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New York: Random House, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Very Good. A stand-alone, mid-career novel from master craftsman Ludlum, author of the Jason Bourne bestsellers and numerous other bestselling thrillers. "The Icarus Agenda" features Congressman Evan Kendrick, the quiet, unassuming representative of a remote Colorado Congressional district who is able to end the takeover of a U.S.… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. MacInnes was a very popular, mid-20th century author of romantic spy-thrillers. A librarian, married to British professor, who was also employed by Britain's MI6, MacInnes' novels, though romantic, were noted for their realistic descriptions of Cold War espionage. "The Deadly Decisions" combines two 1960s novels -- "Decision… Read more about this item

New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2002. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The final novel in the award-winning Monfredo's Cain trilogy, set in the first years of the Civil War and featuring U.S. Treasury Agent Bronwen Llyr trying desperately to warn Union generals that Confederate General Robert E. Lee is moving to cut off supplies to the Northern Army… Read more about this item

New York: Dutton/Penguin, 1991. First Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The fifth novel in McCarry's bestselling spy-thriller series featuring legendary U.S. spy, Paul Christopher. Christopher is recently retired and enjoying a quiet life in Washington, D.C., when his old employer recalls him to hunt down an unknown adversary which has been abducting agents and "brain-draining" them with a new… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The seventh of the 16 spy-thrillers featuring the legendary fictional British secret agent, James Bond, which Gardner wrote under the publisher's Ian Fleming "house name" after Fleming's death. Once again Bond returns to action to combat a violent religious cult which serves as… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2005. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The fourteenth novel from Littell, who has been regarded as one of the master craftsmen of the spy-thriller since his first, the classic, "The Defection of A.J. Lewinter." In "Legends," Martin Odum, former CIA field agent, now a New York private detective, is… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A collection of thirteen True Crime biographical sketches of four Civil War era women spies and nine female western outlaws from the 1870s to the end of the 19th century. The spies include Elizabeth Van Lew, the Union's principal spy in Richmond and… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Gethin's third novel (issued in UK as "Jack Lane's Browning") introduces a new British super-agent. Jack Halloran, 38, thin and balding, and one of only 24 in England possessing an Omega ultra secret Blue Security pass, is given an "unofficial" assignment by Omega's… Read more about this item

Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The sixteenth novel from one of the acknowledged masters of the modern spy-thriller is set in the Middle East amid the violent retribution between Palestinians and Israelis that may already have destroyed any chance for peace as the intelligence services on either side find themselves… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1946. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The 19th of mid-20th century craftsman Mason's long-running spy-thriller series featuring Army Intelligence Major Hugh North, recalled from the European Theater at the end of WWII to search for a beautiful young woman, who, during recapture of Manila from the Japanese, escaped the city… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The 29th and final book in Van Wyck Mason's long-running spy-thriller series featuring G-2's Colonel Hugh North, this time trying to secure a vital communications link in Tangiers on the "hot line" connecting Russia and the U.S. until a maverick, erratic sputnik with… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow & Co., 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Better known as a prolific writer of westerns under the pseudonymns of Will Henry and Clay Fisher, Allen also authored several science fiction works, including this novel of the Cold War era in which Yuri Suntar is whisked away from the Moscow… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The seventh novel from Furst, now acknowledged as the master of the World War II historical spy thriller, is set in late 1940 and features a Russian writer, I.A. Serebin, who arrives in Istanbul as a respresentative of a Paris-based emigre agency. Serebin, a… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. This is the third novel of ten in Ludlum's Jason Bourne series and the last written solely by Ludlum before he began collaborating on the series with Eric Van Lustbader fourteen years later in 2004. In "The Ultimatum," the man known as "Jason Bourne" is… Read more about this item

New York: Signet/New American Library, 1963. First Printing, First U.S. PB Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback, Signet D2368: One of this mid-20th century spy-thriller writer's best novels, it features Telemann, a killer so successful and polished he is considered one of the best weapons in a bristling enemy arsenal when he is dropped into… Read more about this item

New York: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A spy thriller that, like "The Day Of The Jackal," "The Eagle Has Landed," or "The Key To Rebecca," involves a professional killer and the government agent who must hunt him down, except this novel is set in 1865 near the end of the… Read more about this item

New York: Villard Books, 1990. First Edition, Second Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The fifth of Diehl's thrillers is this historical spy-thriller set in the months just prior to World War II. The Nazis have recruited an actor whom they believe is the perfect spy for a mission known only as "27." Hunting the perfect spy is… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. The second novel from the award-winning author of "Silent Joe" and "California Girl," is this mystery thriller set in the Orange County, CA, refugee community known as Little Saigon, packed with a hundred thousand immigrants from Southeast Asia. It features Chuck Frye, a… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fair. Poet and essayist Sallis has written a spy-thriller that is easily in a class with LeCarre' or Furst or Ambler. Ten years retired from the CIA where he was a member of an elite group of spies, a man currently known as David receives a… Read more about this item

Book Club (BCE/BOMC). . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jackets. A mix of five 1960s mystery, detective and spy thriller novels -- Ian Fleming's "The Man With The Golden Gun," Len Deighton's "The Billion Dollar Brain," Kemelman's "Sunday The Rabbi Stayed Home," Andrew Garve's "The Long Short Cut," and Bill Knox's "The Grey Sentinels." All are later printings or book… Read more about this item