Since being forced into retirement by the CIA, Miles Kendig had tried everything in an effort to satisfy his hunger for excitement. But he could not recreate the ultimate conflict of life or death with no rules, the experience of pitting himself...
A dozen stories tracking the CIA’s most adept—and unusual—spy.There are no more spies like Charlie Dark. An old-timer whose experience stretches back to the Second World War, his main distinction is that after decades playing the game he is...
A Soviet spymaster launches an audacious plan against the American military.The KGB calls it Amergrad. Buried deep in Siberia, just a few hundred miles from the Chinese border, it’s the most tightly guarded secret in the Soviet Union. Away from...
Frank Pastor, the biggest man in The Organisation, went behind bars for eight years - convicted of briberty and corruption on eye witness evidence.The testimony came from a man called Merle - and The Organisation want him punished.With a different...
A taut collection of razor-sharp stories of men at society’s edge.Although best known as an author of westerns and espionage fiction, Brian Garfield is at heart an observer of human behavior. While traveling, he sometimes writes short fiction,...
When her son is kidnapped in Mexico, a mother seeks vengeance.
Film director Carole Marchand’s son has just been kidnapped for the third time. The first two times weren’t as troubling, since Carole had abducted Robert herself—incidents in her...
He is a broken man. A man on the edge... An ex-New York cop, now working as a freelance investigator in London; Thomas Blume searches for the killers that tore his family apart. "For justice, for closure, for revenge."But when Blume stumbles across...
You’re an ordinary man living an ordinary life until your wife and young family are killed.The police believe it to be a tragic accident – an unsolved hit and run, but you discover that this is far from the truth. You instigate a meticulous...
Eleventh-century Japan: After a difficult but successful assignment as provisional governor of Eichigo, Akitada Sugawara is finally allowed to return to Heian Kyo. But instead of a triumphant homecoming accompanied by his beautiful wife and young...
After the loss of his wife and newborn son, Akitada returns home, ostensibly to care for his motherless children, but really to withdraw from the world into his grief. When his friends and family join in an effort to draw him out of his seclusion by...