Espionage

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***The explosive new thriller featuring MI6 operative Luke Carlton on his most terrifying mission yet. Deep within the Arctic Circle, three scientists from the UK's Arctic Research Station trudge through a blizzard...

'Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvellously extended set-piece' Kirkus ReviewsZoe Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the...

'Fast, taut, tense, accurate. A terrific read' FREDERICK FORSYTH 'Authenticity seeps from every page . . . this is a promising start' DAILY MAIL Introducing Luke Carlton - ex-Special Boat Service commando, and now under contract to MI6 for some of its...

'Fast, taut, tense, accurate. A terrific read' FREDERICK FORSYTH 'Authenticity seeps from every page . . . this is a promising start' DAILY MAIL Introducing Luke Carlton - ex-Special Boat Service commando, and now under contract to MI6 for some of its...

THE LATEST ALL-ACTION THRILLER IN THE GRAY MAN SERIES - NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM.Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of a CIA action team.In their first mission they took out a terrorist leader, but at a terrible...

THE LATEST ALL-ACTION THRILLER IN THE GRAY MAN SERIES - NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM.Before he was the Gray Man, Court Gentry was Sierra Six, the junior member of a CIA action team.In their first mission they took out a terrorist leader, but at a terrible...

'I wanted more' DAVID GILMAN One lie put the nation at risk. Another might save it. Harry Bristow: policeman, father, chauffeur, fraud. In 1988 Harry made one mistake: he took a bribe, letting a man he knew as Igor into Britain - and he's...

THE HUNT FOR A KILLER LEADS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP...'Brilliant' - THE TIMES'Cracking' - DAILY MAIL 'Winning' - SUNDAY TIMES'A hell of a read' - OBSERVER'Enthralling' - FINANCIAL TIMES 'Enjoyable, intelligent' - GUARDIAN'A romping thriller' -...

PRE-ORDER PRECIPICE, THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM ROBERT HARRIS, NOW - PUBLISHING AUGUST 2024Now a major Netflix film starring Jeremy Irons_________________________MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to...

'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the King...

From the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author comes a World War Two tale of one boy's fight for survival in Nazi Europe A secret mission...1939. As Europe teeters on the brink of war, Alfred Kendall is tasked with carrying out a minor mission...

'The best English novel since the war' Philip RothMagnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed:...

'Oliver Harris is an outstanding writer... he combines violence and romance, a sense of place and humour, in the same exciting way as, for example, Michael Connelly' The Times 'An intelligent, brilliantly plotted and paced thriller...If you need to...

**NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** 'Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. Get ready!' CHRIS PRATT JAMES REECE IS BACK 1978, Rhode Island: A freshman senator is gunned down, sending shockwaves through Washington...

Even is a pulse-racing spy thriller by Andrew Grant, now the co-author of the Jack Reacher novels as Andrew Child.He's walked the wire many times before. His motivation is survival. And his lifelong belief is justice.David Trevellyan is a survivor from...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER PICKS'Le Carre at his finest' Mick Herron, GuardianJulian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER PICKS'Le Carre at his finest' Mick Herron, GuardianJulian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months...

The second book in Charles Cumming's gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 - a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on Earth... 1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to...

The second book in Charles Cumming's gripping new thriller series surrounding BOX 88 - a covert intelligence organization that operates below the radar. A spy in one of the most dangerous places on Earth...1993: Student Lachlan Kite is sent to...

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield.In Bath a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of...

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Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS assault team rescue the hostages from the terrorist-held Iranian embassy? 30 April 1980: six well-armed terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. Nineteen Iranian nationals and four British...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue. On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society's annual black-tie gala, art restorer...

'A cracking crime thriller' The SunTHERE'S BLOOD ON THE WATER. NO ONE IS SAFE...1999. A young Detective Constable Louise Mangan crosses the Thames one misty morning in pursuit of a killer. She finds a tranquil community on a leafy island close to Hampton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449225158Author Ken FollettFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

'This tightly plotted tragicomedy will provide a welcome fix for addicts awaiting Herron's seventh Jackson Lamb novel' The Times'Packed with Herron's trademark witty one-liners and sardonic humour . . . it's clear why Herron is a force to be reckoned...

It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her lover Robert is suspected of selling information to the enemy. Harrison, the British intelligence agent on his trail, wants to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083113Author David DowningFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 21mm

'Is this his best yet?...Full of sinister menace and propulsive pace with twisty plotting' Lee ChildWHAT REALLY LIES WITHIN?High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of mysterious background,...

From the former head of MI5 and bestselling author Stella Rimington comes the heart-stopping second novel featuring MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle.When Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings are...

Jackdaws by Ken Follett is an irresistible novel of the French Resistance, love, courage and revenge set in the Second War War.A Failed MissionTwo weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance try to destroy a telephone exchange vital to Nazi communications...

The Hit is David Baldacci's blockbuster follow up to The Innocent, the smash-hit bestseller featuring U.S. government assassin, Will Robie.YOU SEND A KILLER TO CATCH A KILLER.Government hitman Will Robie is an elite killer. Called on by the US...

'Thrilling WWII set thriller that has heart-pounding action, but more importantly, a lot of heart... Completely gripping... A narrative that is as taut as piano wire! ...Not to be missed if you enjoy action-packed historical thrillers' Reader review ...

*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow...

The higher one climbs, the further there is to fall. As war with Napoleon seemingly draws to a close, opportunities for advancement are limited and Jack Aubrey faces the ultimate indignity - the possibility of being 'yellowed', or retired, and...

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD'Psychologically acute. Terrific.' Daily Mail'A page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime!' VAL McDERMID 'Pacey and propulsive.' Guardian'A rare combination of elegance and unbelievable...

At once a vivid, haunting reimagining of 1950s Britain, a gripping, humane spy thriller and a poignant love story, with Dominion C. J. Sansom once again asserts himself as the master of the historical novel.1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill...

Someone is always watching... Derek Flint is a loner. He lives with his mother and spends hisevenings watching his clients on the CCTV cameras he has installed inside their homes. He likes their companionship - even...

Literary legend James Bond returns to his 1950s heyday in this exhilarating thriller by Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. It's 1957 and James Bond (agent 007) has only just survived his showdown with Auric Goldfinger at Fort Knox. By his...