To live in the shadowland of espionage, where the only certainties are death and deceit, is to live on the lonely margins.The French Resistance brought James Harmer and Jane Frazer together. The Gestapo broke them apart. But it was something else that shattered their love and left them haunted by a sense of betrayal and a thirst for revenge.

In 1942 three young women are parachuted into the Dordogne to workfor a Special Operations Executive network. Their leader is Harry Bailey,a young man who loves one of them and fears for them all.Paulette, the passionately committed Frenchwoman, who never forgetsher need for revenge against the Germans... down-to-earth Vi, motivatedby an unselfish sense of obligation... Jenny, the least committed of the three,and the one who must find the most cou...

A brilliantly atmospheric thriller for fans of Len Deighton and Jack Higgins.Even at the height of Nazi Germany's power there was one invasion Hitler will not risk - the invasion of England by his crack stormtroopers. But the sworn followers of Max von Bayer are a desperate group of seven men and women who are prepared to defy the Führer's ultimate authority and face almost certain death.Driven by personal passions and inspired by their fervent loyalty to t...

A spookily prescient espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre. What if the Soviet Union gained control over the US Presidency?SIS agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening when he realises the newly elected president's press secretary is a former communist radical with links to the KGB.When the witnesses who support his suspicions are systematically eliminated, MacKay must race against time to prove that the President-Elect ...

Ein hochklassiger Spionagekrimi – spannendes Lesevergnügen für alle Fans von John Le Carré!Andrej Aarons ist zwanzig, als er zum Spion wird. In einem strengen Auswahlverfahren auf Herz und Nieren geprüft, wird er durch die Sowjets perfekt ausgebildet und 1938 in die USA eingeschleust. Er lebt in New York unauffällig als Buchhändler, baut ein Agentennetz auf und beliefert seine Auftraggeber mit äußerst wichtigen Informationen. Es braucht Jahrzehnte, bis Moskaus ranghöchster Geheimage...

Routine surveillance, nothing special' - Commander Bailey's brief from Special Branch seems simple enough. But it leads to a sudden, bloody suicide.Piece-by-piece, Baily uncovers the history of a courageous special agent aiding the French Resistance during WWII. But the agent's loyalties are fatally divided. Thirty years on, in a quiet flat in south London, the final, tragic act of the drama takes place...THE LANTERN NETWORK is a gripping story of heroism and betrayal in Na...

After years behind the Iron Curtain, Britain's most notorious traitor wants to return to the homeland he betrayed as part of the Cambridge Five spy ring.John Powell is assigned the task of finding out why. Is it an old man's whim, or a carefully planned KGB operation?To find out Powell must journey into the labyrinth of a man's legendary past, sifting through every rumour, every plot, every shadowy alliance, until the journey leads him into the most dangerous recess of them...

Ted Bailey thought his days as an Intelligence Operative were long gone. He certainly wasn't expecting to be blackmailed back into action, especially not by his own side. But then Bailey is the only person left who ever encountered Berger, the KGB's most ruthless master-spy.Berger is running a major operation on US soil and both the CIA and SIS are desperate to track him down. So Bailey returns to the arena of international espionage and finds that little has changed. The spy game ...

Despite Hiroshima and Nagasaki nobody knows what present-day nuclear explosions will do. And if you know, then by god you've got a massive advantage.'In 1956 a major nuclear explosion shook the southern Urals, killing hundreds, possibly thousands of Russian citizens and devestating an enormous industrial area. It could have been an accident. But was it?One man holds the final piece to a jigsaw of terrifying proportions.

The identities of several Russian agents become known to the West. The chase is on to gather the evidence needed to incriminate them. One of the leaders of the hunt is the brilliant British spycatcher Joe Shapiro, who persuades the Americans into exchanging a notorious and high-ranking KGB spy for the seemingly unimportant American spy-pilot Gary Powers.Joe Schapiro has more than a professional interest in the case, and the intricate web of lies and deception behind the exchange of...

When the SS destroyed Special Operations Executive's Scorpio network in Occupied France, only Henri Masson escaped. Then his post-war trial was abruptly halted after a high level British intervention.Forty years later, awkward questions are raised in Westminster and the case has been reopened. The first thing Harry Chapman of MI6 discovers is that all records were destroyed by a senior SIS officer. The second is that there are still survivors from the Scorpio affair - and that Henr...

Germany, 1945. British agent Stephen Felinski is parachuted into Hitler's fast-collapsing empire with orders to reorganize a group of Soviet agents abandoned by Moscow.Thirty years later, a top British politician defects to the Russians and Felinski is called out of retirement to help - because of a friendship formed among the ruins of Nazi Germany.The link is The Special Collection, a daring and meticulously planned Soviet attempt to bring social and industrial chaos to Br...