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1) The paladin
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"A daring, high-tech CIA operation goes wrong and is disowned. Without legal protection, Michael Dunne's only recourse is revenge. CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization that smells like a front for an enemy intelligence service. It is headed by an American journalist, but the self-styled "people's bandits" run a cyber operation unlike anything the CIA has seen before. Fast, slick and indiscriminate,...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself "Dr. Ali" sends an encrypted message to the CIA. It falls to Harry Pappas to decide if it's for real. Dr. Ali sends more secrets of the Iranian bomb program to the agency, then panics. He's being followed, but he doesn't know who's onto him, and neither does Pappas. The White House is no help-they're looking for a pretext to attack Tehran. To get his agent out, Pappas...
4) The director
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Language
English
Description
"Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber turns to a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He's the CIA's in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a...
5) Body of lies
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from a tour of duty in Iraq with a badly injured leg, CIA soldier Roger Ferris takes on a mission to infiltrate the network of a master terrorist and bases his plan on a British intelligence operation from World War II.
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Language
English
Description
A hyper-fast quantum computer is the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb: whoever possesses one will be able to shred any encryption in existence, effectively owning the digital world. The question is: Who will build it first, the United States or China? The latest of David Ignatius's timely, sharp-eyed espionage novels follows CIA agent Harris Chang into a quantum research lab compromised by a suspected Chinese informant. The breach provokes a mole...
Author
Language
English
Description
A spy thriller on two journalists from a New York newspaper who are part-time spies, one for the Americans, the other for the French. They become key players in a big business deal with China for which France and the U.S. are competing. The novel looks at the ethics of journalism. By the author of The Bank of Fear.
9) Siro
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Novel about a rogue CIA operation to "find a way to exploit the Soviet Union at its ragged edges--Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia."
10) Bloodmoney
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why.
11) Body of lies
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A former journalist injured in the Iraq war is hired by the CIA to track down an Al-Qaeda leader in Jordan, who is aided by the head of Jordan's covert operations in an uneasy alliance that leads to cultural and moral clashes between those involved.
"...a James Bond plot inserted into today's headlines."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"With its urgent post-9/11 context and often brutal violence, it seems off-key to describe 'Body of Lies' as a...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two leading foreign policy experts and former national security advisors representing both sides of the political spectrum dissect the most significant foreign policy challenges facing the U.S. and broadly agree on the need to adapt to a new international environment.
13) Body of lies
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The CIA's hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency's man on the ground. He moves from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. A satellite link is the agency's eye in the sky and keeps track of Ferris. The CIA's Ed Hoffman is at the other end of the real-time link. He strategizes events from thousands of miles away. Ferris nears the target and discovers trust can be just as dangerous...
