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A chronicle of the fourteen-year manhunt and capture of Balkan war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, as well as…
the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for war crimes. Some violence. 2016Missing man: the American spy who vanished in Iran
Par Barry Meier. 2016
In 2013, it was revealed that former FBI agent turned private investigator Robert Levinson, who had disappeared in Iran six…
years prior, had been there on a mission for the CIA and was captured. Interviews and CIA files weave together the story of Levinson's time in Iran and the efforts to rescue him. 2016Near and distant neighbors: a new history of Soviet intelligence
Par Jonathan Haslam. 2015
An account of Soviet intelligence services from the October Revolution to the end of the Cold War. The author examines…
Nikita Khrushchev and his successors' use of codes and ciphers, as well as the reasons they discarded ideological recruitment in favor of blackmail and bribery. 2015Cyberphobia: identity, trust, security and the Internet
Par Edward Lucas. 2015
Senior editor at the Economist examines the culture surrounding cybercrimes--crimes involving computers--in the early twenty-first century. Topics include hackers, identity…
theft, corporate and political warfare using computers, the darknet where illegal and morally questionable transactions occur, and how to understand and protect oneself against these risks in everyday life. 2015The devil's chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America's secret government
Par David Talbot. 2015
Portrait of Allen Welsh Dulles and his reign as the longest-serving director of the CIA. Utilizes government documents, intelligence sources,…
personal correspondence, journals, and exclusive interviews to characterize Dulles, his work, and his questionable behavior and tactics. Bestseller. 2015Keep moving: and other tips and truths about aging
Par Dick Van Dyke. 2015
Approaching his ninetieth birthday, the entertainer shares upbeat stories and advice about life and aging, with a focus on keeping…
a positive attitude. He stresses that he tries to live life to the fullest and never worries about what is "age appropriate."2015Surprise attack: from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi
Par Larry Hancock, Larry J Hancock. 2015
An examination of over sixty years of military and terror threats against America, as well as of the intelligence tools…
and practices that provided warnings of those attacks. Traces the evolution and application of these intelligence practices and discusses why these warnings have often failed to interdict or intercept actual attacks. 2015A life of lies and spies: tales of a CIA covert ops polygraph interrogator
Par Alan B. Trabue. 2015
Memoirs from a former CIA officer, describing his work polygraphing foreign spies and his many other adventures, beginning with his…
induction to the CIA in 1971. He details many of his high-adrenaline experiences as well as humorous stories. He also discusses the CIA's use of polygraph and interrogation in validating information. 2015How to catch a Russian spy: the true story of an American civilian turned double agent
Par Ellis Henican, Naveed Jamali. 2015
In 2008 the author, an average American, aided an initially reluctant FBI duo in taking down a top Russian spy…
based at the United Nations, using only what he'd learned about spying from books, films, games, and TV. In the process, he spent four years as a civilian double agent. Some strong language. 2015The new spymasters: inside the modern world of espionage from the Cold War to global terror
Par Stephen Grey. 2015
In the ever-changing world of espionage, the world's spymasters have begun to shun human intelligence gathering, replacing it with technical…
methods such as satellite photography and global communications interception. Journalist Stephen Grey examines how this has failed at times, however, and provides a history of favored techniques and technologies. 2015Checklist for my family: a guide to my history, financial plans, and final wishes
Par Sally Balch Hurme. 2015
Off the radar: a father's secret, a mother's heroism, and a son's quest
Par Cyrus Copeland. 2015
An American civilian, Max Copeland, was seized by the Revolutionary Guards in Iran in 1979 and charged with espionage. The…
author, Max's son, relates how his mother, Shahin, attempted to free Max, and he searches to uncover just who his father really was. Strong language. 2015A very dangerous woman: the lives, loves and lies of Russia's most seductive spy
Par Jeremy Dronfield, Deborah McDonald. 2015
Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg began a passionate affair with British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart in the…
early twentieth century, even while spying on him for the Bolsheviks. The authors recount Moura's attempts to save Lockhart and her continued espionage after later fleeing to England. Some descriptions of sex. 2015Our man in Charleston: Britain's secret agent in the Civil War South
Par Christopher Dickey. 2015
Journalist Christopher Dickey recounts the work of Robert Bunch, who served as British consul in Charleston in 1853. His work…
also encompassed sending intelligence to the British government and working against his neighbors' plans for a new Confederacy, even on the brink of the American Civil War. Some strong language. 2015The emotional journey of the Alzheimer's family
Par Robert B. Santulli, Kesstan Blandin. 2015
Immediate family members, friends, and neighbors of those with Alzheimer's undergo tremendous psychological and emotional change as they witness the…
disease progress. Santulli and Blandin chart this journey, the process of adaptation and acceptance, and provide insight on how to understand and cope with personal stress. 2015Editor-in-chief of Truthdig Robert Scheer discusses the widespread surveillance of the general public conducted by corporations and government agencies and…
condemns the erosion of privacy rights. He argues that the information revolution, despite its positive elements, contains the seeds of freedom's destruction in the form of a surveillance state. 2015Bettyville: a memoir
Par George Hodgman. 2015
Hodgman, in between New York City editing jobs, describes returning to Paris, Missouri, to act as his widowed mother's caretaker.…
He delves into their shared perfectionist loner personalities--now colored by prickly ninety-one-year-old Betty's memory problems and failing health, and her only child's drug past and homosexuality. Some strong language. 2015The Zhivago affair: the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
Par Peter Finn, Petra Couvée. 2014
Journalist Finn and translator Couvée examine the life and major work of Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), author of Doctor Zhivago (DB…
75275). Details influences on the novel, writing culture in the Soviet state, how the novel was published, and its use by Western intelligence agencies as Cold War propaganda. Some strong language. 2014Pay any price: greed, power, and endless war
Par James Risen. 2014
Author of State of War (DB 61826) examines the financial cost of war and governmental waste. Discusses duplication of efforts…
by federal agencies, loss of aid dollars sent to war-torn countries, and the persecution of whistleblowers within the United States. 2014Being mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
Par Atul Gawande. 2014
Surgeon and author of Complications (DB 56061) and The Checklist Manifesto (DB 70422) examines the state of end-of-life care in…
the twenty-first century. Discusses medical advances which have extended life expectancy, limited training of physicians to discuss mortality with patients and family members, and ways to be honest. Bestseller. 2014