women spies

"Agent Sydney Bristow has always held her own in the traditional boy's club of espionage. In fact, she's grown comfortable in her well-earned role as respected go-to girl. But with the recent addition of her half-sister, Nadia, dynamics inevitably shift as Sydney finds herself with a new partner, roommate, and--even if unintentional--competitor."--back cover.

It is Sidney's sophomore year at UCLA. She receives her biggest mission yet, to retrieve top-secret KGB research in Berlin.

Contains biographies of 150 women spies from the Bible's Rehab Harlot to the Cold War era's Ethel Rosenberg. Includes black and white photographs of some of the spies.

Contents: Deborah Samson--Nancy Hart--Lydia Darragh--Mercy Otis Warren--Esther DeBerdt Reed--Elizabeth Martin--Sybil Ludington--Margaret Corbin--After the war.

Mrs. Pollifax decides to forego the Garden Club's Sunday tea when she is called upon by the CIA to accept a top secret assignment in Istanbul.

Looks at the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, a Canadian-born woman who disguised herself as a man to join the army during the Civil War, working as a nurse and then a spy for the Union.

Describes the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who disguised herself as a man, took the name Frank Thompson, joined a Michigan army regiment to fight in the Civil War, served as a nurse on the battlefield, and became a spy.

Shelby Cervosier flees to America with her sister after she agreed to go on a treacherous mission in Haiti--in exchange for legal amnesty and political asylum over the manslaughter charges she faced after she was raped--and the man who hired her wants her dead, but she is followed by two assassins--Hank Pekins and Vlad, "The Impaler.".

Three very different detectives work with and against each other as they engage in their obsessive pursuits of Witch, an ingenious assassin who must be stopped before carrying out a deadly assignment that will have international repercussions.