Spy Fiction Literary

In his final novel, Sick Heart River, John Buchan predicted that with the outbreak of a second world war Richard Hannay and all his companions of old would be going back into action. In The Thirty-One Kings, the tale of their adventures is finally told. June 1940. As German troops pour across France, the veteran soldier and adventurer Richard Hannay is called back into service. In Paris an agent, codenamed 'Roland', has disappeared and is assumed to be in the hands of the Nazis.

With speculative fiction, the book focuses on the stories the writer conveys to help us understand and make a meaning out of our daily human experiences. The narrative criticism is used as a means of fundamental communication, to also provide a structure for human experience and serve as an influence for people to share common explanations. The book is addressed to people looking for a contemporary literary genre with elements of satire, along with genre fiction staples, provocative, though in order to create subversive and entertaining works.

Quando una notte degli jihadisti rubano del materiale radioattivo da un ospedale non custodito di New York, la polizia, in una frenetica corsa contro il tempo, chiama l'FBI. E Luke Stone, capo di un dipartimento speciale e segreto interno all'FBI, è l'unico a cui possono rivolgersi. Luke capisce subito che l'obiettivo dei terroristi è creare una bomba sporca, che colpiranno un luogo importante per gli Stati Uniti, e che agiranno entro le prossime 48 ore. Segue una serrata caccia al topo, che vede in contrapposizione i più geniali agenti governativi contro i terroristi più sofisticati.

Ne IL RITORNO DI ZERO (Libro 6), l'interprete del Presidente è l'unico a conoscenza di una conversazione segreta che può cambiare il mondo. Viene presa di mira per l'assassinio e cacciata, e l'Agente Zero, richiamato nella linea di servizio, potrebbe essere l'unico che può salvarla. L'Agente Zero, che cerca di rimettere in ordine la sua vita e di riconquistare la fiducia delle sue ragazze, giura di non tornare in servizio. Ma quando viene chiamato per salvare la vita di questa interprete indifesa, non può dire di no.

A loyal street lieutenant to New Orleans’ mob boss Carlos Marcello, Guidry knows too much about the crime of the century: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Within hours of JFK’s murder, everyone with ties to Marcello is turning up dead. Suspecting he’s next, Guidry hits the road to Las Vegas. When he spots a beautiful housewife and her two young daughters stranded on the side of the road, he sees the perfect disguise to cover his tracks from the hit men on his trail. The two strangers share the open road west - and find each other on the way.

When the President's mistress reveals the existence of a sex tape and demands money for her silence, it falls to the long suffering First Lady to deal with it. Unwilling to trust the Secret Service or any other federal agency, she calls on childhood friend and former lover, Dan Powers, to negotiate the deal. But with bodies quickly falling Powers soon learns nothing is as it appears and that he's been marked for death.

His hazardous stint in U.S. law enforcement behind him, Valentine Pescatore has started over as a private investigator in Buenos Aires. Then he runs into a long-lost friend: Raymond Mercer, a charismatic, troubled singer who has converted to Islam. After a terrorist attack kills hundreds, suspicion falls on Raymond - and Pescatore.

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.

Redka "Stal" Starnelov, ex forze speciali sovietiche, ora guerriero freelance. "Stal", freddo, duro e letale come l'acciaio delle sue lame. L'unico in grado di garantire a Ombra, il suo enigmatico committente, che la missione alla centrale nucleare di Koeberg, Sudafrica, sarà un successo. Ma quando Stal entra finalmente in possesso del contenitore di micidiale polonio-210, tutti i parametri saltano. Nel fuoco incrociato di troppi gruppi di potere che vogliono mettere le mani sul polonio, Stal e la sua squadra saranno costretti a seguire una pista di morte e sangue.

In the Cambodian hinterlands, a lone Western prisoner suffers through a hot, muddy, interminable sentence. Wasted by repeated torture, lack of sleep, malnutrition, and psychotropic drugs, he has been abandoned. His years of exemplary service to his government mean nothing. No one is coming for him.

When Suyana, Face of the United Amazonia Rainforest Confederation, secretly meets Ethan of the United States for a date that can solidify a relationship for the struggling UARC, the last thing she expects is an assassination attempt. Daniel, a teen runaway turned paparazzi out for his big break, witnesses the first shot hit Suyana, and before he can think about it he jumps into the fray, telling himself it's not altruism, it's the scoop. Just like that,Suyana and Daniel are now in the game of Faces.

January, 1980. At the height of the Cold War, Petra Kelly inspires hundreds of thousands to take to the streets to protest the placement of nuclear missiles on West German soil - including a NATO general named Emil Gerhardt, who shocks the establishment by converting to the cause. Petra and her general not only vault to fame as the stars of the Green Party, but they also fall in love. Then Manfred Schwartz, an ex-lover, urges Petra to draw back the curtain on Emil's war record, and they enter a world both complicated and threatening.

Pavel Richter, a decommissioned GI, finds himself at odds with a rogue British Army colonel and a Soviet general when an American friend deposits a dead Russian spy in his frozen apartment. The race to take possesion of the dead spy's secert soon begins and threatens Pavel's friendship with a street orphan named Anders and his budding love for his upstairs neighbour, Sonia.

A corporate lawyer from the house of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside for crimes that he does not understand. A children’s entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the Black Sea. A celebrated London financier has disappeared into thin air. A British customs officer is on a trail of corruption and murder.

The Committee pits friends against friends and threatens careers and lives in a struggle for the soul of a town, a university, and an ideal. Based on actual historical events and set against the backdrop of political, cultural, and class turmoil, this is a story of love - both licit and hidden - war, friendship, betrayal, compromise, and finally the necessity to stand firm against the encroachments upon freedom by men who believe they are doing God’s and the government’s righteous work.

Nelle Spetsnaz, le micidiali forze speciali russe, era Redka Starnelov. Nel nuovo "disordine" mondiale è Stal, "Acciaio", letale mercenario della lama. Il suo passato è un luogo pieno di morte e di incubi. Il suo presente gli riserva solo raggelante ferocia. La sua nuova destinazione: Transnistria, ennesima terra maledetta scaturita dalla dissoluzione dell'URSS. La sua nuova missione: fare luce su uno sterminio di innocenti, in un luogo chiamato Campo Copernico.

Wife. Mother. Spy. A double life is no life at all. Since the disappearance of her husband in 1951, Laura Leverett has been living in limbo with her daughter in Geneva. All others see is her conventional, charming exterior; nobody guesses the secret she is carrying. Her double life began years ago, when she stepped onto the boat which carried her across the Atlantic in 1939. Eager to learn and eager to love, she found herself suddenly inspired by a young Communist woman she met on the boat.

Leaving behind them a Europe still taking stock after the definitive battle of Waterloo, Jack Aubrey and his friend Stephen Maturin set sail for Chile. But even with the newly minted peace, life at sea remains beset with danger and imminent disaster, and the political turmoil of the South American continent is equal to any threat they have yet faced.

It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his 45th birthday, James Bond - British special agent 007 - is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.

The United States is on the brink of war. It's August, 2023, and political unrest is sweeping the nation. Banking giant Citi-Chase-Capitol-Morgan has bought out the government, the Internet is censored, and hardcore conservatives have joined the New Secession Coalition. It is a dark time for America. However, somewhere in the Mojave Desert, once voice has dared to stand up to corruption. His name is John Herald.