Women Spy Thrillers

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...

The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.

RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME. WRONG MAN. 'Engrossing...ingenious...Goodman combines traditional elements - the nods to Buchan, Fleming and le Carré - with the topicality of 2020s technology and the threat from Russia' SUNDAY TIMES, THRILLERS OF THE MONTH 'A propulsive, intelligent...

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, A Spy Among Friends unlocks what was perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.

Brought to you by Penguin. This is Detective Kamil Rahman's toughest assignment yet... Kamil Rahman is working for the Metropolitan Police when he gets the call from MI5. They've received intelligence of a terrorist plot, and it's Kamil they need. Posing as a disaffected cop, and working once...

Brought to you by Penguin. Maggie Bird is many things. A chicken farmer. A good neighbour. A seemingly average retiree living in the seaside town of Purity. She's also a darned good rifle shot. And she never talks about her past. But when an unidentified body is left on Maggie's driveway, she...

What do you get when you combine the toughness of Jack Reacher, the spycraft of Jason Bourne, and the beauty of a Charlie's Angel? You get Jamie Austen, America's beloved heroine. In the first book of the international number-one best-selling spy series, Jamie goes to Belarus. A busload of 300 girls goes missing and she's the only one who can save them. A gripping pause resister that has everything Terry Toler is known for. Suspense. Mystery. Intrigue. A little romance. And an ending you won't see coming.

As the world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East and the West, Mary Ashley—a bright, young political science professor—is appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Iron Curtain country. Her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, and Mary becomes the target of a mysterious murder plot by unseen and powerful enemies. Thrust from her comforting life in Kansas, she finds herself lost amongst the political turmoil in a foreign country where she is seen as the enemy, and no one is to be trusted.

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s Theatre in Bristol with her maid and confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two opens with a body on stage—a real one. One of the cast has been brutally murdered during the interval. When other matters get in the way of Inspector Sunderland overseeing the case himself, he asks the ever-resourceful Lady H to keep a watchful eye on the suspects—and his police colleagues.

It is 1962: the height of the Cold War and only months after the building of the Berlin Wall. Alec Leamas is a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. His agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German counter-intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt.

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West. On April 18, 1983, a bomb...

It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention. In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him and ultimately have a hand in the coup that will bring him down.

'One of the world's thriller masters' - Jeffrey Archer, author of Nothing Ventured Featuring FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine, Daylight is the gripping follow up to Long Road to Mercy and A Minute to Midnight, from one of the world’s favourite thriller writers, David Baldacci. ***** The Hunt. Ever...

Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of The Black Widow comes the thrilling new blockbuster featuring legendary spy, assassin and art restorer Gabriel Allon. Legendary spy, assassin, and art restorer Gabriel Allon is back and out for revenge...

'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. 'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES * 'Riveting' MICK HERRON * 'Superb' IRISH TIMES...

Most Sinful residents are unaware of Carter’s crisis and are going about their daily lives as they always have, including local prankster Gage Babin. Except this time, Gage’s attempt to elicit laughs leaves him on a slab in the medical examiner’s office. Everyone knows how unhealthy he was, but Fortune thinks there’s more to his death than a poorly timed prank that caused his bad heart to give out.

La tensión del Brexit y los ataques terroristas que han sembrado el miedo en Europa, han convertido la capital británica en un nido de culebras. Los agentes Laine y Ponce viajan a Londres para colaborar con el MI5 inglés, en un extraño robo organizado de criptomonedas. Cuando dan con la primera pista de quién puede estar detrás, un atentado bomba pone sus vidas en juego. Laine descubre que les han ocultado la verdad. Una operación clasificada. Un trabajo sin terminar.

Una peligrosa formación política llega con fuerza a las Elecciones Generales españolas. En una misión secreta del CNI, la agente Dana es enviada a Barcelona para proteger a un personaje público importante de cualquier posible ataque. Su objetivo: que llegue sano y salvo a una reunión extraoficial en el hotel Majestic. Todo parece ir con normalidad, hasta que una bala se interpone en su camino. Lo que nadie sabe es que, lo que parece un atentado político, en realidad encubre una operación de intereses internacionales.

Dana Laine ha ingresado en el Centro Nacional de Inteligencia español. Su primera misión será localizar a Aleksandr Potosky, un peligroso criminal que ha aterrizado en Madrid. Todo parece sencillo de ejecutar, hasta que alguien pondrá en peligro su existencia y la confianza de los servicios españoles. En un mundo de hombres, su reputación ahora pende de un hilo. En una ciudad donde nadie aparenta ser quien es, Dana no tendrá más opción que atrapar al terrorista y salvar la vida de cientos de personas. Sin embargo, todavía no está preparada para ello.

Una peligrosa formación política llega con fuerza a las Elecciones Generales españolas. En una misión secreta del CNI, la agente Dana es enviada a Barcelona para proteger a un personaje público importante de cualquier posible ataque. Su objetivo: que llegue sano y salvo a una reunión extraoficial en el hotel Majestic. Todo parece ir con normalidad, hasta que una bala se interpone en su camino. Lo que nadie sabe es que, lo que parece un atentado político, en realidad encubre una operación de intereses internacionales.