Espionage

John Creed / Black Cat, Black Dog : A Jack Valentine Thriller

 When a set of dog tags, supposedly belonging to a seaman missing since the early 1950s, is washed up on a beach in modern day Co. Antrim, Jack Valentine 'deadbeat ex-spook' finds himself being pulled back toward his previous life once more. But...

Andrew Grant / EVEN

 David Trevellyan takes a lonely late-night walk between a restaurant and his New York City hotel. A familiar huddled shape in the mouth of an alley catches his eye. A homeless man has been shot dead. As David steps forward, a police car arrives...

John Buchan / Greenmantle

  In Greenmantle (1916) Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, travels across war-torn Europe in search of a German plot and an Islamic Messiah. He is joined by three more of Buchan's heroes: Peter Pienaar, the old Boer Scout; John S...

Jack Higgins / The President's Daughter (Hardback)

 In Mekong Delta, Jake Cazalet, US Special Forces Officer, rescues a woman. Many years later, someone is using the discovery of what really happened to blackmail him - a move which threatens the world, because Cazalet is now President of the United...

Stephen Coonts / Hong Kong

 The US Consul-General in Hong Kong, Virgil 'Tiger' Cole, was Jake Grafton's bombardier-navigator during the Vietnam War, and both have come a long way since: Grafton has risen to Rear Admiral, commanding a US aircraft carrier; Cole has become an...

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...

A. P. McCoy / Narrowing the Field (Large Paperback)

   Everything seems to be going right for brilliant young jockey Duncan Claymore. A career on the up, a beautiful wife, and all the trappings of wealth. But Duncan is haunted by the death of one of his arch-rivals. He may not have pulled the...

Anthony Horowitz / Forever and a Day (Large Paperback)

   A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.M laid down his pipe and stared at it tetchily. 'We have no choice. We're just going to bring...

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...

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...

Brad Thor / The Lions of Lucerne

    In his daring and chilling first novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor draws us into a sinister labyrinth of political intrigue and international terrorism, serving up an explosive cocktail of unrelenting action as one...

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 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...

Dale Brown / Shadows of Steel

   The new novel of breathtaking action and adventure in the skies from the bestselling author of Storming Heaven and Flight of the Old Dog.The spectacular flying scenes, technological detail and astonishing authenticity of international...

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...

Louise Doughty / Black Water

 John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something he's already done.In a local...

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...

Sandrone Dazieri / Kill the Father

 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERThe twisty and darkly compelling thriller, European bestseller and RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB PICK that will keep you up all night.'The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please...

Stephen Leather / False Friends

   The ninth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. The most wanted man in the world is dead. Now those loyal to him seek revenge. When Navy Seals track down and kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, it's obvious there was...

David Baldacci / End Game ( Wil Robie Series - Book 5 )

   End Game is the fifth book in the thrilling Will Robie series by international number one bestselling author David Baldacci.Will Robie, highly trained assassin and the US government's most indispensable asset, is called to London.An...

Sam Bourne / To Kill the President

 Maggie Costello uncovers an assassination plot to kill the tyrannical new president.A blockbuster thriller from No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Sam Bourne.The unthinkable has happened...The United States has elected a volatile demagogue as...

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...

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...

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...

Chris Ryan / The Kill Zone

 From the author of the bestselling Danny Black series and the hit TV show Strikeback.The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly - or more cunning. And if they enter the...

Richard North Patterson / Private Screening

   The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead point blank, while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the...

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...

Len Deighton / London Match

 Long-awaited reissue of the final part of the classic spy trilogy, GAME, SET and MATCH, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. The spy who's in the clear doesn't exist...Bernard Samson hoped they'd put Elvira Miller behind bars...

John Le Carre / The Mission Song (Large Paperback)

 Bruno Salvador, known to friends and enemies alike as Salvo, is the ever-innocent, twenty-nine-year-old orphaned love-child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese headman's daughter. Educated first at mission school in the East Congolese...

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...

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...

John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps - Vintage Pan Fiction - 1962

A vintage reprint edition, Pan Books, of the classic novel by John Buchan , The Thirty-Nine Steps. Published in this edition by Pan Macmillan UK in 1962. Great period cover art. Light edgewear to the base and top of the spine.Richard Hannay...