Espionage and spy thriller

Book Synopsis#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his action-packed tale of high stakes international intrigue.On the morning after the Venice Preservation Society's annual black-tie gala, art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon enters his favorite coffee bar on the island of Murano to find General Cesare Ferrari, the commander of the Art Squad, eagerly awaiting his arrival. The Carabinieri have made a startling discovery in the Amalfi villa of a murdered South African shipping tycoona secret vault containing an empty frame and stretcher matching the dimensions of the world's most valuable missing painting. General Ferrari asks Gabriel to quietly track down the artwork before the trail goes cold.Isn't that your job?Finding stolen paintings? Technically speaking, yes. But you're much better at it than we are.The painting in question is The Concert by Johannes Vermeer, one of thirteen works of art stolen from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner MuTrade Review'Daniel writes the way I dream of writing. In my mind, he writes sentences the way I imagine traveling down a beautiful river in a fly-fishing boat: smooth and natural and clear.' Henry Winkler

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Book Synopsis“A happy partner to the work of Deighton, Archer, and le Carré... carried on craftily understated prose that approaches cold poetry… a first-class novel. (Booklist, starred review)Racing between London and Moscow, Kazakhstan and the Caymans, The Silent Oligarch reveals a sinister unexplored world where the wealthy buy the justice they want—and the silence they need. The first novel by Chris Morgan Jones—after his eleven years of work at the world's largest business intelligence agency—The Silent Oligarch introduces Benjamin Webster, mercenary spy to the rich and powerful. Hired to destroy a Russian oil baron, Webster discovers that his target's weak spot is a diffident English lawyer who hides the money generated from his master's vast criminal empire. Soon Webster's questions cause the lawyer's fragile world to crumble, forcing them both into a desperate race around the world to escape the o

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Book Synopsis Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo''s shockingly authentic military thriller sends Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six brothers to confront a notorious ISIS general, The Viper, during the occupation of Aleppo, Syria. Despite the efforts of the Assad government and its Russian and Turkish allies, Syria is succumbing to the Islamic State. While Crocker and his SEAL Team Six comrades try to help a small Kurdish border town organize a resistance army, he finds an unexpected connection with Severine, a French epidemiologist working for Doctors Without Borders. As Severine and her colleagues establish a makeshift hospital in besieged Aleppo, Crocker counsels caution. He knows too well that their NGO status will be no protection from the Viper, a notoriously vicious ISIS general with a deeply personal hatred of the West. When the Viper''s men kidnap one of Severine''s American colleagues, Crocker will pull every string at his disposal to launch a rescue mission. But in

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Book Synopsis Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo''s shockingly authentic military thriller sends Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six brothers to confront a notorious ISIS general, The Viper, during the occupation of Aleppo, Syria. Despite the efforts of the Assad government and its Russian and Turkish allies, Syria is succumbing to the Islamic State. While Crocker and his SEAL Team Six comrades try to help a small Kurdish border town organize a resistance army, he finds an unexpected connection with Severine, a French epidemiologist working for Doctors Without Borders. As Severine and her colleagues establish a makeshift hospital in besieged Aleppo, Crocker counsels caution. He knows too well that their NGO status will be no protection from the Viper, a notoriously vicious ISIS general with a deeply personal hatred of the West. When the Viper''s men kidnap one of Severine''s American colleagues, Crocker will pull every string at his disposal to launch a rescue mission. But in

