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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 will not risk – the invasion of England by his crack stormtroopers. But the sworn followers of Max von Bayer are a desperate group of seven men and women who are prepared to defy the Führer’s ultimate authority and face almost certain death.

Driven by personal passions and inspired by their fervent loyalty to the Nazi creed, they land on the shores of England and take the war into their own hands.

Their aim is to show that a German invasion is possible, that Britain could be attacked and forced to send out Codeword Cromwell.

‘Truly a classic writer of espionage fiction’ – Len Deighton, author of SS-GB

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 threat except one, the cruellest of all; coincidence.

And when Richter got into trouble, there was only one man with a chance of getting him out. A man he had not seen in years and whom he never expected to see again…

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 ring.

John Powell is assigned the task of finding out why. Is it an old man’s whim, or a carefully planned KGB operation?

To find out Powell must journey into the labyrinth of a man’s legendary past, sifting through every rumour, every plot, every shadowy alliance, until the journey leads him into the most dangerous recess of them all, the heart and mind and motivation of the man himself – Kim Philby.

THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE is a classic espionage thriller from one of the true masters of the genre.

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 innocent people during the Second World War.

One by one, across Europe and the United States, she stalks men who
think they have long since escaped the consequences of their actions.
One by one she makes them pay for their crimes with their lives, but soon
the secret Nazi organisation known as ODESSA starts to fight back…

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 1956 a major nuclear explosion shook the southern Urals, killing hundreds, possibly thousands of Russian citizens and devestating an enormous industrial area. It could have been an accident. But was it?

One man holds the final piece to a jigsaw of terrifying proportions.

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 Charlie comes under suspicion of passing secrets to the Russians, Dave is given the task of investigating his old friend. He seems to be able to prove his case soon enough, but as Charlie points out, he doesn’t know half of what is really going on. He doesn’t know about the Alpha List.

THE ALPHA LIST is a classic espionage thriller from one of the true masters of the genre.

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 history of a courageous special agent aiding the French Resistance during WWII. But the agent’s loyalties are fatally divided. Thirty years on, in a quiet flat in south London, the final, tragic act of the drama takes place…

THE LANTERN NETWORK is a gripping story of heroism and betrayal in Nazi-occupied France from a genuine craftsman of the thriller genre.

‘A grimly realistic story of patriotism, treachery and fierce courage of men and women who defy torture and death’ – Daily Telegraph

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 programmes.

His training will continue until he can think exactly like the President of the United States of America, and know how he will react in a crisis. A crisis the Kremlin has already set in motion…

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 right-wing terror-organisation with connections stretching back
to the Nazi era is suspected.

David Mills had long since left behind his life as an Intelligence Officer, or
so he thought. As the British and American Intelligence agencies struggle
to combat the mounting fascist threat, Mills is pulled back into the murky
world of International espionage by a figure from his past.

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 diplomat’s sexual
fantasies…

A severely compromised British ambassador to Moscow who
will return to Britain as the Prime Minister’s personal advisor…

Their shadowy dance has begun to a tune of betrayal, disillusionment
and death, and a nation’s fate hangs in the balance.

‘A truly classic writer of espionage fiction’ – Len Deighton

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

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 all the world’s major
powers on his back and they’re not too particular about how they get their
information. They wouldn’t, for instance, baulk at the kidnap and torture of
Hallet’s beautiful blonde mistress. Not if it would give them Omega Minus.

‘A classic of espionage fiction with the ingredients to keep you reading all
night long’ – Len Deighton

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 years later, a top British politician defects to the Russians and Felinski is called out of retirement to help – because of a friendship formed among the ruins of Nazi Germany.

The link is The Special Collection, a daring and meticulously planned Soviet attempt to bring social and industrial chaos to Britain. It has already been set in motion and only Stephen Felinski can stop it.

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…

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 peace with Hitler if the Nazis successfully invaded Britain. Decades later, Soviet agents are ready to use this information to shatter the NATO alliance and use the ensuing geopolitical chaos to strengthen their position in Europe.

Only one man stands in their way. Tadeusz Anders – half Polish, half English and totally professional – plunges into a series of cruel and violent manoeuvers to combat the cold-blooded operatives of the KGB.

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 his own side. But then Bailey is the only person left who ever encountered Berger, the KGB’s most ruthless master-spy.

Berger is running a major operation on US soil and both the CIA and SIS are desperate to track him down. So Bailey returns to the arena of international espionage and finds that little has changed. The spy game is just the same, even after twenty-five years. There’s the same brutality. The same cold fear. The same violence and death. And the same choice of enemies.

‘The best cold war espionage novels never really lose their punch: Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre.’ – Publishers Weekly

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 experts away in a remote Northumbrian safe house, there is only one catch: the British.

SIS have a problem just across the Irish Sea that needs to be dealt with, and they are determined to use their American guest’s ‘expertise’ deveoped during Project MKULtra for their own purposes.

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.