"WE WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC BEFORE HIS THROAT IS SLIT."
Those were Nick Carter's orders. Translated, they meant that Nick had to find Rico Corelli before the Syndicate killers did.
Corelli had been controlling the international drug chain...
At the height of the Cold War, a British intelligence agent investigates a Russian defector with a deadly secret
Adrian Dodds is a man without hobbies, friends, or family, who works a very peculiar job. Though he looks like a pencil pusher, he...
The Sixth Directorate (1975) was the second of Joseph Hone’s quartet of ‘Peter Marlow’ spy novels, all now reissued as Faber Finds.
In prison his name had been Marlow. When British Intelligence released him to impersonate a dangerous KGB...
A new army of killers was being recruited in Sicily by the Dons in the States. Young, tough, ruthless men were being smuggled into America, trained to wage brutal war within the underworld.
The government wanted to hasten the butchery and let...
In the fourth and final installment of David Downing’s spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution...
Under any other circumstances it would have been cause for celebration when Nick Carter’s three friends showed up in the States—
• the cross-eyed Egyptian criminologist Hakim Sadek, who had so often used his devious talents and hideous...
It's Quiller's most dangerous mission yet, and is also his last for the British intelligence agency so secret that it has no name. No matter that its orders originate at the Prime Minister level; if detected, it would be denied at that and every...