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The Evening of the Good Samaritan
Par Dorothy Salisbury Davis. 1961
Before, during, and after World War II, three generations of men make their mark on the world in acclaimed author…
Dorothy Salisbury Davis&’s vibrant, thought-provoking novel that scrutinizes the conscience of men in a time of crisisAs Europe slides toward war, the faculty of a midwestern university fight a crusade of their own—the campaign against Communism. The local publishing magnate has accused economics professor Jonathan Hogan of being a Red, and the scholar is forced to defend himself in front of the university&’s elders. They spare him, for Hogan is no Communist—merely a free thinker, open and honest in an age when conformity is the norm. When war threatens the United States, he is one of those whom his country will need most.Jonathan goes into civil service during the war, advising the government on the economic impacts of the conflict. His son Marcus takes a different route, studying surgery in an attempt to heal those whom the savagery of war has maimed. And, years later, Jonathan&’s grandson Tad will follow his own conscience, too, when he comes violently of age. But what are the consequences of standing by one&’s principles in an era when darkness threatens to overwhelm civilization?Ridley Pearson Suspense Novels: Probable Cause, Blood of the Albatross, Never Look Back
Par Ridley Pearson. 2014
Three heart-pounding novels by the New York Times–bestselling author: &“The best thriller writer on the planet&” (Booklist). This volume include…
three novels filled with twists and turns from the author of such acclaimed suspense novels as White Bone and The Red Room:Probable Cause: Carmel, California is a peaceful tourist haven where James Dewitt is the police force&’s only detective. His usual caseload is stolen bicycles and the occasional burglary—but things are about to change with frightening speed. &“A natural storyteller . . .He keeps the thread going, twisting the details . . .dancing the forensic shuffle without missing a step.&” —Richmond Times-DispatchBlood of the Albatross: An innocent Seattle sailor is pulled into a dangerous web of espionage in this &“enthralling&” novel (The San Diego Union-Tribune). &“Pearson skillfully spins this thriller with sense-of-place, breakneck pace, and economically drawn, believable characters.&” —Library JournalNever Look Back: A Soviet agent has entered the United States—carrying a terrifying weapon—in this &“breakneck-action&” Cold War adventure (Kirkus Reviews).The Haigerloch Project
Par Ib Melchior. 1977
It was World War II's master weapon, and Hitler had it first. As Germany crumbled, Hitler feverishly raged against final…
defeat. Every qualified citizen in the Reich was committed to developing an atomic bomb. In 1945, they almost succeeded. The code name was the Haigerloch Project. The shock-a-second thriller of a brilliant scientist and a deadly spy threat to the most crucial Allied mission of the war, The Haigerloch Project is a heart-pounding race against time that explodes with more page-searing excitement than The Eagle Has Landed.A British thriller featuring &“the most interesting character to hit novels of international intrigue since the spy came in from…
the cold&” (Newsday). It could be the most sensational defection of all time. The head of the Russian KGB&’s cipher section comes with every code, every plot, every secret. But his most startling disclosure of all is that the Russians are planning a shocking assassination. But the defector doesn&’t know who. Or where. Or how. Or when. All Charlie knows is that he must stop the murder from happening—without being marked for death himself. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.The Minotaur (Jake Grafton #2)
Par Stephen Coonts. 1989
From a New York Times–bestselling author: A military pilot is entangled in the hunt for a Cold War spy selling…
high-tech secrets to the USSR. Navy pilot Jake Grafton flies fighter jets with ice water in his veins. But when he&’s assigned a desk job in the Pentagon as the head of a top-secret stealth bomber program, his nerve is tested as never before. Colleagues start dying mysteriously, test flights are sabotaged, and the program is threatened at every level. If Grafton can&’t infiltrate a web of espionage and counterespionage centered on the deadly traitor code-named the Minotaur, he stands to lose much more than just his career. The Minotaur is an exhilarating thriller revealing the complexities of military technology R&D by the acclaimed author of Flight of the Intruder, The Red Horseman, and other novels. In the words of Tom Clancy, &“Stephen Coonts, like Jake Grafton, just keeps getting better.&” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Stephen Coonts, including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.The Traitor
Par Dan Sherman. 1987
One of Washington&’s spies hunts a murderous turncoat in this &“fascinating [and] most satisfying&” novel of the American Revolution (Publishers…
