Американские журналисты Дэвид Уайз и Томас Росс на обширном фактическом материале раскрывают подробности операций и деятельности невидимого правительства — Центрального разведывательного управления США периода холодной войны. Авторы отмечают, что ЦРУ включает также множество других подразделений и агентств и отдельных лиц, которые внешне кажутся обычными членами обычного правительства. В книге детально рассказывается об истории создания системы разведывательных органов США, их структуре, технической оснащенности и методах работы. Подрывная деятельность против стран Восточной Европы, вторжение на Кубу, разбойничья политика в Бирме, Лаосе, Вьетнаме, Гватемале — неполный список «заслуг»...

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Увлекательная история про американские политтехнологии XX века, ещё не освоившие методы «цветных революций». Сюжет во многом основан на личном опыте автора, несколько лет проработавшего в Нигерии советником африканского племенного вождя, пытавшегося стать первым постколониальным премьер-министром в этой стране. Роман пронизан мягким юмором и доставит читателю немалое удовольствие. ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ⠀⠀

Philip St. Ives is a top professional go-between who mediates between the owner of stolen goods and the thieves who stole them. In this exciting new novel, his assignment is to recover a rare and politically important tenth century brass Shield stolen from a Washington, D.C. museum.

A provocative and entertaining novel of political adventure in contemporary Africa... Clinton Shartelle, a Southern gentleman partial to seersucker, is the best rough-and-tumble political campaign manager in the United Stares. Peter Upshaw, the narrator, is a public relations man who searches out Shartelle and persuades him to run a very unusual campaign. The candidate is Chief Sunday Akomolo. and the office sought is the premiership of Albertia, an African colony soon to achieve independence. THE SEERSUCKER WHIPSAW is an exciting and suspenseful story, full of wild but wise humor and penetrating insights into American and African attitudes. But it is Clinton Shartelle, the Seersucker...

Abner Procane is the greatest thief in the world. And he’s in trouble. Philip St. Ives, certainly the greatest professional go-between in the world, is hired to help Procane. And go-betweening being what it is for St. Ives, he is soon involved in murder and a million-dollar heist — to name only two of his problems. Readers of previous Oliver Bleeck books will find the action, suspense, wit and great dialogue they’ve come to expect in this, the best Bleeck novel yet.

The day Mike Padillo walk into Mac’s Place in West Germany, everything changes. A customer is assassinated in the bar and owner Mac McCorkle discovers that Padillo, whom he has taken on as a business partner, is a spy for the U.S. Government. From a rather complex past. Mac has managed to establish himself in a simple, uncomplicated present. He likes his life — from the cheerful ringing of the cash register to the equally cheerful response of women to his charm and affluence. Now overnight, thanks to Padillo, he is thrust into a world more likely to end with a bang than a whimper. For what appears to be a routine assignment turns out to be a deadly game of espionage — a game in...

A car bomb explodes in a white-orange flash, blowing a pretty young homicide detective to bits. A thousand miles away in Washington, Benjamin Dill learns of his sister’s murder and returns to their hometown to find out who killed her and why. Dill, a consultant to an obscure Senate investigating subcommittee, has another task to perform. He must obtain evidence from an old boyhood friend, Jake Spivey, about the illegal arms deals that have made Jake a multimillionaire, evidence that would send Jake’s former partner, the sinister Clyde Brattle, to jail for the rest of his life. Are Spivey and Brattle somehow connected to his sister’s death? Why was she leading a strange double life with...

In the mode of The Fools in Town Are on Our Side, Ross Thomas’s best-selling novel to date, The Porkchoppers takes an inside look at corruption — this time in an American labor union. The result is Thomas’s toughest and most entertaining book. Donald Cubbin is president of a 990,000-member American labor union, and he faces a tough, dirty campaign for reelection against Sammy Hanks, the union’s secretary-treasurer. When both Cubbin and opponent pull out the stops to defeat each other, the action — including election-stealing and assassination-comes fast and nasty, with unexpected results, all served up in the incomparable Ross Thomas style.

Former political campaign manager Harvey Longmire is enjoying a pleasant semi-retirement with his wife on an 80-acre farm in Virginia when he is visited by two old friends. They are working for a millionaire who has set up a foundation to investigate conspiracies and want to hire Longmire to look into the disappearance of a famous union leader. When Longmire accepts the job, he and the reader are off on the damndest adventure of conspiracy and murder ever, told as only Ross Thomas can tell it, with nonstop action and terrific suspense.

Shadowy and well-financed interests want to funnel five million dollars to rebels in the Philippine mountains, to fund the violent revolt against the fledgling Aquino government. But the rebel leader trusts no one but Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert who fought by his side during World War II. Stallings isn’t interested in Philippine power squabbles, but he is deeply interested in five million dollars. In order to reroute the cash to his own pocket, Stallings needs the kind of help that can only be provided by the most inventive confidence artists in the hemisphere: the wily Artie Wu, pretender to the throne of China, and his occasionally explosive partner Quincey Durant. The...