Ancient Spy

From the New York Times bestselling author, the incredible true story of the American archaeologists and classicists who went undercover as OSS spies during World War II to fight the Nazis and protect the world's most precious relics In 1942, as head of the newly formed OSS, Wild Bill Donovan...

Oxford, December 1954. The city of dreaming spires is hiding something. Detective Constable Sam True of Scotland Yard has been sent to Oxford on what should be a routine inquiry: two academic deaths, possibly connected, both officially closed. But within hours of his arrival, he has uncovered a pattern that nobody in authority wants examined — a systematic programme of elimination targeting classified researchers, running for years inside one of Britain's most sensitive defence contractors. The victims are scientists working at the frontier of Cold War cryptography. Their research, if ...

He found the end of the world in a core sample. The message said: They're Coming Back. Eli Croft spent thirty years at the NSA reading signals that weren't supposed to exist. Now he's retired, alone on forty acres of Utah scrubland, and the most interesting problem in his life is amateur geology. Then core sample seven comes back wrong. The isotope gradients are too precise. Too consistent. Statistically impossible to be natural. Eli runs the analysis six more times. The anomaly doesn't go away — it gets sharper with better instruments. Someone built something in the rock. Sixty-five ...

El Inca Atahualpa, Señor del Principio, ha sido capturado por unos extraños barbudos que han llegado hasta Cajamarca montados en llamas gigantes y premunidos de mortales cilindros en los que habita Illapa, el dios del Trueno y el Relámpago. El Mundo de las Cuatro Direcciones se encuentra en peligro mortal.

Twelve true stories from Jewish history — the way they actually happened. You've probably heard of the Exodus from Egypt — but did you know that an Egyptian boy king's tomb might hold clues that connect to that very event? You've heard of the Spanish Inquisition — but do you know that the same day Columbus set sail for the New World, Jewish families were crammed into overcrowded ships in a nearby harbor, fleeing for their lives? Spies, Kings & Exiles tells the stories of real people — scared, brave, desperate, clever, and sometimes just incredibly lucky — facing impossible ...

Beneath the surface, the dead are waiting… When mermaid private investigator Alexis Silver is summoned by her CIA handler for a “quiet favor,” she expects another classified errand. Instead, she’s flown to rural Oregon, where a long-forgotten reservoir hides a drowned town, and a Cold War listening post built to monitor something the Agency still refuses to name. But the lake holds more than secrets. As Alex dives into the sunken streets of Haskell Springs, she finds spirits drifting through ruined storefronts and ghostly figures glaring from the windows of submerged houses. Some ...

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson—author of Moonlight Over Paris and Somewhere in France—comes a lush historical novel that tells the fascinating story of Ruby Sutton, an ambitious American journalist who moves to London in 1940 to report on the Second World War, and to start...

610 AD. The Byzantine Empire is collapsing. Persian armies pour across the eastern frontier. The Balkans are ravaged by barbarian invasions. At the centre of the chaos sits Phocas, a half-mad soldier who has seized the throne and now rules Constantinople through spectacle and arbitrary torture. One province after another declares for Heraclius, the ambitious usurper advancing from Africa. The capital trembles on the brink of destruction. Into this inferno comes Aelric of England—scholar, rake, and reluctant agent of the Papacy. Blackmailed into abandoning a profitable life of lechery and ...

Christmas Eve, 2059 in Nashville—a breakfast diner table overflows with coffee mugs, biscuit crumbs, and a crayon-sketched paper tablecloth. Seated around it: two lawmakers, a marine, a hunter, and a tech trillionaire. Their mission: rescue innocent loved ones caught in the crosshairs of a diabolical plan for extortion.

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Cairo, 1942. A dying courier presses a lump of fired clay into Thomas Voss's hand — and every intelligence service in the city would kill to take it from him. The seal is no bigger than a coin. Cut into it is the name of a pharaoh erased from history three thousand years ago, and a code that points to an archive buried beneath the desert: a record powerful enough to rewrite who owns the past — and who will own what comes after the war. Voss is an American scholar turned reluctant agent, already broken once by a betrayal in Lisbon he can't outrun. Now the British want the seal for the ...

'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail LAWS ARE SILENT IN TIMES OF WAR. There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins...

For Ahsan and the beast hiding under his skin, the safest place to hide is behind enemy lines. These days, the trick is knowing where that is. When the Blight Hunt comes to Sippar, it's all he can do to escape scrutiny. Yet when his plans go awry and his deadly secret risks being exposed, he finds he's not the only one harboring dark truths—nor the only one in peril.

A COVERT OPERATION UNDER THE NOSE OF A TYRANT. Judea, 4 B.C. The region is a powder keg. Herod the Great is dying, paranoid, and purging his own court. The Romans are watching the roads. Jerusalem is a nest of spies. Into this kill zone ride the Magi—scientists and intelligence officers from the East tracking a celestial anomaly that signals a regime change. Their mission is a tactical extraction: infiltrate hostile territory, locate the High-Value Asset, and deliver the funding for his escape before Herod’s death squads close the net. This is the Nativity story retold as a race against...

Benevento, AD 619: A Spy’s Game in a Losing Empire Who butchered Tubby Quintus in Rodi’s bed? Not Rodi himself – the Byzantine Empire’s youngest spy in the West was in another bed when it happened. Was it Aripert, the vicious and expendable brother of the Lombard King? Was it Gisulf, the Duke’s pretty but manipulative and no less expendable nephew? Was it the Duchess – half-drunken, half-shifty regent of Benevento in her husband’s unexplained absence? Or Clementian, her cadaverous steward and trusted “adviser”? So long as he can avoid being hanged at the demand of everyone...

THE MAN WHO PRICED THE KINGDOM. Judas Iscariot was the movement's Treasurer and its only true realist. While the other disciples debated theology, he managed the insolvency of a revolution running on miracles and debt. He saw the collision with Rome coming before anyone else. Desperate to save the Messiah from a suicide mission, Judas orchestrated a tactical arrest designed to force a display of divine power. It was meant to be the ultimate political maneuver—a forced move to crown the King. File 003 of The Unsealed Archives documents the fatal calculation of a man who tried to manage the...

Dive into the heart of Atlantis at the pinnacle of its glory, where intrigue and betrayal threaten to shatter a divine peace. Meet Serellia and Dilala, devoted cultists of the goddess of war, as they navigate a treacherous web of conspiracy and deceit in their quest to thwart a notorious Minoan spy. Follow Barekbaal, a Canaanite merchant, as he strives to carve out a simple existence for himself and his crew, only to find himself ensnared in the machinations of foreign powers and ancient deities.

Warning: Interrupt a powerful mage's honeymoon at your peril - and you thought the Ancient Egyptian curse was dangerous! Fay Olwen is still adjusting to life as one of a couple. She never expected to have a sexy leopard-were cuddling her at midnight in his huge bed in his gorgeous villa on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. But here she is, in love and in luck--finally! There's not a demon in sight. Pity she can't say the same about the invading djinn. Somebody is stealing weres' dream essences, enslaving their spirits to create living zombies. As Steve receives a quest to save the were ...

"I began to daydream about the jungle...." On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras...

Brought to you by Penguin. During a sweltering week in late August, as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in...