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This engrossing and unputdownable fast-paced thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben, is…
perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James. Guaranteed to get your blood pumping - a real edge-of-your-seat ride!'Hang on tight!' - Harlan Coben'Full of Kernick's trademark cheerful amoral characters, it's irresistible entertainment' -- Sunday Mirror'A spectacularly fast moving and captivating read.' -- Lovereading'Wow I absolutely loved this book from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review'I couldn't put it down and read it within 24 hours of getting it!' -- ***** Reader review'Fast paced thriller with the twists and turns that keeps you enthralled from the first page to the last' -- ***** Reader review'Full of tension and excitement' -- ***** Reader review****************************************************************************************YOU'VE SEEN TOO MUCH. NOWHERE IS SAFE NOW.THE WITNESSWhen Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe-house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack.THE DETECTIVEDI Ray Mason of Counter Terrorism Command is a man with a controversial past, but his effectiveness at getting results means that he's now been given the task of preventing the attack from taking place. But can he be trusted, and does he know more about the attack than he's letting on?THE KILLERIn the safe-house, Jane is trying to piece together a description of her lover's killer. But what she doesn't know is that the killer has already found out who she is, and where she is hiding.And now he's coming for her ...__________My name is Sara Eden, and this is all I can remember . . . There are government agents pursuing…
me. They think I know something they want. They will never stop. I could be a danger. I could be a weapon. I could be a victim. The only thing I know for certain is, I must . . . TRUST NO ONE.Fans of Killing Eve, I Am Pilgrim and Orphan X won't be able to put down this high-concept read that grips and entertains like a Hollywood thriller.'Will have you guessing till the very last page. Explosively exciting, an instant spy classic' Tom Marcus, former MI5 agent and bestselling author of Soldier Spy 'Furiously paced' ObserverSOAR: A Black Ops Mission
By John Weisman. 2003
BLACK OPS: The shadow wars; the down-and-dirty work of CIA/Special Operations ...On the eve of a groundbreaking U.S.–China summit, a…
covert CIA black ops team assigned to bug a Chinese nuclear test site is captured by Islamic terrorists. An explosive situation goes from bad to catastrophic when the terrorists ambush a Chinese army convoy, highjack a highly unstable nuclear device ... and arm it. On orders from the President, Major Michael Ritzik, the young CO of a top secret element of the Army's elite Delta Force, must lead his men on an impossible rescue/disarmament mission -- even as Beijing dispatches its own special forces to deal with the impending threat. Ritzik and his shadow warriors will need to employ speed, surprise, and violence of action to beat the Chinese to the target, free the captives, disarm the nuke, and escape without leaving any fingerprints. Failure is not an option -- because the unthinkable has suddenly become a very real possibility.KBL: A Novel Based on True Events
By John Weisman. 2011
“Weisman is perhaps wired more tightly into the reclusive special operations community than any other writer, and his knowledge of…
weaponry and field techniques is staggering.”—Washington Times“A pro who knows his stuff.”—Oliver NorthJohn Weisman, whose expertise in the field of covert military operations is unsurpassed, delivers a stunning fictional account of the most extraordinary mission of the century: the hunting down and assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the most reviled killer of the twenty-first century, by US Navy SEALs. With KBL: Kill Bin Laden the critically acclaimed author of SOAR and Jack in the Box goes behind the headlines, carrying readers along on a breakneck, breathtakingly realistic chase—from planning to training to execution—as the evil mastermind behind the horror of 9/11 is finally brought to justice.A Fierce Radiance: A Novel
By Lauren Belfer. 2010
“An engrossing and ambitious novel that vividly portrays a critical time in American history.” — Booklist (starred review) “Enthralling. A…
Fierce Radiance shines with fascinating detail.... Belfer’s powerful portrayal of how people are changed in pursuit of a miracle makes this book an especially compelling read.” — Nancy Horan, author of Loving FrankSet during the uncertain early days of World War II, this suspenseful story from the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light follows the work of photojournalist Claire Shipley as she captures America’s race to develop life-saving antibiotics—an assignment that will involve blackmail, espionage, and murder.Direct Action: A Covert War Thriller
