women spies

A secret agent like no other, Mrs. Pollifax was leading a very full life: Garden Club, karate, yoga and a little spying now and then. This time the mysterious Mr. Carstairs sent her to Switzerland to a famous health resort where the world's intelligence agents had gathered. Her mission: to track down a missing package of plutonium just enough to make a small atomic bomb. It was a job that suited Mrs. Pollifax's talents. She's good with people and even better at sniffing out their secrets. But it was not until she became enchanted with Robin, the young jewel thief, that her new adventure really began.

Christine Granville was Britain's first female special agent of World War II, and the daughter of a Polish aristocrat and his wealthy Jewish wife. In 1939, after the outbreak of war, she was recruited by British intelligence and her courage, quick wit and determination saved the lives of many fellow officers.

Tells the stories of thirty women or groups of women who participated in the Civil War as soldiers, spies, journalists, nurses, and in other significant roles.

Traces the life of a member of the OSS and the women who served undercover during World War II, detailing Nazi interrogations and expeditions behind enemy lines.

Odette Brailly had been the first woman to be awarded the GC, as well as the Legion d'Honneur. This biography reveals the story of this wartime heroine and the officer who posed as her husband. It also reveals the truth of Odette's mission and the heart-breaking identity of her real betrayer.

Catherine Ling is instructed by assassin and master poisoner Hu Chang before being recruited by the CIA and pitted against a rogue operative in a race to obtain a deadly poison.

"The stifling summer streets of Lisbon are teeming with spies and informers when Andrea Aspinall, a brilliant English mathematician turned spy, disappears under a new identity. Double agent Karl Voss, experienced in the illusions of intrigue, arrives in Lisbon under the German Legation, though he is secretly plotting against the Nazis. In the lethal tranquility of a corrupted paradise, Andrea and Karl meet and embark on a brief, intense love affair."--back cover.

A strain of the deadly Marburg virus has come up for sale on the black market. APO has one potential lead: a researcher named Magrite whose success in treating Marburg victims may be the reason for his sudden disappearance. Agent Sydney Bristow and her father, Jack, close in on the kidnapper, but determining Magrite's location is only the first challenge in a chain of obstacles.