Historical Mystery Spy

Recruited as a codebreaker of enemy ciphers, ex-debutante Osla Kendall spends her days translating Axis military messages and her nights reading mystery novels. When Osla gets her hands on Agatha Christie's most recent work, N or M?, a mysterious signal within its pages catches her eye, and she and her eccentric book club get in touch with the famous but reclusive writer. Osla's outreach is a welcome distraction for Agatha, who feels restless and underestimated toiling away in a London pharmacy.

In wartime England, Lane Winslow has been pulled out of her studies at Oxford and spends her days in London translating for the war office. Things are grim, and it looks like no one is going home for Christmas—that is, not until Lane's commanding officer orders her to drop everything to do just that. He’s loathe to send a woman, but a very important agent needs an escort into the country from an isolated cove in Scotland in just a few days, and Lane’s family connections in the north are the perfect cover for this mission of utmost secrecy.

* SELECTED FOR 'A GOOD READ WITH BARACK OBAMA', NEW AUDIBLE PODCAST * THE FIFTH GEORGE SMILEY NOVEL A mole, implanted by Moscow Centre, has infiltrated the highest ranks of the British Intelligence Service, almost destroying it in the process. And so former spymaster George Smiley has been...

Una ragazza viene ritrovata uccisa a Treptower Park. A essere incaricato del caso è il maggiore Martin Krause del controspionaggio. Figlio di italiani fuggiti in Germania nella zona di competenza sovietica dopo la fine della guerra, è entrato a far parte dei servizi segreti della Stasi. Le indagini prendono subito una piega imprevista legata alla simbologia politica dell'omicidio. Si complicano ulteriormente quando la pista seguita conduce dritta a Berlino Ovest.

Il contenuto sepolto di un treno nazista... Un vicecomandante delle SS ormai anziano... I segreti di una famiglia ebrea di un candidato alla poltrona presidenziale... L'investigatore per i crimini di guerra ed ex ufficiale della CIA Joe Johnson è più che incuriosito quando scopre l'esistenza di misteriosi collegamenti tra il candidato presidenziale e i fondi a cui la sua famiglia attinge. Assieme a una giornalista e a una vecchia amica, Johnson comincerà un'indagine più grande e personale di quanto si fosse aspettato.

Milano 1965: una città tranquilla, che pensa all'esordio di Pavarotti alla Scala. Una città abituata alla ligera, impreparata all'arrivo della malavita pesante dal Sud o di bande criminali come quella di Cavallero. Il destino di Sergio Malfatti, poliziotto ed ex partigiano, si legherà sempre più indissolubilmente alla storia d'Italia. Bombe, stragi, terrorismo nero e rosso, golpe, Gladio, P2, servizi deviati e paralleli, corruzione, a cui fa da collante la storia della mafia, la cui evoluzione criminale verrà vista per la prima volta da nord.

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Londra. È notte ed Ethan Cooper, giornalista del Guardian, è alla guida. All'improvviso, sbucato dal nulla, un uomo si lancia sotto la sua macchina. L'asfalto, zuppo di pioggia, rende inutile la frenata: l'impatto è inevitabile, gli effetti devastanti. Resosi conto della gravità dell'incidente, Ethan chiama i soccorsi e raggiunge l'uomo in fin di vita. Questi, con le ultime forze, gli consegna due oggetti e pronuncia alcune frasi incomprensibili. Sentendosi responsabile per quanto accaduto, Ethan comincia allora un'indagine.

Occupied Munich, 1946: Irina, a Cossack refugee, confesses to murdering a GI, but American captain Harry Kaspar doesn't buy it. As Harry scours the devastated city for the truth, it leads him to his long-lost German brother, Max, who returned to Hitler's Germany before the war. Max has a questionable past, and he needs Harry for the cause that could redeem him: rescuing Irina's stranded clan of Cossacks who have been disowned by the Allies and are now being hunted by Soviet death squads - the cold-blooded upshot of a callous postwar policy.

La primula rossa è un ciclo di romanzi d’avventura pubblicati in fascicoli. Il primo romanzo, La primula rossa, uscì in volume nel 1905. Le vicende del ciclo sono ambientate nel periodo della rivoluzione francese, durante il regime del Terrore. Nei romanzi, un personaggio enigmatico, detto appunto la Primula Roosa, a capo di una lega di inglesi, aiuta la fuga di molte famiglie aristocratiche che rischiavano la vita.

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, bestselling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated...

Jackdaws by Ken Follett is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second World War, read by Emilia Fox, who expertly brings the story to life. A Failed Mission Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to...

Kurt Reid may be innocent of the murder he's charged with (and of grand larceny, for that matter), but he's got no time to be thrown in jail and defend himself. Instead, Reid flees to pre-Communist China and Shanghai, the exotic city of mystery and death. Reid takes refuge in a tea house where he meets a Russian woman, Varinka Savischna, whom he manages to rescue from certain death. As beautiful as she is smart, she recruits him in her crusade against Chinese intelligence services.

Bloomsbury presents The Spy and the Snake by M J Robotham, read by Clare Corbett. THE NEW TRAILBLAZING NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR, MANDY ROBOTHAM One mission. One fake husband. One very real problem. Maggie Flynn has finally earned her place at of MI5—but with promotion comes...

France, July, 1944: In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations Executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, sets off on a perilous hunt through France in search...

When former MI6 agent turned archaeologist Dr Ava Curzon is engaged by American intelligence to track down an African militia claiming to hold the Ark of the Covenant, she is plunged into a world where nothing is what it seems. Her breakneck descent into the shadowy realm of dark biblical magic hurls her across continents and into the opaque worlds of the Knights Templar, freemasons, occultists and extremist neo-Nazis, pushing her mentally and physically to the limits.

A watertight packet is discovered by a diver in the waters surrounding Block Island. Unrecovered detritus from the last German U-boat sunk off the coast of Rhode Island, it contains secret codes suggesting that a Nazi spy ring operated in the United States during the darkest days of World War II. If confirmed, it could prove a major embarrassment to the FBI - whose late director, J. Edgar Hoover, once assured the government there were no spies in the country - so the bureau sends one of its best, Unit Chief Todd Oliver, to Newport to investigate.

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.

The Spy is the third of Clive Cussler's brilliant historical thrillers. 1908, and American engineering geniuses are being killed off one by one . . . When a brilliant battleship gun engineer commits suicide, his disbelieving family turn to legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency. Quickly on the case...

BARRY AWARD WINNER Heralding the arrival of a brilliant new heroine, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary captures the drama of an era of unprecedented challenge—and the greatness that rose to meet it. “With any luck, the adventures of red-haired super-sleuth Maggie Hope will go on forever...