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The wolf at the door (Sean Dillon Ser. #17)
Par Jack Higgins. 2010
After Russia’s prime minister targets an elite group of British spies for assassination, top operative Sean Dillon and his cohorts…
begin a counter-operation to protect themselves and their families. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. 2010.Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Par Adeline Yen Mah. 2005
During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home,…
joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle against the Japanese invaders. Includes historical notes. Grades 4-7. 2005.A foreign country (Thomas Kell novel. #1.)
Par Charles Cumming. 2013
Six months before she is due to take up her position as the first female head of MI6, Amelia Levene…
vanishes without a trace. Disgraced ex-agent Thomas Kell is brought in from the cold with orders to find her quickly and quietly. The mission offers Kell a way back into the secret world, the only life he's ever known. Tracking her through France and North Africa, Kell embarks on a dangerous voyage, shadowed by foreign intelligence services. This far from home soil, the rules of the game are entirely different and the consequences worse than anyone imagines. CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year; Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Book of the Year. 2013.Visibility
Par Boris Starling. 2007
London, 1952. Had the Great Fog claimed another victim - a drunk, perhaps, stumbling into the water? But Max Stensness…
was sober when he died - and the young biochemist had claimed to be in possession of a secret that could change the world. Detective Inspector Herbert Smith begins retracing the final footsteps of Max Stensness, as the CIA, KGB and MI5 all vie to get their hands on the dead man's secret. 2007.Spandau Phoenix
Par Greg Iles. 1993
On May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess flew to England for a meeting with the Duke of Hamilton. But was it…
Hess who met with the Duke, or was it his pilot? Now in 1987, Spandau Prison is being demolished. The last prisoner--number seven--has committed suicide. Or has he been murdered? And was he really Hess? Hans Apfel finds some papers at Spandau that may answer those questions, but now he and his wife are in great danger. Violence and strong language. Bestseller. c1993.The Prometheus deception
Par Robert Ludlum. 2001
After fifteen years in the field, spy Nick Bryson is forced to retire and becomes a college teacher. Years later…
the CIA informs him that the ultraclandestine agency he had worked for is not part of the U.S. government. Recruited to reinfiltrate the organization, Nick isn't sure who to trust. Strong language. Bestseller. 2001.Ark angel (Alex Rider adventure. #6.)
Par Anthony Horowitz. 2005
After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a…
group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel. For junior high readers. 2005. (Alex Rider adventure ; 6)Robert Ludlum's The Moscow vector (Covert-One novels.)
Par Robert Ludlum, Patrick Larkin. 2005
At an international conference on infectious diseases, Covert-One operative Jon Smith contacts his Russian colleague Dr. Valentin Petrenko, who is…
concerned about fatal illnesses in Moscow. When attackers kill Valentin, Jon uncovers a biological weapon called HYDRA and a Russian takeover plot. Some violence and some strong language. 2005. (A Covert-One novel)Stormbreaker (Alex Roder adventure ; #1)
Par Anthony Horowitz. 2000
When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, Alex Rider goes from schoolboy to superspy within days as his world is…
turned upside down. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission. Followed by "Point blank". For Junior high readers. 2000. (Alex Rider adventure ; 1)The Ipcress file (Harry Palmer thrillers. #1)
Par Len Deighton. 1962
Deighton’s first novel, whose protagonist is a nameless spy, later christened Harry Palmer. For the working class narrator, an apparently…
straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy. Followed by “Horse under water”. 1962.Knights of the cross
Par Piers Paul Read. 1997
Michael Latham, once a leading expert on Soviet affairs, now has a tedious job. His wife has left him and…
he despises his mistress. Sourly, he contemplates the success of two friends from his Cambridge days: Gordon Taylor and George Harding. Then Harding's body is found in the river Saar - marks on the corpse suggest sadomasochism. Latham is persuaded to infiltrate a freemasonry of aristocratic Catholics - the Knights of the Cross.The Matarese countdown
