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5) Liberation
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"To the allies, she was a fearless freedom fighter, a Special Operations legend, a woman ahead of her time. To the Gestapo, she was a ghost, a shadow, the most wanted person in the world. But at first, Nancy Wake was just another young woman living in Marseille and recently engaged to a man she loved." --Publisher.
6) Black cross
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In 1944, at the command of Winston Churchill, four people are brought together in a small concentration camp and forced to perform an act in the name of victory and survival that could only be asked of them in wartime.
7) Red to Black
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Red to Black has more in common with the elegantly paced books of John le Carré than it does with Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. But readers who appreciate a healthy dose of real-world worries in their spy novels won't complain."
-Richmond Times-Dispatch
Gorky Park for the Putin era, Red To Black by Alex Dryden could have been ripped from recent headlines. At once a spy thriller, a love story, and a chilling look at a dangerously resurgent...
8) Bioweapon
Author
Series
An Agent Paul Richter thriller volume 9
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A death that doesn't make sense. A forgotten experiment. The world's most devastating weapon. A weapons scientist in Cambridge is found dead under suspicious circumstances. Then a researcher at military science centre Porton Down goes missing. Paul Richter is on assignment in Amsterdam, chasing a lead from the GRU. What he finds is deeply worrying. Old weapons research is being unearthed, and powerful people blackmailed to keep the truth behind the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department...
10) Manhunt
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Nobody is above suspicion The first in an unputdownable series of explosive thrillers featuring Agent Paul Richter In the intelligence world, it hurts when a senior officer goes bad. When that senior officer can't be identified, it hurts even more. With the security of Britain's most secret files at stake, and trust a commodity in short supply, a deception operation must flush out the traitor. Paul Richter, an unemployed ex-Naval aviator, is the unwitting...
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A father and daughter are pursued by a dark past in this British spy thriller by an author who "never fails to shock and surprise" (Ian Rankin). Nigel Ellis lost his wife over a decade ago in Uganda. He is remarried now, and his grown daughter, once plagued by nightmares, has finally gotten over the trauma of her mother's death-or so it seems. Nigel has decided to write a memoir about his time in Britain's security service-and he intends to include...
12) Pandemic
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Eliminate everyone who knows The wreck of an aircraft raises questions -- and uncovers a horrific truth for Agent Paul Richter Off the island of Crete an illicit diver finds a 30-year-old aircraft on the seabed. He recovers a steel case containing four sealed flasks from amongst the corpses still trapped inside. Within twelve hours he succumbs to a hideous death. Agency trouble-shooter Paul Richter is sent to investigate, but encounters far more questions...
13) Overkill
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Cold War is far from over ... Agent Paul Richter is back in a searing novel that takes the world to the brink A group of disgruntled Russian supremos decide the time has come to deploy their secret nuclear arsenal. They team up with al-Qaeda in order to neutralise America and take political and economic control of western Europe. Only one man can stop them -- a British intelligence agent: Paul Richter. Richter discovers that Europe has been seeded...
14) Touch the Devil
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The hero of The Eagle Has Landed returns in a Cold War adventure that pits two IRA veterans against a ruthless mercenary whose only ideology is greed. Terrorist-for-hire Frank Barry has been wreaking havoc in Germany and France, with backing from the KGB. His next mission might be his deadliest, as Barry plans to steal a state-of-the-art missile and sell it to the highest bidder. Only Barry's longtime rivals, retired IRA gunman Liam Devlin and his...
15) Payback
Author
Series
Paul Richter volume 5
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A race against time in the Middle East Hauled back from an exercise with the SAS, Paul Richter is tasked with a short-notice extraction job. It goes well and as a reward he's given an easy job: investigating James Holden, a middle-aged Englishman living in Dubai, who appears to predict terrorist attacks. It should be simple -- a break in the sun and a couple of days' work -- but, almost as soon as he arrives in Dubai, Richter is diverted to Bahrain....
16) Death Trap
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Common Smith is in a race against time to retrieve sensitive British intelligence before it falls into enemy hands. Yugoslavia, Winter 1924. The British official courier plane from Cairo to Gibraltar has been forced down in the mountains off the Yugoslavian coast by snow.
The plane was on its way to London bearing vital documents about Moscow's plans for the Balkans, including an uprising in Yugoslavia. It is vital that no one finds these plans,...
17) Timebomb
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A long-forgotten threat becomes a deadly new danger What should have been a routine arrest near Geneva turns into a bloody shoot-out. Four terrorists and four policeman are left dead, with Paul Richter on the run from a murder charge. Back in the UK, a tramp is viciously murdered on the Isle of Sheppey. Then a surveillance operation in Stuttgart goes badly wrong when a mole tips off the terrorists. As Richter hunts for the connection between these...
18) Foxbat
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Stop the nuclear strike -- at all costs ... 1976: A Russian pilot defects to Japan in a MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor. Flying virtually at sea level to avoid pursuing fighters and with just thirty seconds of fuel remaining, he lands at Hakodate Airport. Before the aircraft is handed back to the Russians, American agencies reduce it to a pile of components and then rebuild it. Despite the wealth of intelligence they glean, however, they fail to realise...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse, wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines, was slipped into the waters off the south-west coast of Spain. With it was a briefcase, in which were papers detailing an imminent Allied invasion of Greece. As the British had anticipated, the supposedly neutral government of Fascist Spain turned the papers over to the Nazi High Command, who swallowed the story whole. it was perhaps the most decisive...
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