Espionage

Imogen Kealey / Liberation (Large Paperback)

One of WWII's most fascinating lesser-known figures: secret agent and WWII heroine Nancy Wake, once the Nazi's Most Wanted Person.To the Allies she was a fearless freedom fighter, special operations super spy, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo...

John le Carré / The Secret Pilgrim (Hardback)

 The eighth of John le Carré's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, The Secret Pilgrim is a gripping feat of narrative brilliance.The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training...

Stella Rimington / Present Danger (Hardback)

 MI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. It's a promotion, and she'll be running agents - her favourite activity - but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old boss, recently widowed and...

Stella Rimington / Secret Asset (Large Paperback)

 When MI5 agent-runner Liz Carlyle is moved from Counter-Terrorism to the Industrial Espionage Section, it looks very much as if she has been sidelined. While vetting the director of a top-secret research establishment in the Peak District, however,...

Richard Steinberg / The 4 Phase Man (Hardback)

 A one phase man's a keeperTwo phase man's no sleeperA three phase man's of oldFour phase man's worth his weight in goldA Manchurian Candidate for the information age, The 4 Phase Man solidifies Richard Steinberg's growing reputation as a master of...

David Ambrose / The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk

 It was some moments before Charlie turned his gaze back to Control. When he did, there were tears in his eyes. "What have you done?"' "Something that evolution wouldn't have accomplished in a million years, left to itself," Control replied calmly...

Alan Glynn / Under the Night

1950s - the CIA carries out a covert study of psychoactive drugs. Ad man Ned Sweeney is dosed with MDT-48, and finds his horizons dramatically expand. But how long can he maintain the extraordinary pace of his new life? Sixty years later, all that Ray...

V.S. Alexander / The Traitor

 Munich, 1942 As war rages across Europe, anonymous leaflets criticising the brutal Nazi regime appear on the streets of Germany. Their message, written in secret, is a daring act of defiance.Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows more than she should...

Patrick Worrall / The Partisan (Large Paperback)

It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous.Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don't know it, but they are...

John le Carré / Agent Running in the Field (Hardback)

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one...

John le Carré / The Russia House (Hardback)

John le Carré has earned worldwide acclaim with extraordinary spy novels, including The Russia House, an unequivocal classic. Navigating readers through the shadow worlds of international espionage with critical knowledge culled from his...

Sterling Archer / How to Archer: The Ultimate Guide to Espionage and Style and Women and Also Cocktails Ever Written (Large Paperback)

   Lying is like 95% of what I do. But believe me: in this book, I’ll let you know exactly how to become a master spy just like me. Obviously, you won’t be as good at it as I am, but that’s because you’re you,...

Andy Lane / Agent Without Licence

 Young Bond and James Bond meet Alex Rider and Cherub in this brilliantly written, fast-paced spy action thriller. All credibly delivered from somebody who knows all about counter-intelligence...Kieron and his friend Sam are shocked to see a man...

Mike Maden / Tom Clancy’s Firing Point

 THE LATEST ELECTRIC THRILLER IN TOM CLANCY'S NO. 1 BESTSELLING JACK RYAN SERIESJack Ryan - out to avenge the murder of an old friend - finds himself in deep trouble fast . . ._________A blast from out of the past . . .After a mission goes wrong...

Mark Dawson / Saint Death

  John Milton has been off the grid for six months. He surfaces in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and immediately finds himself drawn into a vicious battle with the narco-gangs that control the borderlands.He saves the life of an idealistic...

Ant Middleton / Cold Justice (Hardback)

 A THRILLER SO REAL IT HURTS It's here: the landmark debut thriller from superstar Ant Middleton, million-selling, number one Sunday Times author of First Man In and The Fear Bubble and star of SAS: Who Dares Wins.Mallory - he was the best of the...

John Le Carre / Silverview (Hardback)

 Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigre, shows up at his door with a very...

David Park / Spies in Canaan (Large Paperback)

 A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption from the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 'It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as close as I've seen in a very long time' SUNDAY...

Stephen Leather / The Hunting

 'I doubt if a more exciting and muscular book will come along this year' Peterborough TelegraphMoney can't buy everythingBut it can buy revengeCan a doctor take lives instead of saving them?British doctor Raj Patel puts his own life on the line to...

John Martel / Conflicts of Interest

 Nachdem der kalifornische Provinzanwalt Seth Cameron einen fast hoffnungslosen Fall gewonnen hat, erhält er das Angebot, in einer renommierten Kanzlei in San Francisco zu arbeiten. Es erwarten ihn dort ein fünfzehnstündiger...

Michael Weaver / The Lie (Hardback)

 The agenda is ambitious: eliminating the mass murder in the name of ethnic cleansing now raging all over Africa. The place is propitious: the town of Wannsee, Germany, where Hitler's inner circle once planned the extermination of six million Jews...

John le Carre / Our Game (Hardback)

 At Forty-Eight, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in premature retirement to deepest rural England. His Cold War is fought and won, and he is free to devote himself to his stately manor house, his vineyard, and his beautiful young mistress, Emma...

Viken Berberian / The Cyclist (Hardback)

   The Cyclist is a stunningly original novel about food and political violence. It's a psychological ride into the tropics of terror, to the edges of our national and existential borders: the ones set at birth, the ones we are born into. The...

Scott Turow / The Burden of Proof (Hardback)

   In this novel by the author of "Presumed Innocent", Sandy Stern, a brilliant defence lawyer, is devastated by his wife's suicide. He is forced to untangle a complex web of financial dealings and relationships.   All of our books are...

W E B Griffin / The Hostage (Hardback)

 By Order of the President, the first novel in W.E.B. Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike.Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the...

Rory Clements / Hitler's Secret (Hardback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the award-winning author of Corpus.Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.In...

