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....
Geneva, 2012. When a Russian intelligence officer approaches MI5 with vital information about the imminent cyber-sabotage of an Anglo-American Defence programme, he refuses to talk to anyone but Liz Carlyle. But who is he, and what is his connection...
Malaysian Flight 666 has vanished without a trace!
The President is too busy with the Iranians, who are suddenly, inexplicably willing to curtail their nuclear program. He doesn't have time for air disasters.
Enter Jeremiah...
The CIA knows the best way to insure that North Korea's nuclear weapons aspirations is slowed down considerably is to abduct leading scientist Dr. Sung Kwan from the rogue state. The snatch plan is perfect and the team succeeds in a grabbing...
A sensitive political deal codenamed Gilgamesh, goes wrong at the beginning of the Iraq war.
One by one the people who know about it are eliminated, except for two: Ali Hamsin, an Iraqi government translator who is kept hidden in Guantanamo Bay...
Ruth was sitting rigidly, white-faced; Gregor tried the door handles; the doors were locked! Ahead, the edge of the cliff was coming closer and closer as the heavy car picked up momentum, the deep ruts of the worn dirt road keeping the wheels locked...
Take a Mexican political party that demands the territorial return of Texas... and New Mexico... and Arizona... and California.
Add a Chinese paper exporting operation that exports a fine engraver’s surface for the familiar five-dollar...