In the shadow of the newly erected Berlin Wall, Alec Leamas watches as his last agent is shot dead by East German sentries. For Leamas, the head of Berlin Station, the Cold War is over. As he faces the prospect of retirement or worse-a desk job-Control offers him a unique opportunity for revenge. Assuming the guise of an embittered and dissolute ex-agent, Leamas is set up to trap Mundt, the deputy director of the East German Intelligence Service-with...

Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West.

British secret agent James Bond, a broken man after the tragic end to his last mission, is sent to Japan to train under spy chief Tiger Tanaka and carry out an impossible mission to assassinate one of Tanaka's enemies.

The last book written by Ian Fleming, but by no means the least. In "Octopussy," a talented but wayward British major pays a high price when his wartime past catches up with him, while in "The Property of a Lady," a Faberg├® egg leads Bond to a KGB spy. In "The Living Daylights," Bond has a perilous rendezvous in sniper's alley between East and West Berlin, and "007 in New York" (read by Lucy Fleming) sees him sent to America to warn an

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Jamie Deza uses his rare gift of unusual perception after he is drawn into the world of British intelligence, helping Her Majesty's secret service in interviews and studying business people, terrorists, and suspicious characters, and is soon thrown into a dangerous web of intrigue that threatens his future and his life.