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by Charles Cumming
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsCumming returns with MI6 agent Tom Kell (A Foreign Country), in a tour de force that will dazzle readers and critics alike.
by John Lawton
Published Nov 2014
Read ReviewsA gripping, meticulously researched and richly detailed historical thriller - a moving story of espionage and war, and people caught up in the most tumultuous events of the twenty-first century.
by Jonathan Rabb
Published Mar 2010
Read ReviewsBerlin, between the two world wars. When an executive at the renowned Ufa film studios is found dead floating in his office bathtub, it falls to Nikolai Hoffner, a chief inspector in the Kriminalpolizei, to investigate.
by Ben Macintyre
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsEddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.
by Wu Ming
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsSet during the height of the Cold War - with the world divided into East and West - 54 features Cary Grant as a real-life spy dealing with Italian partisans, KGB agents, Parisian lowlifes, and cameos by David Niven, Marshal Tito, and Grace Kelly.
by Leslie Forbes
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsBoth a mesmerizing thriller and a passionate exploration of the power of truth to effect reconciliation and restore faith.
by John Le Carre
Published Nov 2004
Read ReviewsAn epic tale of loyalty and betrayal set in the West Berlin of the 1960s through to the present day of terrorism and new alliances.
by Alan Furst
Published May 2003
Read ReviewsNovember 1940, and the battle to cut Germany's oil supply rages through the spy haunts of the Balkans amid the street fighting of a fascist civil war. This is classic Alan Furst, combining remarkable authenticity and atmosphere with the complexity and excitement of an outstanding spy thriller.
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