Espionage / English literature

Dead Lions

Slough House #2

by Mick Herron

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated...

Pirate Alley

Tommy Carmellini #5

by Stephen Coonts

Grafton and Carmellini are back and joined by the Navy SEALs to battle terrorists on the high seas in this action-packed tale by New York Times bestseller Stephen Coonts

A luxurious vacation cruise to the...

A Delicate Truth: A Novel

by John le Carre

A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar.  Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms buyer. Its authors: an ambitious...

Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Utopia Experiment

Covert-One #10

by Kyle Mills

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine group--Covert-One. It's activated only as a last...

Dirty Little Secret

Legoland Trilogy #3

by Jon Stock

The final book in an espionage trilogy that has been called "as elegant as le Carré and as cynical as the twenty-first century" (Lee Child)

The “special relationship” between London and Washington is in...

A Small Town in Germany: A Novel

by John le Carre

"Haven't you realized that only appearances matter?"

The British Embassy in Bonn is up in arms. Her Majesty's financially troubled government is seeking admission to Europe's Common Market just as anti-British...

The Looking Glass War

George Smiley #4

by John le Carre

"You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous."

It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while...

The Best Laid Plans with Bonus Material

by Sidney Sheldon

For a limited time, and at a special price, discover Sidney Sheldon's The Best Laid Plans with Bonus Material. Plus, receive an excerpt from Sheldon's new book Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory, available...

Decision at Delphi

by Helen Macinnes

Just another routine overseas assignment. That's what successful young New York architect Ken Strang thought when a national travel magazine sent him to Europe to sketch Greek ruins.

What he did not know, until...

The Salzburg Connection

by Helen Macinnes

He demanded the immediate dispatch of two suitably trained operatives to Salzburg. Extreme measures might be necessary.

In 1945, with their thousand-year empire falling around them and the Allies on their heels,...

Pray for a Brave Heart

by Helen Macinnes

It was 1953, and nothing could shake William Denning's resolve to leave the army and return to the States. Nothing, except one of the largest diamond hauls ever - which, in the wrong hands, on the wrong side...

Above Suspicion

by Helen Macinnes

Richard and Frances Myles are preparing for their annual European summer vacation in 1939 when they are visited at their Oxford college by old friend Peter Galt, who has a seemingly simple job for them.  But...

Assignment in Brittany

by Helen Macinnes

He stared at the unfamiliar watch on his wrist. Three hours ago he had stood on English soil. Three hours ago he had been Martin Hearne, British Intelligence agent. Now he was in Nazi-occupied Brittany, posing...

Doomsday Conspiracy with Bonus Material: The New Novel

by Sidney Sheldon

Handpicked by the NSA to track down and identify the ten known witnesses to the recent crash of a weather balloon, Robert Bellamy searches for clues in Rome, Budapest, and Texas.

The Intercom Conspiracy

by Eric Ambler

Thirty years after Eric Ambler introduced the world to his unlikely hero, the academic and novelist Charles Latimer, in A Coffin for Dimitrios, Latimer returns in The Intercom Conspiracy.

Now a successful, bestselling...

The Ability to Kill

by Eric Ambler

With The Ability to Kill, first published in 1963, renowned thriller writer Eric Ambler turns his attention to true crime—with an emphasis on murder. In five essays, he presents a sampling of famously intriguing...

The Care of Time

by Eric Ambler

One Monday, Robert Halliday receives a bomb threat in the mail. Two days later, the bomb arrives—accompanied by an offer of employment from one Karliss Zander, an international fixer. Unless Halliday agrees...

Doctor Frigo

by Eric Ambler

Dr. Frigo is a change of scene for acclaimed spy thriller writer Eric Ambler, moving from the European theater to an equally intriguing Caribbean political stage.

Dr. Ernesto Castillo has shunned politics and...

This Gun for Hire

by Eric Ambler

First published five years after he introduced Arthur Abdel Simpson in the comic thriller The Light of Day, Eric Ambler turns the spotlight back to his compelling antihero—a man you can’t help but root for....

The Siege of Villa Lipp

by Eric Ambler

The “Able Criminal”, as defined by noted criminologist Frits Krom, strikes with no discernible pattern or method, and flies below the radar of crime syndicates and law enforcement agencies alike. He is virtually...