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 ...

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 ...

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...

A long buried and shocking secret has been uncovered. In 1940, President Roosevelt and Canada's Mackenzie King secretly agreed to abandon the Allies and make peace with Hitler if the Nazis successfully invaded Britain. Decades later, Soviet agents are ready to use this information to shatter the NATO alliance and use the ensuing geopolitical chaos to strengthen their position in Europe.Only one man stands in their way. Tadeusz Anders - half Polish, half English and totally professi...

A collection of full-cast dramatisations and original radio plays from master storyteller Ted Allbeury – plus bonus programmesDescribed by Len Deighton as ‘a classic writer of espionage fiction’, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He b...

It was just a routine call at Santa Margherita for Max Farne. A meetingwith his agent to see if there were any boats for him to buy or sell. Andthen came the invitation he couldn't refuse.Abducted by and blackmailed into selling his boat by a smooth Italiangangster, Max is drawn into a wave of crime sweeping Italy, taking himback to the mountains to protect the beautiful daughter of a wartime friend.The stakes are high and Max has everything to lo...

The year is 1982. As politicians bicker, a neutral Britain's decline accelerates into anarchy. The Prime Minister accepts the Russian offer to 'help restore law and order'. Faced with a national breakdown he has no choice.Millions collaborate. But as Soviet troops take over Britain's streets, men like Harry Andrews and Jamie Boyle go underground. For them there is only one answer to the life-and-death question: Is freedom worth fighting for?A nation demoralised, a way of li...

In a building just like The White House, deep inside Russia, a man is provided with top-secret CIA briefing documents, American newspapers, radio and television programmes.His training will continue until he can think exactly like the President of the United States of America, and know how he will react in a crisis. A crisis the Kremlin has already set in motion...

Charlie Foster runs an SIS network into East Berlin. WhenThree of his couriers are arrested and London is ready tolet them rot, Charlie, in anger, does his own deal. He tradeshis services to the East Germans and the Russians in exchangefor his people's freedom.From his collaboration he builds up a complete picture of allthose in Europe who were Stasi and KGB informers. When theBerlin Wall comes down Charlie Foster has something everybody

Katya Felinska is a beautiful and talented photo-journalist, passionatelycommitted to championing the rights of the oppressed. Max Inman is abrilliant and incisive political journalist. They have been together for almosttwenty years.But Max is also an undercover agent, one of MI6's most important sourceson the real thinking of Russian and German leaders in the tense monthsleading up to the disintegration of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Ber...

Andrei Aarons is just twenty when he becomes a spy. Quiet, idealistic, a true believer,always able to justify the imperfections of the Russian Revolution.Picked, trained and given an assignment in New York, he begins his extraordinary lifeas the most successful espionage agent the Soviets ever had.So why did six American presidents trust him?This novel, based on highly confidential information, is the story of the ultimate failureof communism se...

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...