Robert Whitfield
Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Königsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. Kant's aim was to restore metaphysics. He insisted that all experience must conform to knowledge. According to Kant, space and time are subjective; along with various "categories," they help us
...Bernard Samson, the quintessentially cool, cynical British Secret Service agent, is back in the splendid first book of an espionage trilogy: Hook, Line, and Sinker. And we are back in the mazes of Secret Service mystery and intrigue, mazes that now lead into Samson's own tangled past.
Once a field agent in the dangerous byways of Eastern Europe and now relegated to an administrative backwater at London Central, Samson has become, in his
...British agent Bernard Samson is suffering the con-sequences of having meddled when he was instructed to steer clear. Far from being thanked for ferreting out what appeared to be evidence of an unprecedented breach of security in the Secret Service, he is on the run from an arrest warrant issued by the Service, naming him a traitor.
Now he is hiding in Berlin, hiding on a run-down, dangerous, dead-end street that crashes up against the Wall and
...27) The Great Escape
It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred American and British air force officers, every single one of them, every minute, every hour, every day, and every night for more than a year. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and
...34) Spy sinker
Why did Bernard Samson's wife Fiona disappear into East Berlin, leaving him with two young children and a wrecked career as a spy? This, at last, is Fiona's story. We see how she was recruited by the KGB as a young Oxford student. We also see her rise through the hierarchy of the British intelligence system until she is their super spy for East Germany, her mission the dangerous dealings that will help bring down the Berlin Wall in 1989. Beautiful,
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