By John Weisman. 2005
In this compulsive page-turner, six-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman blows the lid off one of Washington's deepest…
real-world secrets. The CIA, currently incapable of performing its core mission of supplying critical and time-sensitive human-based intelligence for the global war on terror, must now outsource the work to private contractors. Drawing on real-world crises and actual CIA operations, Direct Action takes readers deep inside this new and unreported covert warfare that is being fought on a daily basis by anonymous shadow warriors all across the globe.Racing against the clock and shuttling between Washington, Paris, and the Middle East, one of those shadow warriors, former CIA case officer Tom Stafford, must slip below the radar to uncover, target, and neutralize a deadly al-Qa'ida bombmaker before the assassin can launch simultaneous multiple attacks against America and the West. And as if that weren't enough, Stafford must simultaneously open a second front and mount a clandestine war against the CIA itself, because for mysterious and seemingly inexplicable reasons the people at the very top of the Central Intelligence Agency want him to fail.The characters and operations in Direct Action are drawn from true-life CIA personnel and their real-world missions. With Direct Action, John Weisman confirms once again Joseph Wambaugh's claim that "nobody writes better about the dark and dirty world of the CIA and black ops."The Da Vinci Deception (The Inspector Jack Oxby Novels)
By Thomas Swan. 1998
Celebrated thriller writer Thomas Swan introduces Scotland Yard Inspector Jack Oxby in The Da Vinci Deception—an exhilarating thriller set in…
the art world. Racing from London to New York to Lake Como, Inspector Oxby is on the hunt for an art forger whose daring attempts to counterfeit the great Leonardo da Vinci have the art world astounded. For fans of the UK television series Lovejoy, the art history mysteries of Iain Pears, as well as books like The Thomas Crowne Affair, this is a novel of suspense not to be missed!The Thirty-Nine Steps (Penguin Modern Classics)
By John Buchan. 2004
Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in…
London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.The Thirty-Nine Steps
By John Buchan. 2011
Discover the original and best adventure story ever told. ‘The father of the modern espionage’ Sunday TimesMay 1914. Britain is…
on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising adventure - a desperate hunt across the country and against the clock, pursued by the police and a cunning, ruthless enemy. Hannay's life and the security of Britain are in grave peril, and everything rests on the solution to a baffling enigma: what are the thirty-nine steps? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA RIMINGTONA Spy Like Me: Six days. Three agents. One chance to find James Bond. (Double O #2)
By Kim Sherwood. 2024
An elite team of MI6 agents must go undercover to unravel a smuggling network funding violent terror in the second…
thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood.James Bond is alive.Or at least, he was when he left a clue at the black site where the insidious private military company Rattenfänger held him captive. MI6 cannot spare any more lives attempting to track down one missing agent—no exceptions, even for Bond. But Johanna Harwood, 003, has her own agenda. Sidelined by her superiors while she grieves the loss of a loved one, Harwood goes on an unsanctioned mission: to find 007. Meanwhile, MI6 has another problem…A bomb has detonated in London.Double O agents on the trail of the terrorists responsible acted quickly to prevent mass destruction and save lives. But MI6 failed to neutralize the nation’s enemies before they could strike, and one of their own was seriously injured in the blast.They won’t fail again.Assigned to root out the source of the terrorists’ funding, Joseph Dryden, 004, and Conrad Harthrop-Vane, 000, enter the field. Tracing clues from Sotheby’s auction house to Crete to Venice, they uncover a money laundering scheme involving diamonds, black market antiquities, and human trafficking. Once a major sale is made, a six-day countdown to the next terror attack begins. As the Double O’s follow the twisting trail, they find themselves unexpectedly inching closer to Bond…Assassin Eighteen: A Novel
By John Brownlow. 2024
Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award Winning-Author of AGENT SEVENTEEN&“John Brownlow is a master of suspense.&” —Jeff Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Traitor&’s DanceI…
