Spy Fiction Literary

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. He's wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit; his best friend has just been murdered; and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed by those closest to him, he must flee the sanctuary of his safe house in Cornwall and track her down.

A young, handsome, charismatic Southern governor is elected president of the United States in a landslide. He was so popular that world leaders were scrambling to attend his inauguration. Among the attendees were the pope, the queen of England, and other royalties. He had, however, an Achilles' heel-he was a philanderer. It will not take long for his misdeeds to leak out to the media and the opposition party. While he was being investigated, the noose was getting tighter around his neck. Pressured by his wife to save his power, he decided to do the unthinkable.

Max Bowman has been gone for a long time. So long that he’s lost his home, his love, his money and most of his memories. Now, the Russian Rat Pack is hunting him down. A dog puppet with Lego blocks for teeth is barking out strange warnings. His weird brother is hiding something in the basement. And the woman Max left behind is involved with a crooked lobbyist whose menace is almost as big as his stomach, as well as the stunning secret he’s got under wraps. Oh yeah. And Donald Trump is also now president.

Regretting his affair with a Republican journalist, Ralph becomes caught in the middle of a political controversy when his former lover's tell-all book is published, and then Bill is murdered, leaving Ralph the prime suspect in the crime.

June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the visionary mathematician, is found dead at his home in sleepy Wilmslow, dispatched by a poisoned apple. Taking the case, Detective Constable Corell quickly learns Turing is a convicted homosexual. Confident it’s a suicide, he’s nonetheless confounded by official secrecy over Turing’s war record. What’s more, Turing’s sexuality appears to be causing alarm among the intelligence services – could he have been blackmailed by Soviet spies?

MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle has received alarming intelligence from a source in Syria. A Middle East peace conference is planned to take place at Gleneagles in Scotland, and the Syrians have learned that two individuals are mounting an operation to disrupt the conference in a spectacular way, laying the blame at Syria's door. As the conference deadline draws ever closer, Liz discovers that the threat is far greater than she or anyone else could have imagined. But so many questions are still to be answered.

Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey. As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert—a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption—he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories.

In questo esordio molto atteso di un'epica serie spy thriller dello scrittore di bestseller Jack Mars, i lettori sono trascinati per tutta l'Europa in un'avventura al cardiopalma, mentre il presunto agente della CIA Kent Steele, perseguitato dai terroristi e dalla sua stessa identità, deve risolvere il mistero di chi lo vuole morto, quale sia l'obiettivo dei terroristi, quale sia la sua stessa identità e chi è la bellissima donna che continua a vedere nella propria mente.

In questo seguito del primo libro (AGENTE ZERO) della serie di spy thriller Kent Steele, "Obiettivo Zero" (Libro 2) ci porta in un'altra avventura ricca d'azione per tutta l'Europa, quando l'agente Kent Steele viene richiamato in servizio per fermare un'arma biologica prima che devasti il mondo, lottando al contempo con la sua perdita di memoria. La vita torna brevemente alla normalità per Kent, prima di essere richiamato dalla CIA per dare la caccia ai terroristi e fermare un'altra crisi internazionale, una persino più potenzialmente devastante dell'ultima.

In West Berlin in 1989, 18-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden summer with his three best friends. They spend their days swimming, smoking and daydreaming about the future, oblivious to the storm gathering on the other side of the Berlin Wall. But an unsettling discovery about his family and a meeting with the mysterious Oz shatters everything Ralf thought he knew about love and loyalty.

High season is coming to an end, and fishing guide Jake Trent suddenly has some time on his hands. As the ex-lawyer ponders rekindling his romance with park ranger Noelle Klimpton, a surprise call from a long-lost love lights up his phone.

It's been years since law school graduation, when Jake last saw Divya Navaysam. Now a DC lobbyist, Divya wants Jake to come to Washington for a consulting job - immediately.

French Academician and Nazi sympathiser Paul-Jean Husson writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942. Tormented by an illicit passion for Ilse, his German daughter-in-law, Husson has taken a decision that will devastate several lives, including his own.

The history of Jack Hudson remains safely locked in the vaults of the CIA. He had dedicated his life to serving his country and he had recently considered retiring. He had been out to dinner in the evening and as he walked towards his rented apartment in Moscow, he felt the heat of a bullet whiz by his head.

killer is hounding the seaside town of Old Tornwich. Residents are gripped by fear and suspicion, and the finger of blame is pointed in all directions. But the bodies keep falling, and the crimes remain unsolved, the culprit at large. No mere whodunit, The Suburbs of Hell - its story inspired by a real-life serial killer - is a profoundly disturbing psychological drama with a devastating conclusion, the final work of one of Australia's greatest writers.

Andrea Thompson is smart, assertive and beautiful. She's also desperately lonely. Raised in Europe by her grandmother, she struggles knowing neither of her parents wanted her, and she has no idea why. When Andrea receives an urgent call from her older sister Carrie, she agrees to fly to the United States to help. Carrie's newborn daughter Rachel needs a bone marrow transplant. What Andrea doesn't know is that her return to the United States will launch a chain of events that will uncover secrets hidden for decades.

When Rebecca Laurelson is forced to leave her post as a trauma surgeon in an east African field hospital, she arrives at her aunt’s house on the Indian Ocean and is taken into the heart of a family she has never met before. It’s a world of all-night beach parties and constant cocktail receptions, and within its languorous embrace her attraction for her much younger cousin grows. But these gilded lives and their fellow white Africans on the coast are under threat - Islamist terror attacks are on the rise and Rebecca knows more about this violence than she is prepared to reveal.

Kane och Abel föds på samma dag 1906. Abels mor dör under födseln och han växer upp som hittebarn på en fattig polsk bondgård. Abel är en ovanligt smart pojke, så trots sin bakgrund skickar den lokala baronen budbärare efter honom så att hans son i samma ålder kan undervisas tillsammans med Abel. Tusentals mil bort, i Boston, USA, föds William Kane. Han växer upp i en mycket rik familj med gamla anor, och hans öde är att ta över sin fars plats som verkställande direktör för Kane & Cabot Bank.

I talarstolen inför tusentalet människor som samlats på Gärdet den 1 maj faller Sveriges statsminister Sven Sundberg offer för ett dödligt attentat. Nyheten om mordet sprider sig som en löpeld bland folket. Det spekuleras livligt om vem som kunde ha förövat det. Fanns det möjligen en koppling till att en främmande ubåt fastnat i marinens garn i Stockholms skärgård? Låg främmande makter bakom mordet och i så fall vilken av dem? När kalla krigets vindar blåser fram över hela Europa kan ingen vara säker.

Taxfree är en hyperaktuell och spännande roman om arbetsförhållanden i det nya gränslösa Europa. Jack är trettioåtta år och kör långtradare tvärs genom Europa. En dag får han veta att hans åkeri blivit uppköpt av ett stort utländskt företag som heter Eddie Herz. Till en början oroar han sig inte över det. Men efter en tid får han veta att man anlitar chaufförer från de forna öststaterna som knappt får någon lön.Jack börjar ana att det är ett brottssyndikat snarare än ett åkeri han jobbar för. Fast frågan är om han kan göra någonting åt det.

Prague in the 1950s is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure to a state security agent. A loyal party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap.