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Andrew Swanston read law at Cambridge, but was inspired to write by his lifelong interest in early modern history. His Thomas Hill novels – The King’s Spy, The King’s Exile and The King’s Return – are set against the backdrops of the English Civil War, Cromwell’s Commonwealth and the early Restoration respectively. He is also the author of Waterloo: The Bravest Man and Beautiful Star and Other Stories. His first historical thriller set during the reign of Elizabeth I – Incendium (published in paperback as The Incendium Plot) – introduced readers to the academic, lawyer and intelligencer Dr Christopher Radcliff, whose adventures continue in Chaos. Andrew Swanston lives in Surrey.

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A G Hopkins

A. J. BAIME is the New York Times best-selling author of The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War and Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans. Both books are in development for major motion pictures. Baime is a longtime regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Men’s Journal. He lives in Granite Bay, California. Visit him at facebook.com/ajbaime and trumanbook.com.

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A J Jacobs

A J P Taylor

Anthony James Pollard is a British medieval historian, specialising in the fifteenth century and in particular the Wars of the Roses. A leading authority in the field, he is profesor emeritus of Teesside University. His books include North-Eastern England during the Wars of the Roses, Richard III and the Princes in theTower, Imagining Robin Hood: the Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context and Warwick the kingmaker: Politics, Power and Fame.

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A K Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and the author of Let Me Not Be Mad: A Story of Unravelling Minds.

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A. L. Berridge read English at Oxford, and taught for ten years before moving into television, where her production credits range from period drama and thrillers to long-running soaps. She has written two previous novels, Top Ten besteller Honour and the Sword and In the Name of the King. Into the Valley of Death is her third novel.

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Alison Gaylin's first job was as a reporter for a celebrity tabloid, which sparked a lifelong interest in writing about people committing despicable acts. More than a decade later, she wrote and published her Edgar-nominated first novel, HIDE YOUR EYES. 
 
She's since published nine more books, including the USA Today and international bestselling Brenna Spector suspense series, which has been nominated for the Edgar, Anthony and Thriller awards and won the Shamus award. 
 
She lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, cat and dog.

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A P Wavell

A.S. Webb is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Daughter of Chaos, the first instalment of The Dark Pantheon Trilogy. She is inspired by stories rooted in history and mythology, that push the boundaries of imagination and urge us to reflect on what it means to be human.

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A. A. Dhand is the author of six previous novels, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. His DI Harry Virdee novels are currently being adapted for TV by the BBC. He was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to Bradford to start his own business and begin writing. The history, diversity and darkness of the city have inspired all his novels. For more information about A. A. Dhand and his books, follow him on X @aadhand, and on Instagram @aa_dhand.

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A. B. Poranek grew up sharing her time between Ontario, Canada and rural Poland, and eventually completed a veterinary degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. A lover of mythology and history, she enjoys exploring both in her writing. Her debut novel, Where the Dark Stands Still, an instant New York Times bestseller, is an ode to Poland's folktales, while A Treachery of Swans transports readers to a world inspired by 17th century France.

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A. Bradley

Professor A. C. Grayling is Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy, history, science and current affairs. For several years he wrote columns for the Guardian newspaper and The Times and was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

A. C. Grayling

A.D. Miller is the author of Snowdrops, The Earl of Petticoat Lane and The Faithful Couple. Snowdrops was a bestseller and was shortlisted for many prizes including the Man Booker and the CWA Gold Dagger. It was translated into 25 languages. As Moscow Correspondent of The Economist A.D. Miller has travelled across the former Soviet Union and covered the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; he is now the magazine’s Culture Editor based in London. 
 
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A. Igoni Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, in 1979 and lives in Lagos. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. His short story collection, Love is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. In 2014 he was named on the Africa39 list of sub-Saharan African writers under 40. Blackass is his first novel.

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Anthony Horowitz

Secrets can kill. 
 
Smooth-tongued divorce lawyer Richard Price is bludgeoned to death at his London home. 
 