am waiting for someone to kill me. Tonight would be a good night for it.Agent Seventeen, the most infamous hit man in the world, has quit. But whoever wants to become Assassin Eighteen must track him down and kill him first. So when a bullet hits the glass inches from his face, he knows who fired it—doesn't he?It turns out that the sniper isn't the hardened killer he was expecting. It's Mireille—a mysterious silent child abandoned in the woods with instructions to pull the trigger. Reuniting with his spiky lover, Kat, Seventeen has to protect Mireille and discover who sent her to kill him and why. But the road he must travel is littered with bodies. And the answer, when it comes, will blow apart everything Seventeen thought he knew."The most action-packed spy thriller that fans of the genre will read this year." —Irish Examiner"Brownlow is an accomplished screenwriter, and it shows in his style." —Financial TimesThe Thirty-Nine Steps: Large Print (Richard Hannay #1)
By John Buchan. 1915
The novel of international intrigue and adventure that set the standard for the modern spy thrillerOne May evening in 1914,…
an ordinary Londoner named Richard Hannay receives word of an anarchist plot to assassinate the prime minister of Greece. A few nights later, the eccentric American who revealed the conspiracy is found stabbed to death in Hannay&’s flat. With only the dead man&’s encrypted notes to guide him, Hannay must try to foil the assassination attempt while outpacing both the police and the conspirators, whose dastardly plans extend far beyond one Greek politician. The fate of England, it seems, rests on one mysterious phrase repeated throughout the American&’s notebook; just what exactly are the thirty-nine steps?Buchan&’s groundbreaking novel, the first in a series featuring Richard Hannay, was adapted by Alfred Hitchcock and paved the way for Graham Greene, Robert Ludlum, John le Carré, and many other masters of literary espionage. Lightning-paced, relentlessly clever, and politically insightful, The Thirty-Nine Steps is just as thrilling today as when it was first published a century ago.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Serpentine
By Tom Morton. 2009
A name from the murkiest corners of Britain's secret war in Ireland: Serpentine. At first it's just gossip and fearful…
whispers. But then people begin to die and all hell breaks loose from Palestine to the remote Highlands of Scotland. Fresh from the toughest assignments in the mercenary world comes former SAS officer Murricane. Can he find Serpentine before it's too late and before the horrific secrets of the past threaten to cause chaos not just in Ireland but in the Middle East too?In a trail of mayhem that leads through Scotland, Gaza and Ireland, Murricane battles his own demons, as well as a monstrous former RUC officer, a disgraced policeman and a series of unreliable Land Rovers, until Serpentine plays his final, devastating game . . .Serpentine is an explosive, bitterly funny journey into the darkest heart of the Irish Troubles and the violence that lurks in Scotland's most scenic Highland communities.Fans of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler and Scott Mariani will love this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat international thriller from the pen of…
prizewinning author Tom Harper. It has everything you could want: great plot, great pace, great suspense and a great twist...'In the tradition of The Da Vinci Code, a page-turner of a novel. Like Dan Brown, Tom Harper knows how to ratchet up the tension.' -- Choice'FANTASTIC FANTASTIC FANTASTIC' -- ***** Reader review'A page-turner: not a single moment of boredom' -- ***** Reader review'Could not put it down!' -- ***** Reader review**********************************************************************************A BRUTAL MURDER. A DAMAGED SURVIVOR. A RACE AGAINST TIME...In a villa on the coast of Montenegro, Abby Cormac witnesses the brutal murder of her lover, diplomat Michael Lascaris. The last thing she remembers is a gun pointed directly at her and wakes to find herself alone and at the centre of a diplomatic nightmare. Everyone wants an answer but no one wants to listen. Even her employers at the Foreign Office believe she's hiding something.As Abby tries to piece together the last few months of Michael's life in order to get at the truth, she soon realises that he wasn't quite what he seemed. What exactly was his relationship with one of the most ruthless men in the Balkans? And what links Michael's gift to her of a gold necklace, a 4th century manuscript left in the shadow of Emperor Constantine's palace at Trier and an inscription on a tomb in Rome?When Abby investigates further, it becomes clear that someone wants to suppress a secret, one that has been kept hidden for centuries. And they will stop at nothing to do so...The Secret Agent (The Penguin English Library)
By Joseph Conrad. 2012
With a note by the author.'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world'In the…
only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War.The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
By Joseph Conrad. 1984
