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1	Along Came a Spider more books like this by James Patterson The spectacular international bestseller that introduced Washington-based homicide detective Alex Cross and launched James Patterson's career as one of the fastest-selling thriller writers in the world -- now reissued in striking new cover style. He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids, it was headline news. ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Without Fail more books like this by Lee Child Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is assigned to protect the vice president-elect, Senator Brook Armstrong, from an assassin who has been sending threatening letters and killing innocent men whose last names happen to be Armstrong--just to show that he's serious. As Reacher tries to determine the identity of this diabolical adversary, he discovers that ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Key to Rebecca more books like this by Ken Follett Set in North Africa, summer 1942, during Rommel's campaign against the British. This is the story of Alex Wolff, master spy, who treks across the Sahara and covertly enters the plot-ridden streets of wartime Cairo. And of Major Vandam, the British officer who is on Wolff's trail, sworn to destroy him. Wolff's mission is to steal British military ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.03! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Child 44 more books like this by Tom Rob Smith In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace. Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit even exists. Grand Central Publishing see all copies from £9.29! new only from £10.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	The Unlikely Spy more books like this by Daniel Silva Germany, 1944. The Allied invasion is not far away, and the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one ofHitler's last spies in Britain - Catherine Blake, a sleeper planted before the war and awaiting orders...British intelligence also has its orders, and academicAlfred Vicary has been recruited by ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Split Second more books like this by David Baldacci At crucial moments eight years apart, two Secret Service agents are distracted--with disastrous results: in one case, a presidential candidate is assassinated, and in the second, one is kidnapped. The two disgraced agents set out to trace the myriad connections between the events. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.63! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Simple Genius more books like this by David Baldacci As former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell investigate a murder at an exclusive scientific retreat, they find themselves in a race against time to stop a conspiracy of traitors operating in the shadow of the White House itself. Now in a tall Premium Edition. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal more books like this by Ben Macintyre Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. "Agent Zigzag" offers a unique glimpse into the psychology of espionage, with its thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal. see all copies from £2.05! new only from £9.02! \| first editions
9	Jackdaws more books like this by Ken Follett It is May, 1944 - a time of international tension where nothing is certain. Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attack a chateau containing a telephone exchange vital to German communications - but the building is heavily guarded and the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Fighting Agents more books like this by W E B Griffin In 1943, Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer, has assembled a band of guerrillas in Japan to bring chaos into the Japanese war effort. The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) struggles to get supplies to Fertig and his men. In a parallel plot, the OSS is also engaged in a vital mission on another front: smuggling a pivotal atomic scientist ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £3.38! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Eagle Has Landed more books like this by Jack Higgins "The Eagle Has Landed" is probably the greatest World War II story ever written. Operation Eagle was to be the most daring enemy mission of the entire war. Himmler planned to kidnap Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But in that remote corner of Norfolk, an elite unit is also put together to begin the countdown to the invasion. This is a ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Double Agents more books like this by W E B Griffin, William E Butterworth, IV In this "New York Times" bestseller, the O.S.S. has dispatched Dick Canidy--the leader of a team of operatives with questionable loyalties--on a mission to convince the Axis powers that the D-Day invasion will not take place on the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Available in a tall Premium Edition. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.80! \| first editions
13 view cover	The Killing Ground more books like this by Jack Higgins For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, his day begins with a routine passport check. But what Dillon discovers will lead to the most terrible chain of events he has ever known, in this explosive "New York Times" bestseller, now in a tall Premium Edition. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.03! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Soldier Spies more books like this by W E B Griffin The third book in this series of World War II spy novels follows fearless, libidinous secret agents Major Richard Caniday and Eric Fulmar on their dangerous mission to save the life of a scientist and his enticing daughter. While the Nazis are holding the scientist captive for his expert assistance in the Third Reich's development of jet engines, ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.28! \| first editions
15 view cover	Eye of the Storm more books like this by Jack Higgins From the phenomenally bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes a new classic thriller. Sean Dillon is a master terrorist, a mysterious figure whose skills surpass even those of famed international fugitive "Carlos the Jackal". For years Dillon has eluded authorities on every continent, but it is during the Gulf War that Dillon reemerges- ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £7.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Black cross more books like this by Greg Iles In January 1944, four people hold the fate of the world in their hands. They are not statesmen or generals, but an American doctor, a German nurse, a Zionist killer, and a young Jewish widow. These four are brought together in a place almost beyond imagination: a small SS-run concentration camp harbouring a weapon so lethal that it could wipe out ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times more books like this by George Crile A bestseller in hardcover, "Charlie Wilsons War" tells what became of the largest covert operation in history. Moving from the back rooms of the Capitol to arms-dealer conventions to the Khyber Pass, this is a compulsively readable account of the inside workings of the CIA. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £9.02! \| first editions
18 view cover	Enigma more books like this by Robert Harris March 1943, the war hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Eagle Has Flown more books like this by Jack Higgins The sequel to "The Eagle has Landed". By the end of 1943, all the evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Chuchill has been buried in a grave in Norfolk. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are still alive, and the Reichsfuhrer is demanding the eagle's return. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Restless more books like this by William Boyd In this absorbing historical thriller . . . Sally Gilmartin, born Eva Delectorskaya, a Russian emigree recruited into the British Secret Service in 1939, reveals her clandestine past in an autobiography that she gives to her daughter, Ruth, a graduate student and single mother living a dull civilian life in Oxford in 1976.--"The New Yorker." see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Secret Honor more books like this by W E B Griffin The scenery moves from Buenos Aires to Washington to Berlin as a relentless game of espionage and counter-espionage takes place, with bluff and counter-bluff. Can Frade and von Wachstein escape with their lives? see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Polish officer more books like this by Alan Furst The story of Polish officer Captain Alexander De Milja, who is recruited into the Polish secret service just before the Germans overrun Warsaw. As the war progresses, De Milja is involved in a number of missions against the Germans, constantly risking his own life for the sake of a free Europe. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £9.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Winter in Madrid more books like this by C J Sansom Harry felt ...panic beginning to stir. The thought of going back to Spain both excited and appalled him ...a world of denunciations and midnight arrests. And Sandy Forsyth in the middle of it all? He looked at the photo again. 'I'm not sure,' he said slowly. 'I mean, I'm not sure I could carry it off.' It is 1940 and the Spanish Civil War is over, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Angel of Death more books like this by Jack Higgins When a terrorist group made up of establishment figures wreaks havoc apparently at random, Brigadier Ferguson coordinates the fight against them. He brings in Dillon, once the IRA's most feared enforcer, as his right-hand man. The stakes are raised when the terrorists target a US Senator. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg more books like this by Nicholas Dawidoff The biography of Moe Berg, sometime major-league catcher, sometime spy, sometime lawyer, and full-time enigma. Berg, a Princeton graduate and Wall Street lawyer who played sporadically (and not very well) with the major leagues between 1923 and 1939, was recruited by Wild Bill Donovan for the OSS during World War II, and he eventually was awarded ... see all copies from £4.03! new only from £8.16! \| signed copies \| first editions

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