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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. In this second dip into his case files (see 1000 Yards for a further novella), Milton is sent to Italy to investigate the death of a colleague from Group 15.

The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, thrilling spy novels.

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified here for the first time.

’agente della CIA Sam Joseph viene inviato a Parigi per reclutare la funzionaria siriana Mariam Haddad. I due finiscono in una relazione proibita, che li espone a un enorme pericolo quando entrano a Damasco per trovare l’uomo responsabile della scomparsa di una spia americana. La caccia all’assassino conduce presto a una serie di omicidi di alto profilo e alla scoperta di un oscuro segreto nel cuore del regime siriano.

In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—hunt for priceless masterpieces looted from the Florentine art collections. In the summer of 1943, Eva Brunner is taking photographs of Nazi-looted art hidden in the salt mines of the Austrian...

May 1940. With Nazi forces sweeping across France, invasion seems imminent. The English Channel has never felt so narrow. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with preparing the resistance effort, should the worst happen. But even as the foreign threat looms, it's rumours of a missing child that are troubling Cook. A 12-year-old girl was evacuated from London and never seen again, and she's just the tip of the iceberg - countless evacuees haven't made it to their host families. As Cook investigates, he uncovers a dark conspiracy that reaches to the highest ranks of society.

“A fast-paced roller-coaster ride of deceit, espionage, danger, and―above all―the unbreakable bonds of friendship. This tense page-turner peels back new layers in the complexities of World War II espionage as it hurtles toward its satisfying finish.” ―New York Times bestselling author...

Ten years ago, SAS Trooper Aidan Snow was left fighting for his life after a mission went wrong, and ever since, he has been haunted by the image of the man with green eyes. The man who should have killed him. Now, Snow is finally living a peaceful life in Ukraine. Until Taurus Pashinski, the green-eyed man, returns. As Snow’s past catches up with him, he finds himself thrown back into the world of espionage with a vengeance.

CIA agent Eloise Page (Kim Cattrall) is a long-serving CIA agent who joined the Agency on its first day in 1947 and rose to become one of its most powerful women. Eloise takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of US foreign policy, spanning the staggering world events that shaped her career, as well as portraying her relationships with early CIA leaders, Allen Dulles (Ed Harris) and Richard Helms (Johnny Flynn).

Spies come in all shapes and sizes but all of the spies in this volume are decidedly not like the urbane British agent James Bond, who regularly saves the world. These spies are on a missionand whether that’s saving their own lives, or the lives of many others imperilled by their Nation’s foes.

Alësa ha quarantacinque anni e un buco nero al posto del cuore. Ha ucciso molti uomini, forse tanti quanti sono i libri che ha letto. Ma adesso l'imprevisto ha fatto irruzione nella sua vita su una bicicletta rossa, nei panni della donna piú sbagliata di cui ci si possa innamorare. Nicolai Lilin non rinuncia alla sua cifra - la scrittura ruvida e potente, e uno sguardo spietato sulle umane contraddizioni -, ma fa un altro passo e si cimenta con i generi, mescolandoli con intelligenza.

DALL’AUTORE AL PRIMO POSTO NELLE CLASSIFICHE MONDIALI, UNA NUOVA MISSIONE PER GABRIEL ALLON. UN OMICIDIO BRUTALE. UN CAPOLAVORO SCOMPARSO. UN CASO CHE SOLO GABRIEL ALLON PUÒ RISOLVERE. Provetto restauratore e spia leggendaria, Gabriel Allon è a Londra per partecipare a un ricevimento alla Courtauld Gallery in onore del ritrovamento di un autoritratto rubato di Vincent van Gogh. Ma quando un amico del Devon e la polizia della Cornovaglia chiedono il suo aiuto per risolvere uno sconcertante caso di omicidio, si ritrova suo malgrado a dare la caccia a un nuovo avversario, potente e pericolosissimo.

In early 1967, a bored, adventurous photojournalist on an Air Force base in Texas is offered a Temporary Duty (TDY) assignment somewhere overseas. The mission is steeped in secrecy, but Pete is promised a large bonus and hazardous duty pay. So he agrees. He and a small group of photojournalists, each with a special skill, are isolated on a Special Forces base where they are kept under constant surveillance by a group of highly trained and menacing soldiers.

A confrontation of nuclear submarines just 200 miles off the American coast is the scenario of this riveting novel by a former U.S. Navy submarine officer. At the center of the deadly conflict are two men on a mission: one wants to find his father's killer, while the other wants to destroy Glasnost and provoke a war. The ensuing underwater chases and battles build to a stunning showdown.

It is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackford Oakes has come to investigate.

Known for his vivid imagery, provocative subjects, and charged prose, Paul Watkins has emerged as one of the most gifted writers of his generation. This powerful novel shimmers with lyrical descriptions of the seascape as it sounds the depths of memory and conscience. Seeing a man brutally murdered in his local hangout on the docks of Newport sends Paul Wedekind into a torturous reverie of his past.

Ein Selbstmord auf dem Universitätscampus schockiert Joey Morales zutiefst. Sie entdeckt den Grund für Becca Morgans Verzweiflungstat – ein Dokument namens »The List«, das Frauen auf dem Campus nach ihrer sexuellen Attraktivität und Leistung einstuft und bewertet. Entschlossen die Verantwortlichen hinter dieser Liste zu finden, nimmt Joey die Hilfe ihres Mentors Orphan X an. Sie muss sich selbst in Gefahr bringen, um für Gerechtigkeit zu sorgen.

A gripping collection of classic spy stories by some of the great early masters of espionage fiction: 'The Secret of the Black Bag' by William Le Queux, 'How I Became a Secret Agent' by Dr. A. K. Graves, 'The Secret of the Smoked Spectacles' by William Le Queux,'The 39 Steps' by John Buchan, 'Matahari and Some Other Women Spies' by Sir Basil Thomson, 'The Secret of Dr. Vaux’s Intrigue' by William Le Queux.

Once upon a time, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories-fantastical yarns of wondrous creatures in faraway places-bewitched children across the world. But times change. Today, Kipling's writing tells us a different tale; of a love of Empire, and the troubling legacy of British colonialism. In Not So...

Can a lone man stop mass destruction looming from the past? Reporter Branislav Poborsky is running away from a bad marriage, when he witnesses the Czech army covering up the extermination of an entire village. Saved in extremis by the gentle-giant Mossad agent Eytan Morgenstern, he is thrown into a troubling race to defuse a larger-than-life conspiracy. After Eytan’s mentor is kidnapped, he must join forces with his arch-rival to put an end to a mysterious group that has weapons of mass destruction.