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'Alan Judd's special magic is to mix contemporary events as they
break over our heads with the codes and crafts of the secret world
on whose special traits he is always uncannily up to date' Peter
Hennessy 'Plotting in the best le Carre tradition' Mail on Sunday
From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, and The Kaiser's
Last Kiss comes a brilliant new novel for fans of John le Carre and
Charles Cumming Brexit looms and Charles Thoroughgood, Chief of
MI6, is forbidden for political reasons from spying on the EU. But
when an EU official volunteers the EU's negotiating bottom lines to
one of his officers, Charles has to report it. Whitehall is eager
for more but as the case develops Charles realises that it may not
be quite what it appears. At the same time, he finds he has a
family connection with a possible terrorist whom MI5 want checked
out. In both cases, Charles is forced to become his own agent,
seeking what he really does not want to find. Authoritative and
packed with in-depth knowledge, Accidental Agent is a gripping new
spy thriller from a master of the genre. 'Judd infuses his writing
with insider knowledge'New Statesman 'Wonderful. One of the best
spy novels ever' Peter Hennessey on Legacy 'Belongs to the classic
tradition of spy writing' Guardian 'Judd has an infallible grasp of
intelligence'Spectator
In a dangerous world nothing is straightforward. Not even murder.
âJuddâŚknows his stuff when it comes to the milieu of
espionage.â The Times âAn elegant and informed British
espionage novel.â Financial Times âAuthentic, clever and
wonderfully entertaining.â Sir Richard Dearlove, former
head of MI6Â 'We can't think of a better Christmas
read.' Oxford Alumni Magazine  âHe saw Cleaner Bob
arrive that morning, the morning of his death.â Â In the
peaceful towns and villages of England, Cleaner Bob is washing
windows, and people are dying in sudden and unexpected
circumstances. When it becomes clear that the victims have a common
history as Russian defectors, foul play is suspected and a hunt
begins to locate their assailant, the lethal poison that killed
them, and the mole who is leaking their locations. Â In a
race against time, only one man has the connections and experience
to crack the case before more people perish. Charles Thoroughgood,
former head of MI6, is enjoying retirement in the Oxfordshire
hamlet he calls home when the call comes in. A man of duty, he
agrees to take part in a mission that will lead him into the heart
of enemy territory and threaten to undermine the very values he
holds most dear. Â Tense, engrossing and terrifyingly
believable, the latest Charles Thoroughgood novel is a timely and
brilliant reminder that Alan Judd is a master of the spy thriller
and a writer of the very highest quality. Â
Russian defectors are dying and only Charles Thoroughgood can put a
stop to it. 'Authentic, clever and wonderfully entertaining.' Sir
Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6 'We can't think of a better
Christmas read.' Oxford Alumni Magazine 'He saw Cleaner Bob arrive
that morning, the morning of his death.' In the peaceful towns and
villages of England, Cleaner Bob is washing windows, and people are
dying in sudden and unexpected circumstances. When it becomes clear
that the victims have a common history as Russian defectors, foul
play is suspected and a hunt begins to locate their assailant, the
lethal poison that killed them, and the mole who is leaking their
locations. In a race against time, only one man has the connections
and experience to crack the case before more people perish. Charles
Thoroughgood, former head of MI6, is enjoying retirement in the
Oxfordshire hamlet he calls home when the call comes in. A man of
duty, he agrees to take part in a mission that will lead him into
the heart of enemy territory and threaten to undermine the very
values he holds most dear. Tense, engrossing and terrifyingly
believable, the latest Charles Thoroughgood novel is a timely and
brilliant reminder that Alan Judd is a master of the spy thriller
and a writer of the very highest quality.
A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm's last years in
Nazi-occupied Holland. It is 1940 and the exiled Kaiser is living
in Holland, at his palace Huis Doorn.The old German king spends his
days chopping logs and musing on what might have been. When the
Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser's Dutch staff are replaced by SS
guards, led by young, eager Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and an
unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper.
