Espionage

Jason Matthews / Red Sparrow

 SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton and Jeremy Irons.Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin's Russia, the country she loved, as the twists and turns of a betrayal and...

Stella Rimington / Present Danger

   MI5 officer Liz Carlyle is posted to Northern Ireland. From the moment she lands in Belfast, danger follows. She soon discovers that the peace process in the province is precarious.Then a source reports strange goings-on at a house on the...

James Kennedy / Armed and Dangerous

    Four convicted IRA killers break out of a top-security prison - a jailbreak that leaves a trail of corpses and speeds towards a major catastrophe in London. Can MI5 stop them and save the peace process, when those who are meant to...

Stephen Coonts / The Minotaur

    Jake Grafton, former Vietnam pilot and air-wing commander, has been assigned to the Pentagon. He soon finds himself drawn into a hunt for the Minotaur - a mole hidden in the Pentagon who is selling America's most precious defence...

Mark Greaney / The Gray Man

   'Hard, fast, and unflinching-exactly what a thriller should be.' Lee ChildThe first in the Court Gentry all-action thriller series, from Tom Clancy's co-writer Mark Greaney.To those who lurk in the shadows, he's known as the Gray Man. He is...

Davies / Nest of Vipers

    Undercover agent Sarah Jensen is sent to investigate a billion dollar conspiracywhose chief suspects are a government banker,the Mafia & a merchant bank.She is hurled into a vortex of deceit,betrayal & murder....

Douglas Boyd / The Fiddler and the Ferret

    Irving Bradley, international star of the concert platform, is used to having the best in life and paying for it. So when his old violin teacher is killed by a hit-and-run driver, he hires Ken Scott - the man he was brought up to hate -...

Bryan Forbes / The Twisted Playground

    Departing from the spy formula of his bestselling thrillers, Bryan Forbes tells a contemporary story in which the hero is propelled into a chase of terrifying proportions. Violent death stalks his footsteps, and the image of a girl he...

Eric Van Lustbader / Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Enigma

   Jason Bourne is in Moscow to attend the wedding of his old friend and fellow spymaster General Boris Karpov. But amid the celebrations, the General has an important message to deliver to Bourne - 'a lifeline,' he says, 'for the end of the...

Luke Jennings / Codename Villanelle

   The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh'Gloriously exciting' MetroShe is the perfect assassin.A Russian orphan, saved from the death penalty for the brutal revenge she took on her gangster father's killers...

Michael Dobbs / Wall Games

    From the No 1 bestselling author of HOUSE OF CARDS, a new-cover reprint of a highly acclaimed thriller of international intrigue that brilliantly captures the tense atmosphere of Berlin -- just before the wall came down. The dawn of...

Chris Morgan Jones / The Jackal's Share

   A gripping spy thriller from a new Le CarreBoundless wealth hides the deepest secrets . . .When a charismatic billionaire asks Ben Webster to investigate his personal affairs it isn't long before the private spy is convinced that there is...

David Downing / Zoo Station

      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...

Kate Atkinson / Transcription

 THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BY AWARD WINNER KATE ATKINSON'An unapologetic novel of ideas which is also wise, funny and paced like a thriller' ObserverIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of...

Chris Morgan Jones / An Agent of Deceit

 Ten years ago, journalist Ben Webster had his investigation into a corrupt Russian business in Kazakhstan crushed, the cost of his scrutiny a terrible tragedy . . .Now employed by a private London intelligence agency, Webster's interest is piqued...

Nikki Owen / The Killing Files

   No matter how fast you run, the past always catches up with you.`A gripping and tense thriller' - Heat`A must have' - Sunday ExpressDr Maria Martinez is out of prison and on the run.Her mission? To get back to the safety of her family...

Mark Burnell / Chameleon

   They are chameleons. Beyond the law, beyond morality, they've survived by adapting, whatever the circumstances. And by trusting nobody but themselves.IT'S A QUESTION OF IDENTITY.Stephanie Patrick, a woman who was more comfortable under an...

