Genghis Khan - the greatest conqueror of all time, who at his peak ruled an empire four times the size of Alexander the Great's, a vast expanse which stretched from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. And now somebody wants it back. Dirk Pitt and the NUMA crew are about to come head to head with their most dangerous enemy ever. A mysterious Mongolian mogul harbors a dream of restoring the conquests of ancient Mongolia. He holds a dark secret about Genghis Khan, his grandson Kublai Khan and the treasures of Xanadu - treasures of gold and also much, much more. His relentless ambition will caus... View More...
It is 1908, and international tensions are mounting as the world plunges towards war. When a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in an apparent suicide, the man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide, but to murder. When more suspicious deaths follow, it becomes clear that someone - an elusive spy - is orchestrating the destruction of America's brightest technological minds ...and the murders all connect t... View More...
A British intelligence operative is blown up in newly-liberated East Germany, his Red Army contact, gorgeous Galine Kutuzova, goes on the run, and Peter Ashton of the SIS is sent to find her and her secrets before she sells them to the wrong people. View More...
The new international bestselling thriller from the master of the genre explores the threat of organised crime in Russia. Craig Thomas is the author of the huge bestsellers Firefox, Firefox Down, and Winter Hawk. A thriller set in America and Siberia, about the corrupting power of the gangsters and the foreign investors who rule the new Russia. View More...
Following on from the author's previous novel "Shadows of Steel", this thriller tells of a US secret strike force being sent to newly independent Taiwan to protect it from the invading Chinese. View More...
Rachel Sexton works for the National Reconnaissance Office as an intelligence officer. She is also the daughter of a Senator currently running for President. Her father's main offensive, and a very popular one, against the incumbent President is to attack the huge amount of NASA funding. Rachel is barely on speaking terms with her father, believing him to be totally corrupt, but is still worried she is being used by the President when he asks her to verify an amazing find by NASA, a find which will settle the arguments about NASA funding for ever. Reluctantly agreeing to view the find Rachel i... View More...
When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine - encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it will cripple U.S. intelligence. View More...
The heart-racing follow-up to the international bestseller SIMPLE GENIUS. Camp David, USA: A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched during the celebrations. The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then-senator husband from an assassin's bullet. And this may not be all that passed between them... With Michelle still haunted by her own demons and forces from all sides aligning against them, soon the pair find themselves pushed to the limit. For who is it tha... View More...
'I need a war ...' Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war - and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way. As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other, the lives of three very different people will never be the same again. As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control? This terrifying global thriller delivers all the twists and turns, emotional dra... View More...
Already devastated by loss, Bourne is shattered by a report that his last friend in the world, Martin Lindros, has gone missing. A CI deputy director, Lindros was in Ethiopia tracking suspicious shipments of yellowcake uranium and atomic bomb weaponry. His last lifeline to humanity, Bourne will not let Lindros go. Despite his hatred for CI, Bourne sets out to rescue his friend and finish the job: dismantling a terrorist network determined to build nuclear armaments by cutting off their source of money. But Bourne doesn't realize that these men, Islamic supremacists, are leaders of an incredibl... View More...
The BOURNE DECEPTION picks up where THE BOURNE SANCTION left off. Jason Bourne's nemesis, Arkadin, is still hot on his trail and the two continue their struggle, reversing roles of hunter and hunted. When Bourne is ambushed and badly wounded, he fakes his death and goes into hiding. In safety, he takes on a new identity, and begins a mission to find out who tried to assassinate him. Jason begins to question who he really is, how much of him is tied up in the Bourne identity, and what he would become if that was suddenly taken away from him. Meanwhile, an American passenger airliner is shot dow... View More...
It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafia-like criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine - Russian meltdown will make the disintegration of the Balkans look like the collapse of a cup-cake. Out of the chaos, however, a single charismatic voice is starting to be heard - that of Igor Komarov, a visionary patriot who claims he can restore Russia's greatness and bring prosperity to the masses. He even woo... View More...
A transplant patient inherits more than just a heart from her unknown donor in this fast-paced espionage thriller from a novelist hailed by fellow writer Clive Cussler as 'a master of intrigue and adventure'. After brilliant Washington attorney Beth Convey suffers a heart attack during a high-profile trial, a transplant saves her life. When she recovers, she is shocked to realize that she has new abilities and tastes. Most disturbing are her violent, realistic dreams. The search for her donor's identity leads Beth to Jeff Hammond, a disgraced former FBI agent. Now a top Washington Post reporte... View More...
There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles' In Casino Royale, the first of Fleming's 007 adventures, a single game of cards is James Bond's only chance to bring down the criminal network of desperate SMERSH agent Le Chiffre. But Bond soon discovers that there is far more at stake than money. About the Author: Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency after which he worked briefly as a stoc... View More...
There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. 'Private armies, private wars. How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause, how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!' From a View to A Kill * For Your Eyes Only * Quantum of Solace * Risico * The Hildebrand Rarity Five stories. Five missions. Five glimpses into the mind of a spy. From Jamaican estates to brooding French forests, Bond is tested to his limits by the world's most dangerous men and the dark secrets they keep. About the Author: Ian Lancaster Fleming ... View More...
There is only one Bond. Enjoy these intoxicating spy novels in stylish Vintage Classics editions. 'You're stale, tired of having to be tough. You want a change. You've seen too much death.' In Fleming's seventh 007 novel, a private assignment sets Bond on the trail of an enigmatic criminal mastermind - Auric Goldfinger. But greed and power have created a deadly opponent who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. About the Author: Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London in 1908. His first job was at Reuters news agency after which he worked briefly as a stockbroker before working in... View More...
Racing against time and hunted by rogue soldiers, mad scientists, and an organization that operates beyond the law, Jay Ryan is forced back into the spotlight in this heartstopping military thriller Former army interrogator Jay Ryan is enjoying the quiet life after leaving the military far behind-or so he thinks. But old habits die hard and he's quickly thrust back into the thick of things when a disgruntled scientist, backed by the Australian security industry, develops a weapon of mass destruction-a hybrid strain of Anthrax-to be used to create panic in a population apathetic to crime prev... View More...
Lachlan Fox... the right man in the wrong place.September 11 changed everything. The US Patriot Act has given the UKUSA treaty countries free rein to use their ECHELON surveillance program to monitor every spoken or written word transmitted throughout the world. In the wrong hands it could bring down governments and threaten the safety of millions.Ex-navy operative and investigative journalist Lachlan Fox has information hinting at the true reach of ECHELON... and he starts to suspect someone is ruthlessly trying to access its power. Can he uncover the answers before the course of history is a... View More...
Britain is in the depths of recession.A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua.By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold watch.He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment. View More...
Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is not stranger to the Official Secrets Act. But this is the first time he has been asked to change his identity - and, worse still, his clothes - in service of his country. Whisked to a remote island to interpret a top-secret conference between no-name financiers and Congolese warlords, Salvo's excitement is only heightened by memories of the night before he left London, and his life-changing encounter with a beautiful nurse named Hannah. Exit suddenly, the unassuming, happily married man Salvo believ... View More...