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A spookily prescient espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre. What if the Soviet Union gained control over the US Presidency?

SIS agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening when he realises the newly elected president’s press secretary is a former communist radical with links to the KGB.

When the witnesses who support his suspicions are systematically eliminated, MacKay must race against time to prove that the President-Elect is not his own man before Inauguration Day and avoid a national catastrophe.

‘When I say Ted Allbeury knows where the bodies are buried I mean it literally.’ – Len Deighton, author of The Ipcress File.

Operation MKUltra. The CIA’s most secret project. Involving mind-control
under the influence of drugs and hypnosis, it uses unwitting individuals
for intelligence gathering and counter-espionage.

The illicit experiments carried out under MKUltra can have terrifying –
sometimes tragic – human consequences.

It is Senator Joe Maguire’s task to monitor the goings-on of MKUltra and to
pick up the pieces when things go wrong. A fundamentally decent man,
Maguire is plagued with doubts about what he is doing. Just how far should
one go to protect democracy against those who whould destroy it?

Katya Felinska is a beautiful and talented photo-journalist, passionately
committed to championing the rights of the oppressed. Max Inman is a
brilliant and incisive political journalist. They have been together for almost
twenty years.

But Max is also an undercover agent, one of MI6’s most important sources
on the real thinking of Russian and German leaders in the tense months
leading up to the disintegration of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Then things go wrong. Horribly wrong. And Katya must summon all her courage
and ingenuity to save the man she loves.

Accused by a malicious biographer of political interference,
gross errors of judgement, adultery and virtual treason, former
Director-General of MI6 Sir James Frazer prepares to do battle.

But, in taking out libel action, Sir James must submit to the
rigours of high profile court case in which his incredible past and
turbulent private life are brought under the intense scrutiny. Old
wounds must be re-opened and long-standing secrets dramatically
uncovered with devastating consequences for the security of the
British Intelligence network.

One spring day in 1985 Arthur Casey marches into the Soviet
embassy in Washington offering his services as an informant.
He’s the most valuable asset the KGB will ever have.

Yuri Volkov is the KGB officer appointed as Jarvis’s ‘controller’.
He comes to despise the weak and feckless American prepared
to send men to their deaths for financial gain.

Larry Getz is the senior CIA officer who must hunt down the traitor
in their midst.

So begins a cat-and-mouse game of danger and deception, bluff
and double-bluff in which, if Getz is to succeed, he’ll have to bend
the rules and violate the sanctity of the US Constitution. But does
the end justify the means? And Just how dirty is Getz prepared to play?

In Washington, in London, in Berlin, very different men confront a
future they distrust and despise. In the years since the end of the
Cold War, true power seems to have shifted from their nations’
natural leaders to a gaggle of irresponsible journalists and self-
seeking politicians, cynically manipulating news and public opinion
to their own ends.

These men have not forgotten the lessons of five decades of clandestine
struggle. And when a long-dead spy’s secrets resurface, they see an
opportunity.

But can any man, no matter how well-meaning, seize the reigns of power
without endangering the very way of life he seeks to protect?

In 1942 three young women are parachuted into the Dordogne to work
for a Special Operations Executive network. Their leader is Harry Bailey,
a young man who loves one of them and fears for them all.

Paulette, the passionately committed Frenchwoman, who never forgets
her need for revenge against the Germans… down-to-earth Vi, motivated
by an unselfish sense of obligation… Jenny, the least committed of the three,
and the one who must find the most courage.

As the months of dangerous waiting turn at last into active combat behind
enemy lines as D-Day approaches, the three heroines’ story moves to its
unforgettable climax.

‘Striking… he makes the menacing atmosphere of wartime France
startlingly real’ – Daily Telegraph

The identities of several Russian agents become known to the West. The chase is on to gather the evidence needed to incriminate them. One of the leaders of the hunt is the brilliant British spycatcher Joe Shapiro, who persuades the Americans into exchanging a notorious and high-ranking KGB spy for the seemingly unimportant American spy-pilot Gary Powers.

Joe Schapiro has more than a professional interest in the case, and the intricate web of lies and deception behind the exchange of spies hides secrets that must never be revealed.

