Historical Mystery Spy

«Pero ¿quién demonios es esa mujer?» era la pregunta más escuchada en los despachos de la CIA. ¿Quién movía los hilos del espionaje mundial, frustraba operaciones de inteligencia, retorcía voluntades, mudaba de piel, encabezaba misiones imposibles, descubría secretos de Estado y dibujaba en el tablero de la Guerra Fría la amenaza de una Tercera Guerra Mundial? Esa misteriosa mujer era la española África de las Heras, quien se convirtió en la espía soviética más importante del siglo xx.

Set over the course of six decades, A Lion in the Grass documents the despair and hope of a spy who suffers the murder of friends and enjoys the success of mentoring protégés. The story is told through alternative viewpoints of Raymond, his protégés, and the French villain. The novel digs deeply into questions of love, self-doubt, and hatred, all foisted upon Raymond during a career from which, he discovers, it is impossible to retire.

In August 1980, a diabolical plot was hatched in the Swat valley, named 'Operation Junoon'. Its aim: to find the final solution for Indian Kashmir.

Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer, to Spain after Raines with orders to eliminate him. Florry was an old school chum to Raines and had every reason to hate him. But. the British are not alone on Raines' trail.

At the end of WWII, Phyllis Bowden, a young woman in military intelligence, is assigned to the Office of the Military Attache in the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway. Her official tasks include secretarial and intelligence duties, and finding families of lost loved ones. These office duties, as tough as they may be, pale when she’s faced with something that occurs outside the office. Phyllis finds a runaway child in a café bathroom one night.

In the tradition of Schindler's List comes a thrilling novel based on the heroic true story of Fritz Kolbe, a widowed civil servant in Adolf Hitler's foreign ministry. Recognizing that millions of lives are at stake, Kolbe uses his position to pass information to the Americans - risking himself and the people he holds most dear - and embarks on a dangerous double life as the Allies' most important spy.

Una red de espionaje, tejida alrededor de México, solo busca el momento oportuno para iniciar una guerra. Por otro lado, Venustiano Carranza tiene en sus manos la posibilidad de recuperar el territorio perdido por las perversas traiciones de Antonio López de Santa Anna. El presidente, al recibir el Telegrama Zimmermann, no sabe que México será el detonador del estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Después del gran éxito de Secreto 1910, donde se devela el complot internacional detrás la Revolución mexicana, Leopoldo Mendívil nos sorprende con una nueva novela: Secreto 1929, una historia que desenmascara el mayor secreto político del país: el PRI no fue ideado por los mexicanos, sino en Wall Street.

On 10 August 1944, with Germany on the verge of a crushing and humiliating defeat, Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful Nazi and head of the notorious SS, holds a clandestine meeting in Strasbourg, with a handful of elite industrialists and bankers. A covert organisation is born, codenamed 'Die Spinne' - The Spider. The network is tasked with helping senior SS officers to escape the clutches of advancing allied forces. New identities are created, bankrolled by illicit funds, allowing these notorious criminals to begin new lives in Europe and South America.

A soldier returns from the front line of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead. On Stalin's orders, Pekkala's assistant, Kirov, travels deep into the forests of Western Russia, following a trail of clues to a wilderness where partisans wage a brutal campaign against the Nazi invaders. Unknown to Kirov, he is being led into a trap.

1789. The Bastille is marked for destruction. Skirmishes in the city are rife and revolution is in the air. When a gruesomely murdered rebel is found in the prison morgue, a plot is suspected. English spy Attica Morgan, is laying low after an abortive mission. So when she's given an assignment inside the Bastille, her instinct is to run. Instead, she's offered a pardon, in return for solving the mystery of the dead revolutionary; and exposing a plot that leads to Marie Antoinette.

Aleksi Ivanovich Smirnov, an orphan and a thief, has been living by his wits and surviving below the ever-watchful eye of the Soviet system until his luck finally runs out. In 1936, at the age of 16, Aleksi is caught by the NKVD and transported to Moscow. There, in the notorious headquarters of the secret police, he is given a choice: be trained and inserted as a spy into Nazi Germany under the identity of his best friend, the long lost nephew of a high-ranking Nazi official, or disappear forever in the basement of the Lubyanka. For Aleksi it's no choice at all.

