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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller > Espionage & spy thriller
Dan Hendricks is a man in need of a lifeline. A former CIA
operative, he is now an agent for hire by foreign powers on the
hunt for dangerous fugitives. It's a lethal world at the best of
times, and Dan knows his number is almost up. His next job could be
his last-and his next job is his biggest yet. The target sounds
trackable enough: Jacques Fillon, who gave up his life trying to
save a fellow passenger following a bus crash in northern Sweden.
But the man was something of an enigma in this rural community, and
his death exposes his greatest secret: Jacques Fillon never existed
at all. Dan is tasked with uncovering Fillon's true identity-but
can he do so before his own past catches up with him?
Join Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew in the thrilling new SUNDAY
TIMES BESTSELLER continuing the bestselling series from the grand
master of adventure, Clive Cussler A PIRATE'S HOARD. A VANISHED
SHIP. A GLOBAL CATASTROPHE BECKONS . . . ________ 1808, South China
Sea. The infamous Chinese Pirate Queen Ching Shih was as powerful
as she was feared. When a rogue captain in her fleet dares defy her
wishes, devastation awaits - and a ship full of plundered treasure
sinks into history's deeps. Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala have spent
months on the trail of this legendary hoard. But their search is
interrupted by a present-day threat - a freighter carrying eight of
the most advanced computers ever produced has disappeared in the
Western Pacific. In the hands of the enemies of the West, these
could be the Information Age's most dangerous weapons. Plunged into
the middle of a cyber-war, Kurt and Joe's only allies are a group
of pirates who operate under their own crude laws. But with hackers
to one side and pirates to the other, and the world's digital
information at stake, the NUMA crew soon finds that knowing who to
trust could be their most daunting mission yet . . . ________
Praise for Clive Cussler 'The Adventure King' Sunday Express
'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'Nobody does it better . . .
nobody!' Stephen Coonts
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Pursuit
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Robert Anthony Gonzalez
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In the world of espionage, countries are ever trying to uncover
secrets from their rivals to give them that edge that will make a
difference. Favorite targets are often the men and women in the
military, who by the nature of their jobs, possess the very secrets
they seek. To counter this threat, militaries have developed secret
organizations whose main purpose is to protect the loss of
classified information. One way they do this is by enlisting the
help of ordinary soldiers, sailors and airmen who are used as bait
to uncover espionage activities and to provide them with the names
of foreign agents. This story cronicles the adventures of one such
bait, an Air Force pilot named Joe Fuentes. It is also the story of
his courageous wife, Susan, who leaves a comfortable life and a
newborn baby to find her husband. Her adventures take her to the
limits of her courage.
WHAT IF HITLER HAD SURVIVED? In the gripping new spy thriller from
the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge
spy must find the truth behind Hitler's death. But exactly who is
the man in the bunker? 'MASTER OF THE WARTIME SPY THRILLER' -
FINANCIAL TIMES ________________ Germany, late summer 1945 - The
war is over but the country is in ruins. Millions of refugees and
holocaust survivors strive to rebuild their lives in displaced
persons camps. Millions of German soldiers and SS men are held
captive in primitive conditions in open-air detention centres.
Everywhere, civilians are desperate for food and shelter. No one
admits to having voted Nazi, yet many are unrepentant. Adolf Hitler
is said to have killed himself in his Berlin bunker. But no body
was found - and many people believe he is alive. Newspapers are
full of stories reporting sightings and theories. Even Stalin,
whose own troops captured the bunker, has told President Truman he
believes the former Fuhrer is not dead. Day by day, American and
British intelligence officers subject senior members of the Nazi
regime to gruelling interrogation in their quest for their truth.
Enter Tom Wilde - the Cambridge professor and spy sent in to find
out the truth... Dramatic, intelligent, and brilliantly compelling,
THE MAN IN THE BUNKER is Rory's best WWII thriller yet - perfect
for readers of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and Joseph Kanon.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A whistle-blower. A witch hunt. A cover-up. Secret tribunals,
out-of-control intelligence agencies, and government corruption.
Welcome to 1890s Paris.