Inspired by historical events surrounding the infamous 1960 U-2 incident which also forms the basis for Steven Spielberg’s critically acclaimed thriller Bridge of Spies.

Lord Carling is one of the great and the good now, but once he was just George Carling,
a privileged young idealist who wrote a letter to the Soviet Embassy to say how much he
admired the way the Russians were resisting the Nazis. And later he was an intelligence
officer for the SIS. A very good officer with very accurate information about the Soviet Union
and a cordial relationship with the Americans.

Now, the whisper has gone round that Carling’s information was too good to be honest.
That he was too close to Philby and the other legendary traitors of his era and that he
might have been working for the wrong people.

So SIS sends Tim Mathews to find out what Carling has to say about his past and his
friends. Mathews is surprised when Carling talks candidly about how he found information,
friendship and even love on the other side of the Berlin Wall in the days when the Cold War
very nearly became World War III.


Carling’s real secrets are deeper and more astonishing. For he is the man who knows about
Kim Philby’s last great coup: the ultimate deception of the Cold War.

Charlie Foster runs an SIS network into East Berlin. When
Three of his couriers are arrested and London is ready to
let them rot, Charlie, in anger, does his own deal. He trades
his services to the East Germans and the Russians in exchange
for his people’s freedom.

From his collaboration he builds up a complete picture of all
those in Europe who were Stasi and KGB informers. When the
Berlin Wall comes down Charlie Foster has something everybody
wants. SIS, the West Germans, the Americans and all the collaborators.
They are all determined to get Charlie Foster’s list. Or Charlie himself.

Andrei Aarons is just twenty when he becomes a spy. Quiet, idealistic, a true believer,
always able to justify the imperfections of the Russian Revolution.

Picked, trained and given an assignment in New York, he begins his extraordinary life
as the most successful espionage agent the Soviets ever had.

So why did six American presidents trust him?

This novel, based on highly confidential information, is the story of the ultimate failure
of communism seen through the eyes of one of the most secret participants in its
seventy-four year history, a man once described by the Pentagon as ‘the man who won the Cold War’.

British Intelligence fear that a journalistic investigation into their collaboration with war criminals during and after World War Two will cause a political scandal. Mallory, one of their bright young men, is given the task of digging up the dirt before the press do.

What he uncovers in Holland and Germany is a web of deceit, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. But can he prove it to his bosses when the only person who has all the answers does not want to be found?

‘The most consistently inventive of our novelists of espionage, the one that other thriller writers point to as the finest craftsman among them.’ – The Guardian

It was just a routine call at Santa Margherita for Max Farne. A meeting
with his agent to see if there were any boats for him to buy or sell. And
then came the invitation he couldn’t refuse.

Abducted by and blackmailed into selling his boat by a smooth Italian
gangster, Max is drawn into a wave of crime sweeping Italy, taking him
back to the mountains to protect the beautiful daughter of a wartime friend.
The stakes are high and Max has everything to lose unless his tough
background could help him survive…

“Ted Allbeury without doubt ranks among the finest genre writers I’ve read.” – Glenn Meade

A senior SIS field officer has gone missing. Thornton is ordered to
investigate discreetly. He’d talk to a few people, invent some plausible,
probably bureaucratic reason. Check records. Pull back if anyone got
too interested.

He knew that Fisher, the missing man, was good. Good enough to do
things his own way, not the head office way, and get away with it. No
money troubles. No indiscretions. Balanced. No question of defection.

Thorton soon enters a maze of lies, obstruction and deception surrounding
an innocent German girl with extraordinary powers, KGB and CIA plots
and counter plots, an East/West kidnapping – and a spy with a conscience.

When the SS destroyed Special Operations Executive’s Scorpio network in Occupied France, only Henri Masson escaped. Then his post-war trial was abruptly halted after a high level British intervention.

Forty years later, awkward questions are raised in Westminster and the case has been reopened. The first thing Harry Chapman of MI6 discovers is that all records were destroyed by a senior SIS officer. The second is that there are still survivors from the Scorpio affair – and that Henri Masson might be among them.

