Beryl Markham, who died in 1986, was the first person to fly solo from England to America. The full story of her adventures across three continents are revealed in this biography of a lady whose fame as a pioneer flyer and leading racehorse trainer, was only exceeded by her beauty and controversial character.
Simon Young, an important English businessman living in Hong Kong, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly struggle between the KGB and the Chinese Secret Service, and learns that his wife, Jinny, is not what she seems.
There are ten years before China is due to repossess Hong Kong, but the KGB is already planning to undermine Hong Kong's precarious financial stability, to ensure that the Chinese inherit only an empty, worthless shell. By the author of "Blood Rules" and "The Tiger of Desire".
This novel completes the trilogy begun by "The Mahjong Spies" and "The Gates of Exquisite View". It is set in China, and concerns the Chinese attempt to retain Hong Kong's financial assets when the colony falls to them in 1997. It follows the author's successful trilogy about the KGB.
The wife of a top civil servant disappears and, at the same time, Krysalis, a unique NATO file, goes missing. This spy novel is written by the author of "The Man called Kyril", "A View from the Square", "Nocturne for the General", "The Mahjong Spies" and "The Gates of Exquisite View".
In a Soviet prison camp, an old man is known only as a number. Were his name to be made known his fellow inmates would kill him. For this old man is Stephan Ilyich Povin, former KGB general, now disgraced but kept alive because of a secret he has retained. By the author of "Tiger of Desire".
To save his life Mat Young must tell his inquisitors the secret of Apogee - a fifth-generation supercomputer. But it is a secret he does not possess. By the author of "Blood Rules" and "The Tiger of Desire".
Leila Hanif - daughter of a Beirut gangster and sister of an international terrorist - is, above all, a mother. When forced to go into hiding for two years after terrorist activity, she becomes desperate to see her son again. So desperate that she hi-jacks the plane he is travelling on.
The KGB wall of power has cracked. A stealthy double agent is leaking crucial secrets to London from the core of the fortress of Dzherhinsky Square. And he must be trapped before the leak erupts as a full, raging meltdown. Kyril is called in.
For years Povin has been passing invaluable information to the West from the heart of the KGB. Now, with his position under threat, Povin demands passage out of Russia, earning his passage by the disclosure of a frightening secret - nuclear war. By the author of "The Tiger of Desire".
In this thriller, Francis Thornton, ex-barrister and successful businessman, has been accused of attempting to murder the Queen Mother. The shadowing figure of Krait, an international terrorist and assassin, holds the key to the mystery of Thornton's plight.
Diane Cheung is a young psychologist who treats disturbed children in a California coast town called Paradise Bay. When young men begin to disappear, the police ask for her help. Suspicion falls on her most difficult case, Tobes Gascoign. Torn between loyalties, she make her own enquiries.
In autumn 1990, the world's attention is on the approaching Gulf War. But in England an event is about to take place that could have a devastating effect on the fragile Western alliance - Iain Forward, wrongly imprisoned for murdering his boss, is being released and he's out to clear his name.
When a child psychologist arrives in a Southern Californian town to take up a new post, she inherits a number of disturbed teenage patients. One of these, Richo - rich, spoilt, aggressively anti-social - seems to be beyond her help, but then she receives an extraordinary letter from his mother.
Leila Hanif - daughter of a Beirut gangster and sister of an international terrorist - is, above all, a mother. When forced to go into hiding for two years after terrorist activity, she becomes desperate to see her son again. So desperate that she hi-jacks the plane he is travelling on.
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