Espionage

London: Octopus Books, 1982. Glossy pictorial boards, slight bumping to corners and leading edge. 249pp. Spy story collection containing offerings by John le Carre; Sax Rohmer; Graham Greene; William le Queux; Wolfgang Lotz; Alphonse Daudet; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Dennis Wheatley; Joseph Conrad; Len Deighton; Mark Twain; Lt.-Col. Oreste Pinto; and James Fenimore Cooper.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. more information

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Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, 1990. Usual library marks and stamps, lean to spine. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, in protective wrapper, stuck to boards with sticky-tape. 248pp. The author skilfully combines two parallel plots set in the Second World War and the present day to create a classic novel of espionage.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. Ex-Library. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1998. Some bumping and shelf-wear, slight lean. 342pp. Connor Fitzgerald is the professional's professional. Holder of the Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. Servant of his country. The CIA's most deadly weapon.. Trade Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Coronet, 1987. Some creasing and edge-wear, a little bumping. 607pp. Magnus Pym, counsellor at the British Embassy in Vienna, has suddenly vanished, believed defected. The chas is on: for a missing husband, a devoted father, and a lifetime secret agent.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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Sevenoaks: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1980. No Inscriptions, a little bumping and shelf-wear. Dustjacket a little worn to edge, not priced. 327pp. In London, at dead of night, George Smiley, sometime acting Chief of the Circus - as le Carre's secret service is known - is summoned from his lonely bed by news of the murder of an ex-agent. His brief - to bury the crime, not solve it.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Coronet Books, 1997. First Impression, a little creasing and edge-wear, nick to corner. 460pp. Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. First Impression. Usual library marks and stamps, ffep missing, cover protected in plastic wrapper, library sale price to title page. 268pp. Introduced by David Trotter. Set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War. Bored with his wife in London, a young man accepts an invitation to join a friend on a sailing holiday in the Baltic.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Good. more information

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London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1995. Reading creases to spine, booksellers stamp to biography page, a little creasing. 284pp. This gripping espionage thriller is set in the eerie seas and sands off the north coast of Germany.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. First Impression. Signed by the author on the title page. Dustwrapper not price clipped, protected in plastic cover.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Harper Collins, 1995. First Impression. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little edge-wear. 436pp. The Cold War is over, and chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime. But there are strong elements within the country that are trying to stop him .... First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001. No Inscriptions, creasing to cover. 372pp. It's a mission that only Striker - the military arm of Op-Centre - can handle: the capture of an Islamic cleric who is stirring up a rebellion against the Indian Government. But when the border between India and Pakistan erupts, the Striker team gets caught in the crossfire. Now America's most proficient covert team is trapped in a fully-fledged war. Their fate rests in the hands of a devious double agent whose own agenda is unknown - a man who could just as easily sell them out as set them free.... Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Mandarin, 1990. Some creasing to cover. 345pp. Fragmentary events converge in a dazzling maze of superpower manoeuvring as the action switches either side of the Iron Curtain and one conspiracy seems only to reflect another.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Scholastic Children's Books, 2002. First Impression, a little creasing to cover. 223pp. Two great books in one.. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Wyatt, David. more information

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. First Impression. No Inscriptions, shelf-worn. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, wear and small nicks to corners, some edge-wear. 240pp. Beginning in the awesome emptiness and remorseless heat of the Sahara desert. From there a trail of blood leads to Manhattan, Paris, Dublin and halfway back across Africa.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Johnathon Cape, 1978. First Impression. Former owners name inscribed, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some edge-wear. 350pp. Almost nine months have passed since all British forces surrendered and the German occupation has settled into an ordered routine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Grafton, 1986. Reading creases to spine. 405pp. Bernard Samson hoped they'd put Elvira Miller behind bars. She said she had been stupid, but it didn't cut any ice with Bernard. She was a KGB-trained agent and stupidity was no excuse.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1990. Second Impression. No Inscriptions, small marks to page edge. Dustwrapper price-clipped, with tiny nick to edge. 387pp. Deighton's great saga ends when Fiona's mission is complete. As the curtain falls, Deighton invites us to assess for ourselves what the labyrinthine plot has cost in human terms for Bernie, Gloria, Bret, and most particularly, Fiona Samson herself - Deighton's first great female lead character.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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St Albans, Herts: Triad Panther, 1978. Some creasing and edge-wear, pages tanned. 240pp. A Russian scientist defects, believing that in the West he will more easily realise his dream of contacting planets in outer space. But British Intelligence and the CIA have more worldly plans for him and more quickly, relentlessly, leaving behind a trail of blood which stretches from the Sahara desert to Manhattan, Paris, Dublin and halfway back across Africa.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1989. Fourth Impression. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper price-clipped. 316pp. Spy Line, the penultimate novel in Len Deighton's magnificent espionage sequence, is a stunning achievement on every level, from the breathtaking cat's cradle of a plot to the ever-deepening layers of emotion, pathos and passion revealed through characterisation, and the almost painful depiction of the dangerous shadow world in which this great tragic saga is being played out.. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. more information

