Russian Spy Thriller

Sam Capra and his thirteen-year-old son, Daniel, are living a quiet life in Austin, Texas, where Sam continues to run his collection of bars and nightclubs around the world. He's had no recent contact with his former partner, Mila, and is working for America's most secret espionage agency, known as Section K—all while trying to be a good suburban dad. Suddenly, Sam is approached by a fellow spy with an incredible revelation: Markus Bolt is missing. Bolt is the last American traitor, who had turned over allied agent names and military secrets to the Russians.

In 1949 Frank Weeks, fair-haired boy of the newly formed CIA, was exposed as a communist spy and fled the country to vanish behind the Iron Curtain. Now, 12 years later, he has written his memoirs, a KGB-approved project almost certain to be an international best seller, and has asked his brother, Simon, a publisher, to come to Moscow to edit the manuscript. It's a reunion Simon both dreads and longs for.

Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher. Minutes after the handoff, the courier's spine is neatly snapped by an impact with a passing black sedan. Meanwhile, in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a famous film director as a lover to stir her husband out of the stoicism that defines his personality.

The Russians have a special way of gambling. They take a revolver and they place one round the chambers and spin it. Then they take it in turns to put the gun to their heads and pull the trigger. It’s called Russian Roulette. Now they have a new, deadlier way of playing it.

All chess games end in a murder... It's 1920, the murders of a trade unionist, a knight and a bishop shock Britain. The finger of blame seems to point to Russia. As the body count rises, Kit Aston plays a deadly game of chess with a Russian grandmaster where checkmate is a matter of life or death. The latest Kit Aston whodunnit is a gripping historical crime thriller, full of twists and hilarious one liners which fuses classic murder mystery with a spy novel. The Kit Aston mysteries mix real life historical characters and events with crime thrillers full of red herrings. No books are the ...

At an important multinational cocktail party in Washington, D.C., attended by everybody who is anybody among the political elite, the Vietnamese ambassador’s wife, Thuy Nguyen, spills her glass of wine. The hostess, Ingrid Fischer, a Swiss diplomat’s wife, accidentally mutters, “Damned Fidschi,” a racial slur used exclusively by East Germans against people from Southeast Asia. Little does anyone know that her Freudian mishap will be the catalyst that unleashes a joint investigation that takes the CIA and Thuy down a KGB rabbit hole. Who is the real Ingrid Fischer? And can Thuy ...

Thuy Nguyen was raised in the jungles under the tutelage of identical twins during the Vietnam War. Those experiences were her introduction to the world of espionage. Now, Paris is reeling after three precision assassinations in fifteen minutes fell top political and business figures. Evidence leads toward the elusive assassin dubbed the Chameleon. As agents, including Thuy, from the four corners of the world converge, can they ensnare the Chameleon before he strikes again?

The mysterious death of a nun results in the closure of the homeless shelter she had devoted her life to. Now, decades later, Father Caspian is brought in to restore the mission to its previous glory, but he quickly finds himself in over his head. How do you discern what is fact or fiction in a world dominated by addiction, mental illness, and misinformation?

Shadow War When CIA operative Corey Pearson uncovers a chilling conspiracy, he finds himself thrust into a deadly game of espionage and betrayal. A Russian sleeper cell leader is orchestrating a catastrophic attack on American soil, but the nature of the weapon remains a terrifying mystery—is it a suitcase nuclear bomb or a lethal virus poised to unleash havoc? As Corey and his elite CIA team race against time to unravel the plot, they navigate a treacherous landscape of political intrigue and hidden agendas. The deeper they delve, the more they realize that the threat is not only ...

You Can Never Leave Your Past Behind John Smith is an ordinary man, with an ordinary job and a family. But it wasn't always like that. Nicknamed "The Undertaker", he was once an assassin with the lethal spy agency, Unit 500, until he fell in love and turned his back on his violent life forever. Or so he thought. Now a sudden devastating hit by the Russian Mafia has brought the Undertaker out of retirement, Seeking vengeance, Smith declares war on the people who have wrought unspeakable havoc on his life. And he finds himself hurtling head-first back into his old life at Unit 500 and his ...