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Book SynopsisFor eleven years Chris Morgan Jones worked at the world's largest business intelligence agency. He has advised Middle Eastern governments, Russian oligarchs, New York banks, London hedge funds and African mining companies. An Agent of Deceit is his first novel. http://www.chrismorganjones.comTrade Review‘The best debut spy adventure I’ve read in a long time. The two main characters — a British investigator with a private intelligence agency and the key manipulator of a corrupt Russian oligarch’s finances — are vigorously portrayed, with satisfying twists and intrigues’ The Times ‘Chris Morgan Jones's debut arrives with a weight of expectations on its shoulders. But it's clear right from the chilling, detached opening that these are going to be met . . . Like the icy eastern winter that seeps through the pages of his novel, Morgan Jones's prose is clean and cold, crisp and ominous . . . this is a world Morgan Jones knows, and it shows. In its intelligence, its crispness, its refusal to recognise anything other than shades of grey, there are undoubtedly resonances of Le Carré here. But An Agent of Deceit is too good to need the publishing shorthand for "classy thriller": this is a debut that definitely stands on its own merits’ Observer‘So-called "new Le Carrés" are 10 a penny, but Morgan Jones has a better claim to the title than most, having worked for 11 years at the world's largest business intelligence agency. On one level this intelligent, sophisticated spy thriller is about money laundering. But it's also about the willed innocence that makes such activities possible – the difference between not knowing and choosing not to know . . . dapper prose and stately pacing . . . Genuinely scary’ Guardian'A well-paced, plausible thriller that brings a wealth of experience of corrupt modern business and flits between the City of London, the Cayman Islands, Moscow and Berlin faster than a liquidity crisis' The Times‘Morgan Jones weaves an engaging narrative that, through Lock particularly, confronts the dilemma of the west’s engagement with dubious characters and companies – and not just those from the former Soviet Union. It is an issue with which many institutions have been grappling lately in places such as Libya . . . An Agent of Deceit is a worthy entry to the long line of spy yarns, and a reminder of how little we still know of wealth and power in Russia, for all the public visibility of the 21st-century oligarchs’ Financial Times‘Brimful of insider knowledge, this debut novel heads into the world of corrupt Russian business dealings . . . an elegant, tense thriller’ Grazia‘Elegant, deep and powerful. An Agent of Deceit is a thinking man’s thriller that reminded me of John Le Carre’s classic spy novels – but set in a chilling contemporary world in which spies have gone private and corporations are more powerful than governments. A remarkably assured debut’ Joe Finder, author of Buried Secrets and Paranoia‘Accomplished and believable’ Sunday Times

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Book SynopsisAs loyalties are stretched to the limit and Europe slides towards another war, could just one act of great courage and sacrifice change everything?Trade Review'As pacey as any modern thriller but with a touch of the Edwardian adventure yarn. Midnight in Berlin is a vivid portrait of an entire city in turmoil, seething with intrigue and danger' The Times'Based on real events, Midnight in Berlin is a gripping, atmospheric thriller, which brilliantly captures the oppressive, malevolent mood of the Nazi capital on the eve of World War Two. Fans of Philip Kerr and David Downing will love it' Roger Moorhouse, author of Berlin at War'A master-class in how to write a period novel. The research must have been enormous, but it remains completely hidden. The book reads as if written by someone who was there at that time and who is giving personally lived through history a light fictional dusting. This book is written with consummate skill: period setting, historical characters and fictional characters are perfectly rendered. The history is vividly presented and flawlessly accurate. The plot is utterly riveting' Edward Wilson, author of A Very British Ending'James MacManus's background as a foreign correspondent shines through in this vivid portrayal of Nazi Berlin's feverish atmosphere on the eve of war. A clever weaving of fact and fiction in the darkening world of the late 1930s' David Young, author of Stasi Child'A fascinating novel. An intriguing and highly recommended book' Country Life'MacManus clearly did tremendous research to set the novel's scene and his storytelling gifts are as strong as his historical insights' Connecticut Post'Here is a well-informed, smoothly crafted, fast-paced novel based closely on events in Berlin during the crucial months of 1938-39, and the European politics leading inevitably to war... If you like good historical fiction, and have a penchant for international politics and an interest in the rise of Hitler and life in the diplomatic world of Germany on the brink of war, this is a recommended read emotions and all' Portland Book Review'This book lived with me long after I d finished it as the courage and determination of those caught up in the pre-war whirlwind had dragged me into the reality and horror of the Third Reich' Diney Costeloe, author of The Throwaway Children

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Book SynopsisA John Wells thriller and the first Headline title from NYT #1 bestseller Alex Berenson.Those in power always need an unofficial option. Meet John Wells.Saudi Arabia''s King Abdullah fears he is fast losing control of his family and his people. A series of terrorist attacks has put his kingdom on edge and, with powerful factions turning against him, the king must turn to the one man he has been told will make the difference.Ex-CIA operative John Wells knows all too well how covert internal battles can undermine a nation. With the stability of a powerful Middle Eastern country at stake, he goes undercover to investigate King Abdullah''s claims. But as Wells begins to unravel the conspiracy, it takes an unexpected twist. The plotters want more than the fall of a monarch. Their objective is to spark the final bloody conflagration between Islam and the West.Has time finally run out for John Wells?

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