Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy...
Le maigre désigna le récepteur de fac-similés :
— Un drôle de truc. De l’espionnage météo. On aura tout vu. Alors que des dizaines de stations donnent toutes les indications voulues. Il n’y a qu’à se mettre à l’écoute....
Derrière moi, il y a le passage à niveau où l'homme se fit ratatiner par un rapide… Je laisse ma voiture sur le bord du fossé et je me mets en quête du numéro 12… Pas marle à dénicher… C'est une petite construction sans étage,...
9 Nov 1939 - 13 Mar 1940
The revolt of the German generals had failed and the Nazi purge was mounting in savagery when Gregory Sallust entered Berlin dressed as a Wehrmacht colonel and riding in an official S.S. car. His purpose was to...
Farewell is the story of what Ronald Reagan called “one of the biggest espionage cases of the century.” Farewell, became the code name of Vladimir Ippolitovitch Vetrov, a KGB spy turned double-agent when he accepted work for the DST, the French...
This is the most valuable summary in print of the RAF's challenge to Germany's invasion plans for the British Isles. Beginning by describing how «history is swamped by patriotic myths about the summer of 1940», Deighton invalidates any theories...
Avez-vous déjà vu un personnage obèse, cradingue, vinasseux et violacé, en pantoufles, maillot de corps gris (mais qui fut blanc jadis), portant un pantalon de coutil rapiécé, affublé d'un véritable sombrero...