World War II is nearly over. For the Russians, the enemy is no longer Nazi Germany, but the American behemoth that threatens to topple the Communist revolution.
Deep within the walls of the Kremlin, Stalin's top man hatches a brilliant plan that will alter the course of postwar history-and it's all based on a deception as simple as the shell game.
Five years later, an atomic bomb detonates deep within the borders of the Soviet Union, stunning the experts who had predicted that Russian science could not produce such a devastating weapon for at least another generation.
The Red Eagles traces the adventures of two spies, Jack Kuznetzky and Amy Brandon, as they track down the most deadly force in the world while hiding their true allegiances and intentions from their compatriots. They are the "red" eagles, sent to America by one of its enemies to steal the greatest secret of all: the key to producing the atomic bomb.
Critically acclaimed spy thriller writer David Downing draws fascinating portrayals of Stalin and Hitler as they determine the fate of the world, drawing us at breakneck speed from the Kremlin to Berchtesgaden, from Manhattan and Washington to Tennessee ad Louisiana, from Cuba to Sweden and New Zealand.
And so the question remains unanswered to this day: how did the Russians produce the bomb so quickly? In The Read Eagles, Downing has created a story that will not only provide the ultimate clue, but also satisfy the most demanding thriller devotee.
In this gripping, tightly plotted tale of espionage, Malko Linge investigates the suspicious death of a Russian oligarch in London. Boris Berezovsky is living in exile in London to avoid the wrath of Vladimir Putin. One morning, the unlucky oligarch is found dead in his bathroom, an apparent suicide. Their suspicions aroused, MI5 opens an investigation-but Prime Minister David Cameron orders the case closed. Alarmed at the renewal of Russian Cold War tricks and Moscow's increasingly close ties to London, the CIA dispatches Malko Linge to investigate Berezovsky's death and the British cover-up. With help from an alluring former CIA handler, Malko dives into the search for hard evidence of the Kremlin's involvement in the affair-putting himself directly in the crosshairs of the world's most efficient assassins.
The long-awaited reissue of the second part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.Berlin-Kreuzberg: winter 1987. Through these grey streets, many people are hunting for Bernard Samson - London's field agent. He is perhaps the only man who both sides would be equally pleased to be rid of. But for Bernard, the city of his childhood holds innumerable grim hiding places for a spy on the run.On a personal level there is a wonderful new young woman in his life but her love brings danger and guilt to a life already lacking stability. In this city of masks and secrets lurk many dangers - both seen and unseen - and only one thing is certain: sooner or later Bernard will have to face the music and find someone to trust with his life.
Halleluja! Der Engelmann ist da!
Kognak am Knorpel, die qualmende Overstolz im Anschlag, den rosaroten Dienst-Panda vollgetankt, so geht Kommissar Heinz Engelmann auf Verbrecherjagd. Dem nimmermüden, immerdurstigen, zimmertemperierten Ermittler und seiner schnittigen Assistentin Liesel Weppen geht kein Ganove durch die Lappen! Das bewies Autor Sascha Gutzeit bereits in seinen brandheißen Büchern ...
... und in seinen zahllosen Lesungen, Bühnenshows und Engelmann-Musicals. Jetzt kommt der Kult-Kommissar endlich auf CD, und seine Fans jubeln.
Gelesen vom Autor persönlich, »dem Mann mit den tausend Stimmen«, akustisch untermalt von wie echt klingenden Geräuschen in Schwarzweiß, in edler Vinyl-Optik, gibt's Engelmanns spannendste und noch spannendstere Fälle nun auch für die Ohren. Jeder für sich eine prall gefüllte Polizeiakte, voll mit den absurdesten Morden, den schrägsten Ermittlern und den verstaubtesten Fahndungsmethoden.
Dieses ist das erste von drei Hörbüchern rund um Kommissar Engelmann.
Halleluja! Der Engelmann ist da!
Kognak am Knorpel, die qualmende Overstolz im Anschlag, den rosaroten Dienst-
Panda vollgetankt, so geht Kommissar Heinz Engelmann auf Verbrecherjagd. Dem nimmermüden, immerdurstigen, zimmertemperierten Ermittler und seiner schnittigen Assistentin Liesel Weppen geht kein Ganove durch die Lappen! Das bewies Autor Sascha Gutzeit bereits in seinen brandheißen Büchern ...
... und in seinen zahllosen Lesungen, Bühnenshows und Engelmann-Musicals. Jetzt kommt der Kult-Kommissar endlich auf CD, und seine Fans jubeln.
Gelesen vom Autor persönlich, »dem Mann mit den tausend Stimmen«, akustisch untermalt von wie echt klingenden Geräuschen in Schwarzweiß, in edler Vinyl-Optik, gibt's Engelmanns spannendste und noch spannendstere Fälle nun auch für die Ohren. Jeder für sich eine prall gefüllte Polizeiakte, voll mit den absurdesten Morden, den schrägsten Ermittlern und den verstaubtesten Fahndungsmethoden.
Dieses ist das dritte von drei Hörbüchern rund um Kommissar Engelmann.
Halleluja! Der Engelmann ist da!