Setembro, 1939. Poucos dias após o Reino Unido declarar guerra à Alemanha, um enorme hidroavião está prestes a partir da costa sul da Inglaterra. A aeronave mais luxuosa do mundo tem como destino Nova York, no que deve ser o último voo civil a sair da Europa antes do conflito. A bordo dela encontram-se tanto a nata da sociedade quanto a escória da humanidade. Confinados por trinta horas em meio a todo o conforto, eles veem a travessia do Atlântico se tornar uma viagem de crescente angústia, com perigos inesperados que os conduzem a uma tempestade de violência.

A German secret agent threatens the D-Day landings. February 1944. British Intelligence is using German double agents to deceive the German high command about Operation Overlord - the location chosen for the D-Day landings. When they pick up an unauthorized transmission from near London, the whole deception plan is thrown into jeopardy. And Kurt Müller is the main suspect. To save Operation Overlord and clear his name, Kurt must find the rogue agent and silence him.

Alt er på spil i PESTSKIBET. Hæsblæsende action du ikke kan slippe, før sidste side er vendt. En ung nazisoldat gør en usædvanlig opdagelse, da han under 2. verdenskrig i en gletsjer finder det mest legendariske skib nogensinde. 60 år senere er Juan Cabrillo og hans agenttrænede mandskab på det tophemmelige militærskib Oregon på vej mod deres mest ekstraordinære mission til dato. De støder på et krydstogtskib, hvor alle passagerer på nær én er døde. Cabrillo beslutter sig for at grave dybere ned i mysteriet og støder på en mystisk og magtfuld kult, som har uhyggelige planer for menneskeheden.

1967: Vier junge Menschen zwischen Verrat, Spionage und dem Kampf um die Demokratie. Sechs Jahre nach dem Mauerbau lernt die erfolgreiche Dolmetscherin Emma auf einem West-Berliner Senatsempfang die aus dem Ostteil der Stadt geflohene Sängerin Irma Assmann kennen. Als sie ihrer Zwillingsschwester Alice von der Begegnung erzählt, wird diese hellhörig. Alice recherchiert als Journalistin in der Studentenbewegung und steht in Kontakt mit verschiedenen Fluchthilfe-Organisationen.

Hösten 1979 anländer Alexejev Rostov vid den skånska ostkusten. Han är specialutbildad sovjetisk spion och har färdats till Sverige med ubåt. Målet är att kartlägga Österlen - och förbereda den sovjetiska invasionen. Från och med nu är han en yrkesfiskare från Göteborg. En vanlig, hederlig svensk som idogt arbetar för att få vardagen att gå ihop. Men kommer han lyckas lura lokalbefolkningen med sin nya identitet? Alexejevs täckmantel är övertygande och snart får han smeknamnet "Sillastryparen".

In 1938 the War of the Worlds hoax panicked millions of Americans, then in 1988 another fictional media broadcast convinced nearly half of Portugal that sea monsters had risen from the ocean to destroy their cities. A team of CIA agents was sent to study the aftermath of this 6th Skyfall Event in the hope that they could turn it into a weapon of war. When the team consultant turns up dead, everyone scrambles to be the last man standing: the one who will decide if or when the sky falls.

Шпионаж, похищения, светские интриги. Операциям русской разведки противостоят разведывательные службы других стран. Тайные пружины и механизмы запускаются деятелями, стоящими за кулисами большой политики. Итог – события в Сараево в 1914 году и мировая война.

In the dark days of King James I, a man must know his enemies to survive. To Henry Gresham, gentleman, scholar, courtier, and spy, William Shadwell is invaluable. A thief, informer, double-dealer, and pimp, he may not be the most moral of men, but he is one of Gresham's best sources. When Shadwell is murdered, Gresham's enquiries uncover a plot so audacious it is scarcely believable.