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A Nazi prisoner. A daring journalist. An extraordinary secret . . .
Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world.
Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace
mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to
keep him there so long? He was a Nazi -- but one with a damaging
tale to tell. If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent
Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring
and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe may
be undermined by what Hess can reveal; and so both the KGB and MI5
move into action to protect the extraordinary secret of Spandau.
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
"Fast-paced...pulse-pounding...supremely entertaining...His best
ever." -The Washington Times "This might be the single greatest
thriller I've covered....It's amazing!" -The Real Book Spy Scot
Harvath returns in the newest thriller from #1 New York Times
bestselling author Brad Thor. The world's largest bounty has just
been placed upon America's top spy. His only hope for survival is
to outwit, outrun, and outlast his enemies long enough to get to
the truth. But for Scot Harvath to accomplish his most dangerous
mission ever-one that has already claimed the lives of the people
closest to him, including his new wife-he's going to need help-a
lot of it. Not knowing whom he can trust, Harvath finds an unlikely
ally in Norwegian intelligence operative Solvi Kolstad. Just as
smart, just as deadly, and just as determined, she not only has the
skills, but also the broken, troubled past to match Harvath's own.
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A]nother instant classic."
-The Real Book Spy "The undisputed master of blending geopolitics
with spycraft...a thriller aficionado's dream." -The Providence
Journal The new Cold War is about to go hot. #1 New York Times and
#1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor is back with
his most intense thriller yet. Scot Harvath is having his best
summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful
girlfriend Solvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But
out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy
has a decision to make-return or submit his resignation. When his
deadly past comes calling, though, he'll be left with no choice at
all. Leaving his favorite Oslo cafe, Harvath watches as a ghost
climbs out of a taxi-a man he killed years ago, halfway around the
world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway? In a
race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle,
Harvath is tested in ways he never could've imagined and pushed to
a limit few human beings could ever endure. If he succeeds, he'll
walk away with everything. If he fails, the United States and its
allies will be at the mercy of one of the world's most dangerous
actors.
Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the
Year. Selected by Sunday Times Books of the Year and The Guardian
as Best Thriller of the Year. Perfect for fans of John le Carre, a
gripping and suspenseful spy thriller from 'the master of the
modern spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday) Six weeks before she is due
to become the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene disappears
without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from
the cold with orders to find her - quickly and quietly. The mission
offers Kell a way back into the secret world, the only life he's
ever known. Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell
embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence
services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are
entirely different - and the consequences worse than anyone
imagines...
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Private Rogue
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James Patterson, Adam Hamdy
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In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission. In New York, a mother is forced to flee with her two young children.
Then a wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives.
As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory, the trail leads towards Afghanistan - where Jack's career as a US Marine ended in catastrophe . . .
Jack will need to face the trauma of his past to save a family's future.
"Shaber does a fine job portraying the plight of alien residents in
wartime Washington, besides conveying the hectic atmosphere of a
city whose resources are stretched to the limit by an influx of new
workers" Publishers Weekly Starred Review When a body is discovered
in a Washington bar, Government girl Louise Pearlie is forced into
a role of lies and deception. On a bitterly cold night in December
1943, Government girl Louise Pearlie and her friend Joe Prager are
enjoying a quiet drink in the Baron Steuben Inn when a bloodstained
body is discovered behind the bar. Although the victim had been a
regular customer, no one seems to know anything about him. When it
turns out there is a link to Louise's top-secret work at the OSS,
she is ordered to find out as much as possible about the murder
while keeping the connection secret from those involved, including
the investigating police detective. Although Louise has been
trained to keep secrets, the constant deception takes its toll -
especially when she discovers that she's not the only customer at
the Steuben that night with something to hide. Will Louise's
silence result in an innocent man being arrested for murder?
"Shaber does a fine job portraying the plight of alien residents in
wartime Washington, besides conveying the hectic atmosphere of a
city whose resources are stretched to the limit by an influx of new
workers" Publishers Weekly Starred Review When a body is discovered
in a Washington bar, Government girl Louise Pearlie is forced into
a role of lies and deception. On a bitterly cold night in December
1943, Government girl Louise Pearlie and her friend Joe Prager are
enjoying a quiet drink in the Baron Steuben Inn when a bloodstained
body is discovered behind the bar. Although the victim had been a
regular customer, no one seems to know anything about him. When it
turns out there is a link to Louise's top-secret work at the OSS,
she is ordered to find out as much as possible about the murder
while keeping the connection secret from those involved, including
the investigating police detective. Although Louise has been
trained to keep secrets, the constant deception is taking its toll
- especially when she discovers that she's not the only customer at
the Steuben that night with something to hide. Will Louise's
silence result in an innocent man being arrested for murder?
**NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** 'This is
seriously good... the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft
is so authentic the government will probably ban it - so read it
while you can!' Lee Child A high-intensity roller-coaster ride,
True Believer explodes with action and authenticity that cements
Jack Carr as the new leader in political thrillers. Following his
brutal quest for revenge, former Navy SEAL James Reece has fled the
United States, emerging deep in the wilds of Mozambique. But he
can't stay hidden for long - when a string of horrific terrorist
attacks plagues the Western world, the CIA tracks him down and
recruits him. Now a reluctant tool of the United States government,
Reece must travel the globe, targeting terrorist leaders and
unravelling a geopolitical conspiracy that will have worldwide
repercussions . . . If you loved Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Vince
Flynn's Mitch Rapp or Mark Dawson's John Milton, you will love True
Believer and the James Reece series! Praise for Jack Carr and the
James Reece series: 'With a particular line in authentic
tradecraft, this fabulously unrelenting thrill-ride was a struggle
to put down' Mark Dawson 'Gritty, raw and brilliant!' Tom Marcus
'So powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written-rarely do you read
a debut novel this damn good' Brad Thor 'With technical ferocity
and devastating action sequences, Carr writes both from the gut and
a seemingly infinite reservoir of knowledge in the methods of human
combat. Loved it!' Chris Hauty 'The best debut thriller of 2018'
Washington Times 'Thrilling' Publishers Weekly 'A powerful,
thoughtful, realistic, at times terrifying thriller that I could
not put down. A terrific addition to the genre, Jack Carr and his
alter-ego protagonist, James Reece, continue to blow me away' Mark
Greaney 'One of this year's hottest thrillers, and a perfect fit
for fans of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Daniel Silva' The Real Book
Spy
A Nazi prisoner. A daring journalist. An extraordinary secret . . .
Rudolf Hess was the most closely guarded prisoner in the world.
Forty-five years after his capture in Scotland on a supposed peace
mission he was still in Spandau Prison. Why was it necessary to
keep him there so long? He was a Nazi -- but one with a damaging
tale to tell. If anyone can reach him it is Berlin correspondent
Red Goodbody, known for his foolhardiness, but also for his daring
and panache. The fear is that the stability of Western Europe may
be undermined by what Hess can reveal; and so both the KGB and MI5
move into action to protect the extraordinary secret of Spandau.
The return of The Watchman - deep cover specialist Marc Portman
Close protection specialist Marc Portman is used to finding himself
in hostile situations. But none can be more unpredictable than
troubled Ukraine, teetering on the brink of civil war. When a US
State Department official on a fact-finding mission to Ukraine is
placed under house arrest, the CIA hire Portman (codename:
Watchman) to get him safely out of the country. In that dangerous
and volatile region, Portman will find himself up against local
gangsters, Ukrainian Special Forces, professional snipers,
pro-Russian separatists and power-crazed cops. What he cannot know
however is that his most lethal enemy comes from his own side .
‘My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz’ – SHARI
LAPENA, author of The Couple Next Door and A Stranger in the House
Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide: the second
novel in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel
Hawthorne.
‘You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late…’
These were Richard Pryce's last words, overheard moments before the
celeb divorce lawyer was bludgeoned to death with a £3,000 bottle of
wine.
Strange circumstances pile up. Pryce was teetotal, so why this bottle?
Why those words? Why did the killer paint a number on his wall? And,
most importantly, which of the man’s many, many enemies did the deed?
Baffled, the police are forced to bring in Private Investigator Daniel
Hawthorne and his sidekick, the author Anthony, who’s really getting
rather good at this murder investigation business.
But as Hawthorne takes on the case with characteristic relish, it
becomes clear that he, too, has secrets to hide. Anthony knows they
must be exposed – even at the risk of death…
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Labyrinth
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Catherine Coulter
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Hadfish Systems in London are technological experts - but are they
prepared to be caught up in a deadly game of international
intelligence? Julian and his business partner, Rami, run Hadfish
Systems, a successful software development company. When Rami is
offered the chance of a lucrative new contract, he doesn't seem too
fussed about where the money is coming from or for what purposes
the software might be used. Julian, though, has concerns, made all
the more relevant by some secrets he's been hiding, even from the
people closest to him. When an old acquaintance of Julian's
reappears unexpectedly, full of promises and threats, Julian
wonders whether this contract is really so lucrative after all, or
whether it's simply a chance to save his own life. Caught between
warring nations and competing interests, old secrets and new
loyalties, Julian is trapped in a deadly game .
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Spy
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Danielle Steel
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A young woman is caught up in a dangerous double life on behalf of
her country during World War Two in Spy, by the world's favourite
storyteller Danielle Steel. At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is
presented to King George V and Queen Mary. She is a stunning beauty
who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war and
her own quietly rebellious nature lead her down a different path.
By 1939, Britain is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire Alex
makes her way to London as a nursing volunteer. But her fluency in
French and German draws the attention of another, more secret,
branch of the service. Within a year, Alex is immersed in a new
world, shocking her family in trousers and bright red lipstick. But
she is forbidden to tell anyone about her work, not even the pilot
she falls in love with. While her country and those dearest to her
pay the terrible price of war, Alex learns the art of espionage,
leading to life-and-death missions and a long career in exotic
places and historic times. Spy follows Alex's extraordinary
adventures during the war, and afterwards all over the world, when
her husband, Richard, enters the foreign service. She lives life on
the edge, with a secret she must always keep hidden.
