Spy Work

For readers of Never Split the Difference and What Every Body Is Saying, learn how to adopt top-secret spy skills to gain an unfair advantage in business and life. Information is the lifeblood of spycraft, and the key to unlocking opportunity, influence, and freedom in everyday life. But in a...

This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful...

The first ever, first-person story of America's private, paramilitary contractors at work around the world-from a man who performed these missions himself and has decades of stories to tell. This is a fascinating tale-and potentially the first-to describe the work of American contractors, men...

Law enforcement agencies have chosen to ignore rather than investigate dozens of political figures and defectors who have died under mysterious circumstances. When a Democratic National Committee staff member is murdered before the presidential election, Washington, D.C. police is also uninterested in investigating the crime. The President is well behind in the polls. Some powerful people want assurances that the President will never take the oath of office if he unexpectedly wins.

An exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wall—from the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife “Fesperman accurately depicts the corrosive effect of life under a surveillance society, debasing both the watchers...

When the stakes have never been higher, these daring agents of espionage risked it all in the name of their countries .... Since the beginning of recorded history, there have been spies. From the ancient Greeks and Romans to the modern day James Bond, the art of espionage is one that is constantly changing and adapting as the world evolves. World War II marked a step into a new world of spycraft with the advent of technologies like nothing the world had ever seen. Suddenly cryptography, intelligence gathering, and cover stories were more complicated than ever before. From fearless double ...

Can Jack untangle the murderous web of lies and solve the case before he gets trapped in the killer’s deadly scheme? Murder in the San Juans is a gripping tale of betrayal in the formidable San Juan Mountains around Telluride, Colorado, and the fourth book in the suspenseful Mountain Resort Mystery Series.

At 18, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the service.

AURORA: the fastest, highest flying airplane, and the best-kept secret in aviation history. In the Nevada desert northwest of Las Vegas lies Area-51 and Groom Lake, a small part of the Nevada Atomic Test Site. That we know so little amid widespread speculation and theory lies a testament to the unknown. What secrets have they kept for so long?Albeit written in a historically accurate fictional setting, this is the story of a secret airplane – from first conception on a drafting table to final flight… and the men who both made it possible, and flew it.Did this airplane exist? I believe ...

Hilda Krüger, una atractiva y sofisticada actriz alemana, protagonizó uno de los episodios más extravagantes de mediados del siglo XX. Admirada por Joseph Goebbels, el omnipotente y siniestro ministro de Propaganda de Hitler, partió a Estados Unidos primero con la aparente intención de continuar su carrera en el glamour de Hollywood, para después dirigirse a México dejando atrás intensas relaciones con el magnate J. Paul Getty y Gert von Gontard, heredero del emporio cervecero Anheuser-Busch.

On assignment for the British Secret Service, a man leads a mysterious expedition into the heart of darkness. Sailing up the furthest reaches of the Amazon River, he is captured by a brutal tribe of indigenous cannibals. Forced into slave labor, he witnesses the unimaginable.

President Reagan becomes enraged when he discovers the Russians recent launch of Salyut-7 was, in fact, the launch of the ALMAZ-3 spy space station. Learning it carries the ATVIS-94, 3-D, through-walls imaging radar further enrages him. He calls upon the Lockheed Skunk Works and their Aurora spaceplane: fly to, board and study the ship before Russia sends their first crew up. Who will succeed in reaching the Russian ship first? Meanwhile, they activate their KGB deep cover cells to penetrate Area-51 and learn Lockheed’s secrets. This fact-based tale will make you wonder: where does ...

Legend tells that the Palladium, a powerful talisman dropped from heaven by the goddess Athena, protects modern Istanbul. What if it falls into the wrong hands? Moments after archaeologist Elif Mutlu finds a mysterious relic in a tomb in Istanbul, terrorists kidnap her and slaughter the rest of her team.

Tgirl Pornstar Alhena Adams was happy to have fans across the globe, but when traffic to her website is picked up coming from a target in the war on terror, she becomes a pawn in the game of international espionage.

He had met someone amazing, but then he got pulled back into The Trade. He had to become David Cox again, and his lives were about to converge in a way he had never faced before. Remember When is a slice-of-life espionage thriller that builds on images of 1983, a cracked mirror reflection of things that were and pieces of might have been. “A story reminiscent of Miami Vice, with a dash of the 80’s music scene” is brought into tight focus in this novella length telling. Everything comes together in Los Angeles in the days before the US Festival. He’s there, or is he? “When you see ...

A mission gone wrong many years before. Ranger, now a young man, is called to help find the father he never knew. The Russian spy was a traitor to America and captured his father, putting him in a Russian work camp in Ust-Kava. It's a race through time to find the Russian spy who killed his mother and changed Ranger's life forever. This mission takes Ranger across Russia and into the Indian Ocean, ending in the Sister Islands.

Frederik Verwoerd is successful and rich but wants more. His desire is to become a major player on the world stage and decides that his South African armament company, MetalWorks, will develop a new weapon of mass destruction which he will sell to the highest bidder. The weapon is neither nuclear, chemical nor biological but is able to destroy an army of 5,000 tanks in the field, or even a major city. To demonstrate its power, he targets a well-protected symbol of the United States and will live telecast its destruction. It falls to Purple Frog, a private and clandestine organization to ...

Dick Thornby is not Hollywood's idea of a spy. He's just a regular guy with some skills for a job that needs doing. He also has a wife, a teenaged kid, a mortgage, and all the mundane problems associated with life. His friends from the New Jersey subdivision where he lives all think he is a wastewater treatment consultant. But instead of dealing with the dirty job of processing sewage in third world countries, he is really on missions, some mundane and dirty, others of vital importance and even dirtier.

Captain Carl Kraft is a man dancing on a dangerous tight-rope. By day, he works as an Army Intelligence Officer; by night, he secretly reports his department’s strengths and weaknesses to a harsh and mysterious superior. Assigned the dirtiest job in his profession, he is ordered to set up a patsy—to frame a fellow officer as a traitor!

You can lift astonishing weights, send messages, even levitate. You've got a girlfriend who shares some of your talents. Everything is wonderful, right? Well, not exactly.... Fans of Robert A. Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, and Raymond E. Feist will love this series!