Brian Garfield
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A California politician goes to Mexico to make himself king The Sonorans hire Henry Crabb to protect them from Apaches. In the lawless days that followed the Mexican-American War, bands of Indians roamed the countryside, preying on the hard-working peasants of northern Mexico. Desperate for help, a farming community offers Crabb land to establish a colony in exchange for a year's protection from the marauders. The Sonorans do not recognize that Crabb-a...
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A dozen stories tracking the CIA's most adept-and unusual-spy There are no more spies like Charlie Dark. An old-timer whose experience stretches back to the Second World War, his main distinction is that after decades playing the game he is still alive. He is overweight, clumsy, and afraid of guns-a nonconformist in an agency built on toeing the line. Though his superiors hate him for his eccentricities, they privately admit that he may be the best...
3) Hopscotch
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Bored with retirement, an ex-spy challenges his old agency to a game Miles Kendig is one of the CIA's top deep-cover agents, until an injury ruins him for active duty. Rather than take a desk job, he retires. But the tawdry thrills of civilian life-gambling, drinking, sex-offer none of the pleasures of the intelligence game. Even a Russian agent's offer to go to work against his old employers seems dull. Without the thrill of unpredictable conflict,...
4) Death wish
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A family man becomes a vigilante killing machine when his family is violently attacked by robbers.
5) Hopscotch
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Criterion collection volume 163
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After being relegated to a desk job, CIA agent Miles Kendig writes a memoir exposing the innermost secrets of every major intelligence agency in the world. The CIA wants him dead, but he refuses to cooperate: he's having too much fun.