Spy Europe

A billionaire software genius, who is a sociopath, wants to end all life on Earth to force God to come to him. His plan involves the ignition of the Italian Caldera of volcanoes along a continental fault line to trigger volcanoes from Iceland to the Escarpment in Africa. Governments do not believe the threat as realistic or credible. It is up to Doc, an MI-6 agent and a SRT team of Marines to stop the pending annihilation of all life on Earth.

Keine Zeit zu sterben - oder doch? Die geheimste Geheimdienstorganisation ermittelt in ihrem ersten Fall. Nachdem die unauffällige Assistentin Lena Kaufmann miterlebt hat, wie ihr Chef durch ein professionelles Killerkommando umgebracht wurde, kommt sie in Kontakt mit der geheimen europäischen Agentenorganisation A.R.G.O.S., für die ihr Chef offenbar arbeitete. Als Zeugin und im Besitz von wichtigen A.R.G.O.S.-Geheiminformationen ist nun auch Lena im Visier der Killer. Eine Gruppe um den Agenten Perseus übernimmt ihren Schutz.

The gallows, the rack, and angry mobs are part of the menace in this horrific novel set in 15th century Paris. Quasimodo, the kind-hearted, hunchbacked bell ringer and the lovely La Esmaralda struggle to survive the brutality that surrounds them.

Keine Zeit zu sterben? Wir machen das schon! In ganz Europa häufen sich rätselhafte Satellitenfehlfunktionen mit dramatischen Folgen. Das ruft den geheimsten europäischen Geheimdienst A.R.G.O.S. auf den Plan. Lena Kaufmann als neue Agentin Helena sowie die Agenten Perseus, Kirke und Elektra werden auf den Fall angesetzt. Was sie herausfinden, lässt ihnen das Blut in den Adern gefrieren. Denn die unbekannten Angreifer haben nicht nur die Satellitensysteme der europäischen Staaten unter Kontrolle, sondern auch die hochgeschützten A.R.G.O.S.-Satelliten gehackt.

In the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds - to rank alongside Einstein. Pyke was an inventor, adventurer, polymath, and unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, wrote a bestseller, and came up with the idea for the US and Canadian Special Forces. Henry Hemming is the first reporter to sift through this extraordinary new information and finally tell Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets.

As the Germans waged a brutal war across Europe, details of every Nazi plan, every attack, every troop movement were sent over radio. But to the Allied troops listening in―and they were always listening―the crucial messages sounded like gibberish. The communications were encoded with a powerful cipher, making all information utterly inaccessible … unless you could unlock the key to the secret code behind the German’s powerful Enigma machine.

Lucas Benes faces his greatest challenge yet when he finds a secret message from his mother hidden inside a sunken cargo container. In a near-death scuba diving experience, Lucas and the new resistance kids learn that Good Company CEO Siba Günerro - along with her newest and most beautiful Curukians is planning a massive art heist. Lucas and friends scour the Spanish countryside looking for clues. But to unravel the mysteries of both the robbery and the cryptic message, Lucas must first discover the only thing that is worth more than priceless.

Ireland’s Secret War reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan Bryan and G2—the military intelligence branch of the Irish Defence Forces—at the centre of the country’s battle against Nazi Germany. With the help of over 35 hours of previously unpublished audio recordings that were held in storage in Northern California for over 50 years, Marc Mc Menamin reveals the extraordinary unheard history of WWII in Ireland, told from the point of view of the main protagonists.

Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding story of how a handful of amateur British intelligence agents wined, dined, and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians, and businessmen, they hoped to use the recently founded Anglo-German Fellowship as a vehicle to civilize and enlighten the Nazis. Straddling the porous border between hard and soft diplomacy, their activities fueled tensions between the amateur and the professional diplomats in both London and Berlin.

Raised in a lush suburb of 1920s Paris, Noor Inayat Khan was an introspective musician and writer, dedicated to her family and to her father’s spiritual values of harmony, beauty, and tolerance. She did not seem destined for wartime heroism. Yet, faced with the evils of Nazi violence and the German occupation of France, Noor joined the British Special Operations Executive and trained in espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance. For crucial months of the war, Noor was the only wireless operator in France sending critical information to London.

In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the United States would be able to coexist with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.

Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Sneum, Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made an incredible escape from Denmark in a battered old Hornet Moth aircraft - which he had to refuel in mid-air by climbing out on the wing. Later, he escaped from Denmark again - by walking across a treacherous frozen sea on which two of his companions died. Tommy brought over precious intelligence about the Nazi radar installations in Denmark and their atom bomb.

The Irish played a huge role in the American Revolution, not just on the battlefield but also in the field hospitals and in the framing of the Declaration of Independence. Niall O'Dowd, author of Lincoln and the Irish and A New Ireland, takes listeners on a journey into the unexplored contributions of the Irish in the American Revolution and behind the scenes of the relationships of some of those men and women with the first president of the United States.

Amid the chilling rise of Hitler’s Germany, a twelve-year-old boy and his friends confront rising Nazi threats during a family trip to Austria in this third book in the action-packed middle grade series Web of the Spider for fans of I Survived and A Night Divided. It’s the summer of 1931 and...

The book outlines “the activities of Nazi agents in the United States, Mexico, and Central America” in the late 1930s. “During the past five years,” Spivak writes, “I have observed some of them, watching the original, crudely organized and directed propaganda machine develop, grow and leave an influence far wider than most people seem to realize.” First aimed at domestic propaganda, these activities extended to probing U.S. military secrets and attempting to damage U.S. relations to its neighbors to the south.

A tale of terrorism, espionage, and an epic struggle for justice in an America on the verge, sparked by a massive and mysterious explosion in New York Harbor in 1916.

That year, while the Allied and Central forces waged war in Europe, a group of German saboteurs blew up Black Tom Island, a spit of land in New York Harbor within earshot of downtown Manhattan. The subsequent hail of missiles and gunpowder devastated much of lower New York City.

In this inspiring biography, discover the true story of Harriet the Spy author Louise Fitzhugh -- and learn about the woman behind one of literature's most beloved heroines. Harriet the Spy, first published in 1964, has mesmerized generations of readers and launched a million diarists. Its...

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (1876 – 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France during the first World War. Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (1861 – 1939) was a British intelligence officer, police officer, prison governor, colonial administrator, and writer.

Mentire, intimidire, nascondere e scoraggiare coloro che interferiscono. Europe Connection racconta l'ascesa al vertice e la successiva ripida caduta di un lobbista. Partendo da una storia reale, l'autrice traccia un viaggio in dieci sequenze, in un continuo monologo interiore del protagonista. L'altra faccia della politica europea, in cui si è burattini nelle mani degli altri. Benvenuti nel mondo di un lobbista.

Anstatt ihn wegen Kindesmissbrauch zu verurteilen, wurde Fritz Haarmann als psychisch unzurechnungsfähig eingestuft und in eine psychiatrische Anstalt eingewiesen, bis er durch eine neue Diagnose als ‚moralisch unterbemittelt‘ eingestuft und freigelassen wurde. Seine Kenntnisse über die kriminelle Unterwelt überzeugten die Polizei, über seine ‚Aktivitäten‘ hinwegzusehen und ihm als Informant zu vertrauen.