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Agent Garbo: the Brilliant, Eccentric Secret Agent Who Tricked Hitler and Saved D-Day by Stephan Talty
Category: History
Were the D-Day landings saved from failure because of a lone secret agent? Agent Garbo tells the astonishing story of a self-made secret agent who matched wits with the best minds of the Third Reich - and won. Juan Pujol was a nobody, a Barcelona poultry farmer determined to oppose the Nazis. Using only ...Show more
Black Irish by Stephan Talty
Category: Fiction | Series: Absalom Kearney
It was only the first lie...As the snow drives down and the full force of a Buffalo winter makes itself felt, a man's body is found. Barely recognisable, the only clues the police have are the '1' carved into the victim's face and the killer's sinister calling card, a plastic toy monkey. This is 'The Co ...Show more
Empire of Blue Water by Stephan Talty
Category: History
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings ...Show more
Empire of Blue Water : Henry Morgan and the pirates who ruled th Caribbean waves by Stephan Talty
Category: History
Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, arrived in the New World in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three decades, his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English became legend. His daring attacks on the mighty Spanish Empire on land and sea changed the fates of kings ...Show more
Granite Mountain["The Firsthand Account of a Tragic Wildfire, Its Lone Survivor, and the Firefighters Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice"] by Brendan McDonough; Stephan Talty (As told to)
Category: Biography
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires ...Show more
Granite Mountain - The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor by Brendan McDonough; Stephan Talty (As told to)
Category: Biography
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires ...Show more
Koresh The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty
Category: TRUE CRIME
In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth of the extreme wing of American conservatism, invoked by militiamen, gun rights advocates, and the alt-right.The leader of the evange ...Show more
My Lost Brothers - The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor by Brendan McDonough; Stephan Talty (As told to)
Category: Biography
My Lost Brothers is a gripping memoir that traces Brendan McDonough's escape from the dead end of drug addiction through finding his purpose among the elite firefighters of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and a harrowing first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill ...Show more
The Black Hand by Stephan Talty
Category: True Crime
Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave filled New York City, and then the entire country, with fear. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped, and dozens of innocent victims were gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matr ...Show more
The Good Assassin - Mossad's Hunt for the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty
Category: TRUE CRIME
Before the Second World War, Herbert Cukurs was a world-famous aviator and a hero in his hometown of Riga, Latvia. During the war he joined the SS, led a militia and was responsible for the genocide of 30,000 Latvian Jews. By the 1960s the man who became known as the Butcher of Riga was living in South ...Show more