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Language
English
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Because Secret Service agents are sworn to secrecy, the American public rarely knows what presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, and Cabinet officers and their families are really like. If they did, says a former Secret Service agent, "They would scream."
Author
Series
Dear dumb diary. Year two volume 1
Language
English
Description
Using his elite training as a former Secret Service agent to test security around high officials, Nick Averose implicates himself while trying to prevent a death before uncovering a decades-old conspiracy targeting the Oval Office.
4) Split second
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment . . . and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun.
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads"
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But...
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
The co-host of Fox & Friends shares the true story of an anonymous group of spies who played lesser-known, important roles in winning the Revolutionary War, documenting how they risked their lives to obtain crucial intelligence for General Washington using sophisticated tactics and complex codes.
7) Child 44
Author
Series
Leo Demidov thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Description
Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State's obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only his wife at his side, Leo must fight to uncover shocking...
Author
Language
English
Description
To expose the shortcomings of the Secret Service, a national investigative reporter at The Washington Post interviewed countless current and former agents and whistleblowers who risked their careers to speak to her about an agency that is broken and in desperate need of reform.
Author
Language
English
Description
Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story of the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam. Charlie Wilson, a maverick congressman from east Texas, conspired with a rogue CIA operative to launch the biggest, meanest, and most successful covert operation in the Agency's history.
In the early 1980s, after a Houston socialite turned Wilson's attention to the ragged Afghan freedom fighters who continued to fight
...12) The Real Deal
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Risking her life to protect the First Lady of the United States, Quinn Star stumbles upon a conspiracy on the part of advisors to hide the president's debilitating illness to seek their own political agenda, but her efforts to stop the plots could be undermined by the reappearance of an old lover.
13) Quincannon
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Perfect for middle grade readers and history enthusiasts, New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin presents the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War in Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon.
A Newbery Honor book
A National Book Awards
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Hired by the British Secret Service to go undercover in Hitler's Germany to secure the release of a British prisoner, Maisie Dobbs is challenged by interference by the man she holds responsible for her husband's death.
Author
Series
Liam Devlin thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Author
Series
Valentine Valley (Emma Cane) volume 4
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Secret Service agent Travis Beaumont is conflicted when he arrives in Valentine Valley for the President's son's wedding only to fall for florist Monica Shaw, a woman who's keeping secrets that could jeopardize his assignment.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of the Reconstruction-era Secret Service and its battle against the KKK's effort to suppress the emancipated African-American vote, sharing particular insights into the career of controversial Secret Service chief, Hiram C. Whitley.
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