James Naughtie / Paris Spring (Hardback)

 Paris, April 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng - secret servant at the British embassy - the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and...

James Patterson / Private Rogue

 'Breathtaking twists and turns' Anthony Horowitz 'An unmissable, breakneck ride' James Swallow'Exhilarating, high stakes action' Lesley Kara__________________________In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.In...

Patrick O'Brian / Clarissa Oakes

 With factions on board, and multiple enemies to contend with, only the most careful navigation will save them. As he sails away from Port Jackson, Captain Jack Aubrey feels nothing but relief at leaving the penal colony and its inhabitants far...

Karen Cleveland / Need To Know (Hardback)

 Married for ten years. Four children. She thought she knew her husband better than anyone.She was wrong.'Heart-poundingly suspenseful and heart-wrenchingly insightful' J.P.Delaney, author of The Girl Before'This compulsive, clever thriller will...

Stella Rimington / Illegal Action

 Readers can expect authenticity - and that is what she delivers.' The TimesILLEGAL ACTION is the third thriller from the former head of MI5 and bestselling author Stella Rimington, featuring MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.When MI5 intelligence officer Liz...

John LeCarre / Silverview

 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER PICKS 'Le Carre at his finest' Mick Herron, GuardianJulian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of...

John Le Carre / Silverview (Large Paperback)

 Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigre, shows up at his door with a very...

Martin Cruz Smith / Three Stations (Large Paperback)

 This is the new stunning thriller from the author of "Gorky Park" and "Stalin's Ghost". As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl wakes to discover an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken...When the station police are...

John Simpson / Our Friends in Beijing (Large Paperback)

 OLD FRIENDS, NEW ENEMIES Jon Swift is in trouble again. His journalism career is in freefall. He is too old to be part of the new world order and he has never learned to suck up to those in charge. But experience has taught him to trust his...

Hans Rosenfeldt / Cry Wolf (Large Paperback)

 From the multi-award winning author of The Bridge (BBC) and Marcella (Netflix, ITV) comes a blockbuster new thriller...A DEAD WOLFA DRUG DEAL GONE WRONGA LETHAL FEMALE ASSASSINHannah Wester, a detective in the remote northern Swedish town of...

Robert Littell / Legends (Large Paperback)

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

James Barlow / This Side of the Sky (Vintage Paperback)

All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive.   When a C-54 airplane crashes en-route to Schipol in Holland, American pilot Bill Schoyen is the sole survivor. Grounded for one year and relegated to...

David Baldacci / The Guilty

 It's been over twenty years since government assassin Will Robie left his hometown in Mississippi. Now a trained killer used to taking down enemies of the state, he was once remembered by the local residents as a wild sports star and girl-magnet...

John Trenhaile / The Scroll of Benevolence

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Kevin Brophy / The Berlin Crossing (Large Paperback)

 Secrets and spies, love and tragedy in Stasi East Germany.Brandenburg 1993: The Berlin Wall is down, the country is reunified and thirty-year-old school teacher Michael Ritter feels his life is falling apart. His wife has thrown him out, his new...

Khurrum Rahman / The Motive

 A Jay Qasim short story and prequel to EAST OF HOUNSLOW written for Quick Reads 2021Business has been slow for Hounslow's small time dope-dealer, Jay Qasim. A student house party means quick easy cash but it also means breaking his own rules. But...

David Ignatius / The Paladin

 'Tension, suspense, betrayal ... Ignatius is the best in the world at this' Lee ChildThey took everything from him... Now he wants revenge.CIA operations officer Michael Dunne is tasked with infiltrating an Italian news organization - headed by a...

Soren Sveistrup / The Chestnut Man

 NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES'A full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson, drenched in atmosphere and charged with adrenaline. I loved this book' A. J. Finn, author of The Woman In The Window'A cracking ending that left me...

Anthony Quinn / Our Friends in Berlin

  'A gripping espionage thriller' Observer London, 1941. The city is in blackout and an enemy is hiding in plain sight. Jack Hoste has become entangled in a national treachery. His mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country...

Chris Ryan / Hellfire : Danny Black Thriller 3

 The third book in the hugely popular Danny Black series by the creator of the hit TV show Strikeback.On the Syria/Iraq border a British hostage is beheaded by IS terrorists. The executioner is a young British extremist. A masked figure watches him...

Jack Grimwood / Moskva (Hardback)

 'Even better than Child 44'TelegraphMoskva is a brilliantly written, chilling and sophisticated debut serial killer thriller set in Cold War Moscow. Makes Kolymsky Heights look like a walk in Gorky Park.***Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a...

David Smith / Free Lunch : Easily Digestible Economics

  'There's no such thing as a free lunch' is the one phrase everyone has heard from economics. But why not? Never? What does economics tell us about the price of lunch - and everything else in the world? This is the perfect introduction to...

Victor Bridges / Trouble on the Thames

  'A literary craftsman, who could spring surprises with his humour and sense of suspense.' - The Times Owen Bradwell is a courageous naval officer who returns to England in the 1930s. He believes that his career is over because he has become...

Jack Grimwood / Nightfall Berlin (Hardback)

 'A fine book for those who enjoy vintage Le Carre' IAN RANKINAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 2's SARA COX SHOW 'The new Le Carre . . . an absolutely brilliant page turner . . . if you love thrillers, Jack Grimwood is a name you need to...

Rory Clements / Nucleus (Hardback)

 Nucleus is the award-winning 'standout historical novel and spy thriller' (Daily Express) from the Sunday Times bestseller Rory Clements._____________________________June 1939 - England is partying like there's no tomorrow . . . but the good times...

Michael Crichton / State of Fear (Large Paperback)

 The Number One international bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Congo and Sphere takes on global warming in this gripping and critically acclaimed thriller.In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful...