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2023., Zaffre Call No: NEW MYS Fic Cle Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Autumn 1945 - Off the east coast of England, a Japanese sub surfaces, unloads its mysterious cargo, then blows itself to pieces. Former spy Professor Tom Wilde is enjoying peacetime in Cambridge, settling back into teaching and family life. Until a call from senior MI5 boss Lord Templeman brings him out of retirement. A nearby village has been locked down by the military, its residents blighted by a deadly illness. No one is allowed in or out. There are rumours the Nazi machine is still operational, with links to Unit 731, a notorious Japanese biological warfare research laboratory. But how could they possibly be plotting on British soil - and why? What's more, Wilde and Templeman's names are discovered on a Gestapo kill list. And after a series of assassinations, an unthinkable question emerges: could an Englishman be behind the plot?
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2012., AuthorHouse Call No: Fic Lan Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Baghdad, October 2001. Chemical ali, Saddam Hussein's cousin, has a weapon of mass destruction - human, new variety Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (Mad Cow) against which there is no known cure. Ali plans to weaponize the virus in bulk, disguised as surgical flue, at a Hungarian facility, but first needs a vaccine to protect the True Believers against this deadly virus. He learns that the Canadian scientist, Jason Moscovitch, is feverishly working on such a vaccine. Ali recruits an Al Qaeda Snatch Team, comprised of Iraqi, Bosnian and Jordanian elements, who kidnap the man. When the scientist refuses to work for the extremists the team kidnaps his mother as well. Robert Londale, a contract officer with the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Division, is asked to find and free Moscovitch. But, to succeed, he must first penetrate the unbelievably complex web of Islamic Factionalists involved in the case.
