Invisible Ink Pen Kit (International Spy Museum Series) (Paperback)
Jul/090
Write your loved one a private note. Hide a secret message in your child’s lunch. Unsettle your rival at a business meeting. Now you can practice your espionage skills–without leaving a paper trail! This whimsically serious kit will delight fledgling spies. Included is an invisible ink pen with a miniature black light to reveal cryptic messages. The text in the 32-page book–drawn from the expertise of the International Spy Museum (the only museum of its kind, solely dedicated t (more…)
The Black Box: All-New Cockpit Voice Recorder Accounts Of In-flight Accidents (Paperback)
Jun/0910
Review
“Undeniably compelling… it is hard to throw off its spell.” — – The New York Times Book Review
Readers join desperate pilots in the cockpit as they fight gravity and time in a plane that’s falling out of the sky.Anyone who watches the news knows about the “black box.” Officially called the cockpit Spy Voice Recorder, the black box (which is actually Day-glo orange) records the final moments of any in-flight accident. Often it provides the only explanation of a crash – (more…)
Voices Under Berlin: The Tale Of A Monterey Mary (Paperback)
Jun/091
Review
Throughout the Cold War, the divided city of Berlin was the epicenter of spy films and literature, especially in the hands of masters like John Le Carré and Len Deighton. For decades, we saw and read about Western agents sneaking in and Eastern defectors sneaking out of East Berlin–over, under, and through the most iconic symbol of the times–the Berlin Wall. But T.H.E. Hill’s new 2008 “Voices Under Berlin: The Tale of a Monterey Mary” has nothing to do with such spy vs. s (more…)