Soviet Thriller

Klim Rogov, a celebrated radio anchorman, never imagined he’d be treated like royalty in the Soviet Union when he arrived in 1927. But his assignment as a United Press correspondent in Moscow gives him access to the country’s most dangerous and powerful circles. Klim isn’t here for the champagne and privilege that ordinary Russians can only dream of. He’s here for Nina, his wife, who was kidnapped by Bolshevik agents. Every day in Moscow is a tightrope walk: one wrong word, one wrong look, and he could be branded a spy, condemned in a show trial, and lose Nina forever.

President Truman is nearing the end of his term in office, and Great Britain has a new queen. It is 1952; the Cold War is beginning to heat up, and vital Western military secrets are falling into Soviet hands. The CIA is faced with a delicate dilemma, for the source of the leaks to the KGB has been traced directly to the Queen's chambers.

An edge-of-your-seat thriller about China's secret role in the space race—written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Apollo Murders and one of the most experienced astronauts alive. Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz...

A propulsive, relentless page-turner filled with conspiracies, hope, and resilience, from a bestselling author. "Inventive, edgy and relentlessly gripping from the first page to the last." —Scott Turow, #1 bestselling author of Presumed Innocent Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise...

ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2025 The definitive history of Russia’s most secret spy program, from the earliest days of the Soviet Union to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and a revelatory examination of how that hidden history shaped both Russia and the West. More than a century...

The Arkady Renko book that started it all: the #1 bestseller Gorky Park, an espionage classic that begins the series, by Martin Cruz Smith, “the master of the international thriller” (The New York Times). It begins with a triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen...

From New York Times bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield comes this exceptional thriller into the dark heart of the Cold War and the space race—soon to be a major TV series from Altitude and Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions. "An exciting journey" —Andy Weir, author of The...

April 1945. Germany is collapsing. The roads west are choked with refugees, deserters, and the dying remains of the Third Reich. Entire cities surrender beneath white flags while Soviet armor drives relentlessly toward the Elbe. Staff Sergeant Daniel Holt and the six men under his command are supposed to be waiting for a bridge crossing. Instead, they are ordered to escort a surrendered SS officer through the ruins of central Germany. The prisoner, Hauptsturmführer Konrad Reuter, carries documents tied to a hidden war crimes site, records powerful enough to destroy reputations long after ...

In the second installment in the Arkady Renko series from internationally bestselling author Martin Cruz Smith, Renko goes up against the Soviet bureaucracy in a complex international web and discovering more than he bargained for. Arkady Renko, former Chief Investigator of the Moscow Town...

A World War II Military Thriller Inspired by True Events of the Winter War In the frozen skies of 1939 Finland, death doesn’t come from above—it hunts in formation. As the Soviet invasion begins, Finnish fighter ace Lieutenant Veikko Niemi takes to the air in his outclassed Fokker D.XXI, battling overwhelming numbers in defense of his homeland. But something is different this time. The Soviet pilots aren't flying blind bombing runs—they’re coordinated, precise, and deadly. Led by the enigmatic Major Grigori Chernyavin, a disgraced stunt pilot returned from Stalin’s purges, the ...

Can Saddam’s Army hold its own… …against the weight of American military might? Tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters, paratroopers, and amphibious assault vehicles mobilize to bring the pain for Operation Desert Storm. Will Saddam use chemical and biological weapons to try and even the score? The mighty guns of the USS Iowa and Wisconsin support one final amphibious assault. Will their 36-inch, 2,000-pound shells shatter the Iraqi defenses and open the way for the Marines? The largest tank battle since World War II is brewing. What if America didn’t stop in southern Iraq? ...

From a New York Times bestselling author, astronaut, and fighter pilot comes a Cold War thriller perfect for fans of Top Gun and The Hunt for Red October. "A full-throttle, adrenaline-laced espionage page-turner" —Jack Carr, New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List series Israel...

A Cambridge aristocrat. A disgruntled CIA officer. An FBI agent who knelt in church. Three men who sold the West to Moscow – and nearly won. Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hanssen – three double agents who betrayed their countries for ideology, money, and ego. This is the definitive account of the intelligence failures that let them operate for decades. The official histories celebrate the spies who saved the West. They bury the ones who tried to destroy it. The textbooks mention the Cambridge Five and the CIA moles in a single paragraph. But they never answer the question that haunts...

The war was supposed to be decided on the ground. Instead, it moved to the sky. In 1950, a fragile coalition of Russia, Britain, France, and Germany faces a new kind of enemy—one that does not need to hold territory to shape the battlefield. China’s secret long-range missile programme, known only within its own ranks, begins to strike deep behind the front lines, turning distance into vulnerability and certainty into doubt. As cities come under threat and supply lines are shattered without warning, the rules of war begin to collapse. Generals push forward across Siberia, determined to ...

Stalingrad, November 1942. A German sniper has killed nineteen Soviet officers in sixteen days. No one on the Soviet side knows where he is. He already knows someone is coming to find him. Sergeant Aleksei Nort is a Soviet reconnaissance specialist — Finnish by blood, shaped by two winters on the Leningrad front — assigned to locate and eliminate the German marksman paralyzing the 115th Rifle Brigade's assault corridor through the Tractor Factory ruins. He arrives in the factory district with a political officer who has never been cold, a radio operator who is secretly building the most...

Detective Arkady Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—returns in this tense thriller set amid the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In the latest installment of Martin Cruz Smith’s celebrated Arkady Renko series, the legendary Moscow...

From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a mystery that reaches international proportions in this entertaining fourth title in the Arkady Renko series. Former Inspector for the Moscow Militsiya, Arkady Renko, is summoned to Cuba to identify a liquefying...

An international crisis looms and special ops team Old Dog Zero One must avert a full-scale war. In this sequel to Flight of the Old Dog, it's discovered one of the team's own is alive. Presumed dead in Siberia, the airman has come out of a coma only to face the death penalty for crimes against...

EDITORIAL REVIEW A group of experienced Soviet survivalists entered Dyatlov Pass in February 1959 and vanished into one of the most terrifying mysteries in modern history. Drawing from real investigation files, witness testimony, military rumors, recovered photographs, and decades of unexplained contradictions, THE THING ON DYATLOV PASS transforms the infamous Dyatlov Pass Incident into a psychologically devastating Documented Terror nightmare where memory, identity, and reality itself begin collapsing beneath the frozen mountain. Atmospheric, emotionally haunting, and terrifyingly ...

The Cold War never ended. It just went dark Across the globe, Western intelligence agents are being hunted and executed. Each time, the killer leaves one chilling message: Smert Shpionam. Death to Spies. It’s not a bluff. It’s a resurrection. SMERSH — the Soviet Union’s most feared assassination unit — is back. And this time, someone’s using it to send a message: the Cold War isn’t over. It’s just gone covert. Enter Major Sophie Decker, commander of Germany’s black-ops kill team, Department 89. Her mission: hunt down the killers, expose the network, and erase it. No ...