1938. Their ménage a trios splits. Young, naïve and unquestionably in love, the couple are persuaded to work for Englands growing Secret Service, recruited just hours before they compete in Italys most famous motor race: the 1000 mile Mille Miglia. Operating as couriers, under the guise of race entrants, their plans quickly go awry. Unexpectedly entrusted with delivering a captured German Enigma encryption machine to SIS agents in Switzerland, fate cruelly intercedes; Fascisti forces suspe...

1990s. A farcical and near calamitous start to a relationship between landlord Simon Endersleigh and his talented and very attractive actress tenant: Michelle, leads to a distinctly more sinister turn of events as an honest Russian oligarch seeks the Citys help in repatriating and investing his huge fortune from Moscow. Carole Head, a young woman investment banker, whose expertise is respected and sought by a small international coterie seeking wealthy obscurity, is also the landlords signifi...

1941. Britain faces catastrophe. Vital aircraft from America are flown across a forbidding N. Atlantic in winter, saving time into action. But few have crossed its cruel wastes before the war broke out. At home women volunteers deliver aircraft all types from fighter to four-engine bomber from Britains expanding factories to pressed squadrons. The job is demanding, dangerous and sometimes ends in tragedy. The women fly alone, unarmed and without radio. Across the Channel a homing Spit...

1937. Laden with bullion being repatriated from Britains Asian colonies, Empress Airways flying boat Cornucopia succumbs to engine failure, finally ditching in a storm-racked Bay of Bengal. Its cargo is vital for financing Englands crucial military expansion in the face of Hitlers aggressive European posturing. Hoping for quick salvation, the survivors soon discover they are well off track from Penang to Rangoon. Cornucopias loss sparks a frantic search by three parties. Not all are drive...

1947. Demobbed, Michael Kelly bids at auction for ex-military aeroplanes for Empress Airways. With government contracts they begin regular flights to remaining parts of the Empire. Empress takes part in the Berlin Airlift: the Soviets create difficulties for the streams of aircraft flying to the besieged city. For Ceci Penrose, piloting a laden freighter, it proves a challenging experience. Russian fighters attack. Her crew is seriously injured, the aircraft critically damaged. In the ...

Literary legend James Bond returns to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his side is Pussy Galore, who was with him at the end. Unknown to either of them, the USSR and the West are in a deadly struggle for technological superiority. And SMERSH is back.The Soviet counter-intel...

This WWII memoir of an NCO Royal Air Force pilot offers a vivid, personal account of wartime life and dangerous operations over Europe.In 1941, Graham White was passing a Royal Air Force recruiting center and, on the spur of the moment, signed up. As a non-commissioned RAF pilot, he went on to fly long-range night-fighters against the Luftwaffe. White experienced badly designed and dangerous aircraft, such as the Beaufighter with its Merlin engine. But he also flew...

A SUPER-CHARGED THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermottA WEB OF DECEIT.AND BEN HOPE IS CAUGHT UP IN THE MAYHEM…Whilst visiting a former SAS comrade in Italy, a distracted Ben nearly runs over a young boy – and unwittingly walks into his deadliest mission yet.Ben’s involvement with the boy’s family runs deeper as he wit...

TWO WOMEN. ONE HISTORY. A SECRETS THAT CROSSES CENTURIES.** The USA Today Bestseller****The number one Kindle bestseller**‘A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story… A triumph.’ DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tuscan ContessaLove. Guilt. Heartbreak.1914: Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has ...

This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting to 249 Squadron.Nineteen years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes he was soon to be pitch forked into the maelstrom of air fighting on which the survival of Britain was to depend. By the end of the year he had shot down 13 enemy aircraft, seen many of his fri...

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean, and somehow locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice-pack somewhere north of the Arctic Circle.But the orders do not say what the Dolphin will find if she succeeds – that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage, and that one of the ...

THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAmory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future.A spell at b...