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Brought to you by Penguin. 1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate mock coffin - of a leading Soviet scientist. But, as he soon discovers, this deception hides an even deadlier truth. One of the first...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE LION, THE FIRST BOOK IN CONN IGGULDEN'S EPIC NEW SERIES THE GOLDEN AGE. After the Gods. After the Myths and Legends came the world of Men. In their front rank stood Pericles. The Lion of the Golden Age. EXPERIENCE THE EPIC BATTLEFIELDS OF ANCIENT GREECE WITH MASTER...

Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn't it. Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour's first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmour's inexperience leads to a damning allegation. His future hangs in the balance.

Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare. When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating - and very French. Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and misunderstanding are rife.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings, Styrkar, loyal housecarl to the fallen King Harold, journeys to Ireland in search of the dead king's exiled sons. When a plot to murder Harold's widow and infant son is uncovered, duty pulls him in a different direction. Fleeing back to England with the dowager and child, Styrkar's loyalties are tested as he's forced into an uneasy alliance with his old comrade Eadnoth, now sworn to William the Conqueror. When the sons of Harold return to reclaim their birthright, Styrkar must choose: stand with his blood brother or his brothers-in-arms?

Brought to you by Penguin. Of all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona. Dedicated agent of the Service and a woman of secrets, she will risk everything to play the long game. As the truth about the decision that shattered their marriage is gradually...

Brought to you by Penguin. Bernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the murky streets of Berlin, he knows where to hide. Wanted for an act of treachery he has not committed, he must not only escape the grasp of London Central, but get to the bottom of a tangled conspiracy that is about to...

Brought to you by Penguin. Millions of pounds have gone missing, and the Department have sent agent Bernard Samson to Washington to track them down. But this mission is just the start of something far deeper and darker. It will take him from the English suburbs to Berlin, the South of France to...