Andrew Rosenheim / Fear Itself

    It's the late 1930s in an America slowly pulling itself out of the Depression. War is threatening in Europe, but in America, with forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure to stay out of the fight. Jimmy...

Robert Goddard / The Ways of the World

   1919. The eyes of the world are on Paris, where statesmen, diplomats and politicians have gathered to discuss the fate of half the world's nations in the aftermath of the cataclysm that was the Great War. A horde of journalists, spies and...

Robert Ludlum / Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Imperative

   Jason Bourne is back in the forthcoming major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander. Go back to where it all began for Bourne in his original adventures. 'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday...

Douglas Boyd / The Virgin and the Fool

    Bored with his safe life, Tom is recruited by MI6, lives in Moscow as a sleeper , marries and has a daughter. But when the USSR falls, he is sold back to Britain and is jailed as a traitor. He is also followed by Nosarenko's deadly hit...

Scott Mariani / The Bach Manuscript

 The spellbinding new Ben Hope thriller.A LOST MANUSCRIPT. A SAVAGE MURDER. A DEADLY SECRET.While on a business trip to the UK, Ben Hope makes an impulse decision to attend a college reunion at his former university, Oxford. There he meets an old...

Karen Cleveland / Need To Know

 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...

Stella Rimington / Rip Tide

 To catch an enemy with nothing to lose, Liz Carlyle must venture into dangerous waters.When pirates attack a cargo ship off the Somalian coast and one of them is found to be a British-born Pakistani, alarm bells start ringing at London's Thames...

Robert Harris / Munich

 MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place.As Chamberlain's plane judders over the...

Tom Clancy / Command Authority

 INSPIRATION FOR THE THRILLING AMAZON PRIME SERIES JACK RYAN . . . Command Authority sees the return of Tom Clancy's greatest hero, Jack Ryan.Decades ago, when he was a young CIA analyst, President Jack Ryan, Sr. was sent on what was supposed...

Eric Van Lustbader / The Bourne Initiative

 Jason Bourne is on the run. The NSA believes Bourne controls the cyber weapon devised by his old friend, General Boris Karpov, capable of penetrating the heart of America's final defence: nuclear launch codes. Flushed from cover, hunted by...

Helen Dunmore / Exposure

 'A deceptively simple masterpiece' Independent on Sunday 'Will haunt you for months, if not years' Guardian 'Outstanding ... if you only buy one book, make it this one' Good Housekeeping The Cold War is at its height, and a spy may...

Greg Iles / Black Cross

 When a young Atlanta physician attends the funeral of the grandparents who raised him, he is approached by a silver-haired rabbi who claims to have known his grandfather well. Returning together to the family home, they open his grandfather's safe...

Colin Forbes / The Greek Key

 ' He will be assassinated - the general took the decision last night.' Murder - committed over forty years ago, is the detonator which triggers off Tweed, Paula Grey and Newman in their quest for The Greek Key. On Exmoor live three former Commandos...

John Le Carre / The Mission Song

 Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is no stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity - and, worse still, his clothes - in service...

Alan Furst / The World at Night

 Paris 1940. The civilised, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson ends with the German occupation of the city. Out of money and almost out of luck, Casson attempts to work with a German film company but finds himself drawn into the dark...

Alan Furst / Dark Star

 It is 1937, and in the back alleys and glittering salons of night time Europe, war is already underway as the Soviet NKVD and the Nazi Gestapo confront each other in a brilliant duel of espionage. Into the fray comes Andre Szara, foreign...

Ann-Marie MacDonald / The Way the Crow Flies

 In The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie MacDonald takes us back to the early 1960?s, a time of optimism infused with the excitement of the space race and overshadowed by the menace of the Cold War?-a world filtered through the imagination of Madeleine...

Brett Battles / The Unwanted

 Jonathan Quinn, freelance operative and professional 'cleaner', is on a mission in Ireland - purely as an observer. But things go wrong when a hidden assassin kills four men and suddenly Quinn has bodies to dispose of and a clue which is to lead...

Philip Kerr / Prague Fatale

 One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILDBernie Gunther returns to his desk on homicide from the horrors of the Eastern Front to find Berlin changed for the worse. He begins to investigate the death of a railway worker, but is...

