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1) First family
Author
Series
Sean King and Michelle maxwell volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Summoned by First Lady Jane Cox to rescue her niece from kidnappers, investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are pushed to the limit in a search that is hampered by the highest levels of government security and Michelle's personal demons.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series! Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career...
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 25
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she’s inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption.
She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have...
4) Total empire
Author
Series
(Anthony J.),Garrett Sinclair novel volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"General Garrett Sinclair undertakes a rogue mission in the Sahara Desert to thwart an international nuclear threat in this explosive thriller. When Sergeant Major Sylvester "Sly" Morgan is killed while on a mission, his daughter Zoey tells General Garrett Sinclair that her father's death wasn't random. Her father had recorded a high-level meeting between Chinese, American, and French diplomats as they spoke about a plan for a new global government....
5) Red sparrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
"J. Law's spy game feels genuinely unpredictable..."--Boston Globe.
"...it's a terrific vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence..."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"Elegantly tense and absorbing."--Variety.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What happens if both the president and vice-president-elect die before taking the oath of office? The answer is far from certain--in fact, what follows would be nothing short of total political chaos. Shot down over Siberia, ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is forced into a fight for survival against Aleksandr Zorin, a man whose loyalty to the former Soviet Union has festered for decades into an intense hatred of the United States. Before...
Author
Series
Brad McLanahan volume 6
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Because its enemies never stop trying to undermine the United States' security, the men and women who serve to protect America must always be vigilant. Few know this better than warriors Brad McLanahan and Nadia Rozek. Newly married, the two are just beginning to settle into their new life together when they are called back into action. Though the Russians were badly defeated by Brad and the Iron Wolf Squadron in their previous bid for world dominance,...
Series
Reference shelf volume 87, number 3
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
185 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses varying viewpoints on the topic of surveillance with regard to personal privacy, the effectiveness of surveillance in fighting crime and terror, and racial and political profiling.
10) Father night
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
366 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022].
Physical Desc
xi, 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth and masterful account of how Ronald Reagan's foreign policy "team of rivals" ended the Cold War and laid the foundation for the twenty-first century. Today, the ending of the Cold War seems a foregone conclusion. But in the early 1980s, U.S. intelligence predicted the Soviet Union would last another century. Ronald Reagan entered the White House with no certainty of what would happen next, only an overriding faith in American democracy...
12) Permanent record
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Formats
Description
Facts and Fears Clapper considers such controversial questions as, Is intelligence ethical? Is it moral to intercept communications or to photograph closed societies from orbit? What are the limits of what we should be allowed to do? What protections should we give to the private citizens of the world, not to mention our fellow Americans? Are there times when intelligence officers can lose credibility as unbiased reporters of hard truths by inserting...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
This is history at its most immediate and moving A marvelous and memorable book.yJon Meacham Had me turning each page with my heart in my throat. There's been a lot written about 9/11, but nothing like this. I urge you to read it.y Katie Couric The Only Plane in the Sky is a stunning and important work chilling, heartbreaking and I cannot stop thinking about it.y Anderson Cooper Readers who emerge dry-eyed from the text should check their pulses:...
Author
Language
English
Description
The former U.S. Army lieutenant, whose decision to report a phone call from former President Donald Trump to the President of Ukraine led to an impeachment, recounts his Ukrainian childhood and career as an intelligence official. Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who found himself at the center of a firestorm for his decision to report the infamous phone call that led to presidential impeachment, tells his own story for the...