Espionage

Andrew Kaplan / Homeland - Saul's Game

Carrie Matthison is is leading an operation to capture OR kill the Al-Qaaeda Abu Nazir. But arriving at the compound that he was supposed to be, in hiding, her team finds it...     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

David Roberts / No More Dying

Lord Edward Corinth embarks on his most important investigation. It is 1939 and it is clear that Britain will soon be at war and MI5 has learnt that an enemy agent has been dispatched to England to assassinate Winston Churchill.     All of our...

Flame Tree Publishing / Agents and Spies - Short Stories - HB -2017

Daring tales of kidnap and rescue, assassination and revenge, the politics of death and espionage, these are the themes of this latest volatile concoction of classic and new writing. The days of empire and traditional war have been replaced by cyber...

Oliver Harris / Ascension

British spy Elliot Kane is forced out of semi-retirement to investigate a colleague’s suspicious death on Ascension Island, a remote and rocky outpost of the British military in the middle of the Atlantic.Despite uncovering a deep plot to incite a...

Kevin Wignall / To Die in Vienna (Large Paperback)

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a he never asks who’s...

Matthew Quirk / Red Warning (Large Paperback)

CIA officer Sam Hudson races to find a Russian deep cover operative loose in the U.S. and a mole in the Agency before they can launch a devastating attack on Washington, D.C., in this adrenaline-fueled thriller from the author of The Night Agent and Hour...

Daniel Silva / The Cellist (Large Paperback)

  From Daniel Silva, the internationally acclaimed number one New York Times best-selling author, comes a timely and explosive new thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon. Viktor Orlov had a longstanding...

Kim Sherwood / Double or Nothing (Large Paperback)

 The start of a brand-new trilogy following MI6’s Double 0 agents with a license to kill, that blows the world of James Bond wide open! James Bond is missing…007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military...

John Brownlow / Agent Seventeen

 You'll never know my name. But you won't forget my number.Behind the events you know are the killers you don’t. When diplomacy fails, we're the ones who gear up. Officially we don’t exist, but every government in the world uses our...

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...

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...

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...

Alan Furst / Blood of Victory

 November, 1940. I.A. Serebin, a writer from Odessa and former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover. Ostensibly there on official business for the International Russian Union,...

David McCloskey / Damascus Station

 A CIA officer and his recruit arrive in war-ravaged Damascus to hunt for a killer: CIA case officer Sam Joseph is dispatched to Paris to recruit Syrian Palace official Mariam Haddad. The two fall into a forbidden relationship, which supercharges...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jason Matthews / Palace of Treason (Hardback)

 From the best-selling, Edgar Award-winning author of the "terrifically good" (The New York Times) Red Sparrow, a compulsively readable new novel about star-crossed Russian agent Dominika Egorova and CIA's Nate Nash. 'Enthralling. That Matthews,...

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...

Frederick Forsyth / Icon (Hardback)

   It is 1999, and in Russia Igor Komarov is set to win the next election. Komarov's secret agenda "The Black Manifesto", is smuggled into the British Embassy, and turns out to be a blueprint of "Mein Kampf". Jason Monk, ex-CIA, is called in...

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 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...

Frederick Forsyth / The Veteran (Large Paperback)

 collection of five heart-stopping stories from the master thriller writer The multi-million copy bestselling Frederick Forsyth is back on familiar ground. And for Forysth that means murder, mystery, intrigue, deception and revenge. The five stories...

James Patterson / Private Rogue (Large Paperback)

 We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret.We are Private. And we're the best.__________________________In Afghanistan, a US Special Forces pilot is shot down during a covert mission.In New York, a mother is forced to flee with...

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...

Mark Dawson / The Cleaner

 'It's impossible not to think of Lee Child's super-selling Jack Reacher' The TimesJohn Milton is the man the government call when they want a problem to vanish . . . but what happens when he's the one that needs to disappear? After a botched job...

Charlotte Philby / Part of the Family

 Amazon reviewers can't get enough:'I LOVED THIS BOOK' *****'Gloriously gripping' *****'Magnificent' *****'Heart-stopping, racy and sophisticated' *****'Compulsive and clever' *****On the surface, Anna Witherall has the perfect life. Married to her...

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...

Mark Gatiss / The Vesuvius Club : A Lucifer Box Novel

 An Extraordinary and Death-Defying Tour of Edwardian Low Life and High Society, accompanied by our host Lucifer Box Esq - artist, dandy, rake ... and lethal secret agent.Lucifer Box is the darling of the Edwardian belle monde - society's most...

Simon Scarrow / Blackout

 THE STUNNING SECOND WORLD WAR THRILLER FROM THE CELEBRATED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR SIMON SCARROWThe Richard and Judy Bookclub PickThe Times Top Ten bestseller'A wonderfully compelling thriller, reeking of authenticity, and a terrific...

Ben Coes / Bloody Sunday

 24 hours to nuclear war... the clock is ticking.North Korea, increasingly isolated from the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator with a major goal - to launch a nuclear war. And they've made a deal.In exchange for effective missiles,...

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...

Stephen Leather / The Runner

 ***'Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style' - Financial Times******'Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series' - Irish Independent***The explosive new stand-alone...

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...