Russian Spy Thriller

From the winner of THE ARNOLD BENNETT INTERNATIONAL BOOK PRIZE 2022 A death in the family and an unremarkable house burglary suddenly catapult Taylor and Harding outside their comfort zone and into the murky world of the Security Services. The interest of MI5 and connections to a horrible death thirteen years earlier take the two detectives on a bizarre journey to an unknown destination with a frightful history. A risk-taking journalist uses criminal methods to try to get to the big story first, but has no idea exactly what he is getting into or of the dreadful consequences of his actions. ...

When Ruth Miller returns a dropped scarf to Elena Shilkov, she is whisked from a dreary shared house to a world of unimagined luxury. The super-rich Russian wants a new personal assistant and won't take no for an answer. Ruth gets accommodation, a credit card and a complete wardrobe makeover. And she's good at the job; distributing gifts, attending galas, dealing with the high-society movers and shakers fighting for Elena's attention. Then the sinister truth begins to reveal itself, that nothing is quite what it seems in Elena's dangerous, deceptive world.

Three Russian agents are searching Ukraine for a stolen thermonuclear warhead. America suspects the warhead isn’t really stolen, and its detonation just a pretext to let Russia seize Ukraine. Will the agents find the warhead before it is used, and starts WWIII? This will be the Russian agents’ greatest challenge yet.

Recipe for Admission into Main Street, USSR Ingredients: Ambitious or orphaned East German and Russian children KGB and Stasi spymasters A KGB spy school in Vinnytsia, Ukraine Directions: Stir lightly – do not shake. Teach them how to act, speak, and live like Americans. Ship to the US until Mother Russia activates them. Follow one class from 1962 until they graduate in 1965. Then we pick them up again in 1989 when a potential defector offers up the names of the Lenin Five sleeper agents operating in the US. 1989: A pivotal year in history as a deadly cocktail of espionage and deceit is ...

A mission gone wrong many years before. Ranger, now a young man, is called to help find the father he never knew. The Russian spy was a traitor to America and captured his father, putting him in a Russian work camp in Ust-Kava. It's a race through time to find the Russian spy who killed his mother and changed Ranger's life forever. This mission takes Ranger across Russia and into the Indian Ocean, ending in the Sister Islands.

“Carefully plotted…an abundance of cunning political themes…invigorating until the last page.” –The BookLife Prize Cold War espionage is raging. A Russian bomber crashes on a frozen Alaska lake. The lone survivor, Anton, has flown the mission to free his wife from a political gulag, even though he knows in his heart that she is already dead. Ellen, the widow of a falsely discredited US Intelligence officer rescues him. Their common story of betrayal sparks a passion that each felt was forever lost. THE OPPOSITE OF TRUST is the perfect title for a cold war thriller that pits east ...

An authorized mission to rescue a friend may be the last adventure of Stiletto's career...or his life. A coup stirring in Russia to overthrow President Putin faces the wrath of Moscow police and government agents. Suspects are arrested or assassinated. Survivors run for their lives, including Vladimir Glinkov, a friend of Scott Stiletto. Glinkov desperately calls for help, but the US government will not get involved. Despite his pleas to aid a friend in need, Stiletto is ordered to stand down.

С чего все начиналось. Год 2049-й, Вашингтон, округ Колумбия. Пол Турман, сенатор, приглашает молодого конгрессмена Дональда Кини, архитектора по образованию, для участия в специальном проекте под условным названием КЛУ (Комплекс по локализации и утилизации). Суть проекта — создание подземного хранилища для ядерных и токсичных отходов, а Дональду поручается спроектировать бункер-укрытие для обслуживающего персонала объекта. Год 2052-й , округ Фултон, штат Джорджия. Проект завершен. И словно бы как кульминация к его завершению, Америку накрывает серия ядерных ударов.

Russian troops are preparing to cross the border into Belarus, threatening its independence. The only thing facing them are an armed partisan group, but they are poorly trained and will be no match for the Russians. The British government wants an independent Belarus as a buffer against Russian expansion - so Shepherd is despatched with a crack SAS team to help the partisans.

The Russian Woman is the first book in a series featuring Michael Thorne. Colonel Anya Volkova is a patriot who loves her country. She works in the Russian Ministry of Defense, where she's an important part of Moscow's machinery of war. She's more or less content with her ordered life, until things start to fall apart. Her younger brother is sent to fight in Syria. Her boss wants her for his mistress, and if she doesn't give him what he wants, her career is finished. She discovers a secret plan for a first strike on America. She has to stop it from happening, but what can she do? Michael ...

The terrifying, lengthening list of Russia’s use of lethal poisons against its critics has inspired acclaimed author Sergei Lebedev’s latest novel. With uncanny timing, he examines how and why Russia and the Soviet Union have developed horrendous neurotoxins. At its center is a ruthless chemist named Professor Kalitin, obsessed with developing an absolutely deadly, undetectable, and untraceable poison for which there is no antidote. But Kalitin becomes consumed by guilt over countless deaths from his Faustian pact to create the ultimate venom.

"My name is Jeremiah Ethan Bennett, Jr., also known as JJ. I'm twelve years old and a spy for the CIA, only they don't exactly know it." JJ Bennett has never been shot at by Russian spies, broken into a thousand-year-old crypt, or dangled by a piece of rope two hundred feet in the air. But all that is about to change.

Renko has been confined to a desk job by his superiors to keep him out of the way. Although he’s more disillusioned with policing and the general state of Russia than ever, he feels an odd sense of hope. A rebellion is bubbling in the country, with new values butting heads against old-school regimes. People want change and politician Leonid Lebedev could be the man to do it.

The second book from best-selling author Lena Rotmensz, The Perfect Actor is a spy story unlike any other. The novel follows the life of Sasha, a young Russian man who is unknowingly thrust into the world of espionage. After Sasha endures the hardships of war, his journey takes him through training at a spy school. He ultimately becomes a Russian spy, living in Poland. Over the course of his life, layers of Sasha's character are revealed. Sasha struggles with his new given identity -- a Polish Jew, as well as the assignments he is expected to fulfill as a spy, his passion for theater and ...

Mike Lacondeguy is enjoying quiet semi-retirement until a Georgian winemaker’s dogged pursuit of vengeance and an ancient myth changed everything. In the electrifying conclusion to The New Americans trilogy, THERE YOU GO thrusts Mike Lacondeguy into a world where the boundaries between reality and ancient myths blur, and the pursuit of justice knows no bounds. Mike is beginning to figure out the next phase of his life when he meets Lasha, an enormous enigma from the nation of Georgia. Everyone loves Lasha, and Lasha loves life until Russian soldiers kill his family. Lasha is a renowned ...

Putting the old Soviet world behind him in retirement should have set Mike Lacondeguy at ease, but an addled old hippy and an Uzbek firebrand determined to do things her way make that impossible. In the second book of The New Americans trilogy, CHICKEN TODAY, FEATHERS TOMORROW, an aged Flower Child living on the streets and a young Uzbek agitator draw Mike Lacondeguy into a world where urban legend and common sense collide and where he can no longer run from his past. While tangled in the war in Ukraine, Mike comes across a book of poems with a mystifying couplet: All the world went silent/...

In Ukraine, MI6 operative Aidan Snow rescues a British national held by Russian insurgents. In the United States, a terrorist attack is thwarted by a man who does not exist. In Russia, a notorious Chechen terrorist escapes from the nation's most secure prison. In Afghanistan, a Red Army soldier long given up for dead delivers a chilling message: Al-Qaeda has an RA-115A. As the connection between these separate events begins to become clearer, MI6 and the CIA must attempt to prevent the world's first act of nuclear terrorism. And Aidan Snow faces his biggest challenge yet.

Во дворе собственного загородного дома убит молодой священник Георгий Вельяминов. Он не вел миссионерской деятельности и был известен только узкому кругу прихожан. Кому мог помешать отец Георгий? Орест Волин пытается найти ответ на этот вопрос и приступает к расследованию преступления. Тем временем генерал Воронцов расшифровывает новую порцию дневников Нестора Загорского. На этот раз они связаны с событиями 1904-1905 годов. Русско-японская война в самом разгаре. Нестор Загорский раскрывает в Санкт-Петербурге шпионскую сеть, которой руководит японский подданный Кэндзо Камакура. Камакура арестован.

Знаменитому снайперу Бобу Ли Свэггеру уже за семьдесят, у него свой бизнес, но обстоятельства не позволяют ему забыть о прошлом. Мать морского пехотинца, который погиб в Ираке, просит Свэггера отомстить за сына, застреленного арабским снайпером. Боб сначала отказывается, а затем входит в контакт со знакомыми агентами из «Моссада», и вместе им удается выяснить, что арабский стрелок планирует теракт на территории США — убийство некой чрезвычайно высокопоставленной особы. Американские спецслужбы начинают поиски террориста, но безуспешно.

Четвертый том Азиатской саги Джеймса Клавелла повествует о финансовых и политических интригах в Гонконге 60-х годов: советские шпионы, китайские коммунисты и тайваньские националисты сражаются за власть в Гонконге с правительством Британии, и всем им противостоит гонконгский преступный мир. «Благородный дом» – это огромный и дико увлекательный роман с кучей персонажей и сюжетных линий: целый мир, экзотический и опасный, в который можно погрузиться с головой.