Spy Fiction Literary

Corrupt elements of the South African Intelligence Services are stalking Morne Delport, a South African industrialist and his eclectic band of friends. When no one is watching, their phones are tapped, they are followed, and violence is sanctioned against them. They are in a race to save their countrymen, and forever separate themselves from the legacy of Apartheid, but powerful forces have other plans. They are watching and wanting their wealth for their own.

Fumo di asfalto colloso nella spossante Milano estiva delle periferie. Tra le case popolari di Calvairate, il quartiere dormitorio di Quarto Oggiaro e il carcere di Opera emergono, come strani zombie dal sottosuolo, un suicidio sospetto, un giro di pedofili e un ex terrorista nero evaso. E tra servizi segreti impegnati in grossolani depistaggi, inconfessabili ed esplosive verità e inquietanti parole d'ordine come "indulto", a vent'anni dal delitto Moro l'ispettore Guido Lopez non potrà fare a meno di avvertire l'aria pesante e sporca di un complotto.

In questo esordio molto atteso di un'epica serie spy thriller dello scrittore di bestseller Jack Mars, i lettori sono trascinati per tutta l'Europa in un'avventura al cardiopalma, mentre il presunto agente della CIA Kent Steele, perseguitato dai terroristi e dalla sua stessa identità, deve risolvere il mistero di chi lo vuole morto, quale sia l'obiettivo dei terroristi, quale sia la sua stessa identità e chi è la bellissima donna che continua a vedere nella propria mente.

Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation officer dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero - and a poster boy for Men’s Rights activists. Liam is released on licence into Mary’s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam’s daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice.

How far are we willing to go to stay young? Hanif Kureishi - acclaimed author of The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy - explores the possibilities in this provocative story of an older man whose brain is surgically placed in a younger man's body by a network of underground doctors. Adam is offered the chance to trade in his sagging flesh for a much younger and more pleasing model. He tells his wife and son that he is going on an extended vacation.

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

The history of Jack Hudson remains safely locked in the vaults of the CIA. He had dedicated his life to serving his country and he had recently considered retiring. He had been out to dinner in the evening and as he walked towards his rented apartment in Moscow, he felt the heat of a bullet whiz by his head.

Born in shadow and kept from heads of state, there are some missions so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don't exist. so deadly, so sensitive, that they simply don't exist. When one such mission goes horribly wrong, a wave of dramatic terrorist attacks is set in motion. Their goal: the complete and total collapse of the United States. With the CIA's intelligence abilities hobbled, former Navy SEAL Team 6 member turned covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath launches an audacious plan to infiltrate the terrorists' network and prevent one of the biggest threats the U.S. has ever faced.

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly – or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban’s kill zone, they know just what to expect...When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the Regiment is tasked to retrieve the weapons at all costs. SAS legend Jack Harker has to lead an eight-man mission into a suspected Taliban facility.

Max Emerson is rich and powerful: a patron of the arts and the owner of a multinational business. But Max's business is money laundering, and, for the first time in his fortunate life, he's in trouble. Hackers are targeting his company. The FBI is pressuring him to betray one of his crooked clients. And a dark secret from his own past looks in danger of resurfacing.

Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: retired spy chief Dick Morrow needs to find a CIA informant who has slipped away from his handler in Spain and may be heading to Morocco.

Set in fogbound wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set out to reveal the true identity of Ishmael, the group's heavily protected and enigmatic leader.

A vicious murder at sea begins a series of deadly events stretching from Europe to the Middle East and Africa. International conspirators plot to send a shipment of goods to an undisclosed destination, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. A concealed world of deceit and lies is populated by an international assassin, a brutal ship's captain, criminal businessmen, rogue scientists, and ruthless government representatives.

When Sam Gunn is accused of murdering a fellow intelligence officer in cold blood, the new CIA director charges Jake Noble with tracking her down. But Jake isn't the only one after Sam. A trio of highly trained freelancers wants Sam dead before she can blow the lid on their operation. It's a heart-pounding race against time to see who will find her first.

Ne IL RITORNO DI ZERO (Libro 6), l'interprete del Presidente è l'unico a conoscenza di una conversazione segreta che può cambiare il mondo. Viene presa di mira per l'assassinio e cacciata, e l'Agente Zero, richiamato nella linea di servizio, potrebbe essere l'unico che può salvarla. L'Agente Zero, che cerca di rimettere in ordine la sua vita e di riconquistare la fiducia delle sue ragazze, giura di non tornare in servizio. Ma quando viene chiamato per salvare la vita di questa interprete indifesa, non può dire di no.

In DOSSIER ZERO (Libro 5), la memoria dell'agente Zero finalmente ritorna, e con essa, vengono alla luce rivelazioni scioccanti sulla trama segreta della CIA per scatenare una guerra e per togliergli la vita. Espulso dall'agenzia e in fuga, riuscirà a fermarli in tempo? Quando un incidente nello Stretto di Hormuz minaccia di far scoppiare una guerra mondiale, la memoria dell'Agente Zero ritorna e, con essa, la possibilità di scoprire cosa ha causato la sua perdita di memoria.

Ne LA TRAPPOLA DI ZERO (Libro 4) un nuovo leader fanatico sale alla guida di a cellula terroristica nel Medio Oriente, con l'intento di orchestrare l'attacco più letale mai concepito contro il suolo americano. Potrà l'agente Zero svelare il complotto e fermarlo in tempo? Sebbene le figlie dell'agente Zero siano a casa sane e salve, l'angoscia e il terrore in seguito all'esperienza subita mettono a dura prova la serenità della loro piccola famiglia.

In LA CACCIA DI ZERO (Libro 3), quando l'agente della CIA agente Zero scopre che le sue giovani figlie sono state rapite e spedite a un giro di traffico umano nell'Europa dell'Est, si getta in un inseguimento al cardiopalma per tutta l'Europa, lasciandosi alle spalle una scia di devastazione, in cui rompe gin regola, rischia la sua stessa vita, e fa di tutto per riprendersi le figlie. Kent, nonostante gli ordini della CIA, rifiuta di farsi da parte.

In questo seguito del primo libro (AGENTE ZERO) della serie di spy thriller Kent Steele, "Obiettivo Zero" (Libro 2) ci porta in un'altra avventura ricca d'azione per tutta l'Europa, quando l'agente Kent Steele viene richiamato in servizio per fermare un'arma biologica prima che devasti il mondo, lottando al contempo con la sua perdita di memoria. La vita torna brevemente alla normalità per Kent, prima di essere richiamato dalla CIA per dare la caccia ai terroristi e fermare un'altra crisi internazionale, una persino più potenzialmente devastante dell'ultima.