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The Tourist
By Olen Steinhauer
F STEINHAU
Milo Weaver works a desk job with the CIA but happens to interrogate a man being held as an assassin known as the “Tiger," who is then found dead in his cell. Then Milo pays a visit to a colleague from their time together in black ops, who is then found dead in her apartment. Next Milo is on vacation with his family and he gets a call from his superior giving him a "go" code and Milo sets off on the run. Milo has to figure out what's going on while Homeland security and the CIA itself are trying to bring him in.

Thunderhead
By Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
F PRESTON
Archaeologist Nora Kelly receives a mysterious letter written by her father who 16 years earlier disappeared into the deserts of the Southwest on an expedition to discover the location of Quivira—the Anasazi Indians’ lost city of gold. Now Nora embarks on the same quest hoping to discover what happened to her father.

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
By Ben Macintyre
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An extraordinary account of the most successful deception—and certainly the strangest—ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan—code named Operation Mincemeat—was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose.