A pulse-pounding thriller of espionage, spy games, and treachery by the New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite Series.
Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters.
Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees to the mission and heads to the Russian capital. But when he finds the mastermind agent behind the assassinations—the so-called eighth sister—she is not who or what he was led to believe. Then again, neither is anyone else in this deadly game of cat and mouse.
Pursued by a dogged Russian intelligence officer, Jenkins executes a daring escape across the Black Sea, only to find himself abandoned by the agency he serves. With his family and freedom at risk, Jenkins is in the fight of his life—against his own country.
John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of international espionage with unsurpassed skill and knowledge, earning him and his hero, British Secret Service agent George Smiley, worldwide acclaim. In Smiley's People, master storyteller le Carré perfects his art.
In London, at the dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus (aka the British Secret Service), is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. Lured back to active service, Smiley skillfully maneuvers his people—the no-men of no-man's land—into crisscrossing Paris, London, Germany, and Switzerland.
As he prepares for his own final, inevitable duel on the Berlin border with his Soviet counterpart and archenemy, Karla, Smiley's journey is one of unrelenting suspense and unmatched intrigue.
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring.
The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espionage, and terrorism. It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability. Conrad’s gloomy portrait of London depicted in the novel was influenced by Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began.
In 1941, after training as a German spy in occupied France, Chapman was parachuted into Britain with a revolver, a wireless, and a cyanide pill, with orders from the Abwehr to blow up an airplane factory. Instead, he contacted MI5, the British Secret Service. For the next four years, Chapman worked as a double agent, a lone British spy at the heart of the German Secret Service who at one time volunteered to assassinate Hitler for his countrymen.
Crisscrossing Europe under different names, all the while weaving plans, spreading disinformation, and, miraculously, keeping his stories straight under intense interrogation, he even managed to gain some profit and seduce beautiful women along the way.
The Nazis feted Chapman as a hero and awarded him the Iron Cross. In Britain, he was pardoned for his crimes, becoming the only wartime agent to be thus rewarded. Both countries provided for the mother of his child and his mistress.
A gripping story of loyalty, love, and treachery, Agent Zigzag offers a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.
Consent to Kill is a blistering thriller by New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn. The story follows CIA operative Mitch Rapp, who has spent over a decade on the front lines of the war on terror. His bold actions have saved countless lives, but now, he finds himself the target of a bloodthirsty vendetta.
An influential father of a slain terrorist demands retribution for his son's death at Rapp's hands. In the tangled, duplicitous world of espionage, there are those, even among America's allies, who feel Rapp has become too effective. They have been waiting for an excuse to eliminate America's number one counterterrorism operative, and now, they have it.
Rapp must rely on his razor-sharp instincts for survival as he unleashes his fury on those who have betrayed him. It's a race against time to save one more life—his own—in this fast, fun read.
Chris and Saul were orphans, raised in a Philadelphia school for boys. Their bond of friendship was strong, and they were devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them, brought them candy, and treated them like sons. But there was more—he trained them to be assassins.
Now, Eliot is trying desperately to have them killed. This classic espionage thriller spans the globe and decades of CIA history. It's a tale of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders coolly executed, and revenge bitterly, urgently desired.
From the master of high action, David Morrell, comes a story that changed the way spy novels were written, combining the British tradition of authentic espionage tradecraft with the American tradition of non-stop action.
In the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington, an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. Jonathan Pine is ready to stand up and be counted in the fight against this ultimate heart of darkness.
His mission takes him from the cliffs of west Cornwall, via northern Quebec and the Caribbean, to the jungles of post-Noriega Panama. His quarry is the worst man in the world.
Welcome to a new era of espionage, where the habits and rules forged in the darkest days of the Cold War are applied to an even more harrowing end. This is Roper's world—a world of illegal arms dealers and drug smugglers, men whose ruthlessness is matched only by their hunger for unlimited wealth.
Enter Leonard Burr, former British intelligence officer turned international policeman. Burr recruits Pine to his cause, launching him on an undercover odyssey that takes him from Zurich to the desolate coast of Cornwall, and eventually to a village in Quebec where he obtains the identity that will be his ticket of entry to Roper's island hideaway in the Bahamas.
In what is perhaps John le Carré's greatest work to date, The Night Manager brings to life a whole new era of intrigue, brilliantly conceived by the undisputed master of the genre.
Graham Greene's classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction. First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates to this day.
Conceived as one of Graham Greene's 'entertainments,' it tells of MI6's man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs.
Then his stories start coming disturbingly true...