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London, November, 1960: the Cold War is at its height. Spy fever fills the newspapers, and the political establishment knows how and where to bury its secrets. When a highly sensitive file goes missing, Simon Callington is accused of passing information to the Soviets, and arrested. His wife, Lily, suspects that his imprisonment is part of a cover-up, and that more powerful men than Simon will do anything to prevent their own downfall. She knows that she too is in danger, and must fight to protect her children. But what she does not realise is that Simon has hidden vital truths about his past, and may be found guilty of another crime that carries with it an even greater penalty.
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By the time Nicholas Whistler arrives in Prague, it’s too late to turn back. He’s fallen into a trap and been compromised. Alone and running scared, his only thought is to get away, but he can’t. He’s now a spy, whether he likes it or not.
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Introducing Luke Carlton – ex-Special Boat Service commando, and now under contract to MI6 for some of its most dangerous missions. Sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself caught up in the coils of a plot that has terrifying international dimensions. Hunted down, captured, tortured and on the run from one of South America’s most powerful and ruthless drugs cartels and its psychotic leader thirsting for revenge, Luke is in a life-or-death race against time to prevent a disaster on a truly terrifying scale: London is the target, the weapon is diabolical and the means of delivery is ingenious.
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A Sunday Times top ten bestseller perfect for fans of John le Carré, from the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year and ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’ (Mail on Sunday).
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Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin; frozen solid – like marble to the touch – missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong 15-year-old daughter of the British Ambassador disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It’s a shot at redemption. But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets. As Fox’s investigation sees him dragged deeper towards the dark heart of a Soviet establishment determined to protect its own so his fears grow, with those of the girl’s father, for Alex’s safety. And if Fox can’t find her soon, she looks likely to become the next victim of a sadistic killer whose story is bound tight to that of his country’s terrible past.
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Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey.
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Will Rhodes is an award-winning correspondent for The Travelers, on assignment at a luxury Argentinian resort – fine wines and gourmet food, polo fields and the looming Andes. But Will’s life is about to be turned upside down when a new flirtation turns into something far more dangerous, and he only realises too late. Turns out he’s been targeted, he just doesn’t know why. He doesn’t know what these people truly want and how far into his life they will reach, to his friends and his colleagues, to his boss and his wife. He doesn’t know that they will stop at nothing in their pursuit, and he doesn’t know about the secrets he has already been keeping.
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Fearing for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone into hiding from the Chinese agents who have identified him as British spy. His reputation and life are in tatters. But when he is caught in a terrorist attack in East Africa and a shadowy Chinese figure approaches him in the dead of night with information on the origins of the attack, Mangan is suddenly back in the eye of the storm. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away on a humid Hong Kong night, a key MI6 source is murdered minutes after meeting spy Trish Patterson. From Washington, D.C. to the hallowed halls of Oxford University and dusty African streets, a sinister power is stirring which will use Mangan and Patterson as its pawns – if they survive.
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Hugh Whittington has gone missing, reported dead, while filming near Mount Everest. His brother, Charles, determined to find him, embarks on a mission for information that takes him to the forbidden monastery of Yamdring, and its abbess.
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Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, and Larry Pettifer, 20 years Tim’s mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry that dates back decades. They follow each other into the wilds of Moscow and then Southern Russia until a small, unheard-of nation becomes their proving ground.
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Olen Steinhauer’s most intense, most thrilling and most unsettling novel to date – now a major film on Prime Video starring Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton.
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A spy novel set during the ‘phoney war’ of September 1939 – May 1940.
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