In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent; communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The…
story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions.The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
By Matthew Richardson. 1992
THE BOOK THOSE IN THE KNOW ARE CALLING THE BEST SPY NOVEL OF THE YEAR*** One of the 50 BEST…
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 in the Daily Telegraph ****** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ****** A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ***‘Superbly constructed in an elaborate twisty spy yarn. It's highly unlikely that there will be a better espionage novel this year’ THE SUNDAY TIMES'A breathtaking thriller. A classic in the making' PETER JAMES'Hugely impressive and compelling' WILLIAM BOYD‘A natural-born storyteller’ JEFFERY DEAVER___________London, present dayHistorian Max Archer is invited to a clandestine meeting with legendary Cold War spymaster, Scarlet King.Her offer to share the explosive secrets born of over half a century at the heart of global espionage would be life-changing. But Max has little reason to trust a woman whose name is a byword for deceit and ruthlessness.Soon he is on the wrong side of the law and on the run. As the net closes tighter around him he must somehow discover the truth. Because it’s not just his life on the line – but also the fate of the Western world . . .___________‘Intricate and fast moving, it weaves a thrilling spell’ DAILY MAIL'Smart, slick and totally gripping . . . The Scarlet Papers is always credible, always startling and almost painfully human. A total triumph' TONY PARSONS'A masterpiece' TIM GLISTER*** DISCOVER MY NAME IS NOBODY AND THE INSIDER, FURTHER SPY NOVELS BY MATTHEW RICHARDSON ***Let bestselling author Will Jordan take you on a break-neck speed ride with CIA agent Ryan Drake in this compelling…
and unmissable thriller. Fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn and David Baldacci will love this!'Entertaining' - The Telegraph'Engrossing' -- ***** Reader review'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review'From the start Mr Jordan weaves a spell - the action is fast and believable' -- ***** Reader review'Creative plot played out at a relentless pace - great stuff, Mr Jordan!' -- ***** Reader review'Great book that will have you keep turning the pages' -- ***** Reader review'Superb from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review*******************************************************************A MISSING MAN. A BRUTAL CONFLICT.Afghanistan, 2008: a Black Hawk helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down by a surface to air missile, its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group.Knowing this man holds information vital to the ongoing conflict, the CIA bring in Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd team to find and rescue their lost operative.But nothing is what it seems, and within hours of arriving in the war-torn country, Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict between a brutal terrorist warlord and the ruthless leader of a private military company.And lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake's past determined to settle old scores...Running Blind (DI Helen Grace Novellas #2)
By M. J. Arlidge. 2017
New to the police force, WPC Helen Grace is assigned to her first clear-cut case. Sure there's something sinister beneath…
the surface, Helen has a bad feeling . . . but who's going to take the word of a rookie?Running Blind is an exclusive eBook novella featuring DI Helen Grace, from bestselling author M. J. Arlidge.Fresh out of Police College, 18-year-old WPC Helen Grace is the first to arrive on the scene of a fatal collision. Her colleagues see nothing amiss, convinced that the young man's death was a tragic accident. But Helen is not so sure. Who is their mystery victim? Why would he risk life and limb running across a busy highway? And what might he have been running from?There's a dark secret lurking amid the quiet fields of Hampshire, one that Helen is determined to uncover.In this ebook novella, rookie Helen Grace discovers what it's like to be a woman in a man's world, facing impossible odds as she races against time to save vulnerable lives.The Riddle of the Sands
By Erskine Childers. 1903
The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carré.…
When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht, A1 scenery and excellent duck shooting quickly works its charm. But Carruthers hopes for a holiday are quickly dashed. There has been suspicious German activity along the coast. The Medusa, manned by the sinister Dollman, has already tried to destroy Davies. What are the Germans up to? Nothing less than a plot to invade Britain. And only these two courageous Englishmen can stop them.Published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands is considered the first modern spy novel.