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Ted Allbeury
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Aid and Comfort
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…
Shadow of a Doubt
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…
The Reckoning
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…
As Time Goes By
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…
The Long Run
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…
The Assets
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.…
Italian Assets
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…
The Crossing
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…
Beyond The Silence
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…
The Dangerous Edge
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,…
Show Me A Hero
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.…
The Line-Crosser
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,…
Deep Purple
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…
Other Kinds Of Treason
A collection of twelve short stories of love, war and betrayal from master thriller writer Ted Allbeury.
Where All the Girls are Sweeter
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.…
A Time Without Shadows
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…
A Wilderness of Mirrors
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…
The Girl from Addis
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…
The Seeds of Treason
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…
Children of Tender Years
Jake Malik an SIS Officer is sent to West Germany to uncover - not infiltrate - KGB activity there. But he does not know that…
No Place to Hide
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…
The Choice
He had been born and brought up poor. Still poor he had married - a wartime wedding. Quiet. Mary his wife came from the same…
The Secret Whispers
Richter's wartime mission in England was dangerous, but he survived. After the war he returned to Germany to start a new life, safe from every…
Codeword Cromwell
A brilliantly atmospheric thriller for fans of Len Deighton and Jack Higgins. Even at the height of Nazi Germany's power there was one invasion Hitler…
All Our Tomorrows
The year is 1982. As politicians bicker, a neutral Britain's decline accelerates into anarchy. The Prime Minister accepts the Russian offer to 'help restore law…
Shadow of Shadows
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…
Pay Any Price
The Kennedy killings meant trouble - trouble for the Mafia, trouble for the Cubans, and trouble for the CIA. When Grabowski hides the CIA's hypnosis…
The Alpha List
Dave Marsh and Charlie Kelly grew up together on the backstreets of Birmingham. Now Charlie is a Labour MP and Dave an Intelligence agent. When…
Consequence of Fear
Despite Hiroshima and Nagasaki nobody knows what present-day nuclear explosions will do. And if you know, then by god you've got a massive advantage.' In…
The Reaper
Anna Woltman is a woman out for revenge. Revenge for the sudden, senseless killing of her husband. Revenge for the atrocities suffered by millions of…
The Other Side of Silence
After years behind the Iron Curtain, Britain's most notorious traitor wants to return to the homeland he betrayed as part of the Cambridge Five spy…
The Twentieth Day of January
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…
The Lantern Network
Routine surveillance, nothing special' - Commander Bailey's brief from Special Branch seems simple enough. But it leads to a sudden, bloody suicide. Piece-by-piece, Baily uncovers…
The Man with the President's Mind
In a building just like The White House, deep inside Russia, a man is provided with top-secret CIA briefing documents, American newspapers, radio and television…
The Only Good German
Maverick CIA killers are on the loose in Cold War era West Germany. Violent sabotage and subversion is being perpetrated behind the Iron Curtain. A…
Moscow Quadrille
A Russian actor on the KGB payroll... A middle aged wife with a fatal sense of guilt... A seductive Slav beauty, fuel for an ageing…
The Lonely Margins
To live in the shadowland of espionage, where the only certainties are death and deceit, is to live on the lonely margins. The French Resistance…
The Special Collection
Germany, 1945. British agent Stephen Felinski is parachuted into Hitler's fast-collapsing empire with orders to reorganize a group of Soviet agents abandoned by Moscow. Thirty…
Palomino Blonde
What does a man do when he discovers a process like Omega Minus? He wishes he hadn't. Scientist James Hallet has the Intelligence forces of…
A Choice of Enemies
Ted Bailey thought his days as an Intelligence Operative were long gone. He certainly wasn't expecting to be blackmailed back into action, especially not by…
Snowball
A long buried and shocking secret has been uncovered. In 1940, President Roosevelt and Canada's Mackenzie King secretly agreed to abandon the Allies and make…
The Judas Factor
Even in the murky world of espionage there are rules. Tad Anders has broken them all. Too violent and too unpredictable, he let his feelings…