Woman Spy Thriller

355: The Women of Washington's Spy Ring chronicles the lives of three remarkable women who use daring, skill, and, yes, a bit of flirtation, to help liberate America.

What do you get when you combine the toughness of Jack Reacher, the spycraft of Jason Bourne, and the beauty of a Charlie's Angel? You get Jamie Austen, America's beloved heroine. In the first book of the international number-one best-selling spy series, Jamie goes to Belarus. A busload of 300 girls goes missing and she's the only one who can save them. A gripping pause resister that has everything Terry Toler is known for. Suspense. Mystery. Intrigue. A little romance. And an ending you won't see coming.

Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees from the CIA—to help uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.

Now that Alexandra "Alex" Donavan is finally free of her troubled upbringing, she's able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. But soon after she becomes a member of the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, authorities in Kansas and Missouri contact them about bodies found on freight trains traveling across the country - all killed in the same way.

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.

A captivating spy story, brimming with more twists and turns than a Golden Ager’s hula-hoop convention, Hornett’s debut comedy novel introduces the world to Britain's latest, and most endearing, special agent, Maggie Matheson. Fans of Richard Osman's Murder Club books and The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson will simply love this book. “A laugh-out-loud spy thriller with a twist. Maggie is a thumping good story which keeps you guessing to the end” “Hilarious... you’ll fall in love with eccentric Maggie in minutes..." “Maggie ...

Most Sinful residents are unaware of Carter’s crisis and are going about their daily lives as they always have, including local prankster Gage Babin. Except this time, Gage’s attempt to elicit laughs leaves him on a slab in the medical examiner’s office. Everyone knows how unhealthy he was, but Fortune thinks there’s more to his death than a poorly timed prank that caused his bad heart to give out.

In contemporary London, a loose-knit group of political vagabonds drifts from one cause to the next, picketing and strategizing for hypothetical situations. But within this world, one particular small commune is moving inexorably toward active terrorism. At its center is Alice Mellings, a brilliant organizer who knows how to cope with almost anything, except the vacuum of her own life.

Daring Mathilde Carré has always dreamed of glory. When the handsome Armand invites her to become his second-in-command of Interallié, one of the founding circuits of the Resistance, she jumps at the chance. But when Armand falls for another woman, how far is Mathilde willing to go to exact her revenge?

When a renowned disease expert and Russian defector dies mysteriously during a global affairs conference in Purity, Maine, the tight-knit band of former spies in the Martini Club once again sees their quiet coastal retirement interrupted by international intrigue. And when a housekeeper at the conference hotel is found murdered, Ingrid Slocum sees chilling links to a disastrous mission that nearly killed her three decades ago.

In the heart of occupied France, the Gestapo is hunting a ghost. They only know one thing about their most dangerous enemy: her limp. Sent to Lyon, a city built for conspiracy, an American spy with a wooden leg codenamed "Cuthbert" begins a one-woman war against the Third Reich. Under the guise of a naïve journalist, Virginia Hall orchestrates sabotage and builds escape lines, her every move shadowed by the threat of discovery. Her limp is her signature, the one flaw in her performance that could betray her to the ever-watchful Gestapo. When the enemy’s top spy hunter is brought in to ...

Back in the FBI's good graces but still carrying the scars of betrayal, Special Agent Jane Cannon thought she knew the difference between right and wrong. Then she watched a gang of violent criminals walk free—and realized justice doesn't always survive the paperwork. When a string of reckless bank heists tears through Seattle—leaving officers wounded and civilians dead—Jane is pulled into a manhunt that feels too chaotic to be random. But the deeper she digs, the more it's clear: the robberies are just a smoke screen. Something far bigger is brewing underneath.

When a cynical nanotechnology genius and a defiant historian collide at a Washington D.C. gala, they're thrown into a deadly conspiracy that spans from ancient Rome to modern-day Istanbul. Dr. Aris Thorne doesn't do trust. After a catastrophic failure cost her colleagues their lives, the brilliant scientist has built walls higher than the Brutalist buildings she works in. Cold, controlled, and lethally competent, she views human connection as nothing more than a structural weakness waiting to fail. Casey Rhodes doesn't do passive. A historian who sees the layers beneath every surface, she's...

When an abduction by cartel members along the Arizona border goes horribly wrong, Mitch Kearns is pulled away from his family ranch near Tucson to help track down the suspects. When it’s discovered that the captive is a high-level U.S. government official who holds the key to unlock codes for the Southwest power grid, Mitch and Dev are in a race against time to prevent a catastrophe from unfolding as they battle rival cartel members who each have their own stake in the game.

Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. This first in the series sends Emily on her first case after she successfully persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for the job.

She was trained to find patterns in history. She never expected to find a deadly one hiding in plain sight. London, 1940. The Blitz has turned the city into a nightly nightmare of fire and destruction. Dr. Evelyn Landon, a historian recruited by the Ministry of Information, spends her days reading civilian diaries, cataloging the fears, hopes, and small rebellions of ordinary Londoners under siege. It's quiet work. Safe work. Until she notices something impossible. "Such a shame the roses are wilting early this year." Roses don't wilt in November. They freeze. And that single wrong detail ...

Reese’s Book Club Pick Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Thriller of 2021 A Washington Post Top 10 Thriller or Mystery of 2021 “If you love a mystery, then you’ll devour [Northern Spy] . . . I loved this thrill ride of a book.” —Reese Witherspoon...

Combat Tracker Mitch Kearns is Back! Picking up a short time after their first harrowing mission together in Dead In Their Tracks, Mitch Kearns and Dev Leitner head across the globe in pursuit of a deadly pathogen that has fallen into the hands of a rogue covert agent. Mitch and Dev must join forces with a CIA operative and an old friend from Mitch's past in order to prevent the bioweapon from devastating humanity. From the boreal forest of Sweden to the jungles of Indonesia, the eclectic group must pool all of their abilities to overcome an adversary who is as skilled in evasion and ...

Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.

She is the perfect assassin. A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers. Ruthlessly trained. Given a new life. New names, new faces - whichever fits. Her paymasters call themselves The Twelve. But she knows nothing of them. Konstantin is the man who saved her and the one she answers to. She is Villanelle. Without conscience. Without guilt. Without weakness. Eve Polastri is the woman who hunts her. MI5, until one error of judgment costs her everything.