Covert Affairs 2
Title | Covert Affairs 2 PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cage |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 2014-08-05 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 144248229X |
Expertly trained by a top-secret organization as spies, a trio of anything-but-average girls is tasked with protecting the world from danger and disasters. This bind-up contains "Spy Girls Are Forever, Dial V for Vengeance, " and "If Looks Could Kill."
A Covert Affair
Title | A Covert Affair PDF eBook |
Author | Jennet Conant |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2011-04-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1439168504 |
By bestselling author Jennet Conant, a stunning account of Julia Child’s early life as a member of the OSS in the Far East during World War II, and the tumultuous years when she and Paul Child were caught up in the McCarthy witch hunt and behaved with bravery and honor. Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Child’s experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s and behaved with bravery and honor. It is the fascinating portrait of a group of idealistic men and women who were recruited by the citizen spy service, slapped into uniform, and dispatched to wage political warfare in remote outposts in Ceylon, India, and China. The eager, inexperienced six foot two inch Julia springs to life in these pages, a gangly golf-playing California girl who had never been farther abroad than Tijuana. Single and thirty years old when she joined the staff of Colonel William Donovan, Julia volunteered to be part of the OSS’s ambitious mission to develop a secret intelligence network across Southeast Asia. Her first post took her to the mountaintop idyll of Kandy, the headquarters of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, the supreme commander of combined operations. Julia reveled in the glamour and intrigue of her overseas assignment and lifealtering romance with the much older and more sophisticated Paul Child, who took her on trips into the jungle, introduced her to the joys of curry, and insisted on educating both her mind and palate. A painter drafted to build war rooms, Paul was a colorful, complex personality. Conant uses extracts from his letters in which his sharp eye and droll wit capture the day-to-day confusion, excitement, and improbability of being part of a cloak- and-dagger operation. When Julia and Paul were transferred to Kunming, a rugged outpost at the foot of the Burma Road, they witnessed the chaotic end of the war in China and the beginnings of the Communist revolution that would shake the world. A Covert Affair chronicles their friendship with a brilliant and eccentric array of OSS agents, including Jane Foster, a wealthy, free-spirited artist, and Elizabeth MacDonald, an adventurous young reporter. In Paris after the war, Julia and Paul remained close to their intelligence colleagues as they struggled to start new lives, only to find themselves drawn into a far more terrifying spy drama. Relying on recently unclassified OSS and FBI documents, as well as previously unpublished letters and diaries, Conant vividly depicts a dangerous time in American history, when those who served their country suddenly found themselves called to account for their unpopular opinions and personal relationships.
Covert Affairs
Title | Covert Affairs PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cage |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 704 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442482273 |
A top-secret organization has chosen three teen girls to be trained as spies to protect the world. But the girls have no idea what's in store when they have real missions in the field. This bind up includes "License to Thrill, Live and Let Spy, " and "Nobody Does It Better."
Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story)
Title | Who Is Vera Kelly? (A Vera Kelly Story) PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalie Knecht |
Publisher | Tin House Books |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2018-06-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1947793020 |
Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award – G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards An NPR Best Book of the Year "Gripping, subtle, magnificently written." —The New York Times Book Review "A delectable page-turner . . . Vera Kelly introduces a fascinating new spy to literature’s mystery canon—one we hope sticks around long beyond this snappy, intimate debut." —Entertainment Weekly New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with the young radicals, the fragile local government begins to split at the seams. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows, and she's forced to take extreme measures to save herself. An exhilarating page-turner and perceptive coming-of-age story, Who Is Vera Kelly? introduces an original, wry, and whip-smart female spy for the twenty-first century.
Honored and Betrayed
Title | Honored and Betrayed PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Secord |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1992-09-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Retired Major General Richard Secord's autobiography together with his story of the Iran-Contra Affair.
Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Universal Television
Title | Focus On: 100 Most Popular Television Series by Universal Television PDF eBook |
Author | Wikipedia contributors |
Publisher | e-artnow sro |
Pages | 1162 |
Release | |
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Nobody Does It Better
Title | Nobody Does It Better PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Cage |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1442499621 |
When Jo, Caylin, and Theresa are directed to recover an evil device that can break into any cyber-security system, they jet straightaway to Seattle. But when they’re done rocking their mission, they find out they’re in a three-way tie for #1 on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list! And it seems they’ll have to go rogue in order to clear their names…