Spy Fiction Literary

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.

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.

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.

When a suicide bomber shatters the peace of a winter afternoon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., former pilot and undercover Cerberus operative Nick Baron receives an eerie invitation from the chess app on his phone - a mysterious figure named The Emissary wants to play. Nick and his covert unit - the Triple Seven Chase team - soon find themselves drawn into battle against an unknown opponent who has resurrected an ancient order of assassins: The legendary Hashashin.

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.

When the President's mistress reveals the existence of a sex tape and demands money for her silence, it falls to the long suffering First Lady to deal with it. Unwilling to trust the Secret Service or any other federal agency, she calls on childhood friend and former lover, Dan Powers, to negotiate the deal. But with bodies quickly falling Powers soon learns nothing is as it appears and that he's been marked for death.

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.

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.

Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.

Egypt, 1914. It is the beginning of the war and Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of Cairo’s Secret Police, is given the unhappy task of rounding up enemy aliens. But, in a land where adoption of foreign nationality is a popular means of avoiding trial by an Egyptian court, determining who counts as German proves contentious. And then there’s the face in the cemetery.