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Dead Men by Stephen Leather.

 

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Undercover cop Dan "Spider" Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism.

When a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd must put his life on the line to protect his former enemies.

While he is undercover in Belfast, a grief stricken Saudi whose two sons died under torture in the name of the War on Terror is planning to avenge their deaths by striking out at two people close to Shepherd.

As the assassin closes in on his prey, Shepherd realizes that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself.

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The Lion in the North by John Prebble.

 

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Reader review;

The Lion in the North is a good overview of Scottish history from the formation of Scotland into a single country until it joined the Union and settled in as part of Britain.

Prebble admits that this is a personal view of Scottish history so there are some people that might feel aggrieved at the view that Scotland ceased to be a distinct unit and simply a part of Britain in the early to mid nineteenth century (I'd be one of them).

But, as Prebble was writing from a non Scottish perspective (he was born in England but grew up in Canada) in the late seventies and early eighties, I suppose it is easy to see how he could claim with such certainty that it is unimaginable that Scotland would ever become an independent state again (apologies for paraphrasing but I don't have the book to hand to check the exact quote).

From the narrow victory of the Better Together campaign in last September's victory, I'd say that history has moved out from under Prebble.

It's interesting how often historians survey hundreds of years of past change but are less able to see those threads march into the future.

Still, this is a great starting point for those wishing to expand their knowledge of Scottish history.

Prebble skates through vast amounts of kings, noblemen, battles and feuds.

You could really learn a lot by picking and choosing interesting parts of this history as a diving board for deeper study.

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Das Boot: The Boat by Lothar-Günther Buchheim.

 

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The thrilling wartime novel that inspired Wolfgang Petersen's Academy Award-nominated, blockbuster film?

Written by an actual survivor of Germany's U-boat fleet, Das Boot is one of the most exciting stories of naval warfare ever published, a tale filled with almost unbearable tension and suspense.

In autumn 1941, a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Over the coming weeks they brave the ocean's stormy waters and seek out British supply ships to destroy.

But their targets travel in well-guarded convoys.

When contact finally occurs, the hunter quickly becomes the hunted, and a cat-and-mouse game begins as the U-boat hides deep beneath the surface of the sea.

Soon, claustrophobia becomes an enemy almost as frightening as the depth charges exploding around them.

The release of this supremely gripping, merciless intense story commemorates the 60th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II.

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Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson.

 

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The "blue flu" has struck the Seattle Police Force and the majority of officers are on an unofficial strike.

Overworked and understaffed, detective Lou Boldt is committed to remaining on the job no matter what.

But when a string of robberies and the brutal near murder of a female cop descend on the city, the pressure of being a nearly one man operation threatens Bodt's psyche and his marriage. With the help of Daphne Matthews and Sergeant John LaMoia, Boldt is able to make slow progress cracking the case and their work leads them to a Denver convict and his brother, a hardened criminal.

Boldt and Daphne come to realize that the robberies, assaults, and strike are somehow connected and that his life is now in very real danger.

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The Story Of Danny Dunn; by Bryce Courtenay.

 

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In the aftermath of the Great Depression few opportunities existed for working class boys, but at just eighteen Danny Dunn has everything going for him: brain, looks, sporting ability and an easy charm.

His parents run The Hero, a neighbourhood pub, and Danny is a local hero.

 

Luck changes for Danny when he signs up to go to war.

He returns home a physically broken man, to a life that will be changed for ever.

Together with Helen, the woman who becomes his wife, he sets about rebuilding his life.

 

Set against a backdrop of Australian pubs and politics, The Story of Danny Dunn is an Australian family saga spanning three generations.

It is a compelling tale of love, ambition and the destructive power of obsession.

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The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter.

 

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Bob Lee Swagger is back in a thriller fifty years in the making . . . It’s not even a clue.

It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath.

But it’s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended the life of John F. Kennedy and set the stage for one of the most enduring controversies of our time.