Alfred Dreyfus has been convicted of treason, sentenced to life
imprisonment on a far-off island, and publicly stripped of his
rank. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart,
an ambitious military officer who believes in Dreyfus's guilt as
staunchly as any member of the public. But when he is promoted to
head of the French counter-espionage agency, Picquart finds
evidence that a spy still remains at large in the
military--indicating that Dreyfus is innocent. As evidence of the
most malignant deceit mounts and spirals inexorably toward the
uppermost levels of government, Picquart is compelled to question
not only the case against Dreyfus but also his most deeply held
beliefs about his country, and about himself.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of NOMAD and EXILE comes
Marc Dane's most terrifying case yet. A terrible threat from the
depths of the dark net. A devastating betrayal at the heart of a
covert strike force. A deadly pursuit across a digital battlefield.
A ruthless terrorist fuelled by revenge. As devastating attacks
unfold across the globe, Marc Dane must call on all his skills and
ingenuity to track down the mysterious figure behind it all - a
faceless criminal known only as "Madrigal". Before they plunge the
world into war . . . Praise for the Marc Dane series:
'Unputdownable. A must-read' Wilbur Smith 'Britain's answer to
Jason Bourne' Daily Mail 'An ultra fast paced, worldwide chase to
stop a madman, while leaving the reader breathless' Choice
'Explosive' Irish Examiner 'This is edge of the seat stuff that is
terrifyingly real in places' Closer 'A killer of a thriller'
Weekend Sport
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JUDAS 62
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Charles Cumming
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The second book in Charles Cumming's gripping new thriller series
surrounding BOX 88 - a covert intelligence organization that
operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places
on Earth... 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to Russia by secret
intelligence agency BOX 88. To the outside world, he is there as a
language teacher. In reality, he is there as a spy. But Kite's
mission soon goes wrong and he is left stranded with a former KGB
officer on his trail. An old enemy looking for revenge... 2020:
Kite discovers he has been placed on the 'JUDAS' list -enemies of
Russia who have been targeted for assassination. His only hope of
survival is to confront the Russian secret state head on... Who
will come out on top in this deadly game of cat and mouse? 'Judas
62 has all you could want from a tense, topical and intelligent spy
thriller' The Times Books of the Year
The water tower stood brooding over the cemetery in East Arcadia as
if it resented what had transpired, without its permission, beneath
it. Here Harley had lost his mask and his symbolic identity, and by
extension, mine as well, thereby beginning our fool's errand of
retrieval. And just beyond the bend of the horizon stood the
skeletal remains of the Way Keepers Spiritual Center, where our
odyssey had ended in an all-too-literal trial by fire. Surrounded
by immutable reminders of our journey, it struck me that I had been
guilty, as Harley had pointed out, of safely observing rather than
taking an active part in the world around me. Harley had accused me
of bench-warming my way through life at the masque in Atlantic
City. "You gotta get out there and see the world," he said, "not
just read about it." Harley's easy smile hadn't changed since
kindergarten, and we had been inseparable since. Our third grade
teacher called us the Dynamic Duo, though I later thought the Odd
Couple made more sense-Harley the extroverted white athlete and I
the introverted black bookworm-but I had been grateful for her
convenient color blindness, and for her open-minded acceptance,
something sadly lacking in our classmates from the largely-white,
conformist suburb of Arcadia.
Jack McColl is an international automobile salesman, travelling the
world in search of markets for the luxury Maia he has in train. He
is also a spy, moonlighting for the embryonic British intelligence
services in the run-up to the First World War. 'Jack of Spies'
takes McColl and his sweetheart, the beautiful American socialist
Caitlin Hanley, from the brothels and opium dens of pre-war
Shanghai to the wet backstreets of Dublin via San Francisco Bay, as
they work to foil a German plot that threatens to expose the
British Empire's very weakest point.