Par Robert Ludlum. 1997
A pattern of worldwide killings and business takeovers suggests a conspiracy of the highest order. Retired CIA agent Brandon Scofield…
is recalled to duty, bringing to bear his unique knowledge against an insidious international cartel. Strong language and violence. Sequel to "The Matarese circle."The arpino assignment
Par Geoffrey Trease. 1998
One minute young private, Rick Weston, is peeling spuds, and the next he's parachuting into Italy on a vital and…
dangerous assignment, organised by the top secret Special Operations Executive. His mission? to find and assist the Resistance in their fight against the Nazis.Rainbow six
Par Tom Clancy. 1998
John Clark (a.k.a Rainbow Six) has left the CIA to create an England-based organization code-named "Rainbow." Its mission: deploy an…
elite squad of American operatives combined with handpicked British, French, and German agents to stop terrorism in its tracks. Rainbow's emergence could not be more timely: in quick succession, the force diffuses three attempted terrorist actions. But Clark becomes suspicious when Russian agents suddenly show interest in Rainbow's work.Moscow USA
Par Gordon Stevens. 1997
Nikolai Sherenko, ex-KGB, and Jack Kincaid, ex-CIA, are working together for one of the world's new-style security companies in Moscow.…
Both are unaware that their covert past connects them to each other - and to a conspiracy that others will do anything to keep secret. When Sherenko meets Anna Buskova, he unwittingly puts into place the final piece of an internal jigsaw. Setting in motion an unstoppable wave of violence and betrayal.Precipice
Par Colin Forbes. 1996
Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman are locked in battle with their most formidable and intriguing enemy yet - Leopold…
Brazil, has a secret plan "to change the whole balance of world power". Involving Philip Cardon and his new, unpredictable friend Eve Warner, the conflict begins with four murders in Dorset and the discovery of a deadly new assassin, The Motorman. The terrifying action then switches to Geneva.Constant Nobody
Par Michelle Butler Hallett. 2021
For fans of Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light comes an historical espionage novel with a contemporary edge from…
Michelle Butler Hallett. The time is 1937. The place: the Basque Country, embroiled in the Spanish Civil War. Polyglot and British intelligence agent Temerity West encounters Kostya Nikto, a Soviet secret police agent. Kostya has been dispatched to assassinate a doctor as part of the suppression of a rogue communist faction. When Kostya finds his victim in the company of Temerity, she expects Kostya to execute her -- instead, he spares her. Several weeks later, Temerity is reassigned to Moscow. When she is arrested by the secret police, she once again encounters Kostya. His judgement impaired by pain, morphine, and alcohol, he extricates her from a dangerous situation and takes her to his flat. In the morning, they both awaken to the realities of what Kostya has done. Although Kostya wants to keep Temerity safe, the cost will be high. And Temerity must decide where her loyalties lie. Writing about violence with an unusual grace, Michelle Butler Hallett tells a story of complicity, love, tyranny, and identity. Constant Nobody is a thrilling novel that asks how far an individual will go to protect another — whether out of love or fear.Charity
Par Len Deighton. 1996
British agent Bernard Samson inquires into the mysterious death of his sister-in-law, which occurred at the time his spy-wife was…
brought back from East Germany. Samson overcomes official resistance to his inquiry and uncovers a plot that causes him to doubt the system he serves. Sequel to "Hope". 1996.The Bourne ultimatum (Bourne Ser. #Bk. 3)
Par Robert Ludlum. 1980
When Carlos unravels an old covert operation and discovers the true identity of Jason Bourne, he tracks him down. To…
protect his wife and children, David Webb, at age 50, must transform himself into the killer he once was. Sequel to "Bourne supremacy". Strong language, descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. 1980.The Matarese circle
Par Robert Ludlum. 1979
The world's two best spies, a Russian and an American, forget their personal enmity to track down the leader of…
an international organization which is financing terrorist groups. Strong language, violence and descriptions of sex. 1979.