Spy Wars

Hugh Legat is a rising star of the British diplomatic service, serving at 10 Downing Street as a private secretary to the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain. Paul von Hartmann is on the staff of the German Foreign Office - and secretly a member of the anti-Hitler resistance. The two men were friends at Oxford in the 1920s, but have not been in contact since. Now, when Hugh flies with Chamberlain from London to Munich, and Hartmann travels on Hitler's train overnight from Berlin, their paths are set on a disastrous collision course.

In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To "set Europe ablaze," in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France.

Long before the waterboarding controversy exploded in the media, one CIA agent had already gone public. In a groundbreaking 2007 interview with ABC News, John Kiriakou called waterboarding torture - but admitted that it probably worked. This book, at once a confessional, an adventure story, and a chronicle of Kiriakou's life in the CIA, stands as an important, eloquent piece of testimony from a committed American patriot.

Who is Nola Brown? Nola is a mystery. Nola is trouble. And Nola is supposed to be dead. Her body was found on a plane that mysteriously fell from the sky as it left a secret military base in the Alaskan wilderness. Her commanding officer verifies she's dead. The US government confirms it. But Jim "Zig" Zigarowski has just found out the truth: Nola is still alive. And on the run.

Two weeks before the U.S. entered World War I, a Chicago advertising executive visited the Department of Justice with a proposal - organize the country’s businessmen into a secret force of volunteer agents to ferret out and investigate enemy activities within the United States. The country, overcome by a wave of patriotic fervor, had also become gripped with fear and uncertainty of the influx of immigrants from the very countries with which the country was now at war.

Spies are being targeted around for the world for assassination. Their enemy is a relic of history During World War II, the Soviet Union created an intelligence unit called SMERSH, an abbreviation of Smert Shpionam. Translated to English, it literally meant Death to Spies. It was officially disbanded in 1946, a relic of history. Almost 80 years later, SMERSH has been resurrected to assassinate government intelligence agents. Each spy has a card left on their chest saying Smert Shpionam. The Russian government furiously denies all knowledge. The bodies keep dropping. Major Sophie Decker is ...

Anna Cavanaugh is a restless young widow and brilliant French teacher at an all-girls school in Washington, DC. Everything changes when she’s recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by family friend and legendary WWI hero Major General William Donovan. Donovan has faith in her - and in all his “glorious amateurs” who are becoming Anna’s fast friends: Maggie, Anna’s down-to-earth mentor; Irene, who’s struggling to find support from her husband for her clandestine life; and Julia, a cheerful OSS liaison.

Peter Lucas aka Shadow is once more tracking evil. His hunt begins in the steep slopes of the Hindu Kush but eventually leads him to the heart of the former Holy Roman Empire where a new group of religious zealots is intent upon killing innocent men, women and children in the name of their God, all while his wedding is rapidly approaching. The private intelligence company headed by former CIA Director Elmore Craft has been contracted by the Vatican to flesh out the threat and when they do it proves to be a greater threat than anyone had imagined. The internal struggle within Peter between ...

Berlin 1944. Even as the American and British Armies were invading Germany from the West and Soviet troops from the East, rapidly closing in upon the shattered capital of Berlin, the Third Reich's Nazi leaders refused to surrender and unleashed a desperate plan of survival designed to bring them ultimate victory.One man alone, Jaime Wellington Arantes, stood between the Nazis and success. The handsome and elegant heir to a great banking dynasty and vast fortune, Arantes was a fabled international playboy, who appeared loyal to Nazi Germany, but all along was in reality the most effective ...

The Battle of the Atlantic is at its peak. Packs of German U-boats are hunting and sinking U.S. supply ships. Ships are burning at their moorings in U.S. ports, and a series of explosions has afflicted trains and train stations around the country - is it all accidental or is it sabotage? As World War II heats up, "Wild Bill" Donovan's agents - answerable only to Donovan and the president - suddenly find themselves battling on two fronts at once.

It was always meant to be this way. Love involves sacrifice, but that can often go too far. A secretive cabal recruits two boys for a mission that could cost their lives but change their country. A man is trapped in East Berlin when the Wall goes up, and he will do anything to return to his beloved family, even pretend he is loyal but always ready to betray. These lives intersect and prove love is both eternal and a powerful motivator. Love forgives almost anything. But love is also sometimes the perfect companion for death.

In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?

Thermonuclear weapons and BlackStar, a top secret NSA device designed to protect the US arsenal, have been stolen. Jake Thomas leads the BlackStar Ops Group, an above Tier-1 level counterterrorism strike team charged with protecting BlackStar. Will they stop the sale to terrorists in time? Will they thwart plans of an ex-DEA agent intent on their destruction? Find out in BLACKSTAR ENIGMA...

Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill's Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain's beloved royals against an international plot - one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and England steels itself against German attack, Maggie Hope, former secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, completes her training to become a spy for MI-5.

Fueled by tenacity and a will to survive, will this German man stand strong against the Communist evil infiltrating his homeland? Germany, 1945. Joseph Werner’s young life is one of struggle. Lurking among the wreckage of Berlin, the starving war orphan will do anything to fill his belly. But when he’s caught trying to steal from another boy his age, he’s shocked to be met with compassion and adopted into his would-be victim’s Lutheran family. Unable to shed his past, the now twenty-four-year-old struggles to live up to the ideals of his faith while his adoptive sibling attends ...

The world is on the brink of disaster. Iran has just conducted its first atomic weapons test. Millions of Muslims around the world are convinced their messiah — known as the Twelfth Imam — has arrived on earth. Israeli leaders fear Tehran, under the Twelfth Imam’s spell, will soon launch a nuclear attack that could bring about a second Holocaust and the annihilation of Israel.

Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called Red Mercury. Unbeknownst to the Taskforce, the Syrians plan to use the weapon of mass destruction against American and Kurdish forces and blame the attack on terrorists, causing Western nations to reassess their participation in the murky cauldron of the Syrian civil war. Meanwhile, North Korea has its own devastating agenda: a double cross that will dwarf the attack in Syria.

The Second Civil War of the United States has resumed its bloody course. Under its new President, Mitchell Spector, the United Constitutional States of America has taken the Blue Faction stronghold of Pittsburgh and now has its eyes set on Washington. To the north, Canada’s prime minister, Merielle Martel, must face off against agents of chaos and corruption that will stop at nothing to see her and her country destroyed. As shadowy forces work against the CANZUK nations from all sides, the countries of Canada, Australia, New Zealand the United Kingdom have no choice – if the light of ...

An abandoned mansion in Scotland; revelations about her stepfather’s past life; an enigmatic handsome neighbour who is not quite what he appears to be. These are the essential ingredients of Laura’s Hidden Legacy – The Mansion.The year is 1971 and Laura Walter is a contented London art student living a privileged life and on the point of graduating university when tragedy strikes: her parents die in a car crash. As part of her legacy, Laura discovers she has inherited an estate in Scotland in the middle of a forest; an estate about which she had no prior knowledge. Laura’s journey ...

Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship’s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It displays the qualities which have put O’Brian far ahead of any of his competitors.