By Chris Pavone
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Feverishly paging through a disturbing anonymous manuscript that she believes has world-changing potential, New York literary agent Isabel Reed catches the attentions of Copenhagen veteran station chief Hayden Gray, who resolves to keep the book’s secrets from being exposed.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By John Shea, Library Page

“When his pregnant wife and child are kidnapped and he discovers that he has been set up as a traitor, brilliant CIA agent Sam Capra begins a desperate hunt for the unknown enemy who he believes has targeted the wrong man (From the Publisher).”

By Kate Quinn
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

When pregnant American student Charlie St. Clair is banished to Europe by her family to have her baby, she takes the opportunity to head for London to find her missing French cousin and teams up with Eve, a former spy from the Alice Network, to solve the mystery.

By Olen Steinhauer

After a failed rescue attempt of a hijacked plane in Vienna, two retired spies, former lovers, can’t help but relive the past and determine if the mission went wrong because of a compromised agent on the inside.

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“As action-packed, fast-paced, and brutally realistic as it gets, Flynn’s latest page-turner shows readers how it all began. Behind the steely gaze of the nation’s ultimate hero is a young man primed to become an American Assassin (From the Publisher).”

By Robert Harris

In Moscow, American history professor Fluke Kelso learns from secret papers that Stalin had a son. A momentous discovery that could revolutionize Russia by bringing back Stalinism. But first he has to find him and that could get Kelso killed.

Became the movie: Archangel.

By Helen MacInnes

A British officer pretending to be French tries to find the Nazi plans for resisting invasion off the coast of France during World War II.

By Daniel Silva
Series Gabriel Allon

Art restorer, assassin, and spy Gabriel Allon finds himself poised to become the chief of Israel's secret intelligence service, but not before answering the French government's request to eliminate the person responsible for detonating a massive bomb in Paris.

Celebrates the finest works of literary espionage in a collection that features contributions by such authors as Eric Ambler, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, and Rebecca West.

By Eric Ambler
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“Robert Halliday, an American free-lance writer is coerced into negotiations between NATO and the "Ruler," a powerful Persian Gulf sheik of questionable sanity, and finds mystery in each of their interests (From the Publisher).”

By Sebastian Faulks

It’s World War II and Charlotte has been trained to be an undercover courier for England. She straps on a parachute and falls from the sky into Vichy France. There she will assist the French Resistance in its defiance of Nazi occupation. Once behind enemy lines, she keeps secret her personal mission to find her lover, an RAF pilot downed over France.

Became the movie: Charlotte Gray

By Nelson DeMille
Recommended By Audrey Honigman, Library Clerk

The disappearance in Moscow of American Greg Fisher prompts U.S. Embassy and CIA agents to the discovery of a Soviet conspiracy that could devastate the West (From the Publisher).

By Tom Rob Smith
Series Leo Demidov
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

Tuesday, July 21, 2009.  7 PM.

“During the terror of Stalin's last days, a secret policeman becomes a detective stalking a serial killer in a debut novel from a shockingly talented 28-year-old Brit (Kirkus Reviews).”

By Ariel Lawhon
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

A novel based on the life of spy Nancy Wake follows a woman who kills a Nazi and becomes one of the most decorated women in World War II.

By Elizabeth Wein
Recommended By Sharon Long, Assistant Library Director
With Pam Strudler, Librarian, Sharon Long, Teen Librarian

Tuesday, July 22, 2014. 1:30 PM.

In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage and great courage as she relates what she must do to survive.

By Jeff Abbott

Thrown together as the fall guys for an elaborate setup, a corporate consultant and an espionage agent become unlikely partners whose survival is threatened by untrustworthy associates and secrets from the agent's past.

By Daniel Silva
Series Gabriel Allon Novels

In the wake of a Munich writer's assassination, Mossad agent Gabriel Allon and Vatican priest Pietro embark on dangerous journeys that reveal long-buried secrets affecting the fates of millions of people.

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp Novels

CIA operative Mitch Rapp is targeted by the influential father of a terrorist who is demanding retribution for his son's death.

By Richard North Patterson

Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra Novels
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, John Shea, Library Page, Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious Faustian figure (From the Publisher).”

By Chris Pavone
Recommended By Rosemarie Germaine, Senior Library Clerk, Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

“Newly arrived in Luxembourg, mother and expat Kate Moore suspects that another American couple are not who they claim to be and as her paranoia grows, she becomes increasingly terrified that her own past is catching up with her (From the Publisher).”

By David John

As Berlin welcomes the world to the Summer Olympic Games in 1936, British journalist Richard Denham and American reporter Eleanor Emerson are drawn into a deadly game involving the Gestapo and the British Secret Intelligence Service.

By Charles Cumming
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

When Amelie Levene, who in six weeks is due to take over as the first female Chief of MI6, disappears without a trace while in the south of France, it is the gravest crisis MI6 has faced in more than a decade. Britain's top intelligence agents turn to one of their own: disgraced former MI6 officer Thomas Kell. The trail leads Kell to France and Tunisia, where he uncovers a shocking secret and a conspiracy that could have unimaginable repercussions for Britain and its allies.

By Daniel Silva
Series Gabriel Allon Novels

Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.

By Alan Furst

Members of the French Resistance network young and old, aristocrats and schoolteachers, defiant heroes and ordinary people all engaged in clandestine actions in the cause of freedom. From the secret hotels and Nazi-infested nightclubs of Paris to the villages of Rouen and Orleans. An action-packed story of romance, intrigue, spies, bravery, and air battles.

By John Le Carré
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“George Smiley, of England's Secret Service, goes onto the attack, manipulating old Asian hand Jerry Westerby through the Far East and a tangle of money, defection, passion, loyalty and love that severely tests Westerby's hitherto unfaltering allegiances (From the Publisher).”

By David Baldacci
Recommended By Arlene Silverman, Library Clerk

“Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up (From the Publisher).”

By Daniel Silva
Series Gabriel Allon
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Ari Shamron, the head of the Israeli intelligence, calls on former intelligence operative Gabriel Allon to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the Middle East peace negotiations, a conspiracy linked to a Palestinian zealot with ties to Gabriel’s past (From the Publisher).

By Jeff Abbott
Series Sam Capra

“Ex-CIA agent Sam Capra is contacted by kidnappers to find and murder the one man that can expose them in exchange for his son’s freedom (From the Publisher).”

By Brad Thor
Series Scot Harvath

Scot Harvath--Navy SEAL turned counter-terrorist operative--braves unspeakable dangers to reveal an ancient secret that could neutralize militant Islam without further bloodshed.

By Joseph Kanon

Targeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin.

By Andy McNab
Series Nick Stone Novels

In order to obtain American citizenship and the opportunity to live in the U. S. with the woman he loves, Nick Stone accepts one final mission from the CIA – to infiltrate a hostile republic and assassinate a money-laundering businessman.

By Joseph Kanon

In the Spring of 1945, Michael Connolly is sent to Los Alamos to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. Peopled with famous scientists and infused with history, Los Alamos is a suspenseful look at monumental moment in history.

By Eric Ambler
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“A chance encounter with a Turkish colonel with a penchant for British crime novels leads mystery writer Charles Latimer into a world of sinister political and criminal maneuvers throughout the Balkans in the years between the world wars (From the Publisher).”

By Alan Furst
Series Night Soldiers 109
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

"Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the region's shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists (From the Publisher)."

By Vince Flynn
Series Mitch Rapp

Undercover CIA counter-terrorism agent Mitch Rapp rebels against red tape and standard operative procedure to thwart terrorists, both foreign and domestic

By Ruta Sepetys
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services

In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.

By Karen Cleveland
Recommended By Jackie, Head of Readers' Services, Pam Martin, Assistant Library Director, John Shea, Library Page

A dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States stumbles on a secret dossier of deep–cover agents before facing an impossible choice that tests her loyalties to the agency and her own family.

By John Le Carré
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

Vacationing at a posh tennis resort in Antigua, Perry and Gail are recruited by big-time Russian money launderer Dima to help him defect, an arrangement for which Dima promises to expose financial corruption but renders the hapless couple pawns in a deadly international scheme.

By Graham Greene
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“Follows the plight of Wormold, a former vacuum cleaner salesman, who becomes a slave to the expensive whims of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Milly, and takes on a job for MI6 as Secret Agent 5920015 to pay for them (From the Publisher).”

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Joe Ledger Novels

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there's either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills...and there's nothing wrong with Joe Ledger's skills. And that's both a good, and a bad thing. It's good because he's a Baltimore detective that has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new taskforce created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can't handle. This rapid response group is called the Department of Military Sciences or the DMS for short. It's bad because his first mission is to help stop a group of terrorists from releasing a dreadful bio-weapon that can turn ordinary people into zombies. The fate of the world hangs in the balance...

By Brad Taylor
Series Pike Logan Thrillers

These exciting, fast-paced political thrillers follow an elite team of American agents as they travel across the globe on violent, action-packed missions thwarting terrorist plots, tracking notorious killers, and rescuing innocent hostages. The clever plotting, relentless suspense, and compelling casts of heroes and villains make these books hard to put down.

By Thomas H. Cook
Recommended By Ed Goldberg, Head of Reference

"The fortunate life of successful businessman Thomas Danforth of 1939 New York City is thrown into chaos when he unwittingly provides a location for a mysterious woman to receive training in firearms and explosives before she abruptly disappears (From the Publisher)."

By Nelson Demille
Series John Corey

When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down.

By Tom Clancy
Series Jack Ryan

Clancy sends his hero, John Clark, the formidable ex-Navy SEAL of Without Remorse, into the fray against a world-threatening band of terrorists.

By Jason Matthews
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian, John Shea, Library Page

“Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladmir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers (From the Publisher).”

By John Le Carré
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“… A magnificent story of love, betrayal, and courage, The Russia House catches history in the act. For as the Iron Curtain begins to rust and crumble, Blair is left to sound a battle cry that may fall on deaf ears (From the Publisher).”

By Shana Galen
Series Jewels of the Ton
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Secret agent Lily Dawson poses as a courtesan to try to uncover a traitor to the Crown, and soon enlists the help of Andrew Booth-Payne, the Earl of Darlington.

By Lauren Willig
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers information about the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion (From the Publisher).”

By John Le Carré
Recommended By Barry Ernst, Reference Librarian

“An aging British secret service agent looks back on his covert past, recalling the suspicion, danger, excitement, deception, and failure that marked his thirty-year career as a spy (From the Publisher).”