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Tag Archives: espionage

Final Girls – Mira Grant

2017-05-02

An investigative journalist known for debunking pseudoscience tests a VR system that treats its patients through scenarios based on horror movies. Nothing bad could come of that, right?

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Agents of Dreamland – Caitlín R. Kiernan

2017-03-06

A government agent known as the Signalman embarks on an information exchange to learn more about an apocalyptic cult and the deadly fungoid it has unleashed…

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Rosewater – Tade Thompson

2017-02-18

In a near-future Nigeria, beneath the emergence of a strange alien dome, a psychic working for the government sets out to find why others of his kind are dying.

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Europe in Winter – Dave Hutchinson

2016-11-29

Acts of terrorism erupt across Europe as it enters Union with the Community; it’s up to Rudi and his allies to unravel what’s behind this spreading chaos.

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Europe at Midnight – Dave Hutchinson

2015-11-12

A return to Hutchison’s balkanized Europe, a near-future police procedural that follows two narratives that converge at an alternate universe.

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Europe in Autumn – Dave Hutchinson

2015-11-04

Rudi, an Estonian chef working in Poland, must navigate a balkanized Europe fractured into hundreds of polities, in a novel that reads like the love-child of le Carré and Kafka.

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The Smuggled Atom Bomb – Philip Wylie

2015-02-14

Clumsy physics grad student stumbles onto a small group of conspirators smuggling atomic bomb parts into the US, mining major cities with radioactive death.

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The High Wire – William Haggard

2014-08-26

When foreign agents blackmail the lead manager of the secretive Project A, it’s up to the British Security Executive to protect the mysterious project at all costs.

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Binary – Michael Crichton

2014-06-01

When a political radical hijacks a cargo of nerve gas, planning to use it on San Diego to kill the President, it’s up to federal agent John Graves to stop him.

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Downbelow Station – C.J. Cherryh

2013-12-31

Pell’s World and Downbelow Station become the heart of turmoil in an interstellar war, the fulcrum where the fate of Earth and Union will be decided.

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Flashpoint – Dan Marlowe

2013-07-01

Ex-criminal turned government agent Earl Drake is the target of Middle Eastern terrorists, and sets off after them to New York to disrupt their nefarious scheme.

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