Historical Mystery Spy

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.

In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy makes a historic run for the White House. Despite concerns about his Catholicism, Kennedy’s outward charm is winning the country over, but his inner demons are putting his candidacy in danger and risk destroying his political career. That same year, Caitlin Russo, a former cop turned reporter, is devoting her skills to finding her husband’s killer. His job as a CIA operative posed its fair share of risks, but when Caitlin discovers his notes about the case that led to his death, she knows there’s more to the story than simple tragedy.

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.

A young Yale academic is summoned to Ireland to claim the contents of her grandfather's safe-deposit box, in which she finds only one thing: a nonfiction manuscript by James Bond author Ian Fleming. The manuscript, detailing Fleming's own involvement in British espionage during World War II, contains evidence that the Duke of Windsor was in a treasonous plot with Hitler, information so confidential that people are willing to kill to continue its secrecy.

Lady Jane Haven had to find a reason to survive. Widowed after an abusive marriage, Jane seeks solace in the arms of the one man she has always loved. But her scars run deep, and the physical comfort her lover brings does little to heal her pain. Richard Black, the Duke of Lofton and spy for the British War Office, waited for her, watching as the agony of marriage broke the woman he loved. His instincts tell him to protect her at all costs now that she has come to him, but when Jane stumbles into his current case investigating a bodysnatching ring, his intentions prove harder to keep.

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.

¿Y si la persona a la que mejor creías conocer se convierte en alguien que no conoces en absoluto? Andrea Cooper lo sabe todo sobre su madre, Laura. Sabe que pasó toda su vida en el pequeño pueblo costero de Gullaway Island; sabe que lo único que ha querido siempre es vivir una vida tranquila como pilar de la comunidad; sabe que nunca ha ocultado un secreto en su vida. Y es que todos conocemos a nuestras madres, ¿no es así?

Pino Lella no quiere saber nada de la guerra ni de los nazis. Es un adolescente italiano obsesionado con la música y las chicas, pero, en la Milán de 1943, sus días de inocencia están contados. Cuando la casa de su familia es destruida por los bombardeos, Pino se une a una red clandestina que ayuda a los judíos a escapar a través de los Alpes, y se enamora de la bella y misteriosa Anna.

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.

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.

A mystic's daughter flees Moscow on the eve of the Great War. A French soldier lies wounded on the Western Front. A German officer veers between loyalty and integrity. An English courtesan reclines on a sea of books. Each will make a journey that changes history. Inspired by real events, Codename: Madeleine is the most unexpected spy story ever told. It teems with zeppelins, elephants, U-boats, chessmen, cyanide, butterflies, and Rumi. Revolving between Paris, London, Prague, India, and Latin America, it is a kaleidoscope of love, war, music, betrayal, poetry, and resistance.

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".

A perfect Stasi marriage is rocked by receipt of a shocking heirloom; a haul of Nazi looted masterpieces. All key to Operation Metatron, the sordid brainchild of Kremlin hardliner, General Usov. The BARBELL cell of Breakspear (St John Bradley) and Kestrel (Jamie Wallace) are deployed on their thirteenth mission: Amsterdam, to infiltrate Perpetual’s GDR-bound vice-line and make the trade with Oniwaban in East Berlin. What could go wrong?

An American art expert raised in a world of European wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd is dedicated to his socialist ideals and to combatting the twin scourges of Nazism and Fascism. In 1937, a chance encounter in New York with Professor Charles Alston—his boss at the Paris Peace Conference and now one of President Roosevelt’s top advisors—provides Lanny with the opportunity to make a profound difference.

Charles Krogh thought he had left the intelligence world for good, but before long finds himself immersed back in the vast invisible game without rules, the game of deception and bluff...the game without which the world can never be safe...or at peace. Nicholas Reed, brutally murdered by a stone-cold KGB killer - what did he know? Marshal T. K. Golovanov, hero of the Soviet Union and one of the most powerful men in the world - why is he jeopardising the future of his country with a female agent?

1941. As America edges toward world war, a cat burglar stalks Manhattan. The newspapers call him "The Smoke" - elusive and vaporous. However, The Smoke’s next job will unintentionally throw him headlong into the world of espionage and murder. The thief has his eyes on an Egyptian artifact tucked away in a safe at the New Yorker Hotel, but as the heist goes awry, The Smoke stumbles into the suite of renowned scientist, Nikola Tesla.

Il contenuto sepolto di un treno nazista... Un vicecomandante delle SS ormai anziano... I segreti di una famiglia ebrea di un candidato alla poltrona presidenziale... L'investigatore per i crimini di guerra ed ex ufficiale della CIA Joe Johnson è più che incuriosito quando scopre l'esistenza di misteriosi collegamenti tra il candidato presidenziale e i fondi a cui la sua famiglia attinge. Assieme a una giornalista e a una vecchia amica, Johnson comincerà un'indagine più grande e personale di quanto si fosse aspettato.

August 1961: Hauptmann Max Heller ist in den Innendienst versetzt worden. Ein Affront für Heller, der kurz vor seinem Ruhestand steht. Als er eines Tages ein Paket mit Beweismaterial aus einem längst aufgeklärten Mordfall erhält, ist schnell klar: Der wahre Täter von damals ist zurück und fordert ihn zu einem Kampf um Leben und Tod heraus. Eine atemlose Mörderjagd beginnt. Auch die politische Lage in der DDR spitzt sich zu. Nahezu unbemerkt von der Welt wird der Bau der Berliner Mauer vorbereitet. Und Karin und Max Heller müssen eine dramatische Entscheidung treffen - gehen oder bleiben?

1945. La votación de la Cámara de los Lores para decidir quién hereda la fortuna familiar de los Barrington ha acabado en empate. El voto decisivo del Lord Canciller hará tambalearse las vidas de Harry Clifton y Giles Barrington. Harry regresa a América para promocionar su última novela, mientras que su amada Emma se embarca en la búsqueda de la niña que apareció en el despacho de su padre la noche en que éste fue asesinado.

Año 1940. Europa está en manos de los nazis. En plena posguerra, Madrid pasa hambre y se ha convertido en un hervidero de espías de todas las potencias mundiales. Harry Brett, un antiguo soldado inglés que participó en la guerra civil y trabaja para el servicio secreto británico, debe ganarse la confianza de un antiguo condiscípulo, Sandy Forsyth, a fin de averiguar a qué negocios turbios se dedica en la España de Franco.ció tras la Batalla del Jarama.