Scrawled on the wall beside the body: the number 182. 
 
What does it mean? And who was at his front door just minutes before he died and while he was still talking on the phone? 
 
Confronted with this most baffling of mysteries, the police are forced to turn to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne. 
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'EASILY THE GREATEST OF OUR CRIME WRITERS'Sunday Times 
 
'My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz' Shari Lapena 
 
'Pure pleasure for readers ... A must-read delight.' WALL STREET JOURNAL 
 
'Sheer genius ... A joy from start to finish' INDEPENDENT

The Sentence is Death

A mind-bending murder mystery from the bestselling author of THE WORD IS MURDER

Robert Harris

'Immersive' Guardian 
'Stunning' Daily Express 
'Riveting' Telegraph 
 
Victory is close. Vengeance is closer. 
 
Rudi Graf used to dream of sending a rocket to the moon. Instead, he has helped to create the world's most sophisticated weapon: the V2 ballistic missile, capable of delivering a one-ton warhead at three times the speed of sound. 
 
In a desperate gamble to avoid defeat in the winter of 1944, Hitler orders ten thousand to be built. Graf is tasked with firing these lethal 'vengeance weapons' at London. 
 
Kay Caton-Walsh is an officer in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who joins a unit of WAAFs on a mission to newly liberated Belgium. Armed with little more than a slide rule and a few equations, Kay and her colleagues will attempt to locate and destroy the launch sites. 
 
As the death toll soars, Graf and Kay fight their grim, invisible war - until one final explosion of violence causes their destinies to collide... 
 
'A riveting read with a corker of a twist' Daily Telegraph 
'Supremely readable' Observer 
'Delivers one hell of a punch' Express 
'Captures the real nature of war. Gripping' Ben MacIntyre

'Top-class' The Times 
 
March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park Tom Jericho, a brilliant young codebreaker, is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly, suddenly disappears. 
 
'A compulsive page turner' Daily Mail 
'As human, intelligent and gripping as documentary fiction can get' Financial Times

Enigma

'A writer who handles suspense like a literary Alfred Hitchcock' Nelson Mandela 
 
April, 1964. The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel . . . 
 
'Robert Harris has created the whole structure of a totally corrupt society in a way that makes the flesh creep' Sunday Times 
'Powerful and chilling . . . convincing in every detail' Daily Telegraph 
'Clever and ingenious . . . its breeding is by Orwell, out of P.D. James, a detective story inside a future shock' Daily Mail

Fatherland

IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY 
 
'Seriously riveting . . . a testament to Robert Harris's storytelling power' The Times 
 
'Taut and exciting' Guardian 
 
Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a baying crowd. 
 
Dreyfus is exiled for life to Devil's Island; Picquart is promoted to run the intelligence until that tracked him down. 
 
But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is forced to confront the dangerous truth that Dreyfus may be innocent. 
 
Soon Picquart is being drawn into a labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honour but his life . . . 
 
'Menace and suspense twist tight in a narrative of tremendous tension' Sunday Times

An Officer and a Spy

'A brilliantly constructed spy novel' Observer 
 
'Grips from start to finish ... Superb' Mail on Sunday 
 
MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938 
 
Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace. 
 
They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place. 
 
As Chamberlain's plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer's train steams south, two young men travel with their leaders. Former friends from a more peaceful time, they are now on opposing sides. 
 
As Britain's darkest hour approaches, the fate of millions could depend on them - and the secrets they're hiding. 
 
Spying. Betrayal. Murder. Is any price too high for peace?

Munich

James Patterson

Adam Hamdy

An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy . . . 
 
On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. 
 
But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. 
 
In the aftermath of the murder, the victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private, Jack has at his disposal the world's largest investigation agency. What he discovers shakes him to his core. 
 
Jack identifies another murder in Moscow that appears to be linked. So he heads to Russia, and begins to uncover a conspiracy that could have global consequences. 
 
With powerful forces plotting against him, will Jack Morgan make it out alive?

Private Moscow

(Private 15)

Alex Urban

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THIS SHOCKING CONSPIRACY THRILLER IS A WORK OF FICTION. MOSTLY. 
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What if the President of the United States is a foreign intelligence asset? 
 
It’s October 2016. A loud, brash businessman with a history of shady dealings and sexual misbehaviour is a serious contender to win the presidency. Even a porn star’s credible allegations don’t seem to slow him down. 
 
But his most dangerous secrets may be hidden behind the former Iron Curtain. 
 
Journalist Grace Elliot is dispatched to Europe, hot on the trail of a story so big it could blow up the entire election – if she can stay alive long enough to tell it: 
 
The man who might become President was married to a Czech woman with a beguiling and contradictory past, no records, and no history – and who has all the hallmarks of a Soviet intelligence asset. 
 
Her codename is Kingfisher. 
And her mission is almost complete… 
 
THE AUTHOR HAS CHOSEN TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS OUT OF CONCERN FOR THE SAFETY OF HIS OR HER SOURCES.

The Kingfisher Secret

Ben Schott

'Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.’ Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR 
 
A Sunday Times PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 
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Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril. Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majesty's Government must turn to the one man who can help . . . Bertie Wooster. 
 
'A most thrilling return of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster . . . it vibrates with the spirit and the rhythms of his heart.' 
 
'Remarkably good . . . in its similes, pace and general zing, this yarn is eerily Wodehousian.'

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

Candice Fox

Fall is the third novel in Candice Fox's acclaimed series, following Hades, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut 2014, and Eden, winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Novel 2015. 
 
If Detective Frank Bennett tries hard enough, he can sometimes forget that Eden Archer, his partner in the Homicide Department, is also a moonlighting serial killer . . . 
 
Thankfully their latest case is proving a good distraction. Someone is angry at Sydney’s beautiful people – and the results are anything but pretty. On the rain-soaked running tracks of Sydney’s parks, a predator is lurking, and it’s not long before night-time jogs become a race to stay alive. 
 
While Frank and Eden chase shadows, a different kind of danger grows closer to home. Frank’s new girlfriend Imogen Stone is fascinated by cold cases, and her latest project – the disappearance of the two Tanner children more than twenty years ago – is leading her straight to Eden’s door. 
 
And, as Frank knows all too well, asking too many questions about Eden Archer can get you buried as deep as her past …

Fall

The second instalment in the Archer &amp; Bennett series, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author, Candice Fox. 
 
Most police duos run on trust, loyalty, and the desire to see killers in court. But Detective Frank Bennett’s partner, the enigmatic Eden Archer, has nothing to offer him but danger. 
 
 Eden doesn’t mind catching killers – but it’s not in the courthouse where her justice is served. 
 
And now she is about to head undercover and it’s up to Frank to watch over her. 
 
 But as the darkness around Eden gathers, Frank begins to ask himself: is Eden saving lives, or taking them? 
 
 Frank is about to find out…

Eden

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From the Sunday Times #1 bestselling author 
 
'Complex, human characters, and a dark, meaty story, and fine writing, and a great sense of place — this is one of the best crime thrillers of the year. Sign me up as a big-time Fox fan!' LEE CHILD, author of the Jack Reacher series 
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When former detective Ted Conkaffey is wrongly accused of abducting a teenage girl, he hopes the Queensland town of Crimson Lake will be the perfect place to disappear. 
 
But nowhere is safe from the girl’s devastated father. Dale Bingley plans to take brutal revenge – and if Ted can't find the real abductor, he’ll be the first casualty. 
 
Meanwhile, on the beer-soaked floor of a nearby roadside shack, two young bartenders lie dead. As the homicide investigation unravels, Ted and his unlikely ally private detective Amanda Pharrell are brought in to assist on the case. 
 
While Ted fights to clear his own name, their hunt for the killer draws them into a violent dance with evil. 
 