Weekly). In a quiet room in the White Swan Inn, sunlight slowly breaks through the curtains revealing two young lovers—an American seamstress and an English officer. They have been brutally, ritualistically murdered in their sleep. It is a grisly scene that can only mean one thing: There is a traitor within the American Revolution. The year is 1779. General Washington, struggling to keep his army together, sends his best spymaster, Matty Grove, to investigate the killings. As Matty follows the trail of clues, he comes up against more questions. Who gave the killer his orders? How much does the mole know of the Revolution&’s plans? Is this treason a matter of principle or simply profit? With The Traitor, author Dan Sherman brings the political and economic maneuverings of the Revolution into vivid detail. The rising pace and complex characters in this stunning work of historical fiction will have history buffs and fans of modern espionage alike clamoring for more.The Run Around (The Charlie Muffin Thrillers #8)
Par Brian Freemantle. 1988
A British thriller featuring &“the most interesting character to hit novels of international intrigue since the spy came in from…
the cold&” (Newsday). It could be the most sensational defection of all time. The head of the Russian KGB&’s cipher section comes with every code, every plot, every secret. But his most startling disclosure of all is that the Russians are planning a shocking assassination. But the defector doesn&’t know who. Or where. Or how. Or when. All Charlie knows is that he must stop the murder from happening—without being marked for death himself. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.Here Comes Charlie M (The Charlie Muffin Thrillers #2)
Par Brian Freemantle. 1978
Home is where the heat is for disgraced British spy Charlie Muffin, &“a marvelous creation&” from the multimillion-selling author (The…
Daily Mail). Charlie Muffin has come back to England. The ex-spy, a veteran of twenty-five years&’ service to the Crown, was last seen in Berlin, where an attempt on his life by his own organization led to international embarrassment. They had expected Charlie—a disheveled, middle-aged survivor of every double cross in the book—to die easily. Instead, he disappeared. But after months on the run, dulling his instincts with alcohol and laziness, the strain of life in the shadows finally gets to Charlie. By now the heat back home must have died down, and he shouldn&’t have any trouble sneaking across the Channel. Now, he expects, he can finally be safe in England. Charlie Muffin is dead wrong. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.Black Widow
Par Cliff Ryder. 2009
Espionage takes to the twenty-first-century playing fields, where rules are broken--and remade--outside the reach of governments and the law. Agents…
recruited for the clandestine organization known as Room 59 play hard, play for keeps. . . or die trying. But now new Room 59 agent Ajza Manaev, a top MI-6 operative, discovers just how high the stakes really are when she goes undercover inside Chechnya's terrorist training camps, where bitter young widows harness their hate as suicide bombers. Ajza doesn't know she's being manipulated by many sides of a deadly game. Her mysterious Room 59 handler has his own agenda, while the secret, silent mastermind behind a global destabilization plot hopes to push Ajza's loyalties to the breaking point. And in a game where the ground is always shifting, Ajza is inducted by hellfire into Room 59's harsh reality: she's on her own.The White Mandarin
Par Dan Sherman. 1982
A CIA double agent holds the fate of China—and the world—in his hands in this gripping spy thriller from the…
author of The Man Who Loved Mata Hari. John Polly enters Shanghai in 1948 on a muggy, velvet evening, just in time for the Communist takeover of China. It marks only his fourth month in America&’s newly formed Central Intelligence Agency. Over the next two decades, Polly will become The White Mandarin, a double agent buried so deep within the inner circle of the People&’s Republic as to shape the futures of both that nation and his own. Dan Sherman&’s intricate, superbly crafted spy thriller follows Polly as he walks a dangerous tightrope of intrigue and suspense. As China rebuilds itself, Polly attempts to start a family in the intersection between the American intelligence system and the Asian drug trade. Can Polly keep his wife and daughter safe? Can he keep track of the shifting stories and changing allegiances in the CIA? Will his emotion get in the way of his mission? Only pages into this stunning novel, readers will easily understand why Sherman has earned comparison to the great John le Carré and Graham Greene. It is both a story of very personal love and loss, and an insightful history of China between the rise of Chairman Mao and the 1972 visit by President Nixon. Anyone looking to understand the China of yesterday and today—its power, its flaws, its beauty—need look no further than The White Mandarin.Eva
Par Ib Melchior. 1984
Hitler&’s desperate plot to save his longtime mistress . . . Counter Intelligence Corp agent Woody Ward uncovers evidence that it…
