In die vroee oggendure van 15 Maart 1901 word Salome de Waal wakker gemaak deur ’n dringende klop aan haar kamervenster. Dit is die Boereverkenner Hans van Zyl wat wegkruipplek soek van sy Kakie-agtervolgers. Hans, ’n ou vriend van Salome se verwonde broer Piet, word Salome se enigste kontak met die Boere op die slagveld. Hoe moet sy die opwinding verstaan wat Hans se besoeke elke donkermaan meebring? Sy is immers getroud, al beskou sy haar man, Albert, as ’n verraaier omdat hy vir die Britse besettingsmag werk. Dan is daar ook die sjarmante maj. Bruce Symington, wat betower word deur Salome se skoonheid en haar andersheid. Salome raak net so verstrengel in die spioenasienetwerk in Pretoria as in haar eie verwarde gevoelens, haar pligsbesef en haar politieke oortuigings. Eers wanneer sy as hulpverpleegster in die Irene-konsentrasiekamp gaan werk, word die oorlog vir haar werklikheid en neem sake ’n verloop wat sy nie kon voorsien het nie.

A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer.

CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges Haddad's recruitment and creates unspeakable danger when they enter Damascus to find the man responsible for the disappearance of an American spy.

But the cat and mouse chase for the killer soon leads to a trail of high-profile assassinations and the discovery of a dark secret at the heart of the Syrian regime, bringing the pair under the all-seeing eyes of Assad's spy catcher, Ali Hassan, and his brother Rustum, the head of the feared Republican Guard. Set against the backdrop of a Syria pulsing with fear and rebellion, Damascus Station is a gripping thriller that offers a textured portrayal of espionage, love, loyalty, and betrayal in one of the most difficult CIA assignments on the planet.

In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.

A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace.

Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.

Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.

In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.

*Includes the short story Standing by the Wall: A Slough House Interlude*

*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Sets a new bar for spy fiction' Financial Times In Slough House, the backwater for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. With winter taking its grip Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends his crew out to even the score. This time, they're heading into joe country. And they're not all coming home. 'The go-to author for British espionage' Guardian 'Bitingly intelligent, light of touch and frequently hilarious' Observer

The final book of the smash-hit Wayward Pines trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter, Recursion, and Upgrade What's inside was a nightmare. What's outside is a thousand times worse. Welcome to Wayward Pines, the last town. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. No one is allowed to leave; even asking questions can get you killed. But Ethan has discovered the astonishing secret of what lies beyond the electrified fence that surrounds Wayward Pines and protects it from the terrifying world beyond. And now that secret is about to come storming through the fence to wipe out this last, fragile remnant of humanity. The Last Town at last pitches Ethan Burke and his fellow residents into all-out war against the forces outside the town's gates - and in doing so delivers every bit the riotously horrific, breathlessly action-packed conclusion that the Wayward Pines trilogy deserves.

A fast paced tale that will take readers on a rollercoast-er of danger and misadventure. Dick Fame's time with the British Security Service does not go as planned when his first operation leaves him as a hostage and subject to torture. The trauma of his experience leads him to quit, but the espionage life is not through with him yet... Swept into a whirlwind of drugs, arms and politics, Dick and his partner Charley must battle to save the firm and protect the woman he loves while danger stalks them around every corner. They are drawn into an international conspiracy that confounds the duo and their mission for justice takes them all the way to Saudi Arabia and back to Ireland where the Troubles are in full swing. This thriller will leave you on the edge of your seat. Will Dick and Charley be able to defuse the conspiracy before somebody gets hurt? - A gripping thriller about spies and espionage that will leave you wanting more - A story of conspiracy that constantly leaves the read-er guessing with multiple twists and turns - A love story tangled up with danger that gives Bryan's writing a 007 vibe and leaves the reader rout-ing for love

Morgan Jones' heart-stopping thriller, The Good Sister, sees one father go further than he ever knew possible, to rescue a daughter who doesn't want to be saved. A missing daughter. A desperate father. A journey to save them both. Sofia Mounir's world is not her own. Her mother is sick, her father broken, the London they live in is dying of greed and self-obsession. So she flees, to Raqqa: heart of the caliphate, foundation stone of a just world that she will help to build. From violence and sacrifice will grow something beautiful, and she will be part of it. Her faith will be equal to everything asked of her. Until it isn't. Until it becomes clear that not all her new brothers' and sisters' intentions are as pure as her own. Until even her faith becomes a liability. Where do you turn, when the future you've longed for wants you dead?

Charles Warren has dedicated his legal career to aiding people in financial straits. In his newest case, helping a beautiful young widow find the money missing from her late husband's investment accounts, Charlie recognizes a familiar scheme - one that echoes the con job that targeted his own widowed mother many years before, and that led him, as a teenager, to commit a crime of retribution that still weighs on his conscience.

Within hours of starting his investigation, he is followed, shot at and has his briefcase stolen. As Charlie continues to pursue answers, he quickly becomes too entangled in the web of fraud, betrayal and career criminals surrounding the theft to escape its deadly snare.

