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Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
"If you've ever wondered what it's like to be a modern-day spy, Douglas London is here to explain. London’s overseas work involved spotting and identifying targets, building relationships over weeks or months, and then pitching them to work for the CIA—all the while maintaining various identities, a day job, and a very real wife and kids at home. The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence captures the best stories from London's...
182) The Patriot Act
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Examines the Patriot Act, a piece of legislation passed in the weeks following the 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S., designed to provide the citizens of the country with greater security, looks at the key provisions of the Patriot Act, and discusses charges that the Act violates civil rights protections.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Jarhead: Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"For more than forty years, the United States has reached out to China, helping it develop a booming economy and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that there is little to fear--and everything to gain--from China's rise. But what if the Chinese have had a different plan all along? The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one hundredth...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace, to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth. Like every other major power in modern history, China is looking outward to find the massive quantities of resources needed to maintain its economic expansion; it is now engaged in a far flung quest around the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Every day, a member of the CIA presents to the president a report detailing the most sensitive activities and analysis of world events. These can range from the behavior of America's allies to the maneuvering of its adversaries, from imminent dangers to long-term strategic opportunities, and are often based on the words of highly placed sources or the interceptions of astonishingly nimble technologies. This report--for the president's eyes only--forms...
191) Beloved enemy
Author
Series
Jack McClure novels volume 5
Formats
Description
In the stunning follow-up to Father Night, Jack McClure faces a choice: help the woman he loves or destroy her as the enemy she is. Shortly after McClure leaves a meeting with Dennis Paull, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Paull is found--shot dead. The president is furious but equally frightened of a scandal, since Jack McClure is one of their own--an operative and Paull's friend. Who will protect the country if even McClure cannot be trusted?...
192) Time to hunt
Author
Series
Pierce Hunt volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"When the CIA calls on former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt to find a missing operative and friend, the last thing he wants to do is leave the peace of home and family behind. But there's more to this mission than meets the eye, and Hunt knows he has no choice but to risk everything to save his friend and protect his country. Hunt's target is Jorge Ramirez, who allegedly has information that poses a threat to the national security of the United States....
194) The last president
Author
Series
Daybreak novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In a devastated, splintered, post-apocalyptic United States, with technology thrown back to biplanes, black powder, and steam trains, a tiny band of visionaries struggles to recreate Constitutional government and civilization itself, as a New Dark Age takes shape around them.
195) El observatorio
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Una noche aparece un cadáver en un observatorio de las colinas de Hollywood. Aparentemente, se trata de una asesinato común, por lo que el detective de policía Harry Bosch se hace cargo del caso. No obstante, pronto se descubre a que la víctima trabajaba en el sector clínico y que tenía acceso a los sustancias radiactivas. Esto convierte un simple homicidio en un asunto de terrorismo. El FBI toma las riendas y empieza una carrera contrarreloj...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable the United States' national security systems have become.
"A groundbreaking, compelling investigation that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker-turned-avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become. In the wake of the scandal that emerged after details of American...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"From praising dictators to alienating allies, Trump has made chaos his calling card. Has his strategy caused more problems than it solved?"--
Nixon tried it first. Hoping to make communist bloc countries uneasy and thus unstable, Nixon let them think he was just crazy enough to nuke them. He called this "the madman theory." Trump has employed his own "madman theory," sometimes intentionally and sometimes not. He praises Kim Jong-un, admires and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
On December 5, 2005, the 9/11 Commission issued its final report card on the government's fulfillment of the recommendations issued in July 2004: one A, twelve Bs, nine Cs, twelve Ds, three Fs, and four incompletes. Here is stunning evidence that Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón, with more than sixty years of experience in the comic-book industry between them, were right: far, far too few Americans have read, grasped, and demanded action on the Commission's...
200) Playing to the edge
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
An unprecedented high-level master narrative of America's intelligence wars, from the only person ever to helm both the CIA and the NSA, at a time of heinous new threats and wrenching change.