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Deadlock
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Catherine Coulter
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The no. 1 bestseller from the author of Kolymsky Heights 'As
significant as . . . le Carre in bringing a gritty new realism to
the thriller.' Sunday Telegraph An ancient scroll has been
discovered in Israel. Caspar Laing, a young and brilliant
professor, is asked to decipher it. It contains the directions to
the secret location of a priceless artefact. As he makes the
treacherous journey into the desert, he is joined by dangerous
rivals determined to claim the prize. He must win the race at all
costs. 'Ceaselessly gripping . . . A joy to devour.' The Times
'Brilliantly entertaining.' Sunday Express
#1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter returns with
a brilliant novel in her FBI thriller series, in which agents
Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful
figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present. Seven
years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a college frat rave with her best
friend, Serena, when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for
except Serena, who was never seen nor heard from again. Now an
investigative journalist covering the political scene in New York
City, Mia discovers old photos taken the night of Serena's
disappearance and begins to uncover a sinister string of events
going all the way back to that disastrous party. Working with
Sherlock, the secrets begin to unravel. But some very powerful-and
very dangerous-people will do anything to keep them from learning
the truth. CIA Operative Olivia Hildebrandt is a team leader on a
mission in Iran to exfiltrate a betrayed undercover operative.
She's nearly killed by an exploding grenade and saved by a team
member. But by the time Olivia is released from Walter Reed
Hospital, that team member and a critical flash drive he was
carrying have disappeared. Olivia is attacked on her first night
home, a direct result of the compromised mission and the missing
team member and flash drive. But what intelligence was at stake and
who betrayed them?
'I love the Gray Man' Lee Child The Gray Man is back in another
nonstop international thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling
co-author of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels Court Gentry is back in
action. This time he's working on behalf of a well-connected group
of Syrian expats to secure the Syrian president's mistress so they
can use her to bring down the president's regime. But the expats'
plan goes awry when it's discovered the mistress has a baby--the
Syrian president's only male heir--hidden away in a Damascus safe
house. Court goes after the baby, a decision that comes at the
price of the mistress's life. The expat organization deems the boy
now useless to their cause and refuses to protect him against the
Syrian first lady and the notorious Swiss assassin in her employ.
With no support on the way, Court realizes he'll have to take down
the Syrian president himself if he and the boy are going to make it
out alive... 'A can't miss' Publishers Weekly 'Greaney cranks out
one winner after another' Kirkus 'One of the top must-read
thrillers of 2018' The Real Book Spy
When Running Wolf sees the crashed aircraft, he photographs the
corpses of the eighty-seven souls as they disappear, and the images
bring to light the discovery of a diabolic deed. The National
Transportation Safety Board quickly determines this is beyond their
scope of responsibility and requests assistance. The investigation
moves from the Sioux Indian Reservation and state of South Dakota
to Washington, D.C., when it becomes apparent that domestic
terrorists with a biological agent are involved. Federal agencies
headed by FBI Agent Bill Bradley race against time in their attempt
to discover and apprehend the masterminds behind the crime. A
scheduled bio-terrorist exercise provides a perfect smoke screen
for the aggressors to strike their first major blow to the citizens
of the United States. In the government's attempt to contain the
threat within the borders of South Dakota, the exercise changes to
a genuine fight for survival. It becomes clear that the state and
local levels of government have been under-funded and under-trained
to counter the real threat of a biological attack. sacrifice a
sacred secret in order to offer safe haven to the citizens. But
will it be enough?
At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping,
humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. J.
Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical
novel. 1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the
appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. As
the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the
British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the
press, radio and television are controlled; the streets patrolled
by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater
constraints. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening
in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House. Defiance,
though, is growing. In Britain, Winston Churchill's Resistance
organization is increasingly a thorn in the government's side. And
in a Birmingham mental hospital an incarcerated scientist, Frank
Muncaster, may hold a secret that could change the balance of the
world struggle for ever. Civil Servant David Fitzgerald, secretly
acting as a spy for the Resistance, is given the mission to rescue
his old friend Frank and get him out of the country. Before long
he, together with a disparate group of Resistance activists, will
find themselves fugitives in the midst of London's Great Smog; as
David's wife Sarah finds herself drawn into a world more terrifying
than she ever could have imagined. And hard on their heels is
Gestapo Sturmbannfuhrer Gunther Hoth, brilliant, implacable hunter
of men . . . 'An absorbing, thoughtful, spy-politico thriller set
in the fog-ridden London of 1952 . . . Part adventure, part
espionage, all encompassed by terrific atmosphere and a well-argued
"it might have been". - The Times
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