While they agree on the rightfulness of German expansion and on
holding the country's Jewish population accountable for all ills,
they disagree on the solutions. Krebbs's growing attraction and
love affair with Akki, a Jewish maid in the house, further
undermines his belief in Nazism. But as the tides of war roll
around them, all three find themselves increasingly compromised and
gravely at risk. This subtle, tender novel borrows heavily from
real history and events, but remains a work of superlative,
literary fiction.Through Judd's depiction of the Lear-like Kaiser
and the softening of brutal Krebbs, the novel draws unique
parallels between Germany at the turn of the 20th century and
Hitler's Germany.
'A masterful storyteller with an intricate knowledge of his
subject.' The Daily Telegraph 'Alan Judd knows more about the
secret world than any other writer living. To have him turn his
expert eye on the world of Christopher Marlowe - and on Francis
Walsingham, the Elizabethan George Smiley - is a special kind of
literary treat.' Mick Herron 'Absolutely spellbinding. I gobbled it
up in two days and could not stop' Miranda Seymour Danger and
dissent stalk the streets and taverns of Elizabethan England. The
Queen's chief spymaster, Francis Walsingham, and his team of agents
must maintain the highest levels of vigilance to ward off Catholic
plots and the ever-present threat of invasion. One operative in
particular - a young Cambridge undergraduate of humble origins,
controversial beliefs and literary genius who goes by the name of
Kit Marlowe - is relentless in his pursuit of intelligence for the
Crown. When he is killed outside an inn in Deptford, his mysterious
death becomes the subject of rumours and suspicion that are never
satisfactorily resolved. Years later, Thomas Phelippes, a former
colleague of Marlowe's and a man once much valued by Walsingham,
finds himself imprisoned in the Tower. When he is visited by an
emissary of the new king, however, it becomes clear that his long
fall from favour may be reversed if he will furnish his monarch
with every detail he is able to recall about his murdered friend's
life and death. But just what is it that so fascinates King James
about the famously mercurial playwright-spy, and does Phelippes
know enough to secure his own redemption? Virtuosic, gripping and
meticulously researched, award-winning writer Alan Judd turns is at
the peak of his powers in this remarkable novel about a literary
genius whose short-life and violent death composed one of the most
fascinating unresolved mysteries of all time.
FROM THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF LEGACY AND ACCIDENTAL AGENT
After university and Sandhurst, Charles Thoroughgood has now joined
the Assault Commandos and is on a four-month tour of duty in Armagh
and Belfast. The thankless task facing him and his men -- to patrol
the tension-filled streets through weeks of boredom punctuated by
bursts of horror -- takes them through times of tragedy, madness,
laughter and terror. Alan Judd tells Thoroughgood's tale with
verve, compassion and humour. The result is an exceptionally fine
novel which blends bitter human incident with army farce. 'Quite
simply one of the best novels of army life I've read' JACK HIGGINS
'Entertaining and compulsively readable' MELVYN BRAGG 'Human,
sympathetic and engrossing' DAILY MIRROR
From a prison cell, in which he has been held on suspicion of
breaking the Official Secrets Act, Charles Thoroughgood awaits not
only his bail, but also the reappearance of the woman whom all the
major roads in his life have led back to. After his years in the
army and then with MI6, Charles has begun a new chapter in his life
with the Secret Intelligence Agency, shadowing the movements of a
suspected double agent. Charles knows that he has nothing to hide,
and as he casts his mind over the course of recent events, he
begins to suspect a more sinister motivation, both personally and
politically, behind his incarceration...