 

Swagger begins his slow night stalk through a much-traveled landscape.

But he’s asking questions that few have asked before: Why did the third bullet explode?

Why did Lee Harvey Oswald, about to become the most hunted man on earth, risk it all by returning to his rooming house to secure a pistol he easily could have brought with him?

How could a conspiracy that went unpenetrated for fifty years have been thrown together in the two and a half days between the announcement of the president’s route and the assassination itself?

 

As Bob investigates, another voice enters the narrative: knowing, ironic, almost familiar, that of a gifted, Yale educated veteran of the CIA Plans Division.

Hugh Meachum has Secrets and the means and the will to keep them buried.

When weighed against his own legacy, Swagger’s life is an insignificant expense but to blunt the threat, he’ll first have to ambush the sniper.

 

As each man hunts the other across today’s globe and through the thickets of history,

The Third Bullet builds to an explosive climax that will finally prove what Bob Lee Swagger has always known: it’s never too late for justice.

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The Pleasure of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training by Gail McMahon.

 

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Making the Most of a Good Thing Sharing Your Home and Life with a pet bird from the parrot family can be a joy that must be experienced to be appreciated.

Whether your parrot pal is a lordly macaw, a tiny budgie or any of the beautiful Amazons, African greys, cockatoos or other beloved species in between, life can be beautiful when communication works.

And that is what The Pleasure of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training can do for the relationship.

 

The text discusses the reasons for training a parrot, how an owner's behavior influences training results, working with baby birds and weanlings, three basic obedience skills and training techniques for adult parrots.

You will find chapters on potty training to help your parrot clean up its act; speech training that makes your parrot more fun to be with and some intriguing examples of parrots really knowing what they're saying; trick training that allows a parrot to use its nimble mind and dexterous body together and some valuable insights on fun and games with your parrot to enjoy your relationship fully.

With delightful illustrations by parrot lover Richard Cole and a wealth of practical guidance, The Pleasure of Their Company is the gift you give yourself and your parrot to make life better for you both.

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The Sales Bible, New Edition: The Ultimate Sales Resource

by Jeffrey Gitomer.

 

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The Sales Bible softbound – NEW EDITION WITH SOCIAL MEDIA ANSWERS

Global sales authority Jeffrey Gitomer's bestselling classic, The Sales Bible, has been updated and appended in this new edition, offering you the ultimate sales methods and strategies that really work, every day, in real world selling situations.

 

With over 200,000 copies of the previous editions sold, The Sales Bible was listed as one of "The Ten Books Every Salesperson Should Own and Read" by the Dale Carnegie Sales Advantage Program.

 

Jeffrey Gitomer's column, "Sales Moves," and blog, "SalesBlog.com" are read by more than four million people every week. His customers include Coca-Cola, BMW, Kimpton hotels, Hilton, Wells Fargo Bank, IBM, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Hewlett Packard, and hundreds of others.

 

The Sales Bible is your personal, trusted, authoritative resource to reach your sales potential and shine like a star. Accept no substitutes. Here are a few highlights:

 

The 10.5 Commandments of Selling

Generate leads and close sales in any market environment

Find 25 proven ways to set hard-to-get appointments

Use top down selling to fill your sales pipeline with prospects who are ready to buy now

Ask the right questions to make more sales in half the time

How to use the top social media platforms to create inbound leads and prove value

The Sales Bible has helped tens of thousands of salespeople all over the world reach their potential and close the deal and it can help you. So what are you waiting for?

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Back to Bologna by Michael Dibdin.

 

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When the corpse of the shady industrialist who owns the local football team is found both shot and stabbed with a Parmesan knife, Italian police inspector Aurelio Zen is called to Bologna to oversee the investigation.

Recovering slowly from surgery, and fleeing an equally painful crisis in his personal life, Zen is only too happy to take on what at first appears to be a routine and relatively undemanding assignment.

