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Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who
thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished
to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good
American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and
finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me.
This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in
Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him
thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as
the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young
men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between
disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and
its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to
their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a
story like nothing in our literature.
Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first
full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful
work to date.
1.
Dark
Star
Spy
Paris, Moscow,
Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is
already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and the Russian
civil wars and a foreign correspondent for Pravda, is co-opted by the NKVD, the
Soviet secret intelligence service, and becomes a full-time spymaster in Paris.
As deputy director of a Paris network, Szara finds his own star rising when he
recruits an agent in Berlin who can supply crucial information. Dark Star
captures not only the intrigue and danger of clandestine life but the
day-to-day reality of what Soviet operatives call special work.
2. Vanished
Joseph Finder Spy
Nick Heller is tough, smart, and
stubborn. And in his line of work, it's essential. Trained in the
Special Forces, Nick is a high-powered intelligence investigator--exposing
secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. He's a guy you
don't want to mess with. He's also the man you call when you need a
problem fixed.
Desperate, with nowhere else to run, Nick's nephew, Gabe makes that call one night. After being attacked in Georgetown, his mother, Lauren, lies in a coma, and his step-dad, Roger, Nick's brother, has vanished without a trace.
Nick and Roger have been on the outs since the arrest, trial, and conviction of their father, the notorious "fugitive financier," Victor Heller. Where Nick strayed from the path, Roger followed their father's footsteps into the corporate world. Now, as Nick searches for his brother, he's on a collision course with one of the most powerful corporations in the world--and they will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.(less)
Desperate, with nowhere else to run, Nick's nephew, Gabe makes that call one night. After being attacked in Georgetown, his mother, Lauren, lies in a coma, and his step-dad, Roger, Nick's brother, has vanished without a trace.
Nick and Roger have been on the outs since the arrest, trial, and conviction of their father, the notorious "fugitive financier," Victor Heller. Where Nick strayed from the path, Roger followed their father's footsteps into the corporate world. Now, as Nick searches for his brother, he's on a collision course with one of the most powerful corporations in the world--and they will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.(less)
Hardcover, 400
page
1. Falling up ?
?????
Jesse is about to flee Cologne, Germany, when a beautiful social
worker shows up at his door begging for help with five children. Fight as he
may, he forms an attachment to the kids and their beautiful keeper. Together
with an old spy, and a Jamaican ladies' man, Jesse sets in motion a bold heist
to buy the children a future.
2.
Raven Strike X
Spy
shitkicker
The
mission is classified . . . and illegal
In the
blistering heat of the Sudan, the CIA has gone rogue.On the trail of a
notorious terrorist, Agency operatives have overstepped their sanctioned
boundaries. And now theultimate weapon has fallen into the wrong hands.
As
Danny Freah and his spec-ops team scramble to recover a topsecret aircraft that
has crashed in Africa, Whiplash DirectorJonathon Reid finds himself
mysteriously shut off from information about the robot drone and its mission.
Maneuvering through the twisted back corridors of the CIA and Washington’s
power elite, Reid discovers secrets both illegal and highly dangerous—a
virtually unstoppable assassin and an out-of-control clique within the Agency.
Torn
between loyalty and conscience, Reid must find a way to alert the President and
avert a national disaster. But with the Whiplash team caught in the chaos of a
brutal African civil war and CIA officials desperate to keep Reid from telling
what he knows, a monster re-emerges to target its creators . . .
1. Prague Spring X
Spy shitkicker
The murder of a United
States congressman's son sends Inspector Simon Wolfe of the San Francisco
Police Department on a pursuit in which he is blackmailed with his past as an
Israeli assassin. When Inspector Wolfe falls in love with the dead boy's psychiatrist
and must protect her from a rogue Nazi operative, he is forced to come to terms
with his uncompromising notions of justice that were formed when he was a
prisoner in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. This gripping tale of murder and
deceit interweaves history and mystery against the charged and colorful
background of Berkeley in the 1960's. Wolfe is a difficult and sympathetic
character who relentlessly pursues the truth in a time of desperate optimism.
This is more than just a story of good versus evil; it satisfies the genre and
then slips its boundaries to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the
the law and the pitfalls of love.
The first-person narrative voice with its world-weary tone is masterfully rendered... evoking irresistible "hard-boiled" detectives like Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins... blessed with an engaging character and abundant intrigue. -- Kirkus Discoveries
This fast-paced detective story is distinctive in that it weaves two events in 1968--Berkeley's student protests and the Czech uprising against the Soviet Union, for which the book is named, and mixes in flashbacks by the central character to his time as a prisoner in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Inspector Simon Wolfe works for the San Francisco Police Department, and is a Holocaust survivor who was a member of the Mossad's "Nokim," a group that killed Nazis. When a congressman's son is murdered, Wolfe's attempts to solve the crime are inhibited by the police and the congressman as he is blackmailed about his past. He is further compromised by his feelings for the murder victim's psychiatrist, who is a child of Holocaust survivors herself. Wolfe is a sympathetic character, though he is a loner with unshakable opinions. Wolfe's insistence on following through with this case leads the reader to explore the ideas of political corruption, revenge, justice, and survival. -- Jewish Book Council
San Francisco police inspector Simon Wolfe is a Holocaust survivor who, as a Haganah avenger, assassinated Nazis in Europe. He originally came to the United States in 1952 as a Mossad agent sent to kill a former German mayor who had burned his town's Jews in a synagogue. That mission was aborted, but now, years later, current events infringe on the present: Why does a congressional candidate whose son died suspiciously, want the boy's death ruled an accident? And why is he using an ex-Nazi strongman to blackmail Wolfe about his past--he was a ghetto guard in Theresienstadt and originally entered the United States illegally--to stop the investigation?