They have one shot at redemption. It just might cost them their lives… 
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Steeped in tension, REDEMPTION is an absorbing crime thriller from an award-winning writer which will hold you in its grip to the final page. 
 
'If you like great thrillers, you'll love Candice Fox!' - Lee Child

Redemption

From the co-author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller Never Never 
 
THE KILLER IS IN SIGHT, BUT WHO IS BEHIND YOU? 
 
Homicide detective Frank Bennett feels like the luckiest man on the force when he meets his new partner, the dark and beautiful Eden Archer. But there’s something strange about Eden and her brother, Eric. Something he can’t quite put his finger on. 
 
At first, as they race to catch a very different kind of serial killer, his partner’s sharp instincts come in handy. But soon Frank’s wondering if she’s as dangerous as the man they hunt. 
 
'If you like great thrillers, you'll love Candice Fox!' - Lee Child 
 
'Definitely a writer to watch' - Harlan Coben 
 
'A bright new star of crime fiction' - James Patterson

Hades

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Never Never comes an ingenious and edgy suspense novel that will keep you guessing to the very last page . . . 
 
12.46: 13-year-old Claire Bingley stands alone at a bus stop 
 
 12.47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her 
 
 12.52: The girl is missing . . .Six minutes - that’s all it took to ruin Detective Ted Conkaffey’s life. 
 
Accused but not convicted of Claire’s abduction, he escapes north, to the steamy, croc-infested wetlands of Crimson Lake. 
 
Amanda Pharrell knows what it’s like to be public enemy no.1. Maybe it’s her murderous past that makes her so good as a private investigator, tracking lost souls in the wilderness. Her latest target, missing author Jake Scully, has a life more shrouded in secrets than her own - so she enlists help from the one person in town more hated than she is: Ted Conkaffey. 
 
But the residents of Crimson Lake are watching the pair’s every move. And for Ted, a man already at breaking point, this town is offering no place to hide . . .

Crimson Lake

Andrew Rosenheim

1942: THE RACE IS ON TO CREATE THE ATOMIC BOMB. 
 
James Nessheim has gone back to college and thinks he has left his life as a spy behind. 
 
But the covert nuclear programme at the University of Chicago has been infiltrated by an enemy agent, and Nessheim is persuaded by the FBI to help track him down. 
 
At the same time, an old flame re-enters Nessheim’s life and he finds himself falling in love. But can it be coincidence that she appears just as he becomes a special agent again? 
 
Nessheim’s personal and professional lives grow dangerously intertwined as he struggles to protect the war’s deadliest secret – and work out who he can trust.

The Accidental Agent

It's the late 1930s in an America slowly pulling itself out of the Depression. War is threatening in Europe, but in America, with forty million citizens of German ancestry, there is great pressure to stay out of the fight. 
 
Jimmy Nessheim, a young Special Agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned to infiltrate a new German-American organisation known as the Bund. Ardently pro-Nazi, it is conspiring to sabotage President Roosevelt's efforts to stop Hitler's advance. But as Nessheim's investigation takes him into the very heart of the Bund, it becomes increasingly clear that something far more sinister is at work, something that seems to lead directly to the White House. Drawn into the centre of Washington's high society, Nessheim finds himself caught up in a web of political intrigue and secret lives. But as he moves closer to the truth, an even more lethal plot emerges, one that could rewrite history in the most catastrophic of ways... 
 
Set in the tense years before the Second World War, Fear Itself offers a rich depiction of history as it was - and as it might have been. A compelling thriller, it tells the riveting story of a plot that had the potential to change the world

Fear Itself

Simon Kernick

This engrossing and unputdownable fast-paced thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben, is perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James. Guaranteed to get your blood pumping - a real edge-of-your-seat ride! 
 