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London, 1975. Some shelf-wear, slight lean, page-ends grubby and spattered. Dustwrapper worn to edge, small tears to corners. 224pp. . Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. more information

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Triad Grafton Books, 1988. Shelf wear. When war games are played for real... Patrick Armstrong is a tough, dedicated agent and war-games player. But in Armstrong's violent, complex world, war-games are all too often played for real. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London: Fontana, 1991. First Impression, reading creases to spine, some edge-wear. 368pp. The dawn of glasnost. The thaw is slowly beginning, as leaders in both East and West set out tentatively to build a new era of peace.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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Anstey, Leicestershire: F. A. Thorpe Ltd., 1984. Ulverscroft Large Print Books. Usual library stamps and marks, lean to spine, 2in split to lower spine edge. 404pp. It began in 1964, when one million dollars worth of Bearer Bonds disappeared in Geneva. The money was destined for a top Russian scientist intent on defecting. But the defection went sour, the Department of Subversive Warfare lost two agents in Prague, and the money disappeared. The S. I. S. agent, Edward Mills, was arrested for theft. Now, ten years later, Mills has been released. He has just one purpose in life - to find out the truth, and his methods are brutally unconventional.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-Library. more information

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1965. A little bumping to corners, slight shelf-wear, dustwrapper sun-tanned to spine.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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1960. Some bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper has creasing and edge-wear, small nicks, chips and tears, loss to head and foot of spine. 192pp. The destruction of a Russian hideout at SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the planned assassination of a Cuban thug in America; the tracking of a heroin ring from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden and ghastly death in the Seycelles and, in between, a story of love and hate in Bermuda.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Fair. more information

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London: Pan Books, 1964. Slight lean to book, reading creasing along line, shelf wear, front and back cover slughtly creased, sticker just inside cover, pencil writing on FFEP, corners slightly creased. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paper back. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. No Inscriptions, some shelf-wear, a little bumping to corners. Dustwrapper has wear to edge. 292pp. It is the last long summer of the British Empire. Germany is poised for war and England looks desperately for allies. The key is Russia.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Pan, 2001. Reading creases, some edge-wear. 468pp. A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems .... Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Pan, 2007. Reading creases, wear to edge and corners, titles fading on cover. This omnibus edition feature a second world war spy saga and a deadly theft from a hi-tech laboratory.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London: Pan Books, 1983. A little creasing to cover, small tear to lower corner of spine. 254pp. A British agent mysteriously murdered on Lake Konstanz in Germany. Keith Martel, his replacement, must move swiftly. Aided by Claire Hofer. The first novel in which Tweed appears.. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. more information

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London: Pan Books, 1992. Reading creases to spine. 552pp. Assassination is the spark exploding crisis into disaster.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First Impression. No Inscriptions, some shelf-wear, a little bumping to corners. Dustwrapper not price-clipped,a little wear and creasing to edge. 273pp. 14 Intelligence Company is the cover name of an intensely secretive unit set up by the SAS to conduct surveillance operations in Northern Ireland. Uniquely, this organisation recruits and trains women on the basis of equality with men. Using strategies first developed by the SAS and military intelligence during the seventies, Sarah Ford's unit succeeded in taking the war to the IRA with devestating effect.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Guild Publishing, 1984. No Inscriptions, some bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper a little creased and worn to edge. 448pp. A jewel robbery in London's West End forms the deceptively simple opening to this novel. But there is much more at stake than a handful of rare diamonds.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Corgi Books, 1990. Reading creases, edge and corner wear. 510pp. The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office.. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. more information

