Nevinson, the retired spy whom we met in Berta Isla, becomes entangled in the lives of three women. The last novel by this late and much lamented author is labyrinthine and brilliant...
What could Cambridge professor Tom Wilde, former spy and veteran of The Man in the Bunker and A Prince and a Spy, have in common with a kamikaze Japanese submarine and an outbreak of deadly ... read more
Powerful tale of espionage and love in the early years of the Syrian war. By a former CIA agent, this was published in 2021 in the US and only now in the UK, propelled by word of mouth.
The author must presumably be glad to have used an alias on reading Dominic Sandbrook's review in the Sunday Times. An interminable, banal and exploitative account of her two-year affair.
A chess tournament in the Cold War is the starting point for this classy and compelling spy thriller; soon we are whisked to Cambridge, Lithuania, Vienna, the GDR, the Kremlin...
A midnight phone call precipitates an aging, embittered agent into a dash to Iran to find his son and do battle with competing international interests.
Philby's granddaughter has drawn on unpublished letters for this tense novel about Edith Tudor-Hart, the woman who introduced Philby to his Soviet handler.