DescriptionLondon, 1952. At first it seems the Great Fog has claimed another victim: a drunk, perhaps, stumbling into the water. But Max Stensness was sober when he died, and in the hours before his death, the young biochemist had claimed to be in possession of a secret that could change the world. Having traded MI5 for New Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Herbert Smith thinks he's left the murky world of espionage behind him, until he begins retracing the final footsteps of Max Stensness. The CIA, KGB, and MI5 are all vying to get their hands on the dead man's secret, and as the body count rises, it's clear that some will stop at nothing to claim it.
DescriptionWhen the "Sex-for-Secrets Marine Spy Scandal" broke in 1989, the media focused on the sex-for-secrets angle and the military looked for someone to blame. After the investigation was completed, many marines had been implicated and careers were ruined, but only one man went to trial - Sgt. Clayton Lonetree. How could a Marine stationed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow be seduced by a beautiful Russian woman and recruited by the KGB as a Soviet spy? Author Rodney Barker uses information obtained from the KGB itself as well as U.S. intelligence sources to raise questions about whether justice was served in Lonetree's trial following "the espionage case of the century."…
DescriptionAmerican literary giant Ben Bolt dies penniless in a Parisian garret. Socialite Renata Hunter Carr washes up dead on a California beach. Two lovers, their deaths separated by 30 years and 10, 000 miles. Inextricably linked by a secret someone will kill…
DescriptionBest-selling Christy Award winner Dee Henderson's novel portrays the selfless heroism of CIA agent Darcy St. James and Navy SEAL Sam Houston. When an old KGB friend suddenly stabs her, Darcy falls into the water. After coming to her rescue, Sam soon sees Darcy as the answer to his prayers, and Darcy thanks the Lord for tough-yet-tender Sam. But when the 9/11 attacks drive Darcy from retirement and her intelligence keeps Sam's SEAL team busy, they must put their future in God's hands.
DescriptionIt is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackford Oakes has come to investigate. Brilliant, charismatic, and with a tragic past, Henri Tod is head of Bruderschaft, the underground anti-Communist organization. Oakes will need his help in cracking the dark plots the Eastern bloc powers are hatching. And the KGB have found the one chink in Tod's armor.
DescriptionIn 1992 Vasili Mitrokhin defected to England and brought along an extensive archive of military intelligence from the Soviet Union. A career KGB officer who served as chief archivist for its foreign operations, Vasili Mitrokhin became disillusioned with t…
DescriptionWestern Intelligence is Now Causing More Harm than Good Tom Bower, a distinguished investigative historian, and an award-winning television producer and journalist; Andrew Gilligan, a journalist known for his report on the British Government's d…
DescriptionIn what Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called "the plot of plots, " Robert Littell has created the CIA "legends" Francis and Carroll, dubbed "The Sisters Death and Night" by their cohorts. But few know what these enigmatic and extremely dangerous operatives do. They plot - and they're plotting the perfect crime. They've located the perfect pawn, the Potter, the exiled ex-head of the KGB sleeper school - and, with artful deception, the Sisters coerce him into betraying his last and best sleeper, the man he considers his son. Once awakened, this sleeper, an assassin living secretly in the U.S., will launch a mission of death - unless the Potter, in a desperate race against time, can stop his protegé from committing the Sisters' perfect and world-shattering crime.
