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  • The Covert Sphere

    Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State

    by Timothy Melley ...
    In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four—a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S. series 24. According to an embassy spokesperson, Eagle Four was part of a strategy aimed at transforming public suspicion of security forces into something like awed respect. Why would a wartime ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Spies, Culture, and Society

    Coming in from the Cold

    by Simon Willmetts, Constant Hijzen, Timothy Melley, Tricia Jenkins, Kathryn Olmsted, Richard J. Aldrich, Hugh Wilford, Jonathan Nashel, Pauline Blistène0 ...
    Series series Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History
    A revealing look at the interrelationship between secret intelligence agencies and the wider societies and cultures they inhabitIntelligence agencies are traditionally understood as cloistered entities. Hidden behind a veil of secrecy, they conduct their activities relatively free from public scrutiny, and their assessments are ideally detached from the cultural and political biases that pervade ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Empire of Conspiracy

    The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America

    by Timothy Melley ...
    Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Operation Dark Heart

    Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan—and the Path to Victory

    by Anthony Shaffer ...
    The "fascinating" New York Times bestseller by a black-ops team leader about what really went on—and went wrong—in Afghanistan ( Booklist).Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer led a black-ops team on the forefront of the military efforts to block the Taliban's resurgence. For a moment he saw us winning the war. Then the military brass got involved. He witnessed firsthand the tipping point, when what seemed ... Read more

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  • Future Crimes

    Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

    by Marc Goodman ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you—and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than ever ... Read more

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  • The Billion Dollar Spy

    A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

    by David E. Hoffman ...
    From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold WarWhile driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the evening of February 16, 1978, the chief of the CIA’s Moscow ... Read more

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  • Gideon's Spies

    The Secret History of the Mossad

    by Gordon Thomas ...
    In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be as surrounded by myth and mystery as the Mossad. Gordon Thomas reveals that all too often the truth exceeds all the fantasies about the Mossad. Revised and updated for 2015, this new edition includes:- Mossad's secret meeting in 2013 with Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief to plan for Israel to use ... Read more

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  • Freedom Road: A new edition with primary documents and introduction by Eric Foner

    by Howard Fast ...
    A historical novel that vividly brings alive the experiences of the newly freed slaves after the Civil War. ... Read more

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  • Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

    by Aliki Varvogli ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders.Varvogli draws on current theories of travel globalization and post-national studies, and proposes a dynamic model that ... Read more

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  • Assassin: The Terrifying True Story Of An International Hitman

    by Christopher Robbins ...
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    Reflections on the Man from Slip F-18

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    Travis McGee & Me is D. R. Martin’s book-by-book personal take on the famous boat bum hero created by John D. MacDonald. The twenty-one McGee novels have been continuously in print since their original publication dates, from 1964 to 1985. Not only have they been tremendously popular with readers, they have inspired generations of crime fiction writers.These essays are partly book reports, and ... Read more

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