'Pure entertainment espionage at its best'
The Times
It's been two years since Quiller was in Bangkok. Now he's back at the request of Loman, a top control in the Bureau. Quiller loathes the man but has to listen to what he...
PEKING
He had never looked forward to killing but it was different now. When a man isn't even human — when he has a frozen face and steel claws for hands — when he has planned a blood-drenched path of destruction — when his name is Martin...
Colonel Arkadi Ganin. A man of many identities — and one motive: to kill Agent N3.
Ganin had been on a lot of assignments in his distinguished career, but none compared to this one. It was the sort of thing he liked most. This time there would...
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...
When a double agent in Cuba suddenly disappears, there is concern that he might have gone rogue, working against ROOM 59 and the world at large. But one of the agency's top spymasters has a blood tie to the operative in question, which leaves him...
JUST A ROUTINE CASE OF MURDER.
A clumsy hatchet job by an enraged husband on his slatternly, nagging wife. Followed by the desperate flight of the culprit with the FBI in methodical, well organized pursuit.
Until… a check revealed that the...
In the exhilarating tradition of I Am Pilgrim comes a sprawling, international high-stakes thriller that pits the intelligence of one man against one of the most successful spies ever to operate against American interests.
When a young Israeli...