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2) The fold
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Language
English
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An old friend presents Mike Erikson with an irresistible mystery to solve -- far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device that shrinks distances so that a traveler can travel hundreds of feet with a single step but evidence is mounting that this miraculous machine isn't quite what it seems--and that its creators are harboring a dangerous secret.
3) Eruption
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
A history-making volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a secret held for decades by the military is more terrifying than the volcano.
5) Night heron
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Series
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English
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Former British spy Peanut reaches out to his one-time MI6 paymasters via crusading journalist Philip Mangan, offering military secrets in return for extraction from Beijing.
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Series
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English
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For fans of Michael Connelly and C. J. Box: a stirring thriller from New York Times bestseller and award winner T. Jefferson Parker. In The Room of White Fire, a P.I. must hunt down a soldier who is damaged by war, dangerous, and on the run.A young soldier escaped from a mental institution.A P.I. carrying his own wounds hired to track that soldier down.A race against the clock to bring the soldier home before he reveals the secret that haunts him.Roland...
7) Power game
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Series
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English
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan is "one of the best storytellers around" (RT Book Reviews). Find out why as two lovers surrounded by greed and corruption discover there's no telling whom you can trust--or who will come out on top... When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Pekkala returns to find himself enlisted by Stalin to investigate the death of one of the Soviet Union's top military engineers. However, finding the truth in the Soviet Union is never easy.
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Language
English
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Description
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up?
Cliff Stoll was an astronomer turned systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley Lab when a seventy-five cent accounting error alerted...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera...
11) Atomic love
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
Author
Series
Daughter of Sherlock Holmes mystery volume 3
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English
Description
Joanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street. Dr. Alexander Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to obtain vital information about England's military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest...
Author
Series
Alan Hast mystery volume 2
Publisher
W. Matthew Hart
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
August 2015 edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Alan Hast is hired to captain a luxury yacht, which turns out to be a floating brothel used to obtain classified information from executives and politicians. The yacht is owned by a crime syndicate, which has plans to demolish an LNG tanker in Puerto Rico, moored near the U.S. Navy's Fourth Fleet.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vi, 324 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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English
Description
The adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a young geographer's road trip through the underworld of U.S. military and CIA "black ops" sites. Geographer-artist Trevor Paglen's research into areas that officially "don't exist" leads him on a globe-trotting adventure into a vast, undemocratic, and uncontrolled black empire--the unmarked spots on a map where our military conducts its most clandestine operations. Run by an amorphous group...
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English
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"Berlin, 1938. Groundbreaking physicist Dr. Hannah Weiss is on the verge of the greatest discovery of the 20th century: splitting the atom. She understands that the energy released by her discovery can power entire cities or destroy them. Hannah believes the weapon's creation will secure an end to future wars, but as a Jewish woman living under the harsh rule of the Third Reich, her research is belittled, overlooked, and eventually stolen by her German...
18) Night of the fox
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 188 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
U.S. officer Colonel Hugh Kelso has inside knowledge about the imminent and highly secretive D-Day invasion. When he washes ashore behind enemy lines, special agents Harry Martineau and Sara Drayton of the Allied Forces must stage a covert rescue to save his live - or end it - before the Germans acquire the valuable information he possesses. Joined by an Italian naval officer and a Jewish actor-turned-German paratrooper, the agents embark on a rescue...
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Publisher
OR Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
167 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In May 2010, a soldier in the U.S. Army's famed 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents. Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Is he a traitor, or a defender of the most traditional American values? The Passion of Bradley Manning examines disturbing trends in America -- increasing use of torture both at home and abroad; the pervasive sense of paranoia at high government...
20) The most dangerous man in the world: how one hacker ended corporate and government secrecy forever
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hours of top-secret videos and hundreds of thousands of highly classified documents poured from the vaults of high-level governments and corporations. They exposed lies, hypocrisies, cover-ups, and high level diplomatic gossip, making headlines around the world. Julian Assange, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and the editor-in-chief of the Internet-based whistleblower site, WikiLeaks, has left the White House stunned, and the U.S. military, banks, and...
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