One of the first spy novels ever written, The Riddle of the Sands had an enormous impact upon its publication in 1903. Author Erskine Childers-a Boer War veteran and expert yachtsman-crafted a riveting tale of two men who sail close to...
Spy fiction
- Author:childers, ErskineSummary:
- Author:Quinn, KateSummary:
"The reigning queen of historical fiction" - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenu e The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with...
- Author:Le Carré, JohnSummary:
It is the third summer of perestroika. Niki Landau, philanderer and travelling rep attends the first Moscow audio fair. A beautiful young girl named Katya asks him to take a parcel to England. It is addressed to Barley Blair, a derelict...
- Author:Stellings, CarolineSummary:
Born in China, Nicki was abandoned to an orphanage before being adopted by a wealthy North American family. Now 16, Nicki divides her time between Hawaii and Ontario and is all set to train with a king fu grand master. When she reports...
- Author:Herron, MickSummary:
Something happened in 1994 Berlin that forever changed MI5. Very few know that story and those who do will do anything to keep it secret. Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "...
- Author:Stellings, CarolineSummary:
Immediately upon her arrival in London to train as a spy, sixteen-year-old Nicki Haddon is assigned to help the British Secret Service infiltrate a drug cartel that is smuggling large amounts of heroin into the country. Placing herself...
- Author:Newton, AndieSummary:
Sisters. Traitors. Spies. When a British RAF Whitley plane comes under fire over the French coast and is forced to drop their cargo, a spy messenger pigeon finds its way into unlikely hands... The occupation has taken much from the...
- Author:Prescott, LaraSummary:
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of...
- Author:Smith, Martin CruzSummary:
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko-"one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction" (USA TODAY)-who travels deep into...
- Author:Berenson, AlexSummary:
Today, procuring a nuclear warhead is only a matter of money and access to Russia. But this round is personal for CIA man John Wells after a shocking terrorist attack hits heartbreakingly close to home.
- Author:Carre, John LeSummary:
In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse--...
- Author:Fleming, IanSummary:
When 007 turns up at a sleepy American backwoods motel, he soon realizes that Vivienne Michel is in a tight spot-and that Sol Horror and Sluggsy Morant are hardened killers bent on destruction. Escaping from a past she doesn't want...
- Author:Chiaverini, JenniferSummary:
Pledging her loyalty to the North at the risk of her life when her native Virginia secedes, Quaker-educated aristocrat Elizabeth Van Lew uses her innate skills for gathering military intelligence to help construct the Richmond...
- Author:Turgeon, DavidSummary:
We know how Simone met the man who will become, for a time, her fourth husband. We know what she does (artist), her age (older than she looks), her friends (a veritable menagerie), her habits (frustrated homebody). What remains to learn...
- Author:Flynn, VinceSummary:
Top secret data has been stolen from the CIA, and the only man who knows its hiding place is dead. CIA operative Mitch Rapp must race to find the classified information in this blistering novel that picks up where The Last Man left off...
- Author:Zander, JoakimSummary:
A deep-cover CIA agent, an operative once so dedicated that he abandoned his infant daughter, races across Europe to save the daughter he never knew.
- Author:Flynn, VinceSummary:
When diplomacy has failed and military intervention is deemed inappropriate, our leaders often turn to a silent and dark community for results. This is a course of action not always taken by wise and honorable men. In certain circles it...
- Author:Ludlum, RobertSummary:
In the bestselling tradition of The Scarlatti Inheritance and The Rheineman Exchange, a compelling thriller in which one man's actions can change the course of history. In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power-...
- Author:Gilman, DorothySummary:
Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent....
- Author:Bell, AdrienneSummary:
Beth Bradley has a problem. Everyone is expecting her successful music executive boyfriend, Charlie, to be her date for her best friend’s wedding. There’s one hitch: Charlie doesn’t exist. Unless she can think of something fast, she’s...