'Hang on tight!' - Harlan Coben 
'Full of Kernick's trademark cheerful amoral characters, it's irresistible entertainment' -- Sunday Mirror 
'A spectacularly fast moving and captivating read.' -- Lovereading 
'Wow I absolutely loved this book from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 
'I couldn't put it down and read it within 24 hours of getting it!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Fast paced thriller with the twists and turns that keeps you enthralled from the first page to the last' -- ***** Reader review 
'Full of tension and excitement' -- ***** Reader review 
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YOU'VE SEEN TOO MUCH. NOWHERE IS SAFE NOW. 
 
THE WITNESS 
When Jane Kinnear sees her lover being murdered, she suddenly finds herself in danger. Taken to an anonymous police safe-house, it soon becomes clear that her lover was an MI5 informant with important information about an imminent terrorist attack. 
 
THE DETECTIVE 
DI Ray Mason of Counter Terrorism Command is a man with a controversial past, but his effectiveness at getting results means that he's now been given the task of preventing the attack from taking place. But can he be trusted, and does he know more about the attack than he's letting on? 
 
THE KILLER 
In the safe-house, Jane is trying to piece together a description of her lover's killer. But what she doesn't know is that the killer has already found out who she is, and where she is hiding. 
 
And now he's coming for her ...

The Witness

(DI Ray Mason: Book 1): a gripping, race-against-time thriller by the best-selling author Simon Kernick

Taylor Stevens

Fearless heroine, Vanessa Munroe - brilliant, intelligent and utterly ruthless - is here to sort out the bad guys in this gripping series.Think Jason Bourne, meets Lara Croft and you're halfway there…

Information specialist Vanessa ‘Michael’ Munroe has a global reputation for getting things done, often dangerous and violent things. 
 
But her reputation has brought her dangerous enemies. 
 
On a busy Dallas street, Munroe is kidnapped by an unseen opponent and thrust into an underground world where women and girls are merchandise and a shadowy figure known as The Doll Maker controls her every move. 
 
Now everything pivots on one simple choice: Munroe must use her unique set of skills to deliver a high-profile young woman into the same nightmare that she once endured, or condemn to torture and certain death the one person she loves above all else.

The Doll

(Vanessa Munroe: Book 3)

Will Jordan

An experienced special forces operative, and later a CIA paramilitary officer, Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found. Once a soldier in the British Army, he now works for the CIA as a 'shepherd' - an elite investigation team that finds and brings home missing agents.

If you are looking for an adrenalin-fuelled, blood-pumping, break-neck speed thriller then look no further than Will Jordan's third novel featuring British CIA agent Ryan Drake. Compelling, unputdownable and unforgettable, it's perfect for fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn and David Baldacci! 
 
'Entertaining' - The Telegraph 
'The writing is excellent and I found it hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Gripping from start to finish'-- ***** Reader review 
'Could not put the book down'-- ***** Reader review 
'Excellent read - Will Jordan does not disappoint'-- ***** Reader review 
'Ryan Drake - a sure winner' -- ***** Reader review 
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HE FREED HER. HE TRUSTED HER. NOW HE MUST HUNT HER. 
 
Washington, DC. Former soldier and elite CIA operative Ryan Drake is heading out for dinner when he witnesses a sniper attack on a crowded freeway. 
 
 A motorcade full of Russian Federal Security Force members - in Washington for a top level conference with their US counterparts - has been ambushed. Many have been killed and worst of all, Drake discovers that the leader of the strike team was Anya - the dangerous and enigmatic woman he once risked everything to protect. 
 
 Drake cannot believe her capable of such an atrocity but with the Russians baying for blood and tensions rising, Drake and his depleted team head for Siberia to discover the truth. 
 
And here he must confront the terrifying possibility that Anya's betrayal will unmask secrets greater and more devastating than he could ever have imagined.

Betrayal

(Ryan Drake: book 3): another compelling thriller in the high-octane series featuring British CIA agent Ryan Drake

Vanessa Michael Munroe – the fearless heroine of the New York Times bestseller The Informationist – returns in a gripping thriller sequel for fans of Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne. 
 
Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. 
 
