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Author
Series
Roland Ford volume 1
Language
English
Description
Hired to locate Air Force veteran Clay Hickman, Roland Ford realizes he's been drawn into something deep and dark. The mental institution he escaped from was treating him for schizophrenia and/or severe post-traumatic-stress syndrome. But Ford realizes he is getting a different story from the powerful and treacherous people who are looking for Hickman. The search leads to some chilling questions about truth, justice, and the American way.
2) Night heron
Author
Series
Philip Mangan novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A malevolent, artificial life form created by military scientists threatens to destroy humanity in this smart, Crichtonesque thriller.
Jim Pierce hasn't heard from his daughter in years, ever since she rejected his military past and started working as a hacker. But, when a Chinese assassin shows up at Jim's lab looking for her, he knows that she's cracked some serious military secrets. Now, her life is on the line if he doesn't find her first.
The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A landmark expose firmly grounded in fact, The Day After Roswell puts a fifty-year-old controversy to rest. Since 1947, the mysterious crash of an unidentified aircraft at Roswell, New Mexico, has fueled a firestorm of speculation and controversy with no conclusive evidence of its extraterrestrial origin -- until now. Colonel Philip J. Corso (Ret.), a member of President Eisenhower's National Security Council and former head of the Foreign Technology...
7) Dreamland
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Filmaker and journalist Bruce Burgess goes deep into the heart of the greatest secret of the 20th century : Area 51, or "Dreamland" in this award-winning documentary. Along with his camera crew, Burgess sets out to uncover the truth of what is really going on in the most secret military base in the world. Footage of UFOs performing impossible maneuvers under cover of darkness. Multiple aircrafts flying over the base are only the beginning of this...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Journey into the world of high-stakes espionage with the gripping true-life tale of Robert Hanssen, the respected FBI agent who betrayed his family, his religion, and his country. He is the daring traitor who sells America's nuclear secrets to the KGB, and enters into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that could cost him his life.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
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
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
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...
13) The 39 steps
Language
English
Description
Richard Hannay is on vacation in London when he mets a mysterious woman who tells him of a spy ring she is trying to crack. She doesn't know the identity of the master spy, but she is privy to a few revealing details. Later, she is murdered before Hannay can learn anything more. Accussed of her murder and with his life now in danger, Hannay must elude police while he attempts to uncover the spies.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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...
15) Atomic love
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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...
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