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London, 1991. Slight lean and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper a little creased to edge. 416pp. Sam McCready is 'The Deceiver', one of the Secret Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and most values operatives, a legend in his own time. But after seven years in charge of the Dee-Dee Desk Sam has made some enemies.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Bantam Press, 1996. First Impression. Author-Signed bookplate to title page, paper tanning, very slight lean. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little creasing to edge, in protective wrapper. 447pp. 'It was the summer when the price of a small loaf of bread topped a million roubles.' In one sentence we are plunged into the vortex of Russia, 1999, poised to collapse in an economic and social meltdown of hyper-inflation, chaos, corruption and crime.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Bantam Press, 1991. First Impression. No Inscriptions, slight bumping to corners and spine ends, some shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wrinkling to edge, wear to corner. 416pp. Sam McCready is 'The Deceiver', one of the Secret Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and most values operatives, a legend in his own time. But after seven years in charge of the Dee-Dee Desk Sam has made some enemies.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Corgi, 1985. Some wear to cover. Numbers written to first page in red crayon, stain to first few pages. 526pp. Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow, and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan that in its madness - and spine chilling ingenuity - breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare.. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1990. First Impression. No Inscriptions. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, a little wear and small tear to corner. 317pp. There is a traitor in the fold and everyone, including the Russians, is pointing a finger of accusation. In a mesmerising game of bluff and double-bluff it looks as if McWade cannot help but fall. As his past comes back from all sides to haunt him, he must decide whom he can trust, who is the traitor and how far he is prepared to go to save his own neck.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. more information

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New York: Berkley, 1991. Reading creases, hole punched to front cover, ink mark to rear. 308pp. Brokenclaw Lee. A cunning monster who has been a thorn in the flesh of society for years. Half Chinese, half Blackfoot Indian, he is six feet six inches tall, massively strong, and has an unquenchable, perverse sexual appetite.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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London, 1981. Slight lean to spine, some bumping to corners, some shelf-wear. 350pp. Herbie Kruger is the German-born intellectual spymaster working at the heart of Britain's security services.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. more information

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London: Coronet, 1982. Reading creases to spine, edge-worn, some foxing. 270pp. James Bond is back, and he's better than ever.. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. more information

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London: Corgi, 1988. Creasing to cover, some edge-wear. 474pp. Continuing the spellbinding saga of two families, the Railtons in Britain and the Farthings in America, intertwined in the secret world of intelligence by blood, love, loyalty and betrayal.. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. more information

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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. First Printing, no inscriptions. 212pp. Slight shelf wear, small creases in d/w. A James Bond adventure.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. more information

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London: Macmillan, 1980. No inscriptions, slight lean, a little shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not priced, a little edge-wear. First Edition book in Book Club Dustjacket. 359pp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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Fontana Books, 1981. Creasing to cover, corner snipped, wear to edge, price inscribed, a little ink to cover. 384pp. A British agent uncovers a secret nest of Nazi submarines. German agents multiply in Ireland. A massive Nazi parachute drop is imminent somewhere in the British Isles. Code Name Emerald... is put into effect - a secret plan so lethal and so illegal that all traces of it must be obliterated and all evidence buried.. Mass Market Paperback. Good. more information

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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1975. A little edge-wear, pages tanning. 216pp. As the Orient Express crosses Europe, it seems to draw a trail of lust, murder, revolution, and intrigue from Ostend to Constantinopole.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. more information

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London: New English Library, 1980. First Impression. Gift inscription to former owner, some bumping and shelf-wear. Dustwrapper not price-clipped, some wear to edge, sun-fading to spine. 269pp. Loftis was not a code-breaker. He had been employed by Intelligence as a geologist to sift through data concerning the Normandy beaches to determine the best landing site for the invasion. And he would never have wondered about the strange coincidence had he not met Pru Lapthorne, a WAAF officer working for Intelligence, data processing messages from the resistance.. First British Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001. Excellent copy, in Dust Jacket. Unread. First Printing. No inscriptions, d/j not price clipped.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. more information

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London: Collins, 1980. First Impression. No Inscriptions, very slight lean to spine. Dustwrapper nicked and creased at top and bottom. 212pp. When an irresistible force meets an immovable object, trouble usually ensues. When Mikali met Asa Morgan there could only be one solution, Death.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. more information

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