When Wolfe consults with the dead boy's psychiatrist--who happens to run an oral survivor history project--they find points of commonality, especially the moral dilemma they have both faced: When is it permissible to take a life? This is an intelligent novel that has humor as well as pain. -- Hadassah Magazine
If you like detective novels, you'll love David Del Bourgo's "Prague Spring." Written as a Simon Wolfe mystery, the action of the book is set in San Francisco in the 1960s, nearly two decades after the Holocaust, and after the war that still haunts the protagonist. Wolfe, a former Mossad agent and member of its Nokim -- a group that tracked and killed former Nazis -- is now a San Francisco Police Department detective.
There's sex. There's lust. There's blackmail. Of course, there is a lot of suspense. It is one of those novels that the reader just can't put down. -- Baltimore Jewish Times
The sory goes through numerous twists and turns before the ultimate conclusion. The crime drama... is very satisfying, with the various plot twists coming fast and furious and never predictably. -- ABNA Publisher Weekley Review
The first-person narrative voice with its world-weary tone is masterfully rendered... evoking irresistible "hard-boiled" detectives like Lawrence Block's Matt Scudder and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins... blessed with an engaging character and abundant intrigue. -- Kirkus Discoveries
This fast-paced detective story is distinctive in that it weaves two events in 1968--Berkeley's student protests and the Czech uprising against the Soviet Union, for which the book is named, and mixes in flashbacks by the central character to his time as a prisoner in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Inspector Simon Wolfe works for the San Francisco Police Department, and is a Holocaust survivor who was a member of the Mossad's "Nokim," a group that killed Nazis. When a congressman's son is murdered, Wolfe's attempts to solve the crime are inhibited by the police and the congressman as he is blackmailed about his past. He is further compromised by his feelings for the murder victim's psychiatrist, who is a child of Holocaust survivors herself. Wolfe is a sympathetic character, though he is a loner with unshakable opinions. Wolfe's insistence on following through with this case leads the reader to explore the ideas of political corruption, revenge, justice, and survival. -- Jewish Book Council
San Francisco police inspector Simon Wolfe is a Holocaust survivor who, as a Haganah avenger, assassinated Nazis in Europe. He originally came to the United States in 1952 as a Mossad agent sent to kill a former German mayor who had burned his town's Jews in a synagogue. That mission was aborted, but now, years later, current events infringe on the present: Why does a congressional candidate whose son died suspiciously, want the boy's death ruled an accident? And why is he using an ex-Nazi strongman to blackmail Wolfe about his past--he was a ghetto guard in Theresienstadt and originally entered the United States illegally--to stop the investigation?
When Wolfe consults with the dead boy's psychiatrist--who happens to run an oral survivor history project--they find points of commonality, especially the moral dilemma they have both faced: When is it permissible to take a life? This is an intelligent novel that has humor as well as pain. -- Hadassah Magazine
If you like detective novels, you'll love David Del Bourgo's "Prague Spring." Written as a Simon Wolfe mystery, the action of the book is set in San Francisco in the 1960s, nearly two decades after the Holocaust, and after the war that still haunts the protagonist. Wolfe, a former Mossad agent and member of its Nokim -- a group that tracked and killed former Nazis -- is now a San Francisco Police Department detective.
There's sex. There's lust. There's blackmail. Of course, there is a lot of suspense. It is one of those novels that the reader just can't put down. -- Baltimore Jewish Times
The sory goes through numerous twists and turns before the ultimate conclusion. The crime drama... is very satisfying, with the various plot twists coming fast and furious and never predictably. -- ABNA Publisher Weekley Review
1.
Al
Kibar ~
SPY
6 September 2007. A
non-descript building in the Syrian desert is destroyed in a midnight air
strike by jets from the Israeli Air Force. In the days following the attack,
the governments in Tel Aviv and Damascus say nothing.
24 April 2008. In a public statement, the Director of the CIA announces that the destroyed building contained a reactor that would have been capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. He adds that Syria had constructed the building with help from North Korea.
He was wrong. It was something worse.
Major Charlie King is a U.S. intelligence officer, working in Seoul. When he find out that North Korea is preparng to send a suspicious shipment overseas he alerts his superior officers. His reward - to be scorned and kicked out of South Korea in disgrace.
From across the mountains of North Korea, inside Iranian military bases, and the corridors of his own government, Charlie King's enemies are arrayed against him. But in a story that blends real-world and fictional events, places and people, Al Kibar follows Major King as he seeks out new allies while attempting to stop one of the worst weapons ever created from falling into the hands of the most dangerous people in the world.
24 April 2008. In a public statement, the Director of the CIA announces that the destroyed building contained a reactor that would have been capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. He adds that Syria had constructed the building with help from North Korea.
He was wrong. It was something worse.
Major Charlie King is a U.S. intelligence officer, working in Seoul. When he find out that North Korea is preparng to send a suspicious shipment overseas he alerts his superior officers. His reward - to be scorned and kicked out of South Korea in disgrace.
From across the mountains of North Korea, inside Iranian military bases, and the corridors of his own government, Charlie King's enemies are arrayed against him. But in a story that blends real-world and fictional events, places and people, Al Kibar follows Major King as he seeks out new allies while attempting to stop one of the worst weapons ever created from falling into the hands of the most dangerous people in the world.
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