Seven men and women are parachuted onto a mountain in wartime Germany; their mission - to rescue an American General from Gestapo HQ.
Spy stories
- Author:MACLEAN, AlistairSummary:
- Author:Maher, AllisonSummary:
Andrew's mother, Marion, works for Epsom Electronics, a security company that makes high-tech spy gear. When she goes missing on the eve of a G8 summit in Halifax, Andrew and his father work desperately to find her. Luckily, Andrew and...
- Author:Johnston, A. J. B.Summary:
Set in early-18th-century France, Thomas: A Secret Life is the imagined life of Thomas Pichon. We first meet Thomas as a twelve-year old in the small town of Vire, Normandy. Precociously sensuous by nature, Thomas is inclined to poetry...
- Author:INNES, HammondSummary:
A novel set during World War Two and proposing an attempt by Nazi agents to secure a new type of diesel engine which would give them air superiority.
- Author:LUDLUM, RobertSummary:
Stephen Metcalfe's spy network is dismantled by the Nazis. Stranded in the midst of war-torn Europe without a contact, orders, or a contingency plan, he is possibly the only hope for the dwindling remains of the free world
- Author:FOLLETT, JamesSummary:
What is the connection between the resignation of SAS Captain Peter Skellen and his recruitment by the People's Lobby, a radical Libyan-backed terrorist group? What role will he play in a plan to hold VIP's hostage in London...
- Author:Zindel, PaulSummary:
Tom the janitor has been accused of murdering the head biologist at New York City's Museum of Natural History. But teenaged sleuths P.C. Hawke and his partner Mackenzie know Tom couldn't be the real killer, so they begin...
- Author:LUDLUM, RobertSummary:
Intrigue and suspense involving four close friends and the C.I.A. Fast moving and exciting.
- Author:Johnston, A. J. B.Summary:
Getting what he wants turns Thomas's world upside down, forcing him to start over - Like the streets of his 18th-century Paris home, Thomas Pichon's life is full of twists and turns. Despite winning his wife's forgiveness for an...
- Author:ARCHER, GeoffreySummary:
MI6 agent Sam Packer watches powerlessly as a trouble-making gunrunner is shot down in front of him. The arms smuggler whispers a heart-stopping warning to Sam; a terrorist gang has a horror weapon and means to commit mass murder.
- Author:Mattich, AlenSummary:
The third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series.Autumn 1991. Civil war has broken out in Yugoslavia with Croatia’s declaration of independence, and former secret policeman Marko della Torre is set...
- Author:Jenoff, PamSummary:
1945. Marta marries a caring British diplomat and glimpses the joy that home and family can bring. But her happiness is threatened when she learns of a Communist spy in British intelligence.
- Author:ALLBEURY, TedSummary:
When Germany surrenders in 1945, Erich Keller becomes a prisoner of war. He is recruited by British Intelligence for a line-crossing operation into the Soviet-occupied zone. Fifty years later, a young British officer is ordered to find...
- Author:SPICER, MichaelSummary:
Lady Jane Hildreth, a British Government agent, meets a girl on a train who confesses to involvement in an IRA murder. When she turns up dead Jane attempts to track down her killers, a trail which leads from a Cotswold village to the...
- Author:LUDLUM, RobertSummary:
Suppose you were a bestselling author and someone gave you an idea for a plot, and everything you wrote started to happen. The trail of investigation into blackmail of secret files of influential people turns into a vendetta against the...
- Author:WEST, NigelSummary:
After forty years a recovered German cipher reveals a list of fifth columnists, implicating some now-senior British officials. Who can be trusted to help weed out the traitors?
- Author:Thor, BradSummary:
Fiendish al-Qaeda terrorists are planning to rescue their imprisoned WMD expert during the chaos they create with their July 4th destruction of all bridges and tunnels to Manhattan Island. Now it's up to ex-SEAL Scot Harvath to stop...
- Author:HOROWITZ, AnthonySummary:
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6. He goes under cover to find out what is behind a...
- Author:Reeve, PhilipSummary:
Young Arthur Mumby, his sister Myrtle, and their mother accept an invitation to take a holiday at an up-and-coming resort in the asteroid belt, where they become involved in a dastardly plot involving spies, time travel, and mind-...
- Author:ARCHER, GeoffreySummary:
Project Skydancer; the brainchild of the Ministry of Defence and terrifying in its simplicity. New warheads had been designed that could evade the batteries of anti-ballistic missiles the Russians had set up around Moscow. For...