Dead Doubles

Author : Trevor Barnes
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062857019

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Dead Doubles by Trevor Barnes Pdf

The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War—and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives. The dramatic arrest in London on January 7, 1961 of five Soviet spies made headlines worldwide and had repercussions around the globe. Alerted by the CIA, Britain's security service, MI5, had discovered two British spies stealing invaluable secrets from the highly sensitive submarine research center at Portland, UK. Their controller, Gordon Lonsdale, was a Canadian who frequently visited a middle-aged couple, the Krogers, in their sleepy London suburb. But the seemingly unassuming Krogers were revealed to be deep cover American KGB spies—infamous undercover agents the FBI had been hunting for years—and they were just one part of an extensive network of Soviet operatives in the UK. In the wake of the spies' sensational trial, the FBI uncovered the true identity of the enigmatic Lonsdale—Konon Molody, a Russian who had lived in California before being recruited by the KGB. Molody opened secret talks with MI5 to betray Russia, but before he had the chance, the KGB blackmailed Britain into spy swaps for him and the Krogers. Based on revelatory, newly-released archival material and inside sources from around the world, Dead Doubles follows the hunt for the highly damaging Portland Spy Ring. As gripping as a le Carré novel, this incredible narrative, layered with false identities, deceptions, and betrayal, crisscrosses from the UK to the USSR to the US, Canada, Europe and New Zealand, and brings to life one of the most extraordinary spy stories of the Cold War.

Author : Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher : Stories Rule Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781772634297

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Dead Double by Tracy Cooper-Posey Pdf

The woman he must now protect looks exactly like the one he once hated. An Iranian physics genius in hiding wants to give the west his world-changing theories, but will only give them to Micky Wilde, whose beauty once charmed him. The only problem? Micky is dead. Logan Wilde involved his wife in his grim business and it got her killed. For Logan the guilt runs deep. Sahara Taylor-Hughes is a San Francisco beachbum with a life and personality a million miles different from Micky’s caustic ways, but she is Micky’s double in appearance. Duped into playing Micky to get the plans, Sahara destroys what little peace Logan has left. Zaram, a potent renegade terrorist, learns of the plans. He will hold the western world to ransom if he gets them first. Logan must help Sahara beat Zaram, collect the plans and make sure she stays alive, or else lose his mind…and his heart. This romantic suspense novel is part of the Romantic Thrillers Collection. Dead Again Dead Double Fatal Wild Child Terror Stash ___ Praise for Dead Double A world of palpable danger and political intrigue. Right from the very start the intensity seeps off the pages. Night Owl Romance A story that takes you to some very exotic places. You will want to rush to the end. Literary Nymphs Dead Double was a thrilling read!! I love when an author can keep you turning the pages furiously and trying to read ahead.If you love suspenseful, fast paced thrillers with a little romantic twist, than this is the perfect book. I loved it and i highly recommend it!! Bitten By Paranormal Romance Reviews

Author : Chuck Wendig
Publisher : Abaddon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1907992413

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Double Dead by Chuck Wendig Pdf

In the Zombie apocalypse the last vampire on Earth has a hell of time keeping his food alive... A Vampire In Zombieland Coburn's been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he's a vampire and all, it doesn't much bother him. Or at least it didn't, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead – but not dead like him, oh no. See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like flesh. He's smart. Them, not so much. But they outnumber him by about a million to one. And the clotted blood of the walking dead cannot sustain him. Now he's starving. And on the run. And more pissed-off than a beestung rattlesnake. The vampire not only has to find human survivors (with their sweet, sweet blood), but now he has to transition from predator to protector – after all, a man has to look after his food supply.

Author : Robert W. Pringle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442253186

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Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence by Robert W. Pringle Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Intelligence is the only volume that lays out how Russian and Soviet intelligence works and how its operations have impacted Russian history. It covers Russian intelligence from the imperial period to the present focusing in greatest detail on Cold War espionage cases and the Putin-era intelligence community. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on espionage techniques, categories of agents, crucial operations spies, defectors, moles, and double and triple agents. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Russian Intelligence.

Author : Andrew Long
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526790262

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Secrets of the Cold War by Andrew Long Pdf

The dramatic story of how the superpowers collected secrets and used intelligence to build an advantage during the Cold War, the longest and most dangerous confrontation of the twentieth century. The Cold War, which lasted from the end of the Second World War to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was fought mostly in the shadows, with the superpowers maneuvering for strategic advantage in an anticipated global armed confrontation that thankfully never happened. How did the intelligence organizations of the major world powers go about their work? What advantages were they looking for? Did they succeed? By examining some of the famous, infamous, or lesser-known intelligence operations from both sides of the Iron Curtain, this book explains how the superpowers went about gathering intelligence on each other, examines the type of information they were looking for, what they did with it, and how it enabled them to stay one step ahead of the opposition. Possession of these secrets threatened a Third World War, but also helped keep the peace for more than four decades. With access to previously unreleased material, the author explores how the intelligence organizations, both civilian and military, took advantage of rapid developments in technology, and how they adapted to the changing threat. The book describes the epic scale of some of these operations, the surprising connections between them, and how they contributed to a complex multi-layered intelligence jigsaw which drove decision making at the highest level. On top of all the tradecraft, gadgets and ‘cloak and dagger’, the book also looks at the human side of espionage: their ideologies and motivations, the winners and losers, and the immense courage and frequent betrayal of those whose lives were touched by the Secrets of the Cold War.