Now, after years of searching, childhood survivors of the group have found the girl in Argentina. But getting her out is a whole new challenge. 
 
For the rescue they need someone who is brilliant, fearless and utterly ruthless. 
 
They need Vanessa Michael Munroe. 
 
Because the only way to get Hannah out is for Munroe to go in …

The Innocent

(Vanessa Munroe: Book 2)

Autumn 1941: most of the world is at war. America is hovering on the brink. 
 
Special Agent James Nessheim is stuck in Hollywood, working as an adviser to a studio making pro-FBI movies. 
 
And then one his key informants, Japanese-American Billy Osaka, asks to see him urgently. But before they can meet, Osaka vanishes. 
 
Nessheim’s search for Osaka takes him to a Mob-run gambling club, through the dense streets of LA’s Little Tokyo, from the seamy San Pedro docks to the hill-top ranch of a Communist sympathiser. 
 
As Nessheim begins to unravel Osaka’s deadly secrets, he uncovers a chilling conspiracy to push America into the war. 
 
But other people are looking for Osaka too, and are prepared to kill anyone who gets in their way. A lethal race is on.

The Informant

A New York Times bestseller, The Informationist introduces Vanessa Michael Munroe, a brilliant new heroine, in a thriller for fans of Lisbeth Salander, Jack Reacher and Jason Bourne. 
 
 
'One of the best thrillers of the year!' Tess Gerritsen 
 
Vanessa Munroe deals in information - covert information. With an extraordinary intellect, a physique that allows her to pass as either male or female, and ruthless martial arts skills, she offers a unique service to anyone - government or individual - who'll pay her. 
 
Now a Texas oil billionaire has hired her to find his daughter, who vanished in Africa four years earlier. Where international investigators have tried and failed, Munroe follows a cold trail far into the lawless lands of central Africa. 
 
And then things spin out of control. 
 
Pulled deep into the mystery of the missing girl, Munroe finds herself cut off from civilisation and left for dead. Her only hope of discovering the truth - and of getting out of Africa alive - is to face up to the violent past that she's fought so hard to forget.

The Informationist

(Vanessa Munroe: Book 1)

Let bestselling author Will Jordan take you on a break-neck speed ride with CIA agent Ryan Drake in this compelling and unmissable thriller. Fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn and David Baldacci will love this! 
 
'Entertaining' - The Telegraph 
'Engrossing' -- ***** Reader review 
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review 
'From the start Mr Jordan weaves a spell - the action is fast and believable' -- ***** Reader review 
'Creative plot played out at a relentless pace - great stuff, Mr Jordan!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Great book that will have you keep turning the pages' -- ***** Reader review 
'Superb from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 
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A MISSING MAN. A BRUTAL CONFLICT. 
 
Afghanistan, 2008: a Black Hawk helicopter carrying a senior CIA operative is shot down by a surface to air missile, its lone passenger taken hostage by a fanatical new insurgent group. 
 
Knowing this man holds information vital to the ongoing conflict, the CIA bring in Ryan Drake and his elite Shepherd team to find and rescue their lost operative. 
 
But nothing is what it seems, and within hours of arriving in the war-torn country, Drake and his team find themselves caught in a deadly conflict between a brutal terrorist warlord and the ruthless leader of a private military company. 
 
And lurking in the shadows is a woman from Drake's past determined to settle old scores...

Sacrifice

(Ryan Drake: book 2): a gripping, fast-paced, all-action page-turner you won’t be able to put down…

Introducing Ryan Drake - think Jason Bourne meets Jack Reacher...If you like Lee Child, Vince Flynn and David Baldacci, you will love this riveting and unputdownable thriller from bestselling author Will Jordan. 
 
'Entertaining' - The Telegraph 
'I can honestly say that I couldn't put this book down.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Just builds and builds and the climax [is] thrilling.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Top-notch' -- ***** Reader review 
'This book does not let up. It hits the gas and it doesn't let up on the pedal.' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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EVERYONE HAS SECRETS. BUT SOME CAN GET YOU KILLED. 
 
