COPS SPIES & PI's


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An Edge of Your Seat Bundle... When turmoil and crime threatens innocent victims, it's up to the ordinary heroes of these novels to rise above the ordinary and battle threats to society. But do a cop, two spies, and a private investigator have the strength to do what's necessary to save an entire nation? International espionage, terrorism, political intrigue and serial killers will carry you to the very last page of this four-book bundle. With heart-pounding suspense and breathtaking thrills, these novels will sweep you into the heart of danger. Be prepared for the twists and turns as you are catapulted into plot-driven joyrides, complete with cops, spies, and P.I.s. THE 4 NOVEL BOX SET INCLUDES: THE HYTE MANEUVER--When Trans Air Flight 88 is hijacked on approach to Kennedy Airport, warning bells ring in every agency in the country. For the passengers and crew, the most terrifying hours of their lives unfold. When the hijacking ends with the deaths of the terrorists, and the hostages who lived freed, everyone believes the nightmare is over....but for Raymond Hyte and the surviving hostages, it was just the beginning, as a serial killer stalks the streets of New York, murdering all the surviving passengers. THE SOKOVA CONVENTION-- In a safe house in France, in 1947, a Russian KGB Agent enters and kills a master OSS agent and his wife during childbirth and kidnaps their infant son. The infant is rescued moments before the KGB agent can leave France. Every trace of this horrendous act is destroyed, and no record of the kidnapping exist. Decades later, a KGB sleeper-agent discovers a super-secret file detailing a decades old plot to control the White House and is determined to reveal his discovery--the Soviet sleeper is killed before he can complete the delivery to his CIA handler. The sleeper-agent lives long enough to warn CIA agent Kevin Chapin about a powerful mole in the American Government and how the mole's role in the upcoming Presidential elections are the key and unless he can expose the dark secret, the ruthless enemies of our country will stop at nothing to seize control of the United States..... THE MORRISY MANIFEST--the treaty was the culmination of Steven Morrisy's career. The hours of negotiation and coded messages between the United States, the Soviet Union and China gave birth to a plan to ensure peace--but in a Capitol Hill office, someone is working to guarantee it will be stillborn. Morrisy wants to bring a new level of peace to the world, knowing his candidate for President must be elected if their plan is to succeed. But the enemies of peace have discovered this and will do whatever is necessary to destroy this chance for world peace. Even if it means killing anyone who stands in their way...even Steven Morrisy's fiancé.to discredit him. ANGELS IN MOURNING--Early one morning, Private investigator Gabe Storm is summoned to an apartment by the NYPD. Storm learns his best friend, Scotty Granger, a Broadway producer, is dead. Police say Granger was murdered in a botched burglary attempt. Unwilling to accept the NYPD's take on the crime, Storm pursues the mysterious killer into the underbelly of Broadway's high finance, the dangerous world of pimps, gangsters, the Mafia and through the halls of the U.S. Senate, where he learns how even a dead man cannot keep a secret. Search Terms: Literary, Thrillers, Action & Adventure, Literature & Fiction, Espionage, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Spies & Politics, Terrorism, Serial Murder, Noir Mystery




Undercover


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'Undercover lays bare the deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded violation practised again and again by undercover police officers - troubling, timely and brilliantly executed.' Henry Porter The gripping stories of a group of police spies - written by the award-winning investigative journalists who exposed the Mark Kennedy scandal - and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage. This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor British 'subversives' - environmental activists, anti-racist groups, animal rights campaigners. Police stole the identities of dead people to create fake passports, driving licences and bank accounts. They then went deep undercover for years, inventing whole new lives so that they could live incognito among the people they were spying on. They used sex, intimate relationships and drugs to build their credibility. They betrayed friends, deceived lovers, even fathered children. And their operations continue today. Undercover reveals the truth about secret police operations - the emotional turmoil, the psychological challenges and the human cost of a lifetime of deception - and asks whether such tactics can ever be justified.




Images from the Stasi archives


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Almost 300,000 people worked for the East German secret police, per capita far more than were employed by agencies such as the CIA or the KGB. Not quite fifty years after the Berlin Wall was built, Simon Menner (*1978 in Emmendingen) discovered spectacular photographs in the Stasi archives that document the agency's surveillance work. Formerly secret, highly official photographs show officers and employees putting on professional uniforms, gluing on fake beards, or signalling to each other with their hands. Today, the sight of them is almost ridiculous, although the laughter sticks in the viewer's throat. This publication can be regarded as a visual processing of German history and an examination of current surveillance issues, yet it is extremely amusing at the same time. The fact that the doors of the opposite side-the British or German intelligence services, for example-remained closed to the artist lends the theme an explosive force as well as a tinge of absurdity.




The Great Cop Pictures


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In this pathfinding new work, the author has included many of the major (and minor) cop film titles to emerge from Hollywood over the decades.










Gangster Squad


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"Read this man's book." --James Ellroy Gangster Squad presents a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels—the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. In 1946, the LAPD launched the Gangster Squad with eight men who met covertly on street corners and slept with Tommy guns under their beds. But for two cops, all that mattered was nailing the strutting gangster Mickey Cohen. Sgt. Jack O'Mara was a square-jawed church usher, Sgt. Jerry Wooters a cynical maverick. About all they had in common was their obsession. So O'Mara set a trap to prove Mickey was a killer. And Wooters formed an alliance with Mickey's budding rival, Jack "The Enforcer" Whalen. Two cops -- two hoodlums. Their fates collided in the closing days of the 1950s, when late one night "The Enforcer" confronted Mickey and his crew. The aftermath would shake both LA's mob and police department, and signal the end of a defining era in the city's history. Warner Brothers developed the film Gangster Squad based on the research award-winning journalist Paul Lieberman conducted for this book, which reveals the unbelievable true stories behind the film. He spent more than a decade tracking down and interviewing surviving members of the real police unit as well as families and associates of the mobsters they pursued. Gangster Squad is a tour-de-force narrative reminiscent of LA Confidential.










Pictures in a Mirror


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