A nail-biting tale of conspiracy and pursuit from Thomas Perry, Pro Bono will have readers looking over their shoulders as constantly as they keep turning pages.

The minute particle of dark energy which is lodged in Lieutenant Chris Lennox's brain sends him back to the past again to combat insurrection by the United Irishmen and their secret society of Grey Wolves who plot to throw the Kingdom into turmoil. With his soldiers from the Corps of Riflemen he attempts to thwart the Grey Wolves into the most daring and heinous plot of all. Where the Grey Wolves prowl, no one is safe. Chris and his 'Riflemen' are the only ones who can stop them ... but will his warnings be heeded?

Following Last of the Cold War Warriors and Last of the Cold War Warriors II, the author tracks the career of anti-hero Adam Collins of the Secret Intelligence Service aka MI6. On a high-risk operation ranging across Europe, their brief is to recover or render inoperable the US National Security Agency's new - and missing - cyber warfare programme, codenamed TERRAMAX. The body bag count inexorably rises, complicated by the involvement of other 'hostile' intelligence teams, also intent on gaining possession of the new cyber warfare system at any cost. Adam's joint operation team, comprising the SIS, NSA and NCS, find themselves playing a cat-and-mouse game with the anonymous 'Auctioneer', leading to a personal tragedy for Adam. After Adam's resignation from 'the Office', the story continues four years later - two of them having seen Adam in prison - as the SIS reappears in his life, making him an offer he knows he can't refuse. With a new partner, once again Adam finds himself crossing international time zones in a race against time to find the SIS 'mole' responsible for the elimination of several service officers and assets worldwide - with more to follow. With a brief to locate and extract or eliminate the 'mole', the operation will culminate in a virtual suicide mission in the People's Republic of China. The author, a non-person in intelligence terms, is noted for the depth of information and accurate detail in his writing, taking the reader on a rollercoaster ride into the world of shadows that is intelligence...

As the 21st Century dawns, a career as a British Government's deeply covert MI-4 field agent would test the bravest and most resilient. Philippa Ploughman is swept into counter-terrorism normally thought of as a male dominated preserve. Annually, billions of dollars are generated by illegal drugs, in America and the Middle East. The United States and Canada are vulnerable to narcotics flooding from South America while an estimated 85% of all Afghanistan poppy narcotics arrive overland in Europe. Is there a thread of international money laundering between the two in a global weapons trade? Into this world is thrust an amiable, vulnerable, unlikely form capable of switching from femininity to vigorous self defence in the blink of an eye or the flash of weapon's test.The lady has been launched to find the truth. And now that the UN Security Council's deadline for Iran to halt its work on nuclear fuel enrichment has been ignored, things are set to become more challenging...

Will Flemyng was a spy who turned to politics and is rising to the top in the 1970s. But when a bizarre death, on one hot summer day in London, starts to unravel some of the most sensitive secrets of his government, he's drawn back into the shadows of the Cold War and begins to dance with danger once more. Buffeted by political forces and the powerful women around him, and caught in interlocking mysteries he must disentangle - including a potentially lethal family secret - Flemyng faces his vulnerability and learns, through betrayal and tragedy, more truth about his world than he has ever known.

How does an ordinary criminal, renowned in 80's London Underworld for his expertise in electronic safe and cracking and breaking down the most sophisticated security systems, go from planning the country's largest diamond heist worth millions? To helping the Intelligence Departments of influential countries such as Britain and America to undermine Russia and Iran? And for what? To break in a strong room situated in a Chateau in Switzerland, to steal devices that could start or stop a nuclear War? During his race through Europe, he is being hunted down by an international criminal organisation who are brokering the deal and by a ruthless group of London mobsters who want their diamond's back and their revenge on Boyd for double crossing them! Boyd has to use all his mastery in martial arts and street wise cunning to keep ahead of the game to come out on top, with the devices, diamonds but most of all if he's lucky, his life.

How does an ordinary criminal, renowned in 80's London Underworld for his expertise in electronic safe and cracking and breaking down the most sophisticated security systems, go from planning the country's largest diamond heist worth millions? To helping the Intelligence Departments of influential countries such as Britain and America to undermine Russia and Iran? And for what? To break in a strong room situated in a Chateau in Switzerland, to steal devices that could start or stop a nuclear War? During his race through Europe, he is being hunted down by an international criminal organisation who are brokering the deal and by a ruthless group of London mobsters who want their diamond's back and their revenge on Boyd for double crossing them! Boyd has to use all his mastery in martial arts and street wise cunning to keep ahead of the game to come out on top, with the devices, diamonds but most of all if he's lucky, his life.

Flowerbell is turning 7 years old, and she really wants a special party with her friends in Fairy Land. Flowerbell's friends bring lots of presents, and she has lots of yummy treats and cupcakes. She has so much fun eating and playing games, that when they were playing hide and seek, she fell asleep, this was the beginning of her little adventure, and the start of new friendships.