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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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2013., Adult, Severn House Publishers Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Harry Tate thrillers Volume: [5]Summary Note: When a Russian hit team catches up with Roman Tobinskiy, political opponent of Moscow and former FSB colleague of Alexander Litvinenko (murdered by polonium poisoning in 2006), it's an easy kill; he's lying helpless in a hospital bed. They realize too late that in an adjacent room is Clare Jardine, ex-MI6 officer, recovering from wounds while saving Harry Tate's life. When Clare goes on the run, Harry is ordered to track her down before the Russians reach her. It's one of his toughest challenges yet. For not only is Clare as adept at covering her tracks as Harry is himself, but the Russians are not the only ones chasing her. Harry is about to come up against an old enemy from his past. And if he is to save Clare's life, as she saved his, he must seek help from a most unlikely source.
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2014., Adult, RLJ Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Foyle 8 Edition: Widescreen edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Foyle's war Volume: 8Summary Note: The acclaimed detective series returns with three new mysteries set in the uncertain days at the beginning of the Cold War.
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2012, p2011., Warner Home Video, distributor Call No: DVD Fic MI-5 10 Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: MI-5 Volume: 10Summary Note: The BATAA-winning, international hit spy drama returns for a nail-biting tenth and final series. With the truth about Lucas North finally revealed, and following his rooftop showdown at the end of the last series, Harry is facing some complicated questions about the future of Section D as well as some skeletons from his own past.
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-- MI-five.c2005., Adult, BBC Worldwide Americas : distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic MI-5 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: MI-5 Volume: 3Summary Note: "Worlds collide and nothing is what it seems in the thrilling new installment of MI-5. Tom has been branded a traitor and has disappeared, while Harry is in the hospital, seriously wounded. There's dissension in the ranks as Danny and Zoe are determined to clear Tom's name and an enemy they never thought possible has put the entire service at risk. An enigmatic agent, Adam Carter (Rupert Penry-Jones) has been recruited from MI-6 to help pick up the broken pieces but with his track record nobody will be safe."--Container.
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-- Every second counts.2009., General, BBC Video Call No: DVD Fic MI-5 6 Edition: Anamorphic widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: MI-5 Volume: 6Summary Note: Undercover agents for the British government not only lie to infiltrate the organizations they are investigating, but the lies must continue in their personal lives as well.
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By Herron, Mick2016. Click to access digital title. Sample Series Title: Slough House, Volume: 3.Summary Note: When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House—the Slow Horses, as they're known—outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself. Now an Apple TV+ original series ( Slow Horses ) starring Gary Oldman in his Emmy-nominated role as Jackson Lamb. London: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The “Slow Horses,” as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action. When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations of their competence, to breach the top-notch security of MI5’s intelligence headquarters, Regent’s Park, and steal valuable intel in exchange for their comrade’s safety. The kidnapping is only the tip of the iceberg, however—the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but the highest authorities in the Secret Service. After years spent as the lowest on the totem pole, the Slow Horses suddenly find themselves caught in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens not only the future of Slough House, but of MI5 itself.
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2011., Severn House Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Harry Tate series Volume: 1.Summary Note: What do MI5 bosses do when one of their officers is involved in a fatal shooting, opening the agency to the risk of coming under yet another media and political spotlight? They send him to an outpost known as Red Station. It's remote, it's uncomfortable ... and it's a home for washed-out spooks. All they tell Harry is to keep his head down and do his job. What they don't tell him is that the Russians are coming ... and that Harry won't be coming back.
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By McEwan, Ianc2012., Adult, Knopf Canada Call No: SC Fic McE Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the Intelligence Service. The year is 1972: Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and Irish terrorism and faces its fifth state of emergency. The Cold War has entered a moribund phase but the fight goes on and MI5 hesitates at little to influence hearts and minds. Serena, a compulsive reader of novels, is sent by her new employers on a secret mission that brings her into the literary world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First, she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is deceiving whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one."--Publisher.
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2019., Adult, Severn House Publishers Connect to this eBook title Series Title: Harry Tate Volume: 3Summary Note: Former MI5 agent Harry Tate is drawn back into the field when an old friend goes missing - and discovers the stakes could not be higher. Harry Tate has one rule: you don't abandon your friends. When he learns that former colleague Rik Ferris has had a breakdown and disappeared, allegedly in possession of highly sensitive secrets from MI6's archives, he agrees to look for him and, if possible, bring him back in. But where to begin? Rik could be anywhere in the world. All Harry knows is, if he doesn't find Rik, others will be sent out instead. And they won't play by the same rules. What Harry doesn't know is that Rik is being held prisoner and tortured for information relating to a high-level mole in the British establishment. If he doesn't tell his captors what he knows, it will result in a devastating cyber-attack designed to bring the UK to its knees.
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2018., Adult, Doubleday Canada Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.
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-- West wind.By Rankin, Ian2019., Adult, Orion Call No: SC MYS Fic Ran Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: It always starts with a small lie. That's how you stop noticing the bigger ones. After his friend suspects something strange going on at the launch facility where they both work - and then goes missing - Martin Hepton doesn't believe the official line of 'long-term sick leave'... Refusing to stop asking questions, he leaves his old life behind, aware that someone is shadowing his every move. The only hope he has is his ex-girlfriend Jill Watson - the only journalist who will believe his story. But neither of them can believe the puzzle they're piecing together - or just how shocking the secret is that everybody wants to stay hidden..."--Provided by publisher.