Alan Furst / The Foreign Correspondent

 From Alan Furst, whom The New York Times calls "America's preeminent spy novelist," comes an epic story of romantic love, love of country, and love of freedom-the story of a secret war fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in...

Ian Mcewan / The Innocent

 Into a Berlin wrenched between East and West, comes twenty-five-year-old Leonard Marnham, assigned to a British-American surveillance team. Though only a pawn in an international plot, Leonard uses his secret work to escape the bonds of his...

Jeffery Deaver / Carte Blanche

 Thousands will die.It is not known where, or how, or who is behind the threat.007 is given carte blanche to do anything necessary to protect his country, but there is no blank slate when innocent lives are at stake.The only suspects are career...

Gregg Hurwitz / Orphan X

PERFECT FOR LEE CHILD FANS.'READ THIS BOOK. YOU WILL THANK ME LATER'DAVID BALDACCI'A RIVAL TO REACHER' The Independent-------------------'Do you need my help?' It was the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. As a...

James Swallow / Nomad

'NOMAD is unputdownable. A must-read.' - Wilbur SmithFIND THE TRUTH BEFORE THEY FIND YOUA pulse-racing terrorist thriller - perfect for fans of I Am Pilgrim, Bourne, 24 and HomelandMarc Dane is a MI6 field agent at home behind a computer screen, one step...

Richard North Patterson / The Devil's Light

'On September 11, we will destroy one of your cities with a nuclear weapon.' A nuclear warhead disappears. A chilling broadcast follows. A country waits in fear. Yet the broadcast deceives. And, with the world's eyes fixed on America, the true target is...

Robert Ludlum / The Bourne Objective

Jason Bourne is back in the forthcoming major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander. Go back to where it all began for Bourne in his original adventures. 'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesReaders were first...

Martin Cruz Smith / Three Stations

As a train pulls into Yaroslav Station, Moscow, a teenage girl -- Maya -- wakes to an unimaginable horror. Her baby has been taken ...Increasingly disillusioned with the workings of Moscow's Prosecution Service, Arkady Renko is teetering on the brink of...

Robert Ludlum / The Bourne Ascendancy

Jason Bourne is back in the forthcoming major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Alicia Vikander. Go back to where it all began for Bourne in his original adventures. 'Watch your back 007 - Bourne is out to get you' - Sunday TimesJason Bourne is...

Piers Paul Read / A Patriot in Berlin

A Patriot In Berlin is the dramatic story of Berlin after the fall of the Wall, and Moscow after Gorbachev - of love, faith and patriotism in conflict. Berlin, August 1991. An emigre Russian couple are found murdered. American art historian Francesca...

Robert Ludlum / The Janson Command

From the creator of the JASON BOURNE series, a brand new thriller by the undisputed master of the genre.Reformed from his days of assassination and conspiracy, Paul Janson has a new mission and a new partner. Working with kick-ass sharpshooter Jessica...

David Downing / Silesian Station

Grade: A. . . . Downing's mingling of history and thrills makes this a must read."--Rocky Mountain News "Russell is a canny and likable protagonist."--BookPage "Wry, secretive and clever. . . . Russell is good company in this intelligent thriller...

Robert Ludlum / The Ambler Warning

On Parrish Island, off the coast of Virginia, there is a little-known and never visited psychiatric facility where the government stores former intelligence employees whose psychiatric state makes them a danger to their own government. One of these...

Glenn Meade / Brandenburg

A political activist is shot in Berlin. In Paraguay a smuggler is killed in a hit-and-run incident. An elderly businessman then commits suicide in his Asuncion mansion. Journalist Rudi Hernandez is convinced that the deaths are linked. But soon Hernandez...

Jack Higgins / Dark Justice

A fabulous all-new contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure When the...

Colin Forbes / The Power

In this thriller, Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman face the most professional enemy they have ever encountered. Subjected to overwhelming and murderous pressure, Tweed's desperate task is to identify this mysterious opponent before it is too late. A...