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By Perry, Anne[2021]., Adults, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC PER Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elena Standish novel Volume: #3Summary Note: "A personal trip turns perilous after the murder of a British spy in Washington, D.C., forces Elena Standish to face dark family secrets in this exciting 1930s mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. On a family trip to Washington, D.C., Elena Standish is delighted to visit her mother's parents for their anniversary and celebrate with influential friends of her grandfather, a prominent scientist. Even Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt will attend the party. But the event comes to a sudden and tragic end when one of the guests, Lila Worth, is run over by a car in the driveway outside. Elena realizes that Lila had been trying to tell her something, and when a call from Peter Lucas back home at MI6 confirms that Lila was a British spy, Elena pairs with the American secret service to find out what vital information the young woman had in her possession. To further complicate Elena's trip, her grandfather is arrested for the murder. Desperate to clear his name and save her family from disgrace, she looks more deeply into her grandfather's scientific life and discovers that Lila had been desperately trying to keep the latest developments in nuclear fission out of the Nazis' hands. Her grandfather's business secrets run deep, it appears, and as Elena begins to question his loyalties, she wonders if she can trust anyone in this dark new world order"--
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c2010., Adult, William Morrow Call No: FIC LOW Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Emma Cross quits the CIA for what she thought would be an easy PI consulting job.
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2014., St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC JOH Edition: 1st Ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to view Summary Note: "Catherine Ling: raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she has been a shadowy CIA Operative since she was fourteen years old. Now, years later, Catherine is as lethal as she is beautiful. There are only a few things in life she cares for. One is her son. Kidnapped when he was only two, Catherine has only recently been reunited with him and the vow of her heart is never to let him face danger again. The other is her mentor, Hu Chang. Mysterious, brilliant, and deadly, Hu Chang taught Catherine everything she knows and she is loyal to him. Now, Hu Chang is calling Catherine to a new task: rescue an imprisoned journalist in Tibet--a woman who has been subjected to unspeakable horrors. Her connection to Hu Chang is unknown. What's also unknown is that Catherine will be going up against a man so evil, his crimes have stretched back into this area for forty years. Is Catherine being used as a pawn by Hu Chang? Can she save a woman she's never even met? And will either of them live to see tomorrow? "--
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c2002., Adult, Putnam's Call No: FIC HIG Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Kate Rashid, surviving sister of three slain terrorists, vows revenge upon the President of the United States, White House operative Blake Johnson, and British agent and former IRA enforcer Sean Dillon, the man who killed her brothers.
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2011., Adult, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC JOH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Police officer Joe Quinn, a former Navy SEAL, falls in love with Eve Duncan, a woman obsessed with bringing home her missing daughter and solving the mystery of the child's disappearance, and as Quinn and CIA agent Catherine Ling investigate, they make the chilling discovery that Eve's first love John Gallo, a soldier supposedly killed in the line of duty, is still alive and very much a threat.
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By Perry, Anne[2022]., Adult, Ballantine Books Call No: FIC PER Edition: First U.S. edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Elena Standish novel. Volume: #4Summary Note: "A lethal new weapon endangers all of Europe-unless Elena Standish can rescue an ingenious scientist from Hitler's clutches-in this action-packed mystery by bestselling author Anne Perry. It is summer 1934, and Hitler is teetering on the edge of supreme power. Any small step forward could vault him toward European domination. When Britain's MI6 gets word that a pair of German scientists have made a breakthrough in germ warfare, they send Elena Standish on a dangerous mission to get one of them out of Germany before he's forced to share his knowledge and its devastating power with Hitler's elite. But the British soon learn that it's more than just time that Elena is working against. The new head of Germany's germ warfare division is an old enemy of Elena's grandfather Lucas, the former head of MI6. And he's bent on using any means to avenge his defeat at Lucas's hands twenty years before. What starts as an effort to save Europe from the devastation of disease soon becomes an intensely personal fight. As Elena and the scientist make their way across Germany, from Berlin to Bavaria and beyond, they confront not only the Gestapo but also a ragtag group of unpredictable Nazi supporters. With Elena's every decision challenged, this compelling mystery takes a searing look at what it means to do what's right in a world rife with so much evil"--
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[2024]., Adult, Kensington Publishing Corp. Call No: FIC MIC Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Called back to the Office of Special Investigations for a highly specialized assignment, school guidance counselor Melanie Drake must pose as an escort to infiltrate a dangerous international group of billionaires during a decadent dinner to collect information vital to national security.
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2015, St. Martin's Press Call No: FIC JOH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Catherine Ling Volume: 4Summary Note: "Your Next Breath from New York Times best selling author Iris Johansen Catherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned to her. Catherine vows never to fail him again. Now, just as she is building a relationship with Luke, it seems that someone from Catherine's past is playing a deadly game with her, and using those she cares about as pawns. Three are dead already the former prostitute who helped Catherine when she was out on the street, a CIA agent with whom she worked closely, and the informant who helped her free Luke. Someone is picking off the people Catherine cares about one by one, with the circle narrowing closer and closer to those she loves the most. Catherine has made many enemies throughout her life, and she has no choice but to weed through her past to find out who is targeting her now, and then go after the vicious killer herself. "--