Ryan Drake is a man who finds people who don't want to be found. 
 
Once a soldier in the British Army, he now works for the CIA, leading an elite investigation team that tracks down missing agents. But his latest mission - to free a prisoner codenamed Maras and bring her back onto US soil within forty-eight hours - is more dangerous than anything his team has attempted before. 
 
But it's when the mission is successfully completed that the real danger for Drake begins. Faced with a terrible threat, he is forced to go on the run with Maras - a veteran agent scarred by years of brutal imprisonment. 
 
Hunted by his former comrades and those willing to do anything to protect a deadly secret, Drake is left with no choice but to trust a dangerous woman he barely knows. 
 
For he has only one chance to save those he loves and time is running out... 
 
Drake will return in Sacrifice.

(Ryan Drake: book 1): a compelling, action-packed and high-octane thriller that will have you gripped from page one

Brett Battles

Attention all Jason Bourne, James Bond or Jack Reacher fans - this is the book for you! This is a thriller in every sense of the word, with double-backs and triple crosses galore. Add a razor sharp plot and you've got one hell of a ride! 
 
'Break-neck pacing, colourful locales and dizzying plot twists make the Quinn series a welcome addition to the political thriller genre.' -- Publishers Weekly 
'Battles keeps layering on the suspense until you can hardly breathe' -- Linwood Barclay 
'This book is a pure delight.' - Jeffrey Deaver 
'Who needs Lee Child when Battles is about?' -- ***** Reader review 
'Awesome - the style is crisp and the story fast paced with more twists and turns than a stream' -- ***** Reader review 
'Fabulous book, couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Excellent. Loved it' -- ***** Reader review 
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JONATHAN QUINN KEEPS PEOPLE'S SECRETS. NOW SOMEONE IS ABOUT TO UNCOVER HIS. 
 
Professional 'cleaner' Jonathan Quinn's latest job is a strange one: find and remove the remains of a body hidden twenty years ago inside the walls of a London building, before the building is demolished. 
 
 But Quinn and his team are being watched. 
 
Suddenly caught in the crossfire between two dangerous rivals, Quinn must unravel the identity of the body and why it still poses so great a threat even in death. Because a plot stretching from the former Soviet Union to Hong Kong, from Paris to London, from Los Angeles to Maine is rapidly falling apart. 
 
And Quinn hasn't just been hired to tie up loose ends - he is one.

The Silenced

(Jonathan Quinn: book 4)

Tom Harper

Fans of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler and Scott Mariani will love this high-octane, edge-of-your-seat international thriller from the pen of prizewinning author Tom Harper. It has everything you could want: great plot, great pace, great suspense and a great twist... 
 
'In the tradition of The Da Vinci Code, a page-turner of a novel. Like Dan Brown, Tom Harper knows how to ratchet up the tension.' -- Choice 
'FANTASTIC FANTASTIC FANTASTIC' -- ***** Reader review 
'A page-turner: not a single moment of boredom' -- ***** Reader review 
'Could not put it down!' -- ***** Reader review 
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A BRUTAL MURDER. A DAMAGED SURVIVOR. A RACE AGAINST TIME... 
 
In a villa on the coast of Montenegro, Abby Cormac witnesses the brutal murder of her lover, diplomat Michael Lascaris. The last thing she remembers is a gun pointed directly at her and wakes to find herself alone and at the centre of a diplomatic nightmare. Everyone wants an answer but no one wants to listen. Even her employers at the Foreign Office believe she's hiding something. 
 
 As Abby tries to piece together the last few months of Michael's life in order to get at the truth, she soon realises that he wasn't quite what he seemed. What exactly was his relationship with one of the most ruthless men in the Balkans? And what links Michael's gift to her of a gold necklace, a 4th century manuscript left in the shadow of Emperor Constantine's palace at Trier and an inscription on a tomb in Rome? 
 