Chapman begins a jouney into the past, to France in the 1940s, to a time when few men were what they seemed – and fewer still could be trusted.

A TIME WITHOUT SHADOWS is a classic espionage thriller from one of the true masters of the genre.

A collection of twelve short stories of love, war and betrayal from master thriller writer Ted Allbeury.

Defectors come in two sorts: One is the plain dealer with a story to sell and
the other is the false flag job.

Hoggart and Fletcher are MI6 defector graders who are set to work on two
very different Russians telling remarkably similar stories.

But unless both defectors are lying, the KGB have someone placed hazardously
high in the echelons of MI6…

Boat dealer Max Farne spends his days relaxing, lounging around the pier at Santa Margherita and escaping the hot Italian sun in cool Italian bars.

But following the sudden arrival of a beautiful woman, the disappearance of a rich man and the appearance of a soft-treading, armed stranger, who Max is forced to kill, it seems that the violence has only just begun…

He had been born and brought up poor. Still poor he had married –
a wartime wedding. Quiet. Mary his wife came from the same street
and was quietly happy. That was her ambition: to be quietly happy and
live where they’d always lived.

But then he started to become successful. A job turned into a career
and the career demanded a move and another. Mary more and more
unhappy watched as he grew away from her and the background they
shared. Where he saw new interests she saw pretensions. Where he
saw opportunity she saw upheaval. Physically together they were splitting
apart.

And then he met Sally…

THE CHOICE is a masterly examination of what causes people to make the
decisions they make and what the repercussions can be.

Jan Massey Head of British Intelligence in Berlin falls in love
with Anna Kholkov wife of a KGB officer. When she is arrested
Massey is forced into betraying his country.

Arthur Johnson a signalman working in Massey’s Berlin office
has other reasons for betraying his country as does Eric Mayhew
at GCHQ in the UK. At GCHQ’s American counterpart the NSA
James Vick is manipulated into betrayal by the apparently unattainable
Kirstin Swenson who works for the KGB.

Four people – with different motivations and in different circumstances
– all betray their countries. But Massey refuses to betray the woman he
loves… and as the fragile counter-intelligence network starts reacting to
the ripples of Massey’s treason so the four stories begin to connect.

‘Ted Allbeury without doubt ranks among the finest genre writers I’ve read’ – Glenn Meade

Jake Malik an SIS Officer is sent to West Germany to uncover –
not infiltrate – KGB activity there. But he does not know that his
bosses have sent him for a very different reason.

His liaison is Heinz Fischer from the German Political Police.
Fischer’s sister Lisa falls in love with the lonely Englishman not
realising that his mission could destroy the foundations of their
lives.

Johnny Grant was a British Intelligence agent in Ethiopia in 1941. The operation went south his cover was blown and he was given 48 hours to leave the country.

Over forty years later he returns as a professional photographer working on a magazine feature or so he believes.

Behind the exotic sets and beautiful models British and Russian Intelligence forces battle for control of the coastline one of the gateways to Africa. When Johnny falls in love with Aliki Yassou girlfriend of one of the top Russians his past begins to catch up with him.

John Rennie is an officer in the SIS. Unshakeable dedicated Rennie is a true professional. He is sent to Paris to investigate the kidnapping of another SIS officer. The trail leads him to Amsterdam and to the Arab terrorist cell responsible for the abduction.

Rennie is ordered to snatch the children of a prominent Arab and the SIS officer is released. But Rennie is not happy about the distress caused to the children and he resigns threatening to expose the SIS ‘dirty tricks’ department.

Tipped off that he is to be eliminated he makes his way secretly to Canada with his drop-out girlfriend from Amsterdam. But escaping his old life could never be so easy…

The debriefing of Russian defector Colonel Petrov is nearly over, when suddenly he dries up. SIS agent James Lawler has to find out why, but Petrov will only say he is scared of being killed – like British double-agent George Blake.

But Blake had escaped to Russia, alive. Or had he? To uncover the deadly truth, Lawler has to delve into the murky, intricate past of a traitor and learn the explosive truth behind what could lead a man to betray his country.