International Spy Thrillers

What's it like to see yourself in a picture you never knew was taken? John Knox is an expert at surveillance and delicate, international dealings. So he is understandably thrown when David "Sarge" Dulwich, his contact at Rutherford Risk, hands him a photo of a transaction he recently facilitated in the Middle East. More curious to him, he's shown that photo while in the Red Room, the private security company's highly secure underground bunker, where eavesdropping is impossible and privacy ensured. Why all the cloak-and-dagger?

Kira Miller, un brillante ingegnere genetico, mette a punto un metodo che permette alle aree cerebrali della creatività e del pensiero di raggiungere temporaneamente capacità straordinarie. È una scoperta sensazionale, che apre scenari inimmaginabili, ma cosa succederebbe se un tale livello di intelligenza sfociasse in una spietata megalomania? David Desh ha lasciato i corpi speciali dopo aver perso i suoi uomini in un'azione in Iran.

Minutes after Sophie Kohl confesses to her diplomat husband that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot and killed. Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent’s heart skips a beat when he hears the only woman he ever loved calling to ask why her husband has been assassinated. Jibril Aziz, an American analyst knows all about a covert operation rejected by the CIA. So when it seems someone has obtained a copy of the blueprints, Jibril knows the danger it represents....

Il manoscritto di un esploratore del Settecento e un antico planetario: due oggetti che sembrano un regalo dall'oltretomba, ma che per il professor Laurenzi sono la prova che il figlio Angelo, archeologo scomparso fra le montagne del Mato Grosso, è ancora vivo. Convinto dal professore ad affrontare un'impresa ai limiti dell'impossibile, Charles Fort, direttore di un giornale online che indaga tutto ciò che è avvolto dal mistero, abbandona la sua casa bolognese e si mette in viaggio.

The greatest discovery of the 20th century. Kept secret. Until now. Berlin, 2015 - a well-connected SS commander is found dead, having protected the last secret of the Nazi empire for 70 years. A discovery by Nazi scientists so potent it could change the balance of world power - forever. Led by misfit military historian Myles Munro, an international team begin to piece together the complex puzzle left by SS Captain Werner Stolz.

Berlin is lost, but the Nazis have not given up hope. As their soldiers battle the Red Army for every inch of the capital, a detachment of Russians search the bunker underneath the Berlin Zoo, where Hitler's army stored the finest art treasures of the Reich. The bunker is empty by the time Sergeant Kolenko enters it - save for a rusted, old trunk that holds nothing but gold knickknacks. Kolenko's men don't know it yet, but they have unearthed the treasures of the lost city of Troy.

Talya and Samuel have to find a man - the one they call the Puppeteer. They know it is the only way for them to clear their names from the accusation of treason against the State of Israel that has pursued them for nearly two years now. Although Mossad made sure they were cleared of the accusation during a recent trial in Washington, D.C., the director of the Israeli agency still has some doubts about Talya and Samuel's innocence. David Bernstein doesn't like coincidences.

After serving his country as a paratrooper in World War II, Jack Rhyce takes on an even more dangerous mission when he becomes a secret agent in the early years of the Cold War. Now he and fellow spy Ruth Bogart have been dispatched to Tokyo to foil an assassination attempt on a leading liberal politician. Murder is only the first part of this nefarious Communist plot; the ultimate objective is to stir up anti-American sentiment in a country that has formed close bonds with its former adversary in the West.

Milla, una giovane funzionaria dell'Unione europea, un giorno, indagando sui movimenti finanziari di una corporation americana scopre un perverso intrigo internazionale. La società è il paravento dietro cui si nascondono le persone più potenti del pianeta: il Gruppo Bilderberg. Con il suo solo intuito e con l'aiuto di pochi coraggiosi alleati cercherà, in una lotta senza esclusione di colpi, di sconfiggere con le armi della legalità questa segretissima e pericolosa congrega di potere.

Die Hitze des Sommers lähmt ganz Europa. Und während das Opcop-Team die Hintermänner eines internationalen Menschenhändlerrings observiert, bittet man Paul Hjelm um Hilfe in einem anderen blutigen Kriminalfall. Im Mittelpunkt stehen ein toter Professor, eine kompromittierte EU-Kommissarin und ein Smartphone mit sensiblen Daten in den Händen eines blinden Bettlers.