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Tomas Nevinson
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Javier Marias
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THE FINAL NOVEL FROM THE GREATEST SPANISH WRITER OF HIS GENERATION,
JAVIER MARIAS 'The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary
Spanish literature' Boston Globe Spain in the 1990s is beset by a
simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with
periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this
backdrop, retired British Secret Service member Tomas Nevinson -
now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is approached by
his sinister former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring
him back in from the cold, for one last assignment: a favour for
Tupra, for old times' sake, which is also a favour for a powerful
Spanish friend. His mission: to go back undercover, in a small
Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved there a
decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist, on loan from the IRA, now
on the run and living there incognito. Everything about the
assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be working
for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete out if he
is somehow able to unmask one of the three women. But, still in his
forties and lured by the appeal of once again being on the inside,
he accepts the job. As he gets closer to the three women, his task
becomes ever harder. How - or who - to choose between these three?
Intimately involved with each of them, as lover, colleague or
friend, he can find no firm clue to resolve the question. But under
increasing pressure from his paymasters, choose - and act - he
apparently must . . . Charting a world where right and wrong, and
good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier Marias takes us on a
journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in this, the final novel
written before his untimely passing in 2022. PRAISE FOR JAVIER
MARIAS: 'Unquestionably the most significant Spanish writer of his
generation' Observer '[Marias] uses language like an anatomist uses
a scalpel to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of
species, the human being' W. G. Sebald 'One of the greatest
contemporary novelists' Le Monde 'A great writer' Salman Rushdie
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White Lotus
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Donald G. Moore
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Set in Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau, "White Lotus" is the story of
Amerasian twins who were separated at birth and raised on opposite
sides of the world. The twins reunite after twenty-four years only
to be drawn into the deadly world of an undercover DEA agent
investigating a Chinese secret society involved in illegal drugs,
money laundering, and prostitution.
A lone female agent finds herself abandoned in enemy territory in
this riveting espionage thriller Having completed her mission to
silence an agency defector, CIA operative Cassie Bradbury finds
herself cut adrift in Moscow with no documents, no tickets and no
identification. Hot on her trail are the Kremlin, the Russian Mafia
- and Sean Ravensdale, the disgraced ex-CIA agent who has been sent
to track her down. Realizing that she has been set up and is now
expendable, Cassie will need all her courage and resourcefulness to
outwit her pursuers - and stay alive long enough to exact revenge
on the man who recruited her, who trained her - who betrayed her.
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Angel of Death
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Jack Higgins
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A mysterious terrorist group is killing other terrorists, IRA thugs
and CIA and KGB agents, all in a bid to break the fragile peace
process. Sean Dillon is the only man who can find them, if he can
live long enough. No one is more feared than January 30: the
mysterious terrorist group currently holding destructive and bloody
reign over the world. Their targets are random, from all races and
religions, their methods deadly. They are the enemies of peace and
they are unstoppable. With the carnage mounting, and a US senator
due to fly in to broker urgent peace talks, the Prime Minister
authorizes a special investigation to hunt down the terrorists with
extreme prejudice. Former enemies now uneasy allies, Brigadier
Charles Ferguson and Sean Dillon, once the most feared enforcer in
the IRA, are enlisted to lead the desperate hunt. Then the senator
is targeted for death. Ferguson and Dillon need to move fast,
putting their trust in each other, and their lives on the line, in
order to seek out and destroy January 30 - before they can kill
again, before they start a war.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'ONE OF THE BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR'
ASSOCIATED PRESS HOW DO YOU STOP THE MOST POWERFUL MAN ON EARTH?
Evan Smoak, code-named Orphan-X, was raised in a secret government
programme. He left it behind long ago but now someone has been
killing off the orphans - and all evidence of the programme. Only
one person would and could do this. The man who created it. He'll
do anything - anything - to save himself. But what can one man -
even an Orphan - do alone? Against the President of the United
States . . . 'THE CHAPTERS SPEED BY LIKE AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'WEAPONS-GRADE THRILLER WRITING' GUARDIAN
February, 1917. A lone German agent is despatched to Washington to
prevent the British delivering a telegram to President Woodrow
Wilson - by any means possible. For this is the Zimmermann
telegram: it contains a devastating piece of news which is sure to
bring the USA into the war on the side of Britain and her allies.
Having fought in the trenches himself, Max Volkman knows that
America's involvement will only prolong the slaughter of innocents
and is implacable in his determination to kill the British envoy
carrying the telegram. But when his pursuit of the Englishman leads
him to the home of American heiress Catherine Fitzgerald, wife to
one of Washington's most powerful politicians, he is presented with
a terrible choice: loyalty to his comrades in the trenches or the
loss of the one woman he has ever truly loved. His decision will
determine the outcome of the First World War.
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