International Spy Thrillers

When Soviet agent Viktor Tronko defected to the US in 1964, he made two intriguing claims: he insisted that Russia had not placed a mole inside the CIA, and that Lee Harvey Oswald had not been recruited to assassinate the president. Convinced that Tronko was working as a disinformation agent, the CIA furiously did everything they could to break him. But Tronko had one more surprise for them: he refused to break.

Venice during Carnevale seems like a dream vacation to American police detective Alex Polonia. There, she hopes to lose herself in the maze of romantic canals and forget her scumbag ex-husband, convicted of running a meth lab and selling drugs to kids on Cleveland's south side. The legacy of the Bosnian War and its brutal ethnic cleansing has brought journalist Marika Juric to Venice with one driving goal: Gather enough evidence to stop one of the war’s most vile men from becoming Croatia’s next president. And she knows there are those who will do anything to stop her.

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. When top executives at a defense department contracting agency are brutally murdered, CIA Director Aaron Stallings unleashes his secret weapon on the case, beautiful Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner. She's been given instructions to follow the evidence wherever it leads and stop the killers at any cost, but almost immediately Tanner finds herself operating alone and without backup, knowing if she's caught or killed, the CIA will cut her loose like she never existed. The ...

FORCE OF FIRE by Rosa Turner Boschen An action-packed, period intelligence thriller. Little does defense intelligence analyst Mark Neal suspect that the new "Missing Person Central America" case of Ana Kane is about to change his life—indefinitely. When Defense Department protocol is turned on its head and Mark is sent to Iberia at the behest of his cryptic boss, Mark figures there is more than patriotism at play. Prisoner Ana begins to suspect that, too. But when the Basque terrorists who are holding her threaten her life for the exchange of one deadly secret, will the Americans come ...

The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings.

Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular - the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating.

Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins races to France when he learns that an ISIS terrorist he'd thought was dead has an Iranian backpack nuclear weapon and plans to destroy Paris. Pono was once Mustafa al-Boudienne's prisoner in Iraq, and is now the only one left alive to identify him. Reaching Paris, Pono finds that his closest comrade has been kidnapped, and that the date to destroy the city is fast approaching.

Evan Ryder was once a field agent for a black-ops arm of the Department of Defense. Now she works for Parachute, a cutting-edge quantum-computing firm whose private espionage network exceeds any government spy agency. But her mission remains the same: Seek out and destroy Omega, a fanatical global cult intent on destroying democracy. The fight against Omega has already cost Evan dearly but she will not stop until she has torn out the conspiracy by its roots, no matter the risk.

Un meurtre dans une vieille église de Séville. Un assassinat dans une bibliothèque parisienne. Un ancien manuscrit dérobé. Et voilà que surgit de nouveau le nom du plus mystérieux alchimiste du XXe siècle : Fulcanelli ! Depuis près de cent ans, chercheurs et historiens tentent de découvrir qui se cachait derrière cet énigmatique pseudonyme. En acceptant de mener l'enquête, Ari Mackenzie, ancien commandant des services secrets, fait une plongée vertigineuse dans les milieux ésotéristes du siècle dernier.

Bill Buckley has created a handsome American hero, Blackford Oakes, who, by coincidence or not, happens to be an irreverent Yale- and CIA-trained superspy. The year is 1954. Stalin has died in Moscow, and a deadly earnest power play nears its conclusion. Meanwhile British and American commandos, their mission to liberate a Soviet satellite country, have met a disastrous end. Jinxed. The communications system between English and American intelligence has been penetrated. Jinxed. There is a spook in their midst. High Jinx.

