Julia Dylan’s aunt, Eveline Sadeghi, vanishes while sailing from Kefalonia to Syracuse in Sicily.Julia and her new husband Thomas abandon their honeymoon and join the search. In Syracuse they encounter a suspiciously well-informed detective who is investigating the murder of an Iranian journalist. Thomas is convinced that Eveline's disappearance is somehow connected.Julia’s uncle, the Director General of Defence Intelligence, asks MI6 to investigate but MI6 has higher priorities. The CIA h...

1989, London.Julia Dylan is running a successful security consultancy. When an eccentric academic disappears on his quest to find Spanish gold, Julia is hired to find him.Her husband Thomas, is stuck in MI6 writing reports no one will ever read. When he’s suddenly sent to Turkey to find a consignment of hijacked Russian missiles, suspicions grow.Thomas and Julia find their paths leading to Madeira, it can’t be a coincidence. Someone is pulling their strings, but why...

'Brian Landers is the real deal'Andrew Raymond, author of the Novak and Mitchell thrillersWinter 1981.Poland is in turmoil. The Communist regime is close to collapse and the CIA wants to help it on its way. They ask for MI6 assistance but insist the MI6 Station in Warsaw is not involved. Why not? And who will the Americans accept? MI6 agent Thomas Dylan is sent from Moscow. His wife has just witnessed a murder and the Russian authorities want her out of the country. But when Thomas and Jul...

In Angola the largest tank battle since WWII is taking place. South African troops are battling to preserve apartheid.Ministers want MI6 to provide support, discreetly. Thomas Dylan is sent to the front line, but death is soon much closer to home. After thirty years in British Intelligence, Adam Joseff has retired to his stamp collection. His loyalty is beyond question... until he is murdered in the Caribbean. Then the questions start.Has Joseff betrayed his country? Or has he been betraye...

A British spy is assassinated in Argentina. Can Tom Dylan find out why? Despite having failed disastrously in his first mission in Holland, Thomas Dylan is sent to Chicago to retrieve a stolen secret US Navy gadget, the Griffin Interrogator. This mission is a success until he is attacked and the gadget stolen again and Tom is sent to Brazil to retrieve it once more.It turns out that the whole mission is phoney and Thomas has been chasing a fake. Thomas finally realizes he is being used by ...

A multidisciplinary environmental history of early China’s political systems, featuring newly available Chinese archaeological dataThis book is a multidisciplinary study of the ecology of China’s early political systems up to the fall of the first empire in 207 BCE. Brian Lander traces the formation of lowland North China’s agricultural systems and the transformation of its plains from diverse forestland and steppes to farmland. He argues that the growth of states ...

China has a vast written history that records the countless ways people have observed, transformed, and preserved their environments over the centuries. This sourcebook, the first ever to document China’s environmental history, presents translations of hundreds of texts spanning more than three thousand years, displaying the diversity of how humans have related to the world around them.China’s Environmental History features texts translated from Chinese and eight other lan...

Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near presentForests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction t...

Across early modern Europe, the growing scientific practice of dissection prompted new and insightful ideas about the human body. This collection of essays explores the impact of anatomical knowledge on wider issues of learning and culture.