The Times Thriller of the Month, January 2026'Paul Warner's impressive debut wins the reader's trust with its nuanced depiction of character, brisk handling of the action and sure grasp of the cost to spies of a life of deception and betrayal' - THE TIMES'This is an impressive launch for what promises to be an exciting new series' - FINANCIAL TIMES'Terrifying - if you have children you'll ...

THE SECOND BOOK IN THE GRIPPING SPY THRILLER SERIES FEATURING MI6'S MARK WOLFE - now available to pre-order in hardback, eBook and audiobook.Mark Wolfe, as MI6's Senior Consultant, is an overqualified yet undervalued part-timer at Vauxhall House, but an attack on his life in his own home brings the reality of working for Six back into dangerous focus. Especially when his would-be assassin is purported to be working for il Fantasma, a man Mark was sent to k...

The Cooperative Extension Service, a publicly supported educational agency, is continually struggling to define its proper function and purpose in our changing society. Should its mission be broadly based or narrowly focused? Should staff members be generalists or specialists? Should its clients be primarily rural or urban, farm or nonfarm? What role should Extension play in the information networks of the twenty-first century? Professors Warner and Christenson take a broad look at these a...

Joe Fleck's life consists of monotony, of lost opportunities, lost bets and lost love. With the notoriously dangerous loan-sharks of Reading, the town where he grew up, breathing down his neck, Joe decides to flee the country for the paradaisical lands of Southeast Asia where the sun shines and where beautiful women, good times and cheap alcohol come in abundance.When Joe invests his 'borrowed' funds in a bar located on a Thai beachfront, he finds that as the local mafias close in ...

Joe's life consists of monotony, of lost opportunities, lost bets and lost love, that is, until he decides to flee his obligations for the perfect life in the paradaisical lands of Southeast Asia where the sun shines and where beautiful women, good times and cheap alcohol come in abundance. When Joe invests his 'borrowed' funds in a beachfront bar, he finds that paradise comes at a high price, and that murder, kidnapping and hard drugs aren't just the stuff of action movies. They're what J...

Mark Wolfe, as MI6's Senior Consultant, is an overqualified yet undervalued part-timer at Vauxhall House, but an attack on his life in his own home brings the reality of working for Six back into dangerous focus. Especially when his would-be assassin is purported to be working for il Fantasma, a man Mark was sent to kill in 1989, inaugurating a war between opposing mafiosi in order to break the Russian stranglehold of illegal operations in Naples and Capri.As the murders o...

Mark Wolfe was the greatest spy of his generation. Now he's been put out to pasture.Gone are the days of dead-drops beneath railway station clocks in foreign lands that no longer exist - of dry-cleaning, double agents and triple crosses. Now Mark's stuck behind a desk in Vauxhall Cross in charge of recruiting the next wave of spooks, his only excitement fending off advances from deep-pocketed private security companies.Yet his discontent is just another secret to add to the...