In England's darkest hour, with the Nazi war machine poised to invade, Winston Churchill orders a top secret operation that will allow the fight to continue. But spies and traitors soon learn of Churchill's risky gambit. To save the British Empire from certain defeat, assistance must come from a future time. All depends on whether young Charlie Taggart can be sent back into the past on a vital mission that only he will fully understand.

**From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes a novel set in 1940s London about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the Second World War, and the healing and hope they find in one another."A masterpiece of a historical thriller." —Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of Eternal**Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, p...

An international manhunt sets the scene for an explosive thriller in the second Brit in the FBI novel featuring Special Agent Nicholas Drummond.After working with Special Agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich, Nicholas Drummond has joined the FBI. Now, he and partner Mike Caine are in an eleventh-hour race to stop a madman from finding a cache of lost World War I gold—and a weapon unlike anything the world has ever seen...“A thriller packed with n...

The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming.When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him. But her search will lead her into far darker places than she ever imagined…New York, Present Day. When Ellie disco...

“A stylish spy thriller” of postwar Berlin—the first in a thrilling new series from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Troy novels (The New York Times Book Review).John Wilfrid Holderness—aka Joe Wilderness—has gone from young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz to MI6 agent navigating war-ravaged Europe to his current career of “free-agent gumshoe” weathering Cold War fears and hard-luck times. Now he’s being drawn back into the secre...

Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard returns in "one of the best thrillers of the year" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).Spanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John Lawton's A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows two characters—Méret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the ...

Scotland Yard's Inspector Troy returns in a Cold War spy thriller hailed as "stylish, sophisticated, suspenseful . . . A fictional tour de force" (Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post ).In April 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned to be Khrushchev's bodyguard and to spy on him. Soo...

**A Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more!Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor.**1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring—she’s happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a...

AN UNLIKELY SPY. A FORMER KING. THE FATE OF A NATION IN THEIR HANDS.The gripping WWII thriller from the award-winning author of Nightfall Berlin, perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow'Intricately plotted, rip-roaring World War Two adventure - proper heroes, proper villains and grounded in real history' IAN RANKIN'Fact and fiction merge in a rip-roaring yarn that is totally credible. Exce...

A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Troy.An old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don't ruin her husband's political career. But he also wants to know why Kitty has been spotted with Danny Ryan, whose twin brothers, in addition to owning one of...

Don't miss the brillaint next instalment in the Pilot's Girl series from bestselling author Fenella J. Miller.January 1944Heavily pregnant, Barbara is looking forward to welcoming her new baby. But with her husband Alex still away flying and fighting the Germans, she fears he will miss the arrival of his longed-for child.But after the birth, Barbara is gripped with a terrible fear that she will lose her family completely – that this dread...

The first in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII.It is 1939 and in the town of Dartford, Grace, Sally and twins Daisy and Rose, are determined to do their bit when war is declared. Grace, desperate to get away from her sad home life, signs up for the Land Army. Sally’s dream of stage school is thwarted by the war, but she finds hope in an unexpected place.For the twins, nothing has prepared them for the sh...