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International nuclear espionage turns allies into enemies in this electrifying thriller from the author of The Handler. Nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a crisis point. The new American administration is determined to move ahead, but there are several...

John Milton has started to hope that he might have a future. He has a job driving a taxi around the streets of San Francisco. He has his anonymity and his solitude. Being invisible has become a comfortable habit. He doesn’t want to be found. But when a girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton is worried. Especially when two dead bodies are discovered and the police start treating him as their prime suspect. Milton is a fugitive from the British Secret Service and a man in his position needs extra attention like he needs a hole in the head.

Pre-order the pulse-racing new Jack Ryan thriller, TOM CLANCY THE COLDEST WAR, now! ________________ 1985: For Jack Ryan, the Cold War is burning hot A top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will...

As dawn breaks on a snowy February morning, a refrigerated lorry is found parked in the heart of London's Chinatown. Inside, 12 women, apparently illegal immigrants, are dead from hypothermia. But in the cab, DC Max Wolfe finds 13 passports. Twelve dead women. Thirteen passports. The hunt for the missing woman will take Max Wolfe into the dark heart of the world of human smuggling, mass migration and 21st-century slave markets.

Psychologist Aaron Thornton is riddled with self-doubt after failing to stop a tragic incident at the American prison where he works. When his wife, Claire, receives a job offer in her native Belfast, Northern Ireland, he sees a chance to start over by treating hardened criminals in Northern Ireland’s judicial system.

Dresden, East Germany, 1980. A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People's Police Homicide Captain Karin Müller arrives at the scene, she discovers that all of the body's identifiable features have been removed - including its fingertips. The deeper Müller digs, the more the Stasi begin to hamper her investigations. She soon realises that this crime is just one part of a clandestine battle between two secret services - the Stasi of East Germany and Britain's MI6.

Bob Howard is an IT specialist and field agent for the Laundry, the branch of Her Majesty's secret service that deals with occult threats. Overworked and underpaid, Bob is used to his two jobs overflowing from a strict nine to five, and since his wife, Mo, has a very similar job description, he understands that work will sometimes follow her home, too. But when 'work' involves zombie assassins and minions of a mad god's cult, he realises things are spinning out of control.

Brought to you by Penguin. The explosive new thriller featuring Nick Stone. A sinister cult Tasked with rescuing the daughter of one of America's richest families from the grips of a sinister cult, Nick Stone expects his latest mission to be quick and straightforward. A kidnapped woman...

Cain's first mission is supposed to be a piece of cake. Just take out an escaped fugitive in Honduras who's on the run for the rape and murder of a little girl in New York. There's only one problem...somebody beat him to it. Everything is not what it seems as Cain gets mixed up with an international arms dealer and an ex-government agent who's gone rogue and supposed to be dead.

From a former spy comes an electrifying novel about the mystery, paranoia and ruthlessness of the secretive world of British espionage 'Spies and Other Gods places him in the top tier of today's spy writers' The Spectator 'Wonderfully entertaining' John Banville, author of Booker Prize-winning...

As a lethal militia targets the most powerful man in the world, Jake must thwart their assassination plot and protect the nation's highest office—even if the mastermind behind it is a shadow from his own past.

Some secrets don’t stay buried. When five-year-old Mark Paine Fisher lost his father, Captain Robert T. Paine, USAF, in a 1966 plane crash in West Texas, he was told it was a tragedy. A small aircraft. A training flight. A young father who never came home. For decades, that was the story. But grief has a way of leaving clues. Nearly sixty years later, family silence, missing records, and unanswered questions pull Mark into a Cold War mystery he was never supposed to uncover.

The new action-packed political/espionage thriller in the New York Times bestselling James Reece series – plot information to follow from the US...

On the backstreets of Lyon, France, an MI6 surveillance team are gunned down in a cold-blooded ambush. Thrust into the hunt for the assassin is the sole survivor – rookie covert operative Duncan Grant. His feats in training are already the stuff of legend. His tough, solitary existence on Scotland's Isle of Skye forging a man willing to kill to protect the innocent and save lives. But no training can prepare Grant for the devastating consequences his first kill will unleash.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler, a breathtaking thriller in which legendary hero Kurt Austin journeys to the mysterious depths of the Venezuelan rainforest to take on a corrupt billionaire tycoon. An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of...

Titus Quayle was the best MI6 ever had - an operative of exceptional and lethal ability. But they burned him, abandoned him and left him for dead. Holly Morton is the daughter of the spymaster who first recognised Quayle’s potential and the key to unlocking a global conspiracy her father died trying to bring down. To uncover the truth, Quayle must keep her safe from the threat of a powerful enemy in a globetrotting race against time. Nowhere is safe.

In West Berlin in 1989, 18-year-old Ralf has just left school and is living a final golden summer with his three best friends. They spend their days swimming, smoking and daydreaming about the future, oblivious to the storm gathering on the other side of the Berlin Wall. But an unsettling discovery about his family and a meeting with the mysterious Oz shatters everything Ralf thought he knew about love and loyalty.

When a top British agent is murdered in Hamburg, spymaster Tweed is desperate to know why his man was killed – and who he should target for revenge.The investigation quickly leads Tweed to a devastating conclusion – one of his four European sector chiefs is a traitor. Tweed’s terrible problem is that he does not know which one. With time running out, Tweed realises he may also be tracking a mass murderer – and that an appalling scandal in London will break if he does not find the killer.

**Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey First Novel Dagger** An Australian bestseller! Geopolitics and espionage collide in this explosive espionage thriller. 'Hands down the best debut of the year' Tim Shipman 'My favourite debut novel of 2025’ Antonia Senior THREE WORDS IN MANDARIN. THAT’S...

Islamic State is here, all around us. There is no defence. Only attack. On the Syria/Iraq border, a British hostage is beheaded by IS terrorists. When the executioner breaks down, he is led into a nearby tent, where a masked figure is waiting for him. This mysterious person is treated with a mixture of respect and terror. They call him the Caliph.