Spy Fiction Literary

Gli ex poliziotti Guido Lopez e Stefan Wunzam sono chiamati a lavorare per la neonata Agenzia Investigativa Europea di cui è capo David Montorsi. Incappano subito in una sterminata rete criminale che include élite altolocate e manovalanza immigrata di origine cinese. Questa indagine si interseca con le vicende dell'agente CIA Jim Cameron di stanza a Pechino, che vive di traffici di droga. Qualcosa di strano succede con una fornitura destinata a Montecarlo e Cameron si trova all'improvviso braccato dai suoi ex colleghi della CIA e dai cinesi.

Redka "Stal" Starnelov, ex forze speciali sovietiche, ora guerriero freelance. "Stal", freddo, duro e letale come l'acciaio delle sue lame. L'unico in grado di garantire a Ombra, il suo enigmatico committente, che la missione alla centrale nucleare di Koeberg, Sudafrica, sarà un successo. Ma quando Stal entra finalmente in possesso del contenitore di micidiale polonio-210, tutti i parametri saltano. Nel fuoco incrociato di troppi gruppi di potere che vogliono mettere le mani sul polonio, Stal e la sua squadra saranno costretti a seguire una pista di morte e sangue.

Nelle Spetsnaz, le micidiali forze speciali russe, era Redka Starnelov. Nel nuovo "disordine" mondiale è Stal, "Acciaio", letale mercenario della lama. Il suo passato è un luogo pieno di morte e di incubi. Il suo presente gli riserva solo raggelante ferocia. La sua nuova destinazione: Transnistria, ennesima terra maledetta scaturita dalla dissoluzione dell'URSS. La sua nuova missione: fare luce su uno sterminio di innocenti, in un luogo chiamato Campo Copernico.

Quello che tutti in Italia si attendono, fin dal crollo delle Torri Gemelle, accade. II Palazzo di Giustizia esplode e crolla. Sotto le macerie, centinaia di morti e una bomba ancora innescata: è lo Schedario, la raccolta dei documenti riservati delle inchieste più delicate e ancora ignote al pubblico, un archivio di dossier in grado di fare saltare ogni istituzione.

During the summer of 1997, a series of bombings terrorize Havana hotels. The targets are tourists, and the terrorists are exiles seeking to cripple Cuban tourism and kill the revolution. After Mano finds himself helpless to save one of the victims, his nemesis Colonel Emilio Perez of the National Revolutionary Police recruits him into Havana's top-secret Wasp Network of spies for a job that only he can perform - but for reasons he never would have believed or expected.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

Prague in the 1950s is a city of numerous small terrors, of political tyranny, corruption, and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one's neighbor is spying for the government, or what one's supposed friend will say under pressure to a state security agent. A loyal party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap.

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.

楚文杰是汉口白喜堂药店的少爷，二十岁时，父亲打算把他送去日本留学，他却迷恋上一个叫柳云的戏子……楚文傑是漢口白喜堂藥店的少爺，二十歲時，父親打算把他送去日本留學，他卻迷戀上一個叫柳云的戲子……

Quando una notte degli jihadisti rubano del materiale radioattivo da un ospedale non custodito di New York, la polizia, in una frenetica corsa contro il tempo, chiama l'FBI. E Luke Stone, capo di un dipartimento speciale e segreto interno all'FBI, è l'unico a cui possono rivolgersi. Luke capisce subito che l'obiettivo dei terroristi è creare una bomba sporca, che colpiranno un luogo importante per gli Stati Uniti, e che agiranno entro le prossime 48 ore. Segue una serrata caccia al topo, che vede in contrapposizione i più geniali agenti governativi contro i terroristi più sofisticati.

Fumo di asfalto colloso nella spossante Milano estiva delle periferie. Tra le case popolari di Calvairate, il quartiere dormitorio di Quarto Oggiaro e il carcere di Opera emergono, come strani zombie dal sottosuolo, un suicidio sospetto, un giro di pedofili e un ex terrorista nero evaso. E tra servizi segreti impegnati in grossolani depistaggi, inconfessabili ed esplosive verità e inquietanti parole d'ordine come "indulto", a vent'anni dal delitto Moro l'ispettore Guido Lopez non potrà fare a meno di avvertire l'aria pesante e sporca di un complotto.

In Canberra, a federal election looms and Cassius Calvert, Minister for Border Integrity, is facing a new hard-line policy regarding asylum-seekers. Off the Indonesian island of Dana, Isi Natoli, skipper of the Java Ridge, and a group of Australian surf tourists are anchored beside an idyllic reef. A few kilometres away, Roya and her mother are amongst the passengers fleeing persecution aboard the Talakar. When a storm breaks, these stories collide with chilling consequences....

Max Emerson is rich and powerful: a patron of the arts and the owner of a multinational business. But Max's business is money laundering, and, for the first time in his fortunate life, he's in trouble. Hackers are targeting his company. The FBI is pressuring him to betray one of his crooked clients. And a dark secret from his own past looks in danger of resurfacing.

Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: retired spy chief Dick Morrow needs to find a CIA informant who has slipped away from his handler in Spain and may be heading to Morocco.

Thirty years after they walked hand in hand to the electric chair, sentenced to die for giving the gift of the atom bomb to the Soviet Union, Solomon and Dolores Rubell are the targets of a new investigation - conducted not by the FBI, or some paranoid Senate subcommittee, but by Gerald Lerner, boyhood Communist and author of such classic chronicles of the American Jewish experience as Hot Pastrami Sandwich and Kosher and Topless.

From its official sanction in 1953 to its shutdown in 1973, the CIA clandestinely conducted methods of mind control on unwitting American and Canadian citizens. This covert and illegal operation, Project MKULTRA, eventually made national headlines upon the declassification of thousands of documents in 2001. Intrigued by the people empowered to enact such abuses and the legacy of such an operation, Scott O'Connor weaves the nuanced and compelling story of Henry March, a CIA agent forced to spearhead a series of insidious mind-control experiments in San Francisco.

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. He's wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit; his best friend has just been murdered; and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed by those closest to him, he must flee the sanctuary of his safe house in Cornwall and track her down.

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.

“Andrew Kaplan represents a gold standard for thriller writing.” —David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of The Brotherhood of the Rose Espionage fiction is hotter than ever, as evidenced by the phenomenal success of Daniel Silva, Alex Berenson, and Ted Bell—and Andrew Kaplan...

Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s...