Back at work for the British Secret Service, Charlie accepts an assignment in Japan that just might be his last Charlie Muffin was once the toughest agent in the British Secret Service. He wasn't strong, fast, or charming, but he knew how to...
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A cagey British spy fights enemies from without and within - Charlie Muffin is an anachronism. He came into the Secret Service in the early 1950s, when the government, desperate for foot soldiers in the new Cold War, dipped into the middle class...
Disavowed spy Charlie Muffin wages war against his former employers. Charlie Muffin has come back to England. The ex-spy, a veteran of twenty-five years' service to the crown, was last seen in Berlin, where an attempt on his life by his own...
Jonathan Hemlock lives in a renovated Gothic church on Long Island. He is an art professor, a mountain climber, and a mercenary, performing assassinations (i.e., sanctions) for money to augment his black-market art collection. Now Hemlock is...
This early (1924) spy adventure is one of five Buchan novels featuring the heroic Richard Hannay. Hannay is called out of retirement to rescue the kidnapped offspring of three highly placed British citizens. Hannay soon uncovers a global...
Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian...
Paris, November 1945. John Russell is walking home along the banks of the Seine on a cold and misty evening when Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin falls into step alongside him. Shchepkin tells Russell that the American intelligence will soon be...
For those who like good, clean spy-type fun, this is a SUPERLATIVE work. Part three in the adventures of Richard Hannay (which started with Buchan's well-known "Thirty-nine Steps"), this is a first-rate thriller set on the eve of World War I,...
September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler’s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve to safety, hidden on a refugee train to...
He has been feeling bored with London life - until he discovers a dead man in his flat, skewered to the floor with a knife through his heart. Only a few days before, the victim had warned him of an assassination plot that could bring the country...