Spy Fiction Literary

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

The history of Jack Hudson remains safely locked in the vaults of the CIA. He had dedicated his life to serving his country and he had recently considered retiring. He had been out to dinner in the evening and as he walked towards his rented apartment in Moscow, he felt the heat of a bullet whiz by his head.

Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly – or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban’s kill zone, they know just what to expect...When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the Regiment is tasked to retrieve the weapons at all costs. SAS legend Jack Harker has to lead an eight-man mission into a suspected Taliban facility.

Set in fogbound wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set out to reveal the true identity of Ishmael, the group's heavily protected and enigmatic leader.

A vicious murder at sea begins a series of deadly events stretching from Europe to the Middle East and Africa. International conspirators plot to send a shipment of goods to an undisclosed destination, and they will stop at nothing to achieve their ends. A concealed world of deceit and lies is populated by an international assassin, a brutal ship's captain, criminal businessmen, rogue scientists, and ruthless government representatives.

When Sam Gunn is accused of murdering a fellow intelligence officer in cold blood, the new CIA director charges Jake Noble with tracking her down. But Jake isn't the only one after Sam. A trio of highly trained freelancers wants Sam dead before she can blow the lid on their operation. It's a heart-pounding race against time to see who will find her first.

When a top US nuclear physicist impossibly vanishes off a transatlantic plane in the middle of the flight, the US government calls in its top agent who specializes in the impossible, MacGyver. In order to solve the mystery and recover the scientist and intel that could lead to escalating conflicts across the globe, Mac will find himself drawn into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse against a billionaire thief with resources and ingenuity that match MacGyver's own. Mac must navigate between an old flame from Interpol and a beautiful but deadly young woman.

Ne IL RITORNO DI ZERO (Libro 6), l'interprete del Presidente è l'unico a conoscenza di una conversazione segreta che può cambiare il mondo. Viene presa di mira per l'assassinio e cacciata, e l'Agente Zero, richiamato nella linea di servizio, potrebbe essere l'unico che può salvarla. L'Agente Zero, che cerca di rimettere in ordine la sua vita e di riconquistare la fiducia delle sue ragazze, giura di non tornare in servizio. Ma quando viene chiamato per salvare la vita di questa interprete indifesa, non può dire di no.

In DOSSIER ZERO (Libro 5), la memoria dell'agente Zero finalmente ritorna, e con essa, vengono alla luce rivelazioni scioccanti sulla trama segreta della CIA per scatenare una guerra e per togliergli la vita. Espulso dall'agenzia e in fuga, riuscirà a fermarli in tempo? Quando un incidente nello Stretto di Hormuz minaccia di far scoppiare una guerra mondiale, la memoria dell'Agente Zero ritorna e, con essa, la possibilità di scoprire cosa ha causato la sua perdita di memoria.

Ne LA TRAPPOLA DI ZERO (Libro 4) un nuovo leader fanatico sale alla guida di a cellula terroristica nel Medio Oriente, con l'intento di orchestrare l'attacco più letale mai concepito contro il suolo americano. Potrà l'agente Zero svelare il complotto e fermarlo in tempo? Sebbene le figlie dell'agente Zero siano a casa sane e salve, l'angoscia e il terrore in seguito all'esperienza subita mettono a dura prova la serenità della loro piccola famiglia.

In LA CACCIA DI ZERO (Libro 3), quando l'agente della CIA agente Zero scopre che le sue giovani figlie sono state rapite e spedite a un giro di traffico umano nell'Europa dell'Est, si getta in un inseguimento al cardiopalma per tutta l'Europa, lasciandosi alle spalle una scia di devastazione, in cui rompe gin regola, rischia la sua stessa vita, e fa di tutto per riprendersi le figlie. Kent, nonostante gli ordini della CIA, rifiuta di farsi da parte.

In questo seguito del primo libro (AGENTE ZERO) della serie di spy thriller Kent Steele, "Obiettivo Zero" (Libro 2) ci porta in un'altra avventura ricca d'azione per tutta l'Europa, quando l'agente Kent Steele viene richiamato in servizio per fermare un'arma biologica prima che devasti il mondo, lottando al contempo con la sua perdita di memoria. La vita torna brevemente alla normalità per Kent, prima di essere richiamato dalla CIA per dare la caccia ai terroristi e fermare un'altra crisi internazionale, una persino più potenzialmente devastante dell'ultima.

In questo esordio molto atteso di un'epica serie spy thriller dello scrittore di bestseller Jack Mars, i lettori sono trascinati per tutta l'Europa in un'avventura al cardiopalma, mentre il presunto agente della CIA Kent Steele, perseguitato dai terroristi e dalla sua stessa identità, deve risolvere il mistero di chi lo vuole morto, quale sia l'obiettivo dei terroristi, quale sia la sua stessa identità e chi è la bellissima donna che continua a vedere nella propria mente.

Egypt, 1914. It is the beginning of the war and Gareth Owen, Mamur Zapt and Head of Cairo’s Secret Police, is given the unhappy task of rounding up enemy aliens. But, in a land where adoption of foreign nationality is a popular means of avoiding trial by an Egyptian court, determining who counts as German proves contentious. And then there’s the face in the cemetery.

A young, handsome, charismatic Southern governor is elected president of the United States in a landslide. He was so popular that world leaders were scrambling to attend his inauguration. Among the attendees were the pope, the queen of England, and other royalties. He had, however, an Achilles' heel-he was a philanderer. It will not take long for his misdeeds to leak out to the media and the opposition party. While he was being investigated, the noose was getting tighter around his neck. Pressured by his wife to save his power, he decided to do the unthinkable.

With speculative fiction, the book focuses on the stories the writer conveys to help us understand and make a meaning out of our daily human experiences. The narrative criticism is used as a means of fundamental communication, to also provide a structure for human experience and serve as an influence for people to share common explanations. The book is addressed to people looking for a contemporary literary genre with elements of satire, along with genre fiction staples, provocative, though in order to create subversive and entertaining works.

Nell'esistenza di un individuo assolutamente normale irrompe l'imprevisto: uno sconosciuto sceso da una Jaguar suona alla porta di casa, chiede di fare una telefonata e viene colpito da infarto appena composto il numero. Un segno del destino? Un complotto? Una sfida? Baptiste Bordave non sta a porsi troppe domande e, ispirato anche da una vaga somiglianza con il defunto, si impadronisce dei documenti, dei soldi, della macchina e cambia vita per sempre. Romanzo d'amore? Storia di spionaggio? Manuale per estremisti dello champagne?

Éric Vuillard’s gripping novel The Order of the Day tells the story of the pivotal meetings which took between the European powers in the run up to World War Two. What emerges is a fascinating and incredibly moving account of failed diplomacy, broken relationships and the catastrophic momentum which led to conflict.