From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant
new historical crime novella for fans of Antonia Hodgson and CJ
Sansom. 'To Mr Thomas Combe my sword.' These six words in
Shakespeare's will tell us that Shakespeare had a sword. Did he
wear it? Did he use it? What sort was it? When and why did he get
it? What happened to it? Might it - does it - still exist? These
questions plague Simon Gold, an antiques dealer. He believes he has
identified the sword as belonging to a customer, an unworthy owner
indifferent to cultural icons and uninterested in history. Simon is
desperate to acquire the sword, but how? How far is he prepared to
go to get it? In alliance with Charlotte, his customer's attractive
and disaffected wife, Simon finds himself going farther than he had
intended - and finds, too, that Charlotte is rather more than she
appears. Praise for Alan Judd: 'Judd has an infallible grasp of
intelligence' Spectator 'Wonderful. One of the best spy novels
ever' Peter Hennessey on Legacy 'Plotting in the best le Carre
tradition' Mail on Sunday 'Belongs to the classic tradition of spy
writing' Guardian
A beautifully written, highly emotional love story about an RAF
pilot in WWII, from the acclaimed author of Legacy. Frank Foucham
risks his life night after night flying raids over Germany. The war
shows no sign of ending and Frank is scared his luck is running
out. On a rare day off, fishing for relaxation, he meets Kenneth
Ovenden. Forging an immediate friendship based on shared wartime
experiences, Frank is then introduced to Kenneth's daughter-in-law
Vanessa. Their connection is immediate. With an urgency that the
shadow of war brings, these two must follow their hearts before
time runs out.
Ford Madox Ford is best known for two fictional masterpieces: The
Good Soldier and the Great War tetralogy, Parade's End. Indeed, it
was reading the former that first persuaded Alan Judd to write this
superb biography. Graham Greene once strikingly pronounced, 'There
is no novelist of this century more likely to live than Ford Madox
Ford.' Even if that is debatable there is no denying his importance
in the literary firmament of the first thirty years of the
twentieth-century. He founded the English Review which can claim to
have discovered D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis. In
the 1920s he founded the Transatlantic Review which published work
by James Joyce, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Gertrude Stein and Jean
Rhys. Two of Ford Madox Ford's passions were conversation and
women. It is often said he only seduced the latter to carry on the
former! Alan Judd's biography is a brilliant rehabilitation of a
literary figure who has still not been accorded his rightful place.
On first publication it received dazzling reviews. 'It is a
marvellous book, intelligent, sympathetic, comprehensive, worthy of
Ford.' Allan Massie, Sunday Telegraph 'Mr Judd never bores. He is
shrewd about the novel in general and Ford in particular.' Gore
Vidal, Times Literary Supplement 'Indulgent, energetic, and
immensely readable.' Richard Holmes, The Times 'Alan Judd has been
drawn into Ford's embattlement and defends him staunchly and
imaginatively.' A. S. Byatt, Guardian 'What Judd rightly emphasises
is that Ford was a giver, believing that the preservation and
furtherance of artistic talent was his permanent responsibility.'
Frank Kermode, London Review of Books
After university and Sandhurst, Charles Thoroughgood has now joined
the Assault Commandos and is on a four-month tour of duty in Armagh
and Belfast. The thankless task facing him and his men -- to patrol
the tension-filled streets through weeks of boredom punctuated by
bursts of horror -- takes them through times of tragedy, madness,
laughter and terror. Alan Judd tells Thoroughgood's tale with
verve, compassion and humour. The result is an exceptionally fine
novel which blends bitter human incident with army farce.
A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as
Patrick Stubbs is posted as third secretary in the British Embassy
in Lower Africa. Mayhem awaits him - an absent-minded ambassador, a
bullying first secretary with a dipsomaniac wife, and a crush on
the police chief's wife! The author won the 1981 Royal Society of
Literature Award for "A Breed of Heroes". In 1983 he was chosen as
one of the Best of Young British Novelists.
'At once moral fable, cautionary ghost story and inspired attack on
the whole hellbent drift of modern letters, this is a splendid
tale, splendidly told, which Ford or Henry James would have been
glad to have written.' Robert Nye, Guardian A world-renowned writer
living in the South of France owes his extraordinary career to a
mysterious literary spirit - or is it a demon?- that controls him.
The existence of this supernatural muse, and the price it exacts,
remain hidden until the famous writer's death, when the spirit is
transferred to a rising but as yet unformed literary hopeful, whose
own celebrity begins immediately and inexplicably to grow. The only
clues to these two possessions are an ancient, inscrutable
manuscript and the continuing presence of an apparently ageless
woman who attaches herself in turn to these gifted but soon
distracted and eventually desperate men. And as the narrator, a
guileless teacher of literature, pieces their stories together, we
begin to see what can happen when an artist surrenders to the charm
of fame. 'This novel delighted and terrified me as it must terrify
writers, showing them a pit of hell.' Ruth Rendell, Daily
Telegraph, Books of the Year
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From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant
new novel for fans of le Carre, Graham Greene and Charles Cumming.