Over 20 years ago, William F. Buckley, Jr. launched the dashing character of Blackford Oakes like a missile over the literary landscape. This newly minted CIA agent - brainy, bold, and complex - began his career by saving the queen of England and quickly took his place in the pantheon of master spies drawn up by Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré. Against the backdrop of Cold War intrigue, in this, his 11th outing, Oakes crosses swords with Kim Philby, perhaps the highest ranking in the parade of defectors to the Soviet Union.

Global terrorism, bioweapons, despots, and a deadly new virus all combine to make the world an unstable place, particularly for Samantha Michaels, an analyst with the Central Intelligence Agency, and for Cassandra Stanley, captain of a US Navy guided missile cruiser.

There's something just a bit off about the new aid worker, Janet McCann. The tall redhead with flaming ringlets arrives in Laos on a steamy August morning in 1961, on the same day that Fred Jenkins, a poultry expert, is found floating face down in the Mekong. When Jack Gold visits the office of his deceased drinking buddy, he finds the redhead’s long legs draped across his dead friend’s desk. Gold’s an Agency man, but it’s not his job to investigate Jenkins’ death. Not his job, that is, until the late poultry expert is suspected of having passed secrets to the Communists.

After five years' silence, a British intelligence asset has made contact from Moscow. Claiming to possess explosive information, he wishes to defect to the West. But the operation goes catastrophically wrong; the would-be defector betrayed by a rogue element at the highest level of US government. As a result, MI6's Margo Lane is ordered to deliver a message the White House won't forget. Margo's mission will take her to the violent heart of contemporary Russia, the edge of the civil war in Syria - and to a terrifying decision she had hoped she would never have to make.

A Pakistani intelligence officer secretly communicates with a Mexican drug cartel. A lobbyist is assassinated in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. A US senator receives death threats from a shadowy group. There is a connection. And Max Fend has only days to discover what it is. The chase leads CIA asset Max Fend from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the plains of Wisconsin, home of the largest air show in the world - Oshkosh. Beneath the drone of old warbirds and sleek aerobatics aircraft, Max and his partner, Renee, uncover clues that point to a global conspiracy.

Stalking the streets of Prague, James Ryker is on the hunt for justice when he hears a news report of a murder in rural England. He knows the victim. Ten years ago, in Qatar, Ryker led a team of assassins to kill him. He thought they had. So how has a man Ryker thought dead for over a decade suddenly resurfaced? Travelling across the globe, Ryker sets off on a quest to discover the truth from that fateful night in Qatar. When he realises that his old team members are now under threat from a ruthless female assassin, he knows his problems have only just started.

At a benefit dinner in Monaco, Austrian playboy and CIA freelancer Malko Linge meets an intriguing woman, Zhanna Khrenkov, who has an unusual proposal. She will disclose everything she knows about her husband Alexei's business, provided Malko kills Alexei's beautiful young British mistress. Appalled, he refuses, but then Zhanna reveals that her husband runs a ring of sleeper Russian spies operating undercover inside the US. Naturally Malko's CIA handlers would love to have this information, but he feels uncomfortable killing anyone in cold blood - especially a beautiful woman.

After the June Terror killed hundreds of thousands around the world, Jack Harding knew he had to disappear. Not wanting to risk flying from Europe, he takes the long trip across Russia by train, aiming to get back to the US by crossing the Bering Strait. Instead, he falls victim to a family of human traffickers, who submit him to months of unspeakable abuse.

Transilvania, XXI secolo. Il caustico e ironico professor Charles Baker dell'Università di Princeton si trova nella città natale del principe delle tenebre, Vlad III l'Impalatore, meglio noto come il conte Dracula, e sta prendendo parte a una conferenza insieme ai più importanti storici del mondo, quando il suo discorso è bruscamente interrotto dall'improvviso, quanto sgradevolissimo, arrivo delle autorità locali. Tre omicidi raccapriccianti richiedono la sua immediata presenza sul luogo del delitto. Tre corpi messi in posa a formare una croce giacciono sulla scalinata degli Scolari.

Kathy Longrin, a lawyer with an extensive art background, is recruited by a man who is trying to recover priceless artwork, stolen from his family during World War II. Kathy soon finds herself immersed in a world of diamonds, stolen art, aging Nazis, Neo-Nazis, and Israeli agents - and discovers a secret that will change her life forever.