might not have been Eva Braun on Hitler&’s funeral pyre. Indeed, at that very moment, Eva is being escorted along the top-secret route mapped for the escape of the Nazi elite. It is a tortuous path where disaster appears at every turn to thwart their arrival at the Italian port of Bari. Ward persuades his superiors to let him go underground and pursue Eva in an attempt to prevent her escape. The chase that ensues holds constant deadly dangers for both fugitives and pursuer, as they make their way from the eerie caves of the Harz Mountains in Germany to a startling and spectacular climax in Bari. There, a ship is waiting to carry Eva to Argentina, where she will nurture the seed of the Fourth Reich. Only CIC Agent Ward has any chance of stopping the second coming of Hitler&’s Third Reich!The Prince of Berlin
Par Dan Sherman. 1983
The author of The Man Who Loved Mata Hari delivers a pulse-pounding thriller of a third world war—and the one…
man who can stop it. Harry Rose, last of the great American spymasters, has stepped to the helm of the Berlin station in the wake of the Second World War. From deep within a pulverized Germany, he launches his own renegade operation to avert World War III. But there are some within his camp who claim that Harry has finally gone too far, playing the game of nations from the bottom of the deck. Here is an inside story of the nuclear arms race—the politics, the passion and the sheer lust for power. In short, here is a tale of elite Cold Warriors who lived and died by a dictum that reads: He who deploys a thermonuclear weapon is tantamount to God. This is the novel that elevated Dan Sherman to that &“exalted plateau occupied by John LeCarré and Graham Greene.&” This is also the novel that inspired a whole new wave of espionage thrillers that will live in spy fiction forever. "The best spy novel Dan Sherman has ever written." —New York Daily NewsMother Daughter Traitor Spy: A Novel
Par Susan Elia MacNeal. 2022
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope series comes a tantalizing standalone novel inspired by a…
real-life mother-daughter duo who stumble upon an underground Nazi cell in Los Angeles during the early days of World War II—and find the courage to go undercover.&“Stirring . . . Susan Elia MacNeal&’s page-turning prose is as entertaining as ever—I was riveted from beginning to end.&”—Kate Quinn, author of The Alice NetworkJune 1940. France has fallen to the Nazis, and Britain may be next—but to many Americans, the war is something happening &“over there.&” Veronica Grace has just graduated from college; she and her mother, Violet, are looking for a fresh start in sunny Los Angeles. After a blunder cost her a prestigious career opportunity in New York, Veronica is relieved to take a typing job in L.A.—only to realize that she&’s working for one of the area&’s most vicious propagandists.Overnight, Veronica is exposed to the dark underbelly of her new home, where German Nazis are recruiting Americans for their devastating campaign. After the FBI dismisses the Graces&’ concerns, Veronica and Violet decide to call on an old friend, who introduces them to L.A.&’s anti-Nazi spymaster.At once, the women go undercover to gather enough information about the California Reich to take to the authorities. But as the news of Pearl Harbor ripples through the United States, and President Roosevelt declares war, the Grace women realize that the plots they&’re investigating are far more sinister than they feared—and even a single misstep could cost them everything.Inspired by the real mother-daughter spy duo who foiled Nazi plots in Los Angeles during WWII, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy is a powerful portrait of family, duty, and deception that raises timeless questions about America—and what it means to have courage in the face of terror.As the dust settles after the demise of the Cold War, Charlie Muffin must thwart a plan that could bring…
the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust It has been more than five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Charlie Muffin, Britain&’s cagiest spy, is beginning to feel obsolete. As the machine of state intelligence is dismantled around him, he expects that he too will soon be on the scrap heap. But Britain needs him in Russia one more time. Since the demise of the Soviet empire, Charlie&’s old stomping grounds have gone to seed. The Communist bureaucracy has degenerated into chaos. Rampant corruption, coupled with easy gangland money, means that disorder reigns. In the anarchy, 250 kilograms of uranium goes missing and Charlie must track it down before it goes to the highest bidder. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&’s personal collection.Code Name: Grand Guignol
Par Ib Melchior. 1987
British Intelligence had learned on the eve of D-Day that the Nazis were racing to complete some sort of secret…
weapon that would threaten the destruction of the whole invasion operation . . .We'll Meet Again (The Daughters of England #19)
Par Philippa Carr. 1993
As WWII rages through Europe, two sisters struggle for happiness and love in this epic from the New York Times–bestselling…