Author : ?va P¢cs
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9789639116191

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Between the Living and the Dead by ?va P¢cs Pdf

The author, one of the most highly respected scholars of historical anthropology, has undertaken extensive research on folk beliefs related to communication with the supernatural sphere. In this book, she examines the systems of such communication known by early modern Hungarians, and the role these systems played in the everyday life of the village. New types of mediators are identified such as "the neighborhood witch, " the healing witch, and the demons seen in dreams. Representing a major contribution to the most up-to-date international research, Eva Pocs draws on significant East European material and literature not previously coordinated with that from the West. In so doing, she makes a valuable contribution to a subject that has recently attracted the attention of several leading scholars.

Author : Chuck Wendig
Publisher : Abaddon Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849979818

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The Complete Double Dead by Chuck Wendig Pdf

A VAMPIRE IN ZOMBIELAND You wouldn’t like Coburn. People don’t, as a rule. And that’s okay, because he doesn’t like people much either. People are food. Five years ago, Coburn went to sleep – wasn’t exactly planned – and he’s just woken up to find most everybody in the world dead. Not dead like him; he looks human, drinks blood. He’s smart. They’re... none of those things. They outnumber him by about a million to one, and their clotted blood cannot sustain him. Now he’s starving, and on the run. He has to find blood, soon, and – like it or not – he’s gonna have to keep an eye on the frail flesh-bags he finds it in. Time for the wolf to turn shepherd. No, Coburn doesn’t like people. But he’ll have to learn to.

Author : Avery Monsen,Jory John
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781452135380

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All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen,Jory John Pdf

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.

Author : Heta Pyrhönen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 080208267X

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Mayhem and Murder by Heta Pyrhönen Pdf

Both detective and reader attempt to solve the crimes in detective novels, relying on the same motifs but employing different narrative interpretations to do so. A unique and lucid examination of a complex genre.

Author : Meera Atkinson,Michael Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443852210

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Traumatic Affect by Meera Atkinson,Michael Richardson Pdf

Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma theory and affect theory, two areas of crucial relevance to contemporary thought. While both fields continue to offer insights into individual and collective experience, exploring their nexus offers timely and necessary critiques of film, literature, art, culture and politics. This collection of essays by established and emerging thinkers considers the dynamic relations within and between affect and trauma. Varied in style and approach, this volume asks how the relational subject conceived by affect theory might bring into question certain presuppositions common to trauma theory and how the ethical imperatives of trauma might require a rethinking of aspects of affect theory. Thus the contributors reimagine the unrepresentability of trauma, reveal its affective economies, and chart innovative understandings of experiences, embodiments, and events. From the silence into which Walter Benjamin fell after the suicide of his closest friend to the trauma of becoming the emblematic media figure of the London bombings, Traumatic Affect traverses diverse terrain: gesture and the everyday, cinema and torture, art and writing, civility and specters, media representation and Indigenous Australian film. Featuring essays by Shoshana Felman, Karyn Ball, Jennifer L. Biddle, Anna Gibbs, Ben O’Loughlin, Anne Rutherford, Magdalena Zolkos, Aaron Kerner, Ricardo Mbarkho, Jonathan L. Knapp, Michael Richardson and Meera Atkinson, Traumatic Affect ventures into bold new territories at the juncture between trauma and affect, illuminating pressing realities that demand engagement.

Author : Mieke Bal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 0415316618

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Narrative Theory: Interdisciplinarity by Mieke Bal Pdf

Author : Paul Binski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0801433150

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Medieval Death by Paul Binski Pdf

In this richly illustrated volume, Paul Binski provides an absorbing account of the social, theological, and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. He draws on textual, archaeological, and art historical sources to examine pagan and Christian attitudes toward the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual, and mortuary practice. Illustrated throughout with fascinating and sometimes disturbing images, Binski's account weaves together close readings of a variety of medieval thinkers. He discusses the impact of the Black Death on late medieval art and examines the development of the medieval tomb, showing the changing attitudes toward the commemoration of the dead between late antiquity and the late Middle Ages. In one chapter, Binski analyzes macabre themes in art and literature, including the Dance of Death, which reflect the medieval obsession with notions of humility, penitence, and the dangers of bodily corruption. In another, he studies the progress of the soul after death through the powerful descriptions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Dante and other writers and through portrayals of the Last Judgment and the Apocalypse in sculpture and large-scale painting.

Author : Maria Nikolajeva
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313369285

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Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature by Maria Nikolajeva Pdf

The contributors to this collection of essays address children's literature as an art form, rather than an educational instrument, as has been the traditional approach. Scholars from 10 different countries present a variety of approaches to the history of children's literature, including views on sociological, semiotic, and intertextual models of its evolution. Other issues explored include influence and interaction between stories and their countries of origin. This strong presentation of international perspectives on children's literature will be a valuable resource for scholars of children's and comparative literature.

Author : Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785272189

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Neo-Gothic Narratives by Sarah E. Maier,Brenda Ayres Pdf

Neo-Gothic Narratives defines and theorises what, exactly, qualifies as such a text, what mobilises the employment of the Gothic to speak to our own times, whether nostalgia plays a role and whether there is room for humour besides the sobriety and horror in these narratives across various media. What attracts us to the Gothic that makes us want to resurrect, reinvent, echo it? Why do we let the Gothic redefine us? Why do we let it haunt us? Does it speak to us through intertexuality, self-reflectivity, metafiction, immersion, affect? Are we reclaiming the history of women and other subalterns in the Gothic that had been denied in other forms of history? Are we revisiting the trauma of English colonisation and seeking national identity? Or are we simply tourists who enjoy cruising through the otherworld? The essays in this volume investigate both the readerly experience of Neo-Gothic narratives as well as their writerly pastiche.

Author : Louise McReynolds,Joan Neuberger
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822327902

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Imitations of Life by Louise McReynolds,Joan Neuberger Pdf

DIVUses the under-studied genre of melodrama as a critical prism for understanding Russian/Soviet history, politics and culture--in particular, the uses to which popular culture was put in the Soviet period./div