Espionage

Ronnie O'Sullivan / Framed

   Fast paced and full of grit, this is the first crime novel from the UK's most charismatic sporting genius.WHEN THE GAME IS MURDER, YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE.An innocent man.Frankie James is a young man with a lot on his shoulders. His mother...

Jack Grimwood / Nightfall Berlin

   'Note-perfect, multi-layered, rugged as a T-34 tank. Grimwood is about to become your new favourite thriller writer' IndependentA tense, atmospheric and breathtaking thriller that drops you deep into the icy heart of the Cold War - fans of...

William Gibson / Spook Country

   What happens when old spies come out to play one last game?In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the...

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...

Charles Cumming / A Colder War

   Perfect for fans of John le Carre, a gripping and suspenseful spy novel from `the master of the modern spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday)Thomas Kell is a disgraced agent who longs to come in from the cold. When MI6's top spy in Turkey is killed...

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...

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...

John Le Carre / A Legacy of Spies (Large Paperback)

 Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, has retired to his family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London...

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...

John Le Carre / The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

   From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an afterword by the author and an...

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...

James Swallow / Exile

 MOVE OVER JASON BOURNE, MARC DANE IS HERE . . .A vicious Serbian gang whose profits come from fake nuclear weapons.A disgraced Russian general, with access to the real thing.A vengeful Somali warlord, with a cause for which he'd let the world burn...

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...

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...

Henry Porter / Brandenburg

 The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in the Stasi...

Charles Cumming / A Spy by Nature

   Alec Milius is young, smart, ambitious and comfortable with deceit. So when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, Alec thinks he's landed the perfect job for his talents. But working alone, relying on instinct, he's soon spinning a web of...

Steve Martini / Undue Influence

 Recently widowed attorney Paul Madriani is struggling to hold on to what is left of his family when he and his young daughter are caught up in yet another family tragedy. Paul's sister-in-law, Laurel Vega, is involved in a bitter custody battle...

Adam Brookes / Spy Games

 'Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingFearing for his life, journalist Philip Mangan has gone into hiding from the Chinese agents who have identified him as a British spy. His reputation and life are in tatters...

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...

Andrew Grant / Die Twice

 Cooler than Bond. Deadlier than Bourne. The second spy thriller in the David Trevellyan series. Obliged to leave New York City in the aftermath of his previous mission, David Trevellyan is summoned to the British Consulate in Chicago. To the same...

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...

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...

Karen Robards / Obsession

 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] creepily effective suspense novel."--The Seattle Times After surviving a horrific attack by masked gunmen, Katharine Lawrence awakens in the hospital--with an unfamiliar face staring back at her in the mirror...

Len Deighton / SS-GB

 A special edition of Deighton's classic thriller, the first and certainly greatest `what-if?' novel about the Second World War, to tie in with the new major BBC series starring Sam Riley and adapted by the writers of Skyfall and Spectre.In February...

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...

James Barrington / Foxbat

 Back in 1976, a Russian front-line pilot defected to Japan in a MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor, flying virtually at sea level to avoid pursuing fighters and surface-to-air missiles. With about thirty seconds of fuel remaining, he landed at Hakodate...

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...

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...

Daniel Silva / The Mark Of The Assassin

 A gripping thriller by the author of the Unlikely Spy. A secret world organisation of wealthy Capitalists hires a shadowy former KGB assassin with a trademark method of killing - 3 gunshots in the face of his victim. For the assassin, a hit is...

Adam Brookes / Night Heron

 Tell them, the Night Heron is hunting . . . A lone man escapes a labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China.Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British. Now he finds Beijing transformed and...

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...

Alan Furst / The Spies Of Warsaw

   On a cool October evening in 1937, German engineer and secret agent Herr Edvard Uhl arrives in Warsaw. He suppresses a chill of fear. Tonight, he will be with his mistress; tomorrow, he will be at a bar, where he will meet with a French...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Stella Rimington / The Geneva Trap: A Liz Carlyle novel (Large Paperback)

Geneva, 2012. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI6 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle of MI5. But who is he, and what is his...

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...

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...

Len Deighton / Mamista

Three very different men and one woman become embroiled in a thrilling and violent quest in an imaginary South American republic. The author also wrote "Game, Set and Match" and "Hook, Line and Sinker".All of our books are second hand, and while you may...

Henry Porter / Empire State

The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in a spectacular set piece killing at Heathrow ...An airport employee and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge ...In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath...

John Le Carre / Our Game

At 48, Tim Cranmer is a secret servant in retirement, free to devote himself to his manor house, his vineyard and his young mistress, Emma. But a rival in love disappears with Emma, and Tim sets off in pursuit.All of our books are second hand, and while...

Ken Follett / Code to Zero

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 price sticker on a...

Peter James / Dead Letter Drop

Featuring a special introduction by Peter James, Dead Letter Drop is Peter James' first ever novel, originally published in 1981. Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. When to kill, who to kill, whether to kill...

Robert Ludlum / The Bourne Retribution

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. 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...

Joseph Kanon / The Prodigal Spy

Walter Kotlar is the epitome of the American dream, the son of working class immigrants who attends Yale and becomes part of the establishment, but he is caught up in the '50s fear of the 'red menace' and forced to testify before the...

Craig Thomas / Playing With Cobras

It was to be a small and simple task, a matter of two or three days - something Patrick Hyde could do by stopping over in Delhi on his way back to Australia. All he had to do was to make certain that Philip Cass, to whom he owed his life, really had...