author. The German army is advancing through Europe and the Battle of Britain is grimly underway. With her fiancé, Jowan, missing in action, Violetta Denver despairs of ever seeing him again. While Violetta waits for news, her sister Dorabella finds herself torn between two men: her French ex-lover Jacques and the heroic, mysterious Captain Brent. But James Brent may not be what he seems—and soon both Dorabella and Violetta are caught up in a dangerous game of espionage and treason as they travel to wartime London. With their fates hanging in the balance, the twin sisters are bound by a shocking secret. Dorabella risks her life to follow her heart . . . and Violetta refuses to give up hope that one day she will be reunited with her lost love.The Game of X: A Novel of Upmanship Espionage
Par Robert Sheckley. 1965
All secret agents need to look out for William Nye, now known as Agent X. His recruitment was simple and…
his legend is brilliant but unearned. Somehow, he thinks he&’s the best there is, and we all know how pride goeth before a fall. The master of SF hilarity and biting social satire creates a spy world that has gathered praise from the greats of the genre. From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was &“a precursor to Douglas Adams.&”The Wolf's Hour: Stinger, The Wolf's Hour, And Mine (The Michael Gallatin Thrillers #1)
Par Robert McCammon. 1989
Master spy, Nazi hunter—and werewolf on the prowl—in occupied Paris: A classic of dark fantasy from a Bram Stoker Award—winning…
author. Allied Intelligence has been warned: A Nazi strategy designed to thwart the D-Day invasion is underway. A Russian émigré turned operative for the British Secret Service, Michael Gallatin has been brought out of retirement as a personal courier. His mission: Parachute into Nazi-occupied France, search out the informant under close watch by the Gestapo, and recover the vital information necessary to subvert the mysterious Nazi plan called Iron Fist. Fearlessly devoted to the challenge, Gallatin is the one agent uniquely qualified to meet it—he&’s a werewolf. Now, as shifting as the shadows on the dangerous streets of Paris, a master spy is on the scent of unimaginable evil. But with the Normandy landings only hours away, it&’s going to be a race against time. For Gallatin, caught in the dark heart of the Third Reich&’s twisted death machine, there is only one way to succeed. He must unleash his own internal demons and redefine the meaning of the horror of war. From the award-winning author of Swan Song and Boy&’s Life, this is a &“powerful novel [that] fuses WWII espionage thriller and dark fantasy. Richly detailed, intricately plotted, fast-paced historical suspense is enhanced by McCammon&’s unique take on the werewolf myth&” (Publishers Weekly).A Deceptive Clarity: Book One) (The Chris Norgren Mysteries #1)
Par Aaron Elkins. 1987
An American museum curator in Berlin must find a fake painting—and a real killer—in this mystery from the Edgar Award–winning…
author of Switcheroo. Chris Norgren, museum curator and Renaissance art expert, heads to Berlin to assist in mounting a sensational exhibit: The Plundered Past—twenty priceless Old Masters looted by the Nazis, thought for decades to be lost forever, and only recently rediscovered. But things quickly get out of hand when Chris&’s patrician, fastidious boss, after sensing a forgery in the lot, turns up dead the very next day—on the steps of a dismal Frankfurt brothel, of all places. Now, Chris faces a daunting task: finding a counterfeit artwork among the masterpieces—and an all-too-real killer whose sights are now set on him. A Deceptive Clarity is the first in the Chris Norgren Mysteries by the multiple award–winning creator of the Gideon Oliver &“Skeleton Detective&” novels—a celebrated master who &“thoroughly understands the art of the murder mystery&” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).Storm Crow
Par Jeff Gulvin. 1998
Scotland Yard&’s Jack Swann teams up with FBI Agent Johnny Harrison to battle international terrorists in &“one of the best…
thrillers I&’ve read this year&” (Jack Higgins). Detective Sgt. Jack Swann is the best anti-terrorist agent in Scotland Yard&’s Special Branch. And when a bomb detonates in Northumberland, followed by another not far from London&’s Piccadilly Circus, innocent lives depend on Swann&’s investigative skill. Storm Crow, one of the most feared terrorists in the world, is claiming responsibility. But is Storm Crow a growing subversive cell or one lone mad bomber? All Swann has to go on is the name—and a frightening talent for mayhem. On the other side of the Atlantic, FBI Special Agent Johnny Harrison has his eye on the Salvesen militia compound in Idaho and their leader, a right-wing anarchist nursing an apocalyptic hatred for the United States. His plot against America is only part of a terrifying international puzzle. His ties reach to the mysterious Storm Crow, and both of them want to destroy one man: Harrison&’s old friend, Jack Swann. Now, as two nations are held hostage by unseen enemies, Swann and Harrison must join forces to stop them—before it&’s too late . . . New York Times–bestselling author Jack Higgins calls this first novel in the Harrison & Swann Thriller trilogy of international thrillers &“absolutely marvelous&”.