Kognak am Knorpel, die qualmende Overstolz im Anschlag, den rosaroten Dienst-
Panda vollgetankt, so geht Kommissar Heinz Engelmann auf Verbrecherjagd. Dem nimmermüden, immerdurstigen, zimmertemperierten Ermittler und seiner schnittigen Assistentin Liesel Weppen geht kein Ganove durch die Lappen! Das bewies Autor Sascha Gutzeit bereits in seinen brandheißen Büchern ...
... und in seinen zahllosen Lesungen, Bühnenshows und Engelmann-Musicals. Jetzt kommt der Kult-Kommissar endlich auf CD, und seine Fans jubeln.
Gelesen vom Autor persönlich, »dem Mann mit den tausend Stimmen«, akustisch untermalt von wie echt klingenden Geräuschen in Schwarzweiß, in edler Vinyl-Optik, gibt's Engelmanns spannendste und noch spannendstere Fälle nun auch für die Ohren. Jeder für sich eine prall gefüllte Polizeiakte, voll mit den absurdesten Morden, den schrägsten Ermittlern und den verstaubtesten Fahndungsmethoden.
Dieses ist das zweite von drei Hörbüchern rund um Kommissar Engelmann.
Inspector Jaap Rykel von der Amsterdamer Polizei wird zu einem morbiden Schauplatz gerufen: Aus dem Fenster eines Altstadthauses baumelt die Leiche eines Mannes. Schon bald ergibt sich eine Verbindung zu einem anderen Verbrechen: In Friesland wurde ein Haus abgefackelt, ein altes Ehepaar kam dabei ums Leben. Zeugenaussagen lassen jedoch darauf schließen, dass ein kleines Mädchen den Flammen entkommen konnte. Inspector Rykel muss nicht nur einen Mörder suchen, sondern auch das Mädchen finden, das in größter Gefahr ist. Bald stellt er fest, dass er in ein Wespennest gestochen hat - und seine Gegner völlig skrupellos sind.
In order to foil a mass assassination plot, Matt Helm must undertake his most dangerous mission yet: matrimony.
An agent like Helm might be a nice man to live with for a while, but he’s not the kind of guy a woman would marry—unless she has to in order to maintain an ingenious cover. The man whose daily bread is violence takes a most unlikely bride—just to ensure death doesn’t part them.
“One of the few credible secret agents in today’s fiction…Helm is a genuinely tough and tough-minded protagonist; your reading diet lacks essential vitamins if you overlook him.”—New York Sunday Times
From the bestselling author of Istanbul Passage-called a "fast-moving thinking man's thriller" by The Wall Street Journal-comes a sweeping, atmospheric novel of postwar East Berlin, a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation.Berlin 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment-to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? Betrayal? Survival? Murder? Filled with intrigue, and the moral ambiguity of conflicted loyalties, Joseph Kanon's new novel is a compelling thriller and a love story that brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution is why Americans pay income taxes. But what if there were problems associated with that amendment? Secrets that call into question decades of tax collecting? In fact, there is a surprising truth to this hidden possibility.
Cotton Malone, once a member of an elite intelligence division within the Justice Department known as the Magellan Billet, is now retired and owns an old bookshop in Denmark. But when his former-boss, Stephanie Nelle, asks him to track a rogue North Korean who may have acquired some top secret Treasury Department files the kind that could bring the United States to its knees Malone is vaulted into a harrowing twenty-four hour chase that begins on the canals in Venice and ends in the remote highlands of Croatia.
With appearances by Franklin Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon, a curious painting that still hangs in the National Gallery of Art, and some eye-opening revelations from the $1 bill, this riveting, non-stop adventure is trademark Steve Berry, 90% historical fact, 10% exciting speculation, a provocative thriller posing a dangerous question: What if the Federal income tax is illegal?
Nine years ago, terrorists hijacked a plane in Vienna. Somehow, a rescue attempt staged from the inside went terribly wrong and everyone on board was killed.
Members of the CIA stationed in Vienna during that time were witness to this terrible tragedy, gathering intel from their sources during those tense hours, assimilating facts from the ground with a series of texts coming from one of their agents inside the plane. So when it all went wrong, the question had to be asked: Had their agent been compromised, and how?
Two of those agents, Henry Pelham and Celia Harrison, were lovers at the time, and in fact that was the last night they spent together. Until now. That night Celia decided she'd had enough; she left the agency, married and had children, and is living an ordinary life in the suburbs. Henry is still an analyst, and has traveled to California to see her one more time, to relive the past, maybe, or to put it behind him once and for all.
But neither of them can forget that long-ago question: Had their agent been compromised, and how? And each of them also wonders what role tonight's dinner companion might have played in the way things unfolded.
All the Old Knives is Olen Steinhauer's most intimate, most cerebral, and most shocking novel to date-from the New York Times bestselling author deemed by many to be John le Carre's heir apparent.
The long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world.Working for the Department was like marriage is supposed to be - ''til death do us part' - but the Department is really not like that; and neither are many marriages, including that of Bernard Samson. The cool and cynical field agent of the GAME, SET and MATCH trilogy has grown older and wiser. But things have not gone well for Samson: old pals are not as friendly as they used to be and colleagues are less confiding than they once were.Now, starting with his mission to Washington, life has become even more precarious for Bernard. Ignoring all warnings, friendly, devious and otherwise, he pursues his own investigation and, in California, meets with the biggest surprise of his life...
