Keith Thomson
1) Twice a spy
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Hiding out in Switzerland to avoid criminal charges in America, Charlie and Drummond Clark experiment with treatments to retrieve Drummond's memory before confronting a formidable CIA case officer to save kidnapped NSA operative Alice Rutherford.
3) Once a Spy
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Drummand Clark volume 1
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[2010]
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Drummond Clark was once a spy of legendary proportions. Now Alzheimer's disease has taken its toll and he's just a confused old man who has wandered away from home, waiting for his son to fetch him. When Charlie Clark takes a break from his latest losing streak at the track to bring Drummond back to his Brooklyn home, they find it blown sky highand then bullets start flying in every direction. At first, Charlie thinks his Russian zcreditorsy are employing...
4) Paradise of the damned: the story of an obsessive quest for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold
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2024.
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"As early as 1530, reports of El Dorado, a city of gold in the South American interior, beckoned to European explorers. Whether there was any truth to the stories remained to be seen, but the allure of unimaginable riches was enough to ensnare dozens of would-be heroes and glory hounds in the desperate hunt. Among them was Sir Walter Raleigh: ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth, and, before long, El Dorado fanatic. Entering the Elizabethan...
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[2008]
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"The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up, and unexplored lands beckoned. Unimagined paleontological treasures awaited discovery: strange horned mammals, birds with teeth, flying reptiles, gigantic fish, diminutive ancestors of horses and camels, and more than a hundred different kinds of dinosaurs. This exciting...
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2005
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The Cooke and Hood families have been at each other's throats since the Spanish Main days. The latest chapter in their piratical rivalry takes place in 2004 when an old treasure map turns up. None of this seems to matter to Morgan Cooke, a cowardly, landlubbing accountant entirely ignorant of his heritage until his estranged father, Isaac, in need of crewmen, kidnaps him and thrusts him into the fray. When Morgan wakes up on a boat in the middle of...