But soon a world-famous university professor is shot with the same gun, immediately after publicly humiliating Italy's leading celebrity television chef, the case, intertwined with the fates of an earnest student of semiotics and a mysterious young immigrant who claims to be from Ruritania, spins out of control, and Zen is in no condition to rise to the challenge. There's also a wild card in the pack, Tony Speranza, Bologna's most flamboyant private detective.

Back to Bologna is dazzlingly plotted, features a cast of vivid and idiosyncratic characters, and along the way delivers both comic and serious insights into the realities of today's Italy.

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Close Quarters by Larry Heinemann.

 

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From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict, Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.

In the stripped down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war.

Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights.

It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.

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Fear of the Collar: The True Story of the Boy They Couldn't Break by Patrick Touher.

 

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Sent to an industrial school in Dublin at the age of seven, Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education and training, prayer and punishment, strict discipline, and fearful nights.

No allowances were made for emotion, sentiment, or boyhood worries, and anyone who disturbed the routine was severely punished.

Artane Industrial School demanded absolute obedience and absolute submission; Patrick's eight year stint there was an education in cruelty and fear.

Run by the Christian Brothers, the school has become synonymous with the widespread abuse of children in Ireland in the 1940's and 1950's which is currently the subject of an official inquiry.

This is the story of a childhood lived in the most horrific of circumstances, a moving and powerful account that bears testament to the courage and determination of the children that society forgot.

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Sharpe's Trafalgar by Bernard Cornwell.

 

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For military-history buffs, Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels are the literary equivalent of potato chips: you can't read just one.

And in this case, why would you want to? Blending meticulous research and old fashioned entertainment, the series follows the roguish adventurer Richard Sharpe as he swashbuckled his way through the Napoleonic Wars.

In Sharpe's Trafalgar, the author ventures into Patrick O'Brian's maritime territory.

Anchors aweigh, lads, and bring on the detailed descriptions of the ship's guns and their firing mechanisms?

In the beginning of the book, our hero sets sail for England after five months of service in India.

The plot revolves around a disguised diplomat, a marauding French warship, and an improbable love affair with a comely English aristocrat.

But make no mistake, the real draw here is combat, the battle scenes crackle with energy, and we can practically feel the chop of the waves and smell the reek of gunpowder.

(We can also smell 600 unwashed men in close quarters with rats, sewage, and bilge rot, but that's another matter entirely.) The last hundred pages fly by at a furious clip, cannons pounding and cutlasses hacking, as Cornwell re creates the naval battle of Trafalgar.

These days, of course, we know that war is bloody and brutal, not honorable or fair.

We like even our most appealing warriors to have some passing acquaintance with their dark side, and Sharpe does take a decidedly antiheroic stance on the experience of hand to hand combat.

He was ashamed when he remembered the joy of it, but there was a joy there, it was the happiness of being released to the slaughter, of having every bond of civilization removed.

It was also what Richard Sharpe was good at, it was why he wore an officer's sash instead of a private's belt, because in almost every battle the moment came when the disciplined ranks dissolved and a man simply had to claw and scratch and kill like a beast.

Beast or no beast, Sharpe is far more interesting and

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The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy.

 

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Here is the runaway bestseller that launched Tom Clancy's phenomenal career.

A military thriller so gripping in its action and so convincing in its accuracy that the author was rumored to have been debriefed by the White House.

Its theme: the greatest espionage coup in history.

Its story: the chase for a top secret Russian missile sub. Lauded as "breathlessly exciting." The Hunt for Red October remains a masterpiece of military fiction by one of the world's most popular authors, a man whose shockingly realistic scenarios continue to hold us in thrall.

Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision.

The Red October is heading west.

The Americans want her.

The Russians want her back.

And the most incredible chase in history is on...

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Last Don by Mario Puzo.

 

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In a corrupt world where crooked cops and desperate gamblers play dangerous games of betrayal, one man has power over them all.

