British Spy Thrillers

Ex-spy Kendal was one of the best, but now she’s wearing the toughest disguise of her career: Mom. "[Narrator Ell] Potter skillfully uses accent and tone to convey personalities and keep the fast-paced story humming along." —Kirkus “An incisive feminist thriller and heaps of fun...

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 ...

THE TORN-FROM-THE-HEADLINES THRILLER FROM CWA STEEL DAGGER WINNING AUTHOR SIMON CONWAY A SPY ALONE. AN ENEMY WITHIN. A veteran American spymaster weaving an elaborate web. A politician who makes a high-stakes promise he can’t keep. A clutch of sophisticated air defence missiles stolen in...

Four thrillers. Four secrets that should have stayed buried. From international bestselling author Tim Heath — four full-length, stand-alone novels of espionage, conspiracy and deception, ranging from a burning London to St Petersburg, Beijing and a Boko Haram camp in northern Nigeria. Cherry Picking Nigel Gamble has built an empire by always knowing exactly what is coming next. Robert Sandle knows precisely how he does it — and has travelled a very long way to stop him. A conspiracy thriller with a genuine time-travel secret at its heart. The Tablet Bill Hackett wakes on a plane from ...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exciting Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians and the ultimate gift for anyone who loves a good spy thriller! On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of...

A captivating spy story, brimming with more twists and turns than a Golden Ager’s hula-hoop convention, Hornett’s debut comedy novel introduces the world to Britain's latest, and most endearing, special agent, Maggie Matheson. Fans of Richard Osman's Murder Club books and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson will simply love this book. “A laugh-out-loud spy thriller with a twist. Maggie is a thumping good story which keeps you guessing to the end” “Hilarious... you’ll fall in love with eccentric Maggie in minutes..." “Maggie ...

In London, 1896, private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker's world is upturned when his longtime nemesis, Sebastian Nightwine, previously believed dead, turns up with evil on his mind, launching devastating and secretive attacks against not just Barker, but his network of friends and close associates...

VIENNA, 1945. Charles Eddington has failed here before. Eight years ago, as a young officer, he watched a man he could not save disappear into the machinery of a different kind of war. Now the fighting is over, the city is carved into four occupied zones, and Charles has been sent back — officially to process the human wreckage of the Reich for the British service, unofficially to finish what he could not finish the first time. The man he is looking for is still alive. Barely. Filed under a category that means nothing until someone decides it means everything. Standing between them is Sir...

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle. Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin “[A Spy Among...

The first in an action-packed spy series introducing Lieutenant Dragan Kelly. It is 1942. HMS Visigoth has been torpedoed off the coast of German occupied Norway. Sole survivor Lieutenant Dragan Kelly finds himself behind enemy lines, unsure who to trust. The Norwegian resistance share rumours about a mysterious Nazi plant where an Armageddon weapon of terrifying power is under construction. Should Kelly escape to Russia or stay and investigate it? And what of the stunningly beautiful but enigmatic resistance fighter Sybilla? Kelly falls in love with her, but is she all she claims to be? ...

He had no name. No agenda. No fear. Before he was a journalist. Before London. Before the secrets that followed him home — there was just a man on a road, heading somewhere interesting. When a chance encounter in a Quetta tea shop puts him behind the wheel of a truck bound for Kandahar, Charlie Lockhart discovers what he's made of. And what he's capable of. Fearless is the explosive origin story of Charlie Lockhart — the globe-trotting British journalist at the heart of the Charlie Lockhart Thriller Series. From the dusty border towns of Pakistan to the killing fields of Afghanistan, ...

East Africa, 1913. The disgraced English aristocrat Everard Dominey stumbles out of the bush and comes face to face with his lookalike, the German Baron von Ragastein. Months later, Dominey returns to London and resumes his glittering social life. But is it really Dominey who has come back - or a German secret agent seeking to infiltrate English high society?

It is very early in Jack Ryan’s career—so early that he has not yet even become an analyst for the CIA. But a series of nasty encounters with an IRA splinter group has brought Ryan to the attention of the CIA’s Deputy Director and his British counterpart. They offer him his first job as a...

The instant international bestseller set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West’s spy war against the Soviets strewn across Europe, he...

All chess games end in a murder... It's 1920, the murders of a trade unionist, a knight and a bishop shock Britain. The finger of blame seems to point to Russia. As the body count rises, Kit Aston plays a deadly game of chess with a Russian grandmaster where checkmate is a matter of life or death. The latest Kit Aston whodunnit is a gripping historical crime thriller, full of twists and hilarious one liners which fuses classic murder mystery with a spy novel. The Kit Aston mysteries mix real life historical characters and events with crime thrillers full of red herrings. No books are the ...

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II. It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, 18-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande and...

What Bernard Sampson, protagonist of Berlin Game, Mexico Set, and London Match, is about to know may hurt him. When word gets to London Central that a cache of millions of pounds has disappeared inside the Service, Samson is determined to learn the truth. But not even that discovery will help if the Department itself wants his blood....

September 1943. The microfilm in his boot heel is worth more than his life, and its value expires in ninety days. Colditz Castle is where the Reich sends the prisoners no other camp can hold. Flight Lieutenant Daniel Ash arrives with a secret that would get him shot in a courtyard rather than returned to a cell: before the war made him a bomber pilot, Bletchley made him a codebreaker. On his first night, a dying stranger in the next cell passes a canister through a gap in the stone. Inside: film that must reach London before its window closes, carried by a courier who didn't live to explain...

Narrated by accomplished actor, Mark Gatiss! JAMES BOND GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH SMERSH IN A BID TO SECURE A KEY PIECE OF SOVIET INTELLIGENCE SMERSH, the Russian intelligence unit whose acronym stands for “Death to Spies,” is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would...