British War Spies

August 2022. Simon Sharman is out for revenge, pursuing the assassin of his former colleague across war-torn Ukraine. Back in London, a Russian spy ring at the heart of the British Establishment remains active, attempting to sabotage the West's support for Ukraine. In the fiercely contested Donbas region, Simon finds himself sucked into a terrifying shadow conflict between Russia and the West. Can a lone spy make a difference to the course of a conflict?

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? ...

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

The romanticized image of the suave gentleman agent is a lethal fiction. The authentic narrative of global espionage is buried in the soot-stained corners of 1940s London slums. In this groundbreaking examination of clandestine spy networks, Laurence Blake exhumes the horrifying, claustrophobic reality experienced by foreign agents embedded within the British Isles during the Second World War. Far removed from glittering casinos, these Soviet spies in Britain fought their shadow war from damp, freezing bedsits, suffocating beneath the weight of profound paranoia and physical deprivation. ...

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...

From the deserts of Libya and Egypt to the icy lakes of Scotland, from London under the Blitz to German occupied France, from Alpine glaciers to the stately homes of Britain, the book ranges over the landscapes of World War II. The protagonist escapes from Austria with a burning desire for revenge after the murder of his parents by an SS officer. He becomes a British agent, is involved in numerous missions against the German enemy and at the same time hunts for the killer of his parents. At the climax of the book, just as he finds the murderer, he is ordered by his chief to sacrifice his ...

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...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The undisputed master returns with his first Smiley novel in more than twenty-five years--a #1 New York Times bestseller and ideal holiday gift. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the...

The Hazard Trade In British-occupied Newport, Rhode Island, the most dangerous weapons are the people the enemy refuses to see. Newport, Rhode Island is the crown jewel of the colonies—one of the most beautiful cities, one of the wealthiest, with the finest natural harbor in the new world. Rhode Island is a hotbed of rebellion, and the British have made an example of it: brutally occupying the city, blockading the harbor, and cutting off trade. More than half the population has fled the island, every tree has been cut down to feed the voracious need for firewood, and the British have ...

Elise, an artist grieving the loss of her son and a fracturing marriage, is in North Norfolk to restore Marsh House to its former glory, its walls adorned with the fading murals and paintings of its long-ago owner, Lilias Carter-Brown. Elise makes an immediate connection to the house, to Sam—a carpenter and a comfort—and to history itself when an old photograph draws Elise into Lilias’s heartbreaking past. In 1939, with war threatening, Lilias and her sister turn Marsh House into a sanctuary for London evacuees—a young boy and his mother.

From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II intelligence showing how espionage successes and failures by the United...

World changing secrets … Global dominance! Ex-SBS operative, Dan Kelly, and his team of misfit agents are up against it once again. Top secret documents have been liberated from a hidden repository, documents so important that even Heinrich Müller, the most wanted of second world war criminals, is prepared to risk everything to find them. Still at large, this malevolent ex-leader of the Gestapo doesn’t care who he'll need to eliminate in order to preserve what’s contained within. So, just what is in these hallowed documents? Kelly surmises that the relentless search for mercury by ...

Bloomsbury presents Operation Mincemeat written and read by Ben Macintyre. THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER 'Astonishing . . . Sheds riveting new light on this breathtaking plan' Daily Mail 'A rollicking read' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Brilliant and almost absurdly entertaining' Malcolm...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European...

Guy Burgess was the most important, complex, and fascinating of "The Cambridge Spies" - Maclean, Philby, Blunt - brilliant young men recruited in the 1930s to betray their country to the Soviet Union. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.

The Final Dispatch. The Shield Reclaims the Sword. The Epic Conclusion to the Code Name Series. The Mission: Rescue. The Cost: Everything. Fitzwilliam Darcy is a man of iron codes and legendary composure. But when Elizabeth is taken—lost in a web of traitors and ciphers—the mask of the "Oxford-bred" aristocrat shatters. To the Crown, she is a compromised asset. To Darcy, she is his heart, his wife, and the mother of his unborn heir. With the Shield fallen, the Master of Pemberley becomes the Hunter. From the dark alleys of the London docks to the high-stakes shadow-play of St. James’s...

She was trained to find patterns in history. She never expected to find a deadly one hiding in plain sight. London, 1940. The Blitz has turned the city into a nightly nightmare of fire and destruction. Dr. Evelyn Landon, a historian recruited by the Ministry of Information, spends her days reading civilian diaries, cataloging the fears, hopes, and small rebellions of ordinary Londoners under siege. It's quiet work. Safe work. Until she notices something impossible. "Such a shame the roses are wilting early this year." Roses don't wilt in November. They freeze. And that single wrong detail ...

In this rapid-paced book, a former CIA chief of Soviet bloc counterintelligence breaks open the mysterious case of KGB officer Yuri Nosenko's 1964 defection to the United States. Still a highly controversial chapter in the history of Cold War espionage, the Nosenko affair has inspired debate for more than 40 years. Was Nosenko a bona fide defector with the real information about Lee Harvey Oswald's stay in Soviet Russia, or was he a KGB loyalist, engaged in a complex game of deception?

Dealing with Europe is never easy It's Paris 1919 and the Peace Conference following the end of the Great War is proving anything but peaceful. In fact, it can be murder... A French Diplomat has been murdered. When the chief suspect turns out to be the girlfriend of Aldric 'Spunky' Stephens, Kit Aston is called in to investigate. The investigation becomes a race against time as Europe faces a deadly new enemy, intent on dragging it back into the carnage from which it has just escaped. The Kit Aston mysteries mix real life historical characters and events with crime thrillers full of red ...

A slow-burn Regency romance of grief, loyalty, and forbidden longing. Lady Verity Harleigh had a perfect marriage, brief, brilliant, and gone too soon. Widowed young, she has spent two years wrapped in memory and duty, determined to honour the man she lost by never risking her heart again. But the past is not as distant as she believes. Adrian Blackmoor was there the night her husband died. He carried the final moments, the final words… and the weight of surviving when another did not. Bound by loyalty and haunted by memory, he has spent years in the shadows of war, until duty, and ...