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...
Abner Procane is the greatest thief in the world. And he’s in trouble. Philip St. Ives, certainly the greatest professional go-between in the world, is hired to help Procane. And go-betweening being what it is for St. Ives, he is soon involved in...
A knock on Spenser's office door can only mean one thing: a new case. This time the visitor is a local lawyer with an interesting story. Elizabeth Shaw specializes in wills and trusts at the Boston law firm of Shaw Cartwright, and over the years...
1st May 1926 – Dear Alec, Just when those who should be working are all downing tools for this wretched strike (and I still can't believe it – I mean to say: riots, Alec – in Edinburgh of all places) guess who is setting her virgin shoulder to...
Following his “resurrection walk” and quest for a new direction, Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against Tidalwaiv, an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a sixteen-year-old boy that it...