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The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency – until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and his house staff savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island where the glacial, malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People’s Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all professional aids, Bond faces unarmed the monstrous devices of the colonel in a test that brings him to the verge of his physical endurance.
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From libertine nightclubs in Paris to shady bars by the docks in Gdansk, Alan Furst paints a spell-binding portrait of a continent marching into the nightmare of WWII – and the heroes and heroines who fought back.
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The challenge facing President Jack Ryan is an old one with a terrifying new twist. The international stalemate with North Korea continues into its seventh decade. A young dictator is determined to prove his strength by breaking the deadlock. Like his father before him, he hangs his plans on the country’s nuclear ambitions. Until now, that program was impeded by a lack of resources. However, there has been a dramatic change in the nation’s economic fortune. A rich deposit of valuable minerals have been found in the Hermit Kingdom. Coupled with their nuclear capabilities, the money from this find will make North Korea a dangerous force on the world stage. There’s just one more step needed to complete this perfect plan – the elimination of the President of the United States.
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August 1918. On his way to the Western Front, Captain Alan Clinton spends a night in Paris with a young Frenchwoman, Marie Roget. Seduced by Marie’s charms, Clinton discloses British military secrets – with disastrous consequences. Seventeen years later. The central European state of Ronstadt is ruled by the ruthless dictator Kuhnreich, and Europe is inching towards another war. Clinton’s son Bobby travels to Europe as the political situation grows tenser, and seemins dangerously close to repeating the sins of his father – leaving only his girlfriend to prove his innocence in a race against time.
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Set around China’s top intelligence-gathering organisations, and spanning the decades from the 1940s up until the present day, this thriller deals with operatives working in the departments of intercepted communications, cryptography and covert operations.
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October, 1939: War has been declared, but until the armies massed on either side of the French/German border engage, all is quiet on the Western Front. But just because its quiet doesn’t mean that it’s not deadly. There are those who believe the war no one wants to fight should be brought to a swift conclusion, even if it means treachery. A year ago, Conrad de Lancey came within seconds of assassinating Hitler. Now the British Secret Service want him to go back into Europe and make contact with a group of German officers they believe are plotting a coup. But this is the Shadow War. And the shadows are multiplying. And its not only disaffected Germans who are prepared to betray their country to save it.
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As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he’s a washout – drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, haunted by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life from the Predator drone he ‘piloted’. Reluctantly, Cole teams up with three journalists seeking to discover the identity of the anonymous intelligence operative who called the shots in that ill-fated mission.
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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two journalists from Millennium magazine about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander’s prints are on the weapon. Meanwhile, Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, does not believe that she is guilty.
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Jason Bourne is working as a ‘blacksmith’ – someone who is hired by high-level government ministers fearful of assassination attempts. He is paid to impersonate these men at meetings in places of uncertain security around the globe. Bourne is at one such meeting when armed gunmen storm the room – but their target is not the minister he impersonates, it is Bourne himself. Kidnapped and transported to an underground bunker, Bourne finds himself face-to-face with a well-known terrorist, a man who calls himself El Ghadan (‘Tomorrow’). El Ghadan demands that Bourne carry out a special mission for him – one that, if completed, will have dire consequences for the entire world.
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A sensational classic: this chilling tale of Siberian espionage is ‘the best thriller I’ve ever read’ (Philip Pullman) ranking with ‘The Silence of the Lambs, Casino Royale and Smiley’s People’ (Spectator). ‘Hugely thrilling, brilliantly written, perfect …
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Kolymsky Heights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. Once there, scientists cannot leave. But somehow someone has sent a message summoning the only man alive capable of achieving the impossible.
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Set against a backdrop of dangerous political games, Olen Steinhauer’s explosive conspiracy thriller explores a jigsaw puzzle of marriage, loyalty and betrayal.
