1999, ISBN: 9780395656686

Hardcover

Robin Brass Studio, Inc., 1999. Trade Paperback. Good. Softcover. Sound & good copy, light to moderate rubbing/edgewear to wraps., Robin Brass Studio, Inc., 1999, The Reader's Dige… More...

Robin Brass Studio, Inc., 1999. Trade Paperback. Good. Softcover. Sound & good copy, light to moderate rubbing/edgewear to wraps., Robin Brass Studio, Inc., 1999, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1974. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. The pages are clean, no tears or soiling. The pages are tight. The binding is a bit loose but nor cracked. The covers and spine are scuffed and a bit faded. ; Book Club Edition; Color Illustrations; Thick Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 734 pages; The stories are: THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by John Buchan. England 1914. A mood of uneasiness prevails. In Germany the Kaiser is rattling his sword and war drums are rumbling over the Continent. Into this setting comes Richard Hannay, an attractive young man but footloose and bored. He was bound to get into trouble and Scudder was trouble. First it was murder. Then not only was Scotland Yard on Hannay's tail, but there was that band of ruthless men known simply by the code name "Black Stone" -- men who were determined to deal England a fatal knockout blow on the Eve of war with Germany. This story is illustrated by Guy Deel; OPERATION CICERO by L. C. Moyzisch, translated by Constantine Fitzgibbon and Heinrich Fraenkel. During the tense final phase of World War II, the German embassy in neutral Turkey paid a fortune for quantities of stolen "most secret" British documents -- documents that revealed crucial Allied war plans to the enemy only days after they had been made. It was the author L. C. Moyzisch, an attaché at the German embassy, who effected these transactions, meeting regularly with a mysterious Albanian undercover agent employed as a valet at the British embassy and known by the code name "Cicero. The story is illustrated by Allan Mardon; FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE by Ian Fleming. At the highest level of Soviet intelligence a sinister plot is set in motion to shake the British Secret Service to its foundations. One of its top agents, 007, the redoubtable James Bond, is to be the victim of a murder so sensational that it will embarrass Her Majesty's government. The bait that will lure the English operative into the trap prepared for him in Istanbul is he beautiful Tania. But waiting in the wings is the cold-eyed Granitsky, chief executioner for SMERSCH, Soviet intelligence's most dreaded and secret department. And behind Grainitsky is the malevolent, toadlike woman, Colonel Rosa Klebb, head of Otdyel II, in charge of operations and executions. The story is illustrated by Richard Harvey; I, BENEDICT ARNOLD The Anatomy of Treason by Cornel Lengyel. Benedict Arnold nearly -- nearly one hundred and seventy-five years his death that name still stands as the most famous synonym for traitor in the English language. Washington's most brilliant field general, Arnold was an officer of extraordinary bravery, military prowess, and personal magnetism. From Ticonderoga to Saratoga, in battle after battle, he led the attack, inspiring the ragged American troops with his own fierce courage. Twice he was wounded. The country rang with his praise; he was called the Hannibal of America. There seemed no limits to the heights of success, happiness, and personal glory he might reach. He had a young wife of impressive family background, great beauty, and charm. They had a lovely child. Then when American fortunes were in doubt, he performed the one unforgivable act: he tried to deliver into the hands of the enemy his comrades, his commander in chief, and his struggling country. And he very nearly succeeded. Benedict Arnold's treachery can probably never be fully explained or understood. To the extent that it can, here is the whole incredible tale, based on firsthand evidence and told with a compelling dramatic sweep. The story is illustrated by David Blossom: BACKGROUND TO DANGER by Eric Ambler. Kenton was broke; worse even, he was hungry -- a down-and-out journalist with nothing to write about. So when the odd-looking little man on the train offered him a sizable sum of money to carry a harmless-looking parcel of papers through the customs check at the border between Germany and Austria, he leaped at the chance. How could he know that the parcel contained political dynamite - enough to set off a worldwide conflagration, plunge him up to his neck in a deadly conspiracy, and make him personally the target of both Soviet and Nazi agents? The story is illustrated by Charles Wilkinson; KLAUS FUCHS, from the book, THE TRAITORS by Alan Moorehead. The extraordinary story of Klaus Fuchs, who betrayed British and American atomic secrets to the Russians, is a classic study of the type of traitor whom the author describes as "the man who is not a professional spy, nor a man out essentially for personal gain, but a self-appointed idealist. " Fuchs was such a man -- a brilliant atomic scientist, a shy, self-effacing man burningly convinced of the purity of his own motives. Moorehead's portrait of Fuchs, coupled with the exciting story of how British intelligence slowly drew its net about him, makes for fascinating and illuminating reading. The story is illustrated by T. Upshur; -THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD by John Le Carré. "We do disagreeable things so that ordinary people can sleep safely in their beds at night, " says the head of British intelligence. For in the field of espionage, the cold war ceases to be cold and is fought remorselessly by both sides. In this case the "disagreeable thing" is a fiendishly subtle murder plan, the unfolding of which will keep the reader rapt and guessing until the very end. The story is illustrated by James Barkley. The book weighs 2½ pounds before packaging, measures 9¼" high by 6¼" wide and 2" thick. Each story is illustrated. Will combine shipping on more than one book. ., The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1974, New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. 431 pages. Clean, firmly bound copy. Spine has slight concavity but is not creased. No markings. C-1 TB415, Ticknor & Fields, 1983<

1993, ISBN: 0395656680

[EAN: 9780395656686], [PU: Mariner Books March 1993], Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like … More...

[EAN: 9780395656686], [PU: Mariner Books March 1993], Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book., Books<