This slim volume came out in the autumn and has been picked up so swiftly each time it arrives in the shop that we've hardly been able to keep it in stock...
The author must presumably be glad to have used an alias on reading Dominic Sandbrook's review in the Sunday Times. An interminable, banal and exploitative account of her two-year affair.
It seems the 'Mrs Burton' (born Ursula Kuczynski) who pedalled around the English countryside in 1942 was a colonel in the Red Army. Her life story is extraordinary.
The only woman to reach London from Warsaw during WW2, she was later parachuted back into Poland where she was deeply involved in the Uprising; she then disappeared into the Soviet prison sy... read more
Hayes' first novel since the huge bestseller I Am Pilgrim is about a CIA man in the badlands - the worstlands - of the North West Frontier region, where he encounters a vicious adversary.
An old spy is chased, a damning file appears from nowhere, a civil service enquiry is obstructed... Herron works his compusive magic again in this new stand-alone thriller.
Nevinson, the retired spy whom we met in Berta Isla, becomes entangled in the lives of three women. The last novel by this late and much lamented author is labyrinthine and brilliant...
A sweeping and original history of the connections between espionage and show business, co-written by CA, the authorised historian of MI5, and Green, an historian and theatre producer.
The owner of a small, seaside bookshop is disturbed by the enquiries of a Polish émigré living nearby. He knows an unnerving amount about his family and is still curious to know more... Du... read more
Nifty historical spy novel, in which an MI5 operative is sent to Paris to deal with a blackmail case with political repercussions. The PM is Ramsay Macdonald.
Hair-raising tour of the corridors and back doors of the globalised digital world that looks at espionage and crime, and exposes our startling vulnerabilities.
Mathilde Carre joined the French Resistance in 1940 but was captured by the Germans a year later and betrayed her network. She survived working as as a double agent and then - possibly - a t... read more
Recounts seven decades of activities, with interviews that include most of the surviving former heads of the CIA and discussions of the Agency's role in containing presidential powers. Revel... read more