Brian Freemantle, connu également sous les pseudonymes de John Maxwell, Jack Winchester, Harry Asher et Richard Gant, est l'un des auteurs britanniques les plus acclamés de romans d'espionnage. Ses romans, vendus à des millions d'exemplaires dans le monde, s'inspirent largement de son expérience de journaliste. Freemantle a acquis une reconnaissance internationale grâce à sa série emblématique sur Charlie Muffin, qui a profondément marqué le genre. Il a également exploré d'autres récits captivants, y compris des histoires mettant en scène un fils illégitime de Sherlock Holmes et la collaboration entre un agent du FBI et un détective russe dans la lutte contre le crime organisé de l'après-Guerre Froide.
Jack Mason, once Russia's most successful CIA embedded traitor, has spent the last fifteen years in a penitentiary planning his vengeance on the defector who exposed him. Former KGB Colonel Dimitri Sobell has made a life for himself in America. Until he gets an official letter advising him of the man's impending release, he'd virtually forgotten Jack Mason
Otto Reimann's mission is to travel from Moscow to Bonn and seduce Elke Meyer, personal assistant to the Permanent Secretary to the West German cabinet - to seduce her so lovingly, so caringly, that every secret she has ever heard will be revealed. By the author of the "Charlie Muffin" novels.
This gripping thriller, recognized as a Barry Award Finalist, delivers a suspenseful narrative filled with unexpected twists and complex characters. The plot intricately weaves tension and intrigue, keeping readers on the edge of their seats. With a focus on psychological depth and moral dilemmas, it explores themes of trust, betrayal, and the consequences of choices made under pressure. The author's masterful storytelling and vivid imagery create an immersive experience that captivates and challenges the reader throughout.
Only a miracle-and faulty workmanship-prevents a germ-packed warhead from exploding when a terrorist missile slams into the United Nations building in New York. The lettering on the side of the rocket is Russian, which presents the West with its worst a direct link between a fanatical U. S. terrorist group and Russian gangsters with access to the germ warfare arsenal of the former Soviet Union.This potentially devastating attack reunites the FBI's Russian expert William Cowley and Moscow's Organized Crime Director Dimitri Danilov. Their to penetrate and destroy the unknown group claiming responsibility before they can strike again.And as the Superpowers teeter on the brink of diplomatic meltdown, Cowley and Danilov make another nightmare discovery. The terrorists are being cleverly financed by ultra-sophisticated hackers looting U. S. banks, breaking into law enforcement and Pentagon computers, and keeping themselves always one click ahead of the frantic pursuit.The Watchmen is a spine-chilling chase that strikes at the heart of our fears of terrorism and its prevention.
Sebastian Holmes, son of the legendary Sherlock, is up to his eyeballs in the revolutionary plot to overthrow the Russian monarchy of the Romanov's. What can Sebastian do to turn the tides of fate?
Fans of espionage novels know there's nothing quite as satisfying as meeting a clever, likeable spy they can count on to return in another book. For Brian Freemantle's growing army of readers, that character is the brilliant and eccentric Charlie Muffin, the shambling, untidy British operative whose feet always hurt, who can't get along with anybody in authority, and who's always the best operative in the business.
A beautiful female economist working out of the American embassy in Moscow is brutally murdered. Even more perplexing, all the buttons have been removed from her clothes. Soon both the FBI and the Soviets fear that a serial killer is at large in Moscow
The new thriller from the master storyteller - Harvey Jordan is The Namedropper, a multi-millionaire who steals other people's identities to strip them of their assets. Following an ill-judged affair, Jordan finds himself cited in a divorce action by one Alfred Appleton, as well as being sued for criminal conversation a multi-million dollar marriage-wrecking damages claim. So Jordan plans his own type of revenge the identity-stealing kind and in so doing discovers the murky depths of Appletons past . . .
When Western intelligence services recognize a global jihadist attack has been mounted, the United States and the UK lead the counter-offensive. Attack after attack is foiled but the Al Qaeda mastermind eludes MI5 and the CIA. As they prepare for the final attack, they realize that the plot is more sinister than they had ever thought possible.
