Spies For Hire

Anthony, Evelyn: The Doll's House, London Bantam 1992
ISBN: 0593024141 Very Good

A near Fine uninscribed copy with light age fading to page edges with near Fine complete dustjacket. The author has been a successful historical novelist and is acclaimed for her thrillers and in this, her first for Bantam, is of the post cold war period, where Europe's network of spies are out of a job. One such spy, Henry Oakham, was pensioned off at 52 after a lifetime of danger and the total erosion of his personal life and who was bitter at what the Service had done to him and his friends. He begins to contact old colleagues, old enemies, killers and moles with the plan to set up a syndicate of ruthless professionals up for hire to anyone who could pay the price. However he hadn't reckoned on Rosa Bennet, one of the brightest new talents at the Foreign Office. *** NOT EX LIB *** First Edition Very Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Perry, Steve: Spindoc, New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ace Books, 1994

Paperback. Very Good. 1st Printing. Bright/tight copy. Light edgewear. Light spinal creases. Venture Silk is a spindoc. A liar-for-hire who writes tomorrow's headlines. When a space shuttle crashes, or an alien virus escapes quarantine, Silk manipulates the data for public consumption. He's good at his job and his company is good to him. But when his lover is murdered, Silk becomes the target for spies and assassins, the spindoc must cut through a web of deception to find the one thing he's never worried about before--the truth.

[SW: FICTION, FANTASY, SCIENCE TECHNO*, ALIEN*, INTRIGUE, SUSPENSE, MYSTERY, MEDIA, JOURNALIS*, SOCIAL, CONTROL, NEWS, PRESS RELEASE*, 0441000088 FICTION/FANTASY]

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Grace, Tom: SPYDER WEB (a Novel) New York Warner Books, Incorporated 1999
ISBN: 0-446-52407-7 As New

<strong> The CIA's top-secret new weapon, known as the Spyder, is a small, nearly undetectable device that quickly learns everything about the computer system it's been assigned. In Tom Grace's adroit and stylish debut thriller, Spyder Web, this potentially destructive piece of hardware will be up for grabs, and a former Navy SEAL is about to walk blindly into the predator's attack. FROM THE PUBLISHER The Spyder moves silently and stealthily on an invisible, globe-spanning web of computer networks, gathering, sifting, and sending out the most sensitive data. A tiny programmable device, Spyder can pry open the most heavily guarded computer networks in the world and do the work of hundreds of field agents and teams of elite computer hackers. Now the battle to control this confidential technology has begun, and a former U.S. Navy SEAL has walked into the middle of the fight. SYNOPSIS In the high-stakes world of international espionage, the CIA is on the cutting edge. Its new top-secret weapon, known as the Spyder, is a small, nearly undetectable device that quickly and effectively learns everything about the computer system to which it's been assigned and transmits the information back to its controller. But as Tom Grace's adroit and stylish debut thriller, Spyder Web, reveals, the CIA isn't the only one with its beady eyes locked on the most powerful surveillance tool ever created. Soon this potentially destructive piece of hardware will be up for grabs, and a former Navy SEAL is about to walk blindly into the predator's line of attack. FROM THE CRITICS Library Journal A best seller in Detroit when it was self-published in 1997, this thriller concerns Navy SEAL-turned-computer expert Nolan Kilkenny, who discovers that someone has stolen SPYDER, the CIA's secret intelligence project. Peter Ackroyd First-rate characters...Tom Grace is a storyteller along the lines of Tom Clancy, Ken Follett and Clive Cussler. -- Detroit Free Press Kirkus Reviews First-time author Grace delves into the world of industrial espionage in a spirited if clunky technothriller about the race to control the worlds latest computer hacking device. The prize is the Spyder, a gadget that will allow its master to invade computer networks, steal information, then disappear without a trace. Two spies-for-hire, former KGB agent Alexandra Roe and money-man Ian Parnell, manage to swipe a Spyder from a company thatns making them for the CIA. Lurking just off-screen is the Chinese government, which tries to use both muscle and money to obtain the Spyder from Roe and Parnell. The CIA, meanwhile, struggles to foil the deal. The agency eventually calls on the expertise of Nolan Kilkenny, a computer expert and Navy SEAL just home from a hush-hush assassination mission in Haiti. Kilkenny, a bland, all-too-earnest, techno-speaking hero, quickly finds himself overmatched by the computer gymnastics of Roe and Parnell, who are controlling the Spyder from an unknown location and using it to steal trade secrets from the Chrysler Corp.ns computer system. Kilkenny also has to fight off a couple of murder attempts by Chinese agent Kang Fa, whons drawn in the grand tradition of Asian villains. Through some savvy cyber-detective work, and thanks to lots of handy coincidences, Kilkenny leads the American government to Roe and Parnellns London hideout. The finale, taking place in the depths of the murky Thames, offers an exciting close to an otherwise all-too-predictable story. Originally self-published and distributed in the Detroit area, where Grace works as an architect: a first effort that puts the right pieces in play, but moves them around without flair. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING An absorbing, carefully plotted adventure. -- Author of Flood Tide - Clive Cussler A nerve-rattling, fascinating good ride. Espionage will never be the same. -- Author of The Day After Tomorrow - Allan Folsom. Published at Twenty Five dollars. </strong> As New Book Jacket Hardcover 6 x 9"

[SW: Business intelligence -- Fiction, Adventure stories]

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Kel Richards: The Case of the Vanishing Corpse, Great Britain OM Publishing 1995

Softcover Good 1st Uk Paperback Edition 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 185078177X Paperback It is a world of standover gangs and armed terroists, a world in which a P.I. for hire must carry a gun if he wants to live beyond lunchtime....It is a world of religious fanatics, petty tyrants, spies and nightmares, which explode with intrgue and danger when a corpse disappears from a sealed tomb. Slight mark on back cover from removal of old bookstore sticker.

[SW: Fiction/Mystery]

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