Arthur Rowe's life takes a mysterious and dangerous turn in World War II England when he wins a cake at a charity fete that someone is willing to kill to get back.

A terrorist plot in London leads Israeli spy Gabriel Allon on a desperate search for a kidnapped woman--a race against time that will take him from Amsterdam to Germany to the very end of Denmark. And, as the hour of the missing woman's death draws near, Allon's own conscience and life will be compromised...--back cover.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer -- one of the best -- until the rain-swept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Now he's called out of retirement for one last assignment. For Hawthorne is the only man alive who can track down the world's most dangerous terrorist. Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, and deadly -- and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate...

Hard-up Russia expert Dr. Sam Gaddis finally has a lead for a book that could set his career back on track. He has staggering new information about an unknown sixth member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring -- a man who has evaded detection for his entire life. But when his source suddenly dies, Gaddis is left with just shreds of his investigation, and no idea that he is already in too deep.

Two spies, one American, the other Russian, have vowed to kill each other as revenge for the murder of a family member by the other. They are forced to work together as the only men capable of destroying an international circle of killers.

Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.

Young mining engineer Richard Hannay, having returned to England from South Africa just before World War I, is pursued by both foreign agents and British authorities as he investigates clues left by a murdered man in an effort to save his own life and the future of his country.

"Georg Polger ekes out a lonely living as a freelance translator in the south of France, until he is approached by a certain Mr. Bulnakov, who has an intriguing proposition: Georg is to take over a local translation agency and finish a project left by the previous owner, who died in a mysterious accident. The money is right and then there is the matter of Bulnakov's secretary, Francoise, with whom Georg has fallen hopelessly in love. Late one night,...