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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Given the ultimate chance to prove herself when a Russian defector walks into her post, brilliant young CIA officer Amanda Cole teams up with a fearless--and legendary--spy to unravel an international conspiracy--one shockingly linked to her father, a spyduring the Cold War.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While a few billionaires lead the world to certain doom, Martha Einkorn, working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything, and Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, when their paths unexpectedly cross, work together to prevent the cataclysmic end of civilization.
3) Womb City
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Bantam books mass market edition.
Language
English
Description
Two secretive, lonely people desperately flee a clandestine, illegal agency with a hidden fascist agenda, pursued by a vicious, insidiously evil operative with full access to the vast resources of the government.
Author
Series
Daniela Vega series volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of the chief of staff for a powerful New York senator, FBI agent and former military codebreaker Daniela Vega goes deep undercover to unravel a bizarre conspiracy where she must play a killer's game alongside an assassin-turned-informant and there can only be one winner.
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin’s agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
To stop an unseen enemy from destroying the Campus, Jack Ryan Jr. is led to the South China Sea where he, after a midair collision serves as a flash point, must put the pieces of a conspiracy together to stop the world's two remaining super powers from going to war.
Author
Series
Malabar house volume 3
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a white man is found frozen in the Himalayan foothills near Dehra Dun in 1950, Inspector Persis Wadia and Metropolitan Police criminalist Archie Blackfinch arrive in Bombay to investigate, uncovering a trail leading directly into the heart of a dark conspiracy.
10) Seagarden
Author
Series
Plotting the stars volume 2
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Forced to hide her new-found magic, Myra enrolls in an interplanetary academy exchange program to dig up more about the government's many conspiracies"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
13) The lost cause
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A former Army sniper must fall back on her Special Ops skills when a friend's death uncovers a global nuclear threat, in this electrifying new series featuring Special Agent Alexandra Martel. Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the battlefield behind her. Charming and disarming, relentless and lethal, she earned a reputation as one of the most renowned and decorated Army snipers in the service before stepping away. But when Alex, now...
15) Alas de sangre
Author
Series
Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
16) Secreto Vaticano
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
marzo, 2023.
Edition
Primera edición en Debolsillo.
Language
Español
Description
"¿El papa Francisco está en peligro? Por primera vez en 600 años un sumo pontífice renuncia a su cargo en vida. Benedicto XVI asegura que su decisión fue tomada debido a su avanzada edad. La realidad es que recibió amenazas de muerte. Posteriormente, Pío del Rosario es reclutado para la misión de inteligencia más arriesgada y trascendente que se haya llevado a cabo dentro del Vaticano: descubrir quién forzó la renuncia de Benedicto XVI,...
Author
Series
Malabar house volume 3
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father, arch-colonialist, Charles Whitby, forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard...
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