"The Last Don" is Mario Puzo at his finest, a masterful saga of the last great American crime family, the Clericuzio, and their powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas.

Domenico Clericuzio is a wise and ruthless man who in his old age is determined to create a life free from criminal activities for his grandchildren.

But as he strives to establish his heirs in legitimate society, Secrets from his family's past spark a vicious and bloody war between cousins...

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The Quiet American by Graham GPaula Greene

 

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Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam.

 

"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused," Graham Greene's narrator Fowler remarks of Alden Pyle, the eponymous "Quiet American" of what is perhaps the most controversial novel of his career.

Pyle is the brash young idealist sent out by Washington on a mysterious mission to Saigon, where the French Army struggles against the Vietminh guerrillas.

As young Pyle's well intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds it impossible to stand safely aside as an observer.

But Fowler's motives for intervening are suspect, both to the police and himself, for Pyle has stolen Fowler's beautiful Vietnamese mistress.

 

Originally published in 1956 and twice adapted to film,

The Quiet American remains a terrifying and prescient portrait of innocence at large.

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All the Pretty Horses (Border Trilogy 1) by Cormac McCarthy.

 

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A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting.

One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time' .

 

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers.

Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.

 

All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age.

Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

 

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One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural with the supernatural in one of the most magical reading experiences on earth.

 

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice'

 

Gabriel García Márquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and of Macondo, the town they have built.

Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and its miracles.

A microcosm of Columbian life, its Secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book, and only Aureliano Buendía can fathom its mysteries and reveal its shrouded destiny.

Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

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wilight (Twilight #1) by Stephenie Meyer.

 

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About three things I was absolutely positive.

 

First, Edward was a vampire.

 

Second, there was a part of him and I didn't know how dominant that part might be, that thirsted for my blood.

 

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

 

In the first book of the Twilight Saga, internationally bestselling author Stephenie Meyer introduces Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, a pair of star-crossed lovers whose forbidden relationship ripens against the backdrop of small town suspicion and a mysterious coven of vampires.

This is a love story with bite.

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The Holy Thief by Ellis Peters.

 

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The 19th chronicle of Brother Cadfael. In the chill autumn of 1144, rising flood waters endanger the sacred remains of St. Winifred, the abbey's most cherished possession.

When the bones disappear and a corpse is found, Brother Cadfael needs his prayers answered to catch a killer.

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Modern Chess Opening Traps by William Lombardy.

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Tourist by Matt Thorne.

 

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After the uniquely bizarre reading experience that was Cherry, I felt compelled to find out more about the author, Matt Thorne.

As ambiguous and confused as my feelings about Cherry may have been, I can't deny that it really got under my skin and I couldn't stop thinking about it afterwards.

My interest in Thorne only increased when I found out he was only in his early twenties when Tourist, his debut, was published, making him just 30 when Cherry was Booker longlisted a bit of an awe (and envy-) inspiring achievement and one that made me even more keen to investigate his other novels.

 

Tourist is a VERY different book to Cherry.

I must admit that one of the main reasons I chose this out of all the Thorne books available in the library was that it has a female protagonist and narrator, while the 'maleness' of Cherry was one of the most off-putting things about it.

Oddly enough, I almost immediately found Sarah's voice so convincing and quintessentially female (in an entirely non clichéd way) that it was hard to believe the story was actually written by a man.

If anything, this book has even more sex scenes than the other, but they have none of the uncomfortable queasiness of Steve and Cherry's encounters, seeming either erotic or predictable depending on how Sarah views and describes them.

The plot itself doesn't add up to much, as this is one of those stories about life as it is, Sarah has several lovers, makes a few friends, loses them, ruminates on her past loves and relationship with her family, all against a bleak faded British seaside town backdrop.

But it's all so well done, so vividly portrayed, with just the right amount of intrigue to keep me wondering what the next little twist would be.

At times I felt so entwined in Sarah's thoughts (or as though I WAS Sarah) that I wanted to reach inside the book and point events in the direction I wanted them to go.

