The Sixth Directorate (1975) was the second of Joseph Hone’s quartet of ‘Peter Marlow’ spy novels, all now reissued as Faber Finds.
In prison his name had been Marlow. When British Intelligence released him to impersonate a dangerous KGB...
With The Private Sector (1971) Joseph Hone introduced readers to British intelligence officer Peter Marlow, who would be the protagonist of three further novels — all now reissued in Faber Finds.
Cairo, May 1967: Marlow is sent from London to...
The Flowers of the Forest (1980) was the second of Joseph Hone’s quartet of ‘Peter Marlow’ spy novels, all now reissued as Faber Finds.
It is an idyllic setting: the sunlit forest sweeping down to the valley, the heather loud with bees....
A very ordinary boy. Nobody noticed him, he was just like everyone else.
But Fred knew he was different.
He just didn’t know quite how different.
And when he did…
Well, what...
Robert Lopez has collected 29 short stories running from the very short on up to efforts that might be considered standard story length, plus a novella in shorts to close out the book. Like his previous works, Asunder is a study in the usage of...
A fractured community. Bodies full of shattered glass. A broken mage, stripped of his power.
While Alexi Sokolsky is hiding on the streets from the Russian Mafia, twenty supernaturally-gifted children are kidnapped from a foster home. Their...
The world is out to kill Mitchell Roberts. The helpless girl who needs help changing her tire. His petty ex-girlfriend and her new mate. An entire mall full of unassuming shoppers. They all want to murder Mitch in a blind rage when he's in their...
For astronaut David Dixon, sneaking aboard a Russian space station and stealing a nuclear bomb was the easy part — now he has to survive re-entry on an untested inflatable heat shield and then deal with the aftermath of being the most wanted man...
In the high-flying, heady world of 1920s aviation,
brash pilot Robert “Hitch” Hitchcock’s life does a barrel roll when a
young woman in an old-fashioned ball gown falls from the clouds smack in
front of his biplane. As fearless as she is...
Like his legendary Hogg, The Mad Man, and the million-seller Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany’s major new novel Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders — explicit, poetic, philosophical, and, yes, shocking — propels readers into a gay sexual...