Action, Adventure, Spy and Espionage Books
Heart-racing high-octane and a happy place for hundreds of us, the Action and Adventure novels section is the perfect place for fans of danger, conflict and intrigue.
This Month's Featured Books
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The One Man Andrew Gross A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. Something of a departure for erstwhile James Patterson collaborator Andrew Gross, and a powerful, breathless thriller with a difference. It's 1944 and the American nuclear programme is stalling and the presence... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2016 
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Underground Airlines Ben H. Winters A Maxim Jakubowski selected title. A most unexpected, if gripping thriller from the author of the much-admired LAST POLICEMAN trilogy. The book takes place in an America where the Civil War came to a different conclusion... Format: Hardback - Released: 14/07/2016
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Hunting the Eagles Ben Kane A truly wonderful and ferocious slice of historical fiction, this is the second in the ‘Eagles of Rome’ series and takes place from AD 12. I really do recommend starting this reading adventure with ‘Eagles at War’ before moving... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/08/2016
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Orphan X Gregg Hurwitz Prepare yourself… for the dramatically intense and exciting new kid on the block, except Evan Smoak isn't a kid, he's a highly trained killer with his humanity surprisingly intact. Smoak has left a top secret programme, he is prepared to... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2016
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Invisible Streets Toby Ball US author Ball is slowly building an intriguing body of work that stands head and shoulders apart from much of what his contemporaries in the noir field are doing, having completed with this volume an intricate trilogy in which an... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/03/2016
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Game of Spies The Secret Agent, the Traitor and the Nazi, Bordeaux 1942-1944 Paddy Ashdown A riveting three-way spy story set in occupied France. Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2016
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And is There Still Honey for Tea? Peter Murphy The third in the Ben Schroeder Legal Thriller series. It's 1965, the British Establishment is reeling after a series of defections and acts of treachery by high-ranking intelligence officers. At first, it seems to be a simple case of libel,... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2015
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Fire C. C. Humphreys First came Plague, now comes Fire. The epic tale of the hunt for a serial killer threatening London's rich and poor during the Great Fire of London. Perfect for fans of S J Parris and C J Sansom.... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/08/2016
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre In le Carre's breakthrough work of 1963, the spy story is reborn as a gritty and terrible tale of men who are caught up in politics beyond their imagining. Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2016
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Missing, Presumed (DS Manon, Book 1) Susie Steiner If you're looking for a fresh, addictive police procedural with characters who spring into vivid life, then look no further than Susie Steiner's Missing, Presumed. It's Steiner's first venture into the crime genre - her debut, Homecoming, was more... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2016
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Exposure Helen Dunmore A wonderfully tense and arresting Cold War relationship tale, stuffed full to the brim with suspense. Set in 1960, couple Lily and Simon become caught in an unbelievably powerful web of lies. Normal everyday life intermingles with the hidden, and... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2016
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Let Bernard Cornwell sweep you back to Arthurian times, or into the heat of battle with Richard Sharpe. Sail the high seas with Patrick O'Brian. Raise your pulse-rate with Michael Crichton. Experience the adrenaline of combat with Andy McNab. Feel the clear and present danger of Tom Clancy's thrilling Jack Ryan stories... Live on the edge with Lee Child's itinerant hero Jack Reacher? Navigating your way through all the twists and turns of this roller-coaster genre can be an adventure in itself.
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Dan BrownTom ClancyKen FollettWilbur SmithDavid GibbinsStieg Larsson
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