Rogue officials within the Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies conspire to use a decades-long and extremely effective covert program of political infiltration and influence of United States officials to replace the US president with someone more sympathetic to the interests of the two foreign powers. They must execute the mission before the president can enter into an international agreement with other Pacific Ocean nations restricting Chinese and Russian interests in the region. The mission includes a horrific attack on the president that shocks the world. US Defense Secretary Colt ...

Legendario espía y restaurador de arte, Gabriel Allon por fin ha roto sus lazos con la inteligencia israelí y se ha establecido tranquilamente en Venecia, el único lugar donde ha conocido de verdad la paz. Su bella esposa, Chiara, ha tomado la dirección cotidiana de la Compañía de Restauración Tiepolo, y sus dos pequeños hijos han sido inscritos con discreción en la escuela primaria del vecindario. Por su parte, Gabriel pasa sus días paseando por las calles y los canales de la ciudad acuosa, despidiéndose de los demonios de su trágico, violento, pasado.

A shrewd investigator and an expert marksman, Special Agent Alexandra LaDuca can handle any case the FBI gives her. Or can she? Connecting the dots between an assassination attempt in Ukraine, a murder in Paris, and a brutal attack on a remote village in South America takes Alex on a dangerous puzzle-solving, soul-searching journey that changes her forever.

WANTING TO BE A SPY IS ONE THING: ACTING LIKE ONE IS QUITE ANOTHER When stand-in teacher, Calum Ross, first locks eyes with Natalia, he can’t believe his luck. Nor can the UK security agencies. They’ve been looking for a way to recruit Natalia’s husband, Oleg Usmanov, a Russian spymaster and friend of the Russian President, for years. Ross might just be their man. Except nothing about Usmanov is quite what it seems. When Natalia is attacked, Ross finds the finger of blame being pointed squarely at him. With Russians out for his blood and his SIS 'minders' squabbling amongst themselves...

Shanghai - 1940's - World War II - a great port and international city occupied by the Japanese Army - a fabled mecca steeped in its vast complex history and overflowing with colorful exiles and conspirators and native Chinese and foreign patriots and traitors. An exciting metropolis teeming with lethal intrigue and overrun by danger; where double-dealing and treachery was the given and taken for granted... yet where a small group of brave and courageous men and women still dared to put their lives and fortunes at risk for the cause of freedom and liberty by defying their Japanese ...

A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He’s a young, popular, self-made visionary...but he’s also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the Great Satan and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on Earth.

After China launches its attack on Taiwan, America will respond. But how far will the US go to keep Taiwan out of Beijing’s control? Russia wants to make money selling equipment, weapons, and fuel to the Chinese war machine. But, if China wins in Taiwan, will it stop there? Or will it begin to eye the over 4,000 kilometer long border it shares with Russia? If nuclear war does break out between the US and China, will Russia be able to stay on the sidelines? This time, even Russia’s most capable agents might not be able to save their country from disaster.

Russia has learned that the theft of two Pakistani tactical nuclear missiles will be used to spark a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. And that’s a problem. Because Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left it with just two friends among the world’s leading countries: China and India.

U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca ( Conspiracy in Kiev) is back crisscrossing Europe in pursuit of an ancient relic stolen from a Madrid museumand the chilling secrets behind its theft. With a new partner, danger, and betrayal at every turn, Alex must make the toughest decision of her life: whom should she trust?

If China uses enough firepower to overwhelm Taiwan’s defenses, will what is left be worth having? China’s leader has now decided the answer is - yes. But Taiwan will only be the beginning. Once its absorption is complete, China has other ambitions. Like the return of about one million square kilometers seized from China by Russia in the 1860s.