Oil is a sensitive commodity for Western governments so when problems arise for a rich man who can deliver the oil rights Department K is quick to send in someone they can easily disavow. Craig already knows he can't trust anyone in the...
‘Sixth Column is a must-read’ New Statesman & Society
The Cold War is over.
So who’s watching whom now? At the heart of the British establishment lies a terrifying conspiracy. SIXTH COLUMN. A conspiracy to destroy…
Johnny Kay...
Charlie Muffin, most devious of spies, has lived through the Cold War, outlasted the Soviet Union, circumvented the most lethal schemes of the late KGB, and survived a love affair with former KGB agent Natalia Fedova. Is it time to put him out to...
1935: Cal Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to leave Hamburg, where he has been helping Jews flee the Nazis, he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns to Abyssinia, a country threatened by Italian invasion. But first...
For those who like good, clean spy-type fun, this is a SUPERLATIVE work. Part three in the adventures of Richard Hannay (which started with Buchan's well-known "Thirty-nine Steps"), this is a first-rate thriller set on the eve of World War I,...
The ritual murder of Teddy Morden convinces Colonel Verney that the Soviets have finally harnessed occult powers. Fearing for the peace of the world, he appoints Barney Sullivan, a man trained to face the grim possibility of torture and death, to...
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...
For the first time, Quiller, the seasoned shadow executive of the anonymous Bureau in London, takes on a mission kept secret even from the head of the Bureau himself. Its code name is Salamander, its theater of operations Cambodia, its target Pol...