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The Lonely Margins
by Ted AllbeuryTo live in the shadowland of espionage, where the only certainties are death and deceit, is to live on the lonely margins. The French Resistance brought James Harmer and Jane Frazer together. The Gestapo broke them apart. But it was something else that shattered their love and left them haunted by a sense of betrayal and a thirst for revenge.
The Long Run
by Ted AllbeuryIn Washington, in London, in Berlin, very different men confront a future they distrust and despise. In the years since the end of the Cold War, true power seems to have shifted from their nations' natural leaders to a gaggle of irresponsible journalists and self-seeking politicians, cynically manipulating news and public opinion to their own ends. These men have not forgotten the lessons of five decades of clandestine struggle. And when a long-dead spy's secrets resurface, they see an opportunity. But can any man, no matter how well-meaning, seize the reigns of power without endangering the very way of life he seeks to protect?
The Man with the President's Mind
by Ted AllbeuryIn a building just like The White House, deep inside Russia, a man is provided with top-secret CIA briefing documents, American newspapers, radio and television programmes. His training will continue until he can think exactly like the President of the United States of America, and know how he will react in a crisis. A crisis the Kremlin has already set in motion...
Moscow Quadrille
by Ted AllbeuryA Russian actor on the KGB payroll... A middle aged wife with a fatal sense of guilt...A seductive Slav beauty, fuel for an ageing diplomat's sexual fantasies...A severely compromised British ambassador to Moscow who will return to Britain as the Prime Minister's personal advisor...Their shadowy dance has begun to a tune of betrayal, disillusionment and death, and a nation's fate hangs in the balance.'A truly classic writer of espionage fiction' - Len Deighton
No Place to Hide
by Ted AllbeuryJohn Rennie is an officer in the SIS. Unshakeable dedicated Rennie is a true professional. He is sent to Paris to investigate the kidnapping of another SIS officer. The trail leads him to Amsterdam and to the Arab terrorist cell responsible for the abduction. Rennie is ordered to snatch the children of a prominent Arab and the SIS officer is released. But Rennie is not happy about the distress caused to the children and he resigns threatening to expose the SIS 'dirty tricks' department. Tipped off that he is to be eliminated he makes his way secretly to Canada with his drop-out girlfriend from Amsterdam. But escaping his old life could never be so easy...
The Only Good German
by Ted AllbeuryMaverick CIA killers are on the loose in Cold War era West Germany. Violent sabotage and subversion is being perpetrated behind the Iron Curtain. A right-wing terror-organisation with connections stretching back to the Nazi era is suspected. David Mills had long since left behind his life as an Intelligence Officer, or so he thought. As the British and American Intelligence agencies struggle to combat the mounting fascist threat, Mills is pulled back into the murky world of International espionage by a figure from his past.
Other Kinds Of Treason
by Ted AllbeuryA collection of twelve short stories of love, war and betrayal from master thriller writer Ted Allbeury.
The Other Side of Silence: The classic spy thriller, inspired by actual events (Bernie Gunther)
by Ted AllbeuryAfter years behind the Iron Curtain, Britain's most notorious traitor wants to return to the homeland he betrayed as part of the Cambridge Five spy ring. John Powell is assigned the task of finding out why. Is it an old man's whim, or a carefully planned KGB operation? To find out Powell must journey into the labyrinth of a man's legendary past, sifting through every rumour, every plot, every shadowy alliance, until the journey leads him into the most dangerous recess of them all, the heart and mind and motivation of the man himself - Kim Philby.THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE is a classic espionage thriller from one of the true masters of the genre.
Palomino Blonde: Tad Anders Book 2 (Tad Anders #2)
by Ted AllbeuryWhat does a man do when he discovers a process like Omega Minus? He wishes he hadn't. Scientist James Hallet has the Intelligence forces of all the world's major powers on his back and they're not too particular about how they get their information. They wouldn't, for instance, baulk at the kidnap and torture of Hallet's beautiful blonde mistress. Not if it would give them Omega Minus.'A classic of espionage fiction with the ingredients to keep you reading all night long' - Len Deighton
Pay Any Price
by Ted AllbeuryThe Kennedy killings meant trouble - trouble for the Mafia, trouble for the Cubans, and trouble for the CIA. When Grabowski hides the CIA's hypnosis experts away in a remote Northumbrian safe house, there is only one catch: the British. SIS have a problem just across the Irish Sea that needs to be dealt with, and they are determined to use their American guest's 'expertise' deveoped during Project MKULtra for their own purposes.
