Showing results for "the confession" in Espionage

Officiellement, Bastien Hernandez est économiste. En réalité, c'est un agent dormant des services secrets français en poste au Maroc. Il mène une vie en apparence anodine dans une villa isolée, sur les hauteurs de Tanger. Soudain, son existence est bouleversée par un attentat qui frappe New York. Les services de renseignement sont placés en alerte maximum. Un banal prospectus est glissé dans sa boîte aux lettres : l'agent dormant est réveillé.

The Seal of Confession is the latest breathtaking espionage thriller from the author of Selling St. Christopher. Clemmie, a life-worn shadow operator for the British Secret Service, is accompanied by her team of young misfits, as they investigate the murder of a Russian Orthodox priest in London. However, their mission is anything but routine, and they are soon contending with a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

Michelle Reagan - code name Eden - is the CIA Special Activities Division's newest covert action operator, an assassin, who struggles between wanting to succeed in her new profession for herself and her charismatic boss, and the moral quandaries of what she must do to innocent people who are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Although she faces seemingly intractable decisions as she executes her missions across the globe, the adversary most difficult to overcome may very well be her own conscience.

As a boy, Ray Walker is recruited by the Culper Spy Ring, the modern-day iteration of George Washington's personal spy network. Steered through early adulthood, Ray finds himself leading two lives: one as an ordinary businessman, the other as a spy for the Culper Spy Ring. Owning a travel agency provides the ideal cover for his other life as a spy. Ray is no James Bond, but in his own rugged, down-to-earth Brooklyn way, has a profound love of country, for which he is willing to risk everything.