A SECRET THAT DIED WITH THE NAZIS MAY THREATEN THE MODERN WORLD! Two secret agents track a mysterious transmission at Europe's largest scientific project! They soon find out that some of their most dangerous enemies are close to home. "PULITZER-NOMINEE LAWRENCE DE MARIA HAS ANOTHER WINNER IN COLE SUDDEN, AN ASSASSIN WORKING IN AN OBSCURE C.I.A. UNIT EVEN THE AGENCY WORRIES ABOUT!” (John Crudele, New York Post); “A LAWRENCE DE MARIA TITLE GIVES YOU MORE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING IN THE BOOK MARKETPLACE TODAY.” (Florida Weekly); “A MASTER OF THRILLER DIALOGUE.” (...

British spy Leonard Flood is asked to investigate the poisoning in London of Willa Karlsson, a retired British secret service vetting officer suspected of being a Russian agent. British intelligence is terrified by the possibility that Moscow poisoned her upon her retirement since she was no longer useful to them. When Leonard discovers that he is also a suspect in the investigation and that Willa's story is less a story of betrayal than one of friendship, he must decide whether to hand her to her masters or to help her to escape.

Ex-CIA operative Matt Gage believed the covert world was firmly in his rearview. But the untimely demise of a Silicon Valley powerhouse drags him back to the subterranean chessboard of spycraft. At the behest of the tenacious Elizabeth Zhou, the magnate's daughter, he starts an inquiry that promises more shadows than truths. From the vibrant alleys of Chinatown to the imposing skyscrapers of the tech giants, a sinister web unfolds, where the line between friend and foe isn't just blurred—it's non-existent.

Her name is spoken in whispers. She kills in silence, with the sting of a needle. Her name? Scorpion. But she was betrayed and left for dead. Now she wants revenge. And no one is going to stand in her way. Apart from one man. Dan Roy, a betrayed assassin himself. The only man who once caught a glimpse of her face. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and Dan is about to find out why.

The KGB decides to use agent Otto Reimann to seduce Elke Meyer, the personal assistant to a top West German Cabinet member, to give over classified information, but Moscow does not count on the unpredictability of love.

The North Sea, October 1904 - When Russian warships bombard the Hull trawler fleet, killing innocent fishermen, public outrage pushes Britain and Russia to the brink of war, the sparks from which could inflame the entire continent. Doctor Ingo Finch, once of the Royal Army medical corps, is long done with military adventuring. But when a stranger seeks him out, citing a murderous conspiracy behind the infamous 'Dogger Bank Incident', Finch is drawn back into the dark world of espionage.

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. A SOVIET TACTICAL NUKE HAS DISAPPEARED AND AN AMERICAN CITY MAY BE TARGETED... Tracie Tanner is back at work, tasked with infiltrating the home of a Russian general and acquiring intel regarding a rumored breakthrough in Soviet radar technology. But what she finds is far more horrifying than a technological advance: a tactical nuclear device has been stolen out of a supposedly secure Soviet military base. Together, Tracie and CIA Director Aaron Stallings determine that a ...

Tracie Tanner works in the world's most dangerous hot-spots. On the most high-stakes assignments. And she works alone. The Amber Room treasure has been missing for nearly a half-century. But suddenly, finding it becomes of the utmost importance. When an elderly, anonymous West German man disappears, CIA Director Aaron Stallings dispatches Black Ops specialist Tracie Tanner to the scene. Working with the assistance of a CIA operative she's not sure she can trust, Tracie faces her toughest assignment yet - pick up the trail of the mysterious Amber Room key, utterly unique and critical to ...

FBI agent Nicholas Drummond and his partner, Mike Caine, are deep into an investigation of COE - Celebrants of the Earth - a violent group known for widespread bombings of power grids and oil refineries. While investigating a tip from a civilian who's overheard about a possible bombing plot, the Bayway Refinery in New Jersey explodes. Nicholas and Mike race to the scene and barely escape being killed by a secondary device.

A dramatic mystery thriller unfolds as a backwoods crime cover-up turns into a major Government conspiracy starting with a single event; a rotting corpse that washes over the massive Fontana Dam in the mountains of North Carolina. Suddenly a covert organization, hidden from existence since the 1940's erupts into action to eliminate all traces of this past mistake.