During a time of political disruption and rising anti-nuclear
sentiment, MI5 discovers that an extremist fringe group, Action
Against Austerity, appears to have links to an established
political party while planning sabotage using something or someone
called Deep Blue. Banned from investigating British political
parties, the head of MI5 seeks advice from Charles Thoroughgood,
his opposite number in MI6. Agreeing to help unofficially with the
case, Charles must delve deep into his own past, to an unresolved
Cold War case linked to his private life. Using the past as key to
the present, he soon finds himself in a race against time to
prevent a plot which is politically nuclear ... Authoritative and
packed with in-depth knowledge, Deep Blue is a gripping new spy
thriller from a master of the genre. 'Judd infuses his writing with
insider knowledge' New Statesman
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Charles Thoroughgood, hero of Alan Judd's classic A Breed of
Heroes, has left the army to be trained by MI6 in the arts of the
Cold War. Nothing could prepare him, however, for the unexpected
inheritance left him by his late father, which leads him back into
an old school friendship with Viktor, a Russian diplomat living in
London, and beyond that into the murky world of Soviet espionage at
the height of the nuclear threat to the West.
Seabed fluid flow involves the flow of gases and liquids through
the seabed. Such fluids have been found to leak through the seabed
into the marine environment in seas and oceans around the world -
from the coasts to deep ocean trenches. This geological phenomenon
has widespread implications for the sub-seabed, seabed, and marine
environments. Seabed fluid flow affects seabed morphology,
mineralization, and benthic ecology. Natural fluid emissions also
have a significant impact on the composition of the oceans and
atmosphere; and gas hydrates and hydrothermal minerals are
potential future resources. This book describes seabed fluid flow
features and processes, and demonstrates their importance to human
activities and natural environments. It is targeted at research
scientists and professionals with interests in the marine
environment. Colour versions of many of the illustrations, and
additional material - most notably feature location maps - can be
found at www.cambridge.org/9780521819503.
From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant
new novel for fans of le Carre, Graham Greene and Charles Cumming.
Charles Thoroughgood is now the recently-appointed chief of a
reconstituted MI6, tasked with halting the increasingly disruptive
cyber attacks on Britain, which are threatening government itself
and all the normal transactions of daily life - not to mention a
missing nuclear missile-carrying submarine. The murder of one of
Thoroughgood's former agents and the escape from prison of a former
colleague turned traitor, whom Charles helped convict, brings
danger on all sides.Thoroughgood ploughs a lonely furrow in
Whitehall in his belief that all these elements are connected, a
theory which dramatically gains credibility when his wife, Sarah,
disappears.
A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret
Intelligence Service through the unusual life of its founder,
Mansfield Cumming. * Sir Mansfield Cumming, the founder of the
British Secret Service and the original 'C', has until now been a
shadowy figure. For this authorised biography, the Secret
Intelligence Service has released to Alan Judd, Cumming's
voluminous diaries, which have never been seen outside the Service
and will be put back into storage in perpetuity when Judd has used
them. * The result is likely to be the most sensational biography
of the season, and the definitive account of how MI5 and MI6 -- the
models for all subsequent secret services all over the world --
were set up. * Cumming signed himself 'C', was referred to as such
in Whitehall and always used green ink, traditions maintained to
this day. His life not only makes riveting reading but casts
fascinating light on the development of the Secret Service and its
influence on the twentieth century.
First World War Poets by Alan Judd and David Crane. This collection
of short biographies of those remarkable men who sought to record
and convey the horrors of the Great War in poetry draws on letters,
memoirs and portraits in a variety of media. Key poems by each of
the poets are reproduced in full, and familiar images of Rupert
Brooke, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are presented along with
the haunting faces of lesser-known poets such as Isaac Rosenberg
and Ivor Gurney to provide a new approach to one of the most
devastating events of the last century. Published to coincide with
the centenary of the start of the Great War.
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