mother brutally murdered and narrowly escapes an attempt on his own life." -- Cover.

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The Bletchley Riddle

Ruta Sepetys Β· 392 pages

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The Bourne Ultimatum

Robert Ludlum Β· 691 pages

David Webb must once again assume the identity of assassin Jason Bourne as he matches wits with his mortal enemy, Carlos, a deadly and elusive terrorist known as "the Jackal," in a final confrontation.

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The Einstein Prophecy

Robert Masello Β· 390 pages

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The Arms Maker of Berlin

Dan Fesperman

This powerfully suspenseful new novel from Dan Fesperman takes us deep into the early 1940s in Switzerland and Germany as it traces the long reach of the wartime intrigues of the White Rose student movement, which dared to speak out against Hitler.When Nat Turnbull, a history professor who specializes in the German resistance, gets the news that his estranged mentor, Gordon Wolfe, has been arreste

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Deception Point

Dan Brown Β· 585 pages

Penzler Pick, December 2001: In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and

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The Switch

Joseph Finder Β· 373 pages

"A simple mix up throws one innocent man into the crosshairs of sinister government secrets and ruthless political ambitions in New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder's timely, electrifying new thriller. Michael Tanner is on his way home from a business trip when he accidentally picks up the wrong MacBook in an airport security line. He doesn't notice the mix-up until he arrives home in B

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To Catch a King

Jack Higgins, Harry Patterson Β· 254 pages

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The Hunt for Red October

Tom Clancy Β· 469 pages

Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision...the Red October is heading west.The Americans want her.The Russians want her back.And the most incredible chase in history is on...The Hunt for Red October is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career. A military thriller so accurate and convincing that the author was rumored to have b

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