Résultats pour "Cher" dans Espionnage

Brin continues to fight a silent war flooded with conspiracies and intrigue. As political tensions in Britain rise, he witnesses the fascists’ plans to conduct a violent coup. If successful, they would bring down the government and replace King George VI with the Duke of Windsor. Yet even with this imminent threat, the new home secretary refuses to intern the British plotters hiding amongst the aristocracy and Parliament benches.

As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, an underfunded MI5 struggles to contain the German and Russian spies who are flocking to England to recruit sympathetic British agents. The section’s biggest challenge, however, lies with fascist aristocrats and several Parliament MPs who support Nazi Germany’s foreign policy and its leader Adolf Hitler. Some of them, including Sir Oswald Mosley, are planning for a revolution if Prime Minister Chamberlain declares war on the Third Reich.

Brinley Knight has a photographic memory. Bored with his mundane job, he accepts an offer from MI5 to become a full-time spy in a shadowy world of espionage. As Britain stands at the edge of war, Brin learns to his cost that "defending the realm" means duty before family. Hitler’s fifth columnists in Britain emerge from the darkness as Germany’s military might eyes new territories east of the Rhine. German spies and fascists operate in opulent dining rooms and in the back alleys of London’s East End. Menacing predators, they hunt for information that could aid the Führer.

Britain buckles under a Luftwaffe Blitz, but its population does not break. After Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Brin accompanies Winston Churchill across the Atlantic for historic meetings with President Roosevelt.

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pins all Britain’s hopes for peace on a face-to-face meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich, but behind their civilized discussions, Germany amasses armaments and moves its plans forward for its invasion of Czechoslovakia. Gerhardt von Kessler continues to operate his deadly rogue operations in Britain, and he is always one step ahead of MI5.

Mark Carson was on a fast rise to the top of Global Guidance Corporation, but his wife’s multiple affairs temporarily knocked him off the ladder. After their divorce and some time spent trying to make sense of it all, he was working harder than ever to get ahead. But not everyone believes hard work is the way to advance one’s career. Some want to jump straight to the front of the line any way they can. Max Wong, a GGC engineer is one such person - willing to take short cuts to reap the reward of significant wealth.