 When Abby investigates further, it becomes clear that someone wants to suppress a secret, one that has been kept hidden for centuries. And they will stop at nothing to do so...

Secrets of the Dead

an utterly compelling action-packed thriller – guaranteed to have you hooked…

Christopher Reich

The most riveting novel yet in Christopher Reich's New York Times bestselling series-featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma, a dangerous woman with a mysterious past who has gone rogue in the high-stakes, serpentine world of international spies. 
 
In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed. 
 
Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom must unravel the mystery surrounding his wife-an enigmatic and lethal spy who plays by her own rules-and discover where her loyalties truly lie. 
 
Rules of Betrayal is a masterfully plotted novel that cements Christopher Reich's reputation as one of the most admired espionage thriller writers today.

Rules of Betrayal

Chris Ryan

A relentless, edge-of-your-seat action novel full of twists and turns from multi-million copy bestseller Chris Ryan. Fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather will not be disappointed. 
 
'Hard as nails' -- Mirror 
'Slick, polished and gut-wrenching stuff' -- Irish Times 
'Great story which keeps you on your toes throughout' -- ***** Reader review 
'Hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review 
'Gripping stuff' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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IS THIS THE GREATEST TERRORIST CATASTROPHE SINCE 9/11? 
 
Three cities all lose power. No-one claims responsibility. Fears of a terrorist strike are imminent. 
 
Josh Harding is a tough SAS soldier. Yet his disregard for authority has landed him a secondment to MI6's anti-terrorism unit. In the wake of the mysterious 'Three Cities' attacks, Josh finds himself on the way to the USA, on the trail of a pair of intrepid young hackers who are out to try and make themselves a fortune, and who are in grave danger from those who would kill for the secrets they have managed to uncover: how to control the power of the Western world. 
 
But soon Josh finds himself waking up in a ditch, bloody and wounded, and with no memory of who he is, how he got there, or how he got hurt. Yet one thing is for certain - Josh is in danger. 
 
Stranded in the Wild West, Josh must rely on his instincts as a soldier and on the kindness of a beautiful stranger in order to escape those who appear intent on tracking him down and killing him - all for a secret he can't remember. 
 
His determination to discover who he is, and what he was doing there leads him into an explosive web of corporate blackmail, deceit and greed - where the stakes are high and where no-one can be trusted.

Blackout

tough, fast-moving military action from bestselling author Chris Ryan

Alex Berenson

When members of a secret American interrogation squad that was running a black site in Poland in 2007 and 2008 and had since been disbanded are murdered, John Wells is asked to investigate. 
 
But his enquiries lead him to discover that while the squad came up with some very valuable intel, its tactics were questionable at best...

The Midnight House

Frederick Forsyth

**The chilling thriller from an international bestselling phenomenon.** 
 
'A triumph of plot, construction and research' THE TIMES 
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Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. 
 
A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a jigsaw of devastation. MI5 investigator John Preston, working against the most urgent of deadlines, leads an operation to prevent the act of murderous destruction aimed at tumbling Britain into revolution... 
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Readers love The Fourth Protocol ... 
 
***** 'One of the best spy books around.' 
***** 'The Fourth Protocol is my favourite spy novel of all time.' 
***** 'Trust a master story teller to write an epic!' 
***** 'I have probably read this book cover-to-cover a dozen times, and have read selected chapters many more.' 
***** 'Have read this book several time but a re-visit every so often seems to be inevitable and worth my time.'

The Fourth Protocol

The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. Discover the 1Q84 Trilogy by Haruki Murakami.

1Q84

365 Days of Art

A BBC Christmas

A Black Book Thriller

A Box Full of Murders

A Cal Leandros Novel

A Christmas Mystery

The intelligent and capable police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice.

A Commissario Brunetti Mystery

A DC Smith / Kings Lake Investigation Series

A Daisy Story

Chronicling the lives of over three hundred characters, unrivalled for its scope and humour, this is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.

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