
A Spy's Life
Robert Harland Series, Book 1
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Matthew Lloyd Davies
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Henry Porter
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An ex-British spy finds himself dragged back into the world of espionage after a mysterious plane crash....
Robert Harland ended his career as a British spy in an Austrian hospital, after being tortured and beaten by Czech security agents in the last days of the communist regime. He was young enough then to find a new life with the Red Cross and then with the UN.
Twelve years later his UN plane crashes in mysterious circumstances at La Guardia airport, New York, and Harland is the only survivor. Was it sabotage and, if so, was Harland the target?
It is soon clear to Harland that the answers are to be found in his past, a past which, along with its secrets and tradecraft, he has desperately tried to forget. And now the crash has thrown him back into a world of relentless intrigue and mistrust, to his youth, and a life-changing love affair....
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Moskva
- By: Jack Grimwood
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 13 hrs
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Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin: frozen solid - like marble to the touch - and missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later Alex Marston, the headstrong 15-year-old daughter of the British ambassador, disappears. Army intelligence officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It's a shot at redemption. But Russia is reluctant to give up the worst of her secrets.
By: Jack Grimwood
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The Man from Berlin
- Gregor Reinhardt, Book 1
- By: Luke McCallin
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
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In war-torn Yugoslavia, a beautiful young filmmaker and photographer - a veritable hero to her people - and a German officer have been brutally murdered. Assigned to the case is military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. Already haunted by his wartime actions and the mistakes he's made off the battlefield, he soon finds that his investigation may be more than just a murder, and that the late Yugoslavian heroine may have been much more brilliant - and treacherous - than anyone knew.
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Solid 1st novel of WWII Nazi officer in Sarajevo
- By ATM on 10-28-14
By: Luke McCallin
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The Best of Our Spies
- Spy Masters, Book 1
- By: Alex Gerlis
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 56 mins
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France, July 1944: a month after the Allied landings in Normandy, and the liberation of Europe is under way. In the Pas-de-Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British Special Operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London, her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, discovers the truth about her role in the Allies' sophisticated deception at the heart of D-Day.
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The Best Kind of Spy Story
- By Linda Hanson on 01-11-16
By: Alex Gerlis
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Betrayal In Berlin
- A Spy Story
- By: Noel HYND
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
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In this, the fourth installment of Noel Hynd’s hugely popular Flowers from Berlin series, William Thomas Cochrane returns to Berlin as part of a permanent intelligence posting, replacing an old friend. Cochrane has a special knowledge of Berlin and its people, having worked there undercover during the Hitler era, during World War II, and during the successful 1948-49 airlift. But before Cochrane can safely settle his family in Berlin, he finds himself investigating the suspicious death of the man he succeeded. It is now the early 1950s. The former capital of Nazi Germany has emerged as ...
By: Noel HYND
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The Bell Ringers
- A Novel
- By: Henry Porter
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
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In The Bell Ringers, England in the near future appears largely unchanged. There are concerns over the threat of terrorism, the press is feisty, and the prime minister is soon to call a general election. But quietly - and largely unknown to the public or even most in government - things have become undeniably Orwellian: cameras with license plate recognition software record every car's movements, and a sophisticated, top-secret data-mining system known as Deep Truth combs through personal records.
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Fantastic Political Thriller
- By sherri l hughes on 05-10-10
By: Henry Porter
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
- The John Beckett Series, Book 1
- By: Matthew Hattersley
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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On the run and with danger tailing him, Beckett races against time to save his niece, Amber, from vicious kidnappers. With deadly threats closing in, he comes to the startling revelation he can trust no one…not even his closest allies. The streets of London become a battlefield as Beckett struggles to stay one step ahead of his enemies and protect Amber—all the while confronting the dark truth about The Consortium, a shadowy organization that will stop at nothing to maintain its grip on power.
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Great suspense and characters
- By marjorie on 01-20-25
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Secret Service
- By: Tom Bradby
- Narrated by: Juliet Aubrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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The world is on the brink of crisis. The Cold War is playing out once more on the global stage. And governments will do whatever it takes to stay at the top. To those who don't really know her, Kate Henderson's life must seem perfectly ordinary. But she is in fact a senior MI6 officer, who right now is nursing the political equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Kate's most recent mission has yielded the startling intelligence that the British Prime Minister has cancer - and that one of the leading candidates to replace him may be a Russian agent of influence.
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don't understand most of it
- By Sonja Alper on 03-23-22
By: Tom Bradby
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Remembrance Day
- By: Henry Porter
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 16 hrs and 18 mins
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Constantine Lindow is waiting for his brother Eamonn outside a central London tube station when a bus turns into the street and explodes. The next day Con is arrested as the prime suspect for the bombing. Con is determined to prove his innocence, but the only way he can do that is to find the real bomber. As he digs deeper, he finds himself confronted by his own brother's secret life—and the cold-blooded killers from his past.
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A Story Worth Listening To
- By G. M. Stratton on 06-30-23
By: Henry Porter
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Night Soldiers
- By: Alan Furst
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
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New York Times bestselling author Alan Furst is widely recognized as master of the historical spy novel. Furst’s works are vivid evocations of long-forgotten heroes and feature plots that unfold to the inexorable cadence of history. Night Soldiers is a simultaneously thrilling and illuminating tale of espionage set in 1934.
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Best Alan Furst novel!
- By Placeholder on 04-27-11
By: Alan Furst
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A Spy by Nature
- A Novel
- By: Charles Cumming
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Alec Milius is young, smart, and ambitious. He also has a talent for deception. He is working in a dead-end job when a chance encounter leads him to MI6, the elite British Secret Intelligence Service, handing him an opportunity to play center stage in a dangerous game of espionage.
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I highly recommend this little gem
- By Chou Young on 02-14-08
By: Charles Cumming
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- Steve Worrell
- 05-08-23
Story lost in Narrative
After thoroughly enjoying Remembrance Day. I found this audio book very disappointing.
Unfortunately, the narrators attempts to act capture characters varying emotions seems out of sync with the actual dialogue and storyline. It became so annoying I found it difficult to follow the story.
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- Barbara Sauter
- 03-13-25
Complex characters I liked this story very much and would recommend it to everyone
I enjoyed the issues that crossed Cold War and recent internecine conflicts. The impression of the US was perhaps a bit too shallow.
Nevertheless I would strongly recommend this book
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