The Reaper
by Ted AllbeuryAnna Woltman is a woman out for revenge. Revenge for the sudden, senseless killing of her husband. Revenge for the atrocities suffered by millions of innocent people during the Second World War. One by one, across Europe and the United States, she stalks men who think they have long since escaped the consequences of their actions. One by one she makes them pay for their crimes with their lives, but soon the secret Nazi organisation known as ODESSA starts to fight back...
The Reckoning
by Ted AllbeuryKatya Felinska is a beautiful and talented photo-journalist, passionately committed to championing the rights of the oppressed. Max Inman is a brilliant and incisive political journalist. They have been together for almost twenty years. But Max is also an undercover agent, one of MI6's most important sources on the real thinking of Russian and German leaders in the tense months leading up to the disintegration of the Iron Curtain and the fall of the Berlin Wall.Then things go wrong. Horribly wrong. And Katya must summon all her courage and ingenuity to save the man she loves.
The Secret Whispers
by Ted AllbeuryRichter's wartime mission in England was dangerous, but he survived. After the war he returned to Germany to start a new life, safe from every threat except one, the cruellest of all; coincidence. And when Richter got into trouble, there was only one man with a chance of getting him out. A man he had not seen in years and whom he never expected to see again...
The Seeds of Treason
by Ted AllbeuryJan Massey Head of British Intelligence in Berlin falls in love with Anna Kholkov wife of a KGB officer. When she is arrested Massey is forced into betraying his country. Arthur Johnson a signalman working in Massey's Berlin office has other reasons for betraying his country as does Eric Mayhew at GCHQ in the UK. At GCHQ's American counterpart the NSA James Vick is manipulated into betrayal by the apparently unattainable Kirstin Swenson who works for the KGB. Four people - with different motivations and in different circumstances- all betray their countries. But Massey refuses to betray the woman he loves... and as the fragile counter-intelligence network starts reacting to the ripples of Massey's treason so the four stories begin to connect.'Ted Allbeury without doubt ranks among the finest genre writers I've read' - Glenn Meade
Shadow of a Doubt
by Ted AllbeuryAccused by a malicious biographer of political interference, gross errors of judgement, adultery and virtual treason, former Director-General of MI6 Sir James Frazer prepares to do battle. But, in taking out libel action, Sir James must submit to the rigours of high profile court case in which his incredible past and turbulent private life are brought under the intense scrutiny. Old wounds must be re-opened and long-standing secrets dramatically uncovered with devastating consequences for the security of the British Intelligence network.
Shadow of Shadows
by Ted AllbeuryThe debriefing of Russian defector Colonel Petrov is nearly over, when suddenly he dries up. SIS agent James Lawler has to find out why, but Petrov will only say he is scared of being killed - like British double-agent George Blake.But Blake had escaped to Russia, alive. Or had he? To uncover the deadly truth, Lawler has to delve into the murky, intricate past of a traitor and learn the explosive truth behind what could lead a man to betray his country.
Show Me A Hero
by Ted AllbeuryAndrei Aarons is just twenty when he becomes a spy. Quiet, idealistic, a true believer, always able to justify the imperfections of the Russian Revolution.Picked, trained and given an assignment in New York, he begins his extraordinary life as the most successful espionage agent the Soviets ever had.So why did six American presidents trust him?This novel, based on highly confidential information, is the story of the ultimate failure of communism seen through the eyes of one of the most secret participants in its seventy-four year history, a man once described by the Pentagon as 'the man who won the Cold War'.
Snowball: Tad Anders Book 1 (Tad Anders #1)
by Ted AllbeuryA long buried and shocking secret has been uncovered. In 1940, President Roosevelt and Canada's Mackenzie King secretly agreed to abandon the Allies and make peace with Hitler if the Nazis successfully invaded Britain. Decades later, Soviet agents are ready to use this information to shatter the NATO alliance and use the ensuing geopolitical chaos to strengthen their position in Europe. Only one man stands in their way. Tadeusz Anders - half Polish, half English and totally professional - plunges into a series of cruel and violent manoeuvers to combat the cold-blooded operatives of the KGB.
The Special Collection
by Ted AllbeuryGermany, 1945. British agent Stephen Felinski is parachuted into Hitler's fast-collapsing empire with orders to reorganize a group of Soviet agents abