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Author
Series
James Bond series volume 26
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
James Bond has to stop the mastermind behind the Soviet terrorist group "The scales of justice" before they can unleash their horrendous plot.
Author
Series
Laundry files novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Mo's latest assignment is to assist the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of performing super-heroics"--
23) Goldfinger
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
British secret agent James Bond infiltrates the organization of ruthless criminal Auric Goldfinger and his caper with the Soviet unit known as SMERSH.
24) The deceiver
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
McCready, chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, offered his choice of two positions--an obscure administrative job or early retirement, is not afraid to press the CIA to the explosion point to convince them their prize defector is a double agent.
25) SeaFire
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 29
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
James Bond battles Sir Maxwell Lustig, a megalomaniac on a floating laboratory in the Caribbean. The wicked man is holding the world hostage by threatening an ecological disaster. On this mission Bond is aided by Swiss intelligence agent Flicka von Grusse.
26) Scorpius
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 22
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
James Bond investigates a cult guru, Father Valentine, and finds he has links to the mega-czar of global vice and terrorism, Vladimir Scorpius. From then on, 007 races to a confrontation with the evil genius.
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 8
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
While investigating an arms deal in Yemen, Liz Carlyle and her counter-espionage team discover that the weapons being sold during the Arab Spring have originated in the UK.
28) Spy line
Author
Series
Bernard Samson novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The long-awaited reissue of the second part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. Berlin-Kreuzberg: winter 1987. Through these grey streets, many people are hunting for Bernard Samson - London's field agent. He is perhaps the only man who both sides would be equally pleased to be rid of. But for Bernard, the city of his childhood holds innumerable grim hiding places for a spy on...
29) Brokenclaw
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 25
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
On holiday in Victoria British Columbia Bond becomes intrigued Lee Fu Chu, a half Blackfoot half Chinese philanthropist who is known as Brokenclaw because of a deformed hand. On his return to the UK, Bond is tasked to investigate the kidnapping of several scientists who have been working on a new submarine detection system.
30) Breaking cover
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 9
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Still reeling from the loss of her boyfriend in a botched anti-terrorist operation, Liz Carlyle has been posted to MI5's counter-espionage desk, where she's hoping to have relative security to find her feet. However, Russia's incursions into the Crimea and President Putin's determination to silence those who oppose him, wherever they may be, quash that hope. Liz soon finds herself on the hunt for a Russian spy in Britain. And with MI5 and MI6 under...
Author
Series
Laundry files novels volume 8
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bob Howards career in the Laundry, the secret British government agency dedicated to protecting the world from unspeakable horrors from beyond spacetime, has entailed high combat, brilliant hacking, ancient magic, and combat with indescribably repellent creatures of pure evil. Now, following the invasion of Yorkshire by the Host of Air and Darkness, the Laundrys existence has become public, and Bob is being trotted out on TV to answer pointed questions...
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 41
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In an adrenaline-fueled thriller set in the present day, a thirty-year-old James Bond goes head-to-head against one of the most compelling and horrific villains in modern thriller fiction. This isn't the Cold War Bond: it's the best of Fleming and Deaver in one seriously sharp and stylish novel. Bond's license to kill meets Deaver's razor-sharp storytelling in a cat-and-mouse game that takes Bond from the Balkans to London to a searing climax on the...
33) A valiant deceit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young pigeoneer Olive Bright has been conscripted, with her racing birds, to aid the fight against the Nazis. It's not the daring role she'd envisioned for herself, but her quiet little English village is not nearly as sheltered as she imagined... Returning to Pipley following her FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) training, Olive is eager to step up her involvement in the war effort. Her pigeons are being conscripted to aid the Belgian resistance,...
34) Shadow wave
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 12
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission-- and then retired agent Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own. James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his friend.
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1081
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
James Bond won his battle with criminal mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole new war is about to begin. With glamorous Pussy Galore by his side-and in his bed-Bond arrives home from America to the news that SMERSH, the deadly Soviet counterintelligence agency, plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix. He must play a high-speed game of cat and mouse on the track to stop them, but a chance encounter with a mysterious Korean millionaire, Jason...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about the role of carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues the adventures of British pigeoneer Olive Bright, but as bitter cold weather forces her racing birds indoors in November 1941, Olive is assigned to a new role in the war effort - escorting none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming on his visit to the Brickendonbury Manor spy training center......
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 10
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A Russian immigrant lies dying in a hospice in upstate Vermont. When a stranger visits, claiming to be a childhood friend, the FBI is alerted and news quickly travels to MI5 in London. Liz Carlyle and her colleague Peggy Kinsolving are already knee-deep in conspiracies, and as they unravel the events that landed the man in the hospital, Liz learns of a network of Russians and their plot to undermine the German government. Liz and Peggy set out to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
"For Bob Howard, a working day tends to alternate between desperately trying not to fall asleep in committee meetings and being menaced by tentacular horrors from beyond spacetime. That's because Bob works for the Laundry, the secret British government agency tasked with protecting the realm from occult nightmares. So when his manager Iris sends him off to the countryside to liaise with a veterinary inspector from the Department of the Environment,...
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