I disliked the whole Neil thing and was delighted when my gut feeling that it just wasn't right turned out to be correct.

(Well, I say gut feeling, but in fact I'm sure seeds of doubt were planted in my mind by cleverly placed and very subtle clues in the narrative...)

I also absolutely loved the ending - it's so refreshing to come across a conclusion that doesn't involve all the loose ends being tied up and the heroine living happily ever after; Sarah is still trying to figure out who she is and what she wants; she doesn't reconcile with her family, doesn't reunite with the love of her life, doesn't maintain ties with the life she's led in Weston-super-Mare. And, in the context of all that's gone before, this is perfect.

 

Not only was Tourist a brilliant read, it also achieved the rare distinction of making me re-assess my opinion of a book I'd already read. I now feel a lot more certain that the disturbing misogynistic undertones in Cherry were part of Steve's character, rather than a reflection of the author's own thoughts, and that the reader was supposed to feel disgust and/or pity towards Steve. In complete contrast, Sarah was one of the most believable and likeable characters I've read about all year and, the more I think about it, the more I think she's also one of the best and most authentic female narrators written by a male author that I've ever encountered. Anyone able to create two such incredibly different but equally captivating narratives is obviously a writer of great talent. Another one for the 'must read more by this author' list.

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The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul.

 

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Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense Book Description John Ralston Saul has contributed to Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense as an author.Saul holds a Ph.D. from King's College (London).

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Boris Yeltsin by John Morrison.

 

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This book examines Yeltsin's past, measuring his own autobiographical recollections against the record.

It illuminates his rise as a political maverick who provokes contradictory feelings among Russians and foreigners alike.

It also describes why the ongoing conflict between Gorbachev and Yeltsin goes to the heart of the issues that will shape the future of the Soviet Union and the balance of world power. While Gorbachev clings to the remnants of an imperial state, Yeltsin, contends Morrison, is working toward a radically restructured grouping of sovereign republics.

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The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century by Phillip Knightley.

 

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The first full history of spies, spying, and the intelligence bureaucracy, from the author of The Philby Conspiracy.

 

In 1909, the business of spying was hoisted from the domain of a few European descendents to the highest reaches of British government with the formation of Britain's SIS.

Acting in response to a totally fraudulent fear the German spy scare that preceded World War I the British soon had a lot of company as Germany, Russia, France, and other powers large and small joined the mad rush toward information and espionage.

Not far behind came the biggest of them all, first with the OSS and then with the CIA, fueled by paranoia and by more money than any new bureaucracy had ever seen.

"Bigger than State by '48," was the CIA's slogan on its founding in 1947.

And it was.

 

Now intelligence is a very big business with a very rich history, told here with a depth and verve never before brought to the subject, by a master historian.

All of the legends and their immensely readable stories and here, Sorge, Donovan, Philby, Mata Hari, Golitsyn, Angleton, Penkovsky and behind them a large question: did any act of these spies and their masters make any difference at all in the course of history?

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You Are Not Forgotten: The Story of a Lost World War II Pilot and a Twenty-First-Century Soldier's Mission to Bring Him Home by Bryan Bender.

 

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In 1944 Major Marion “Ryan” McCown Jr., an earnest young Marine Corps pilot, came under attack by enemy fire and went down with his plane, lost to the dense Jungle of Papua New Guinea.

Some sixty years later, Major George Eyster V would find himself in the same sweltering and nearly impenetrable rain forest searching for evidence of MIAs.

Coming from a long line of military officers dating back to the Revolutionary War, army service was Eyster’s family legacy. After a disillusioning tour of duty in Iraq and almost ending his army career, he accepts a posting to JPAC instead, an elite division whose sole mission is to bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives.

While Eyster’s search for McCown proves difficult, what emerges at the end of the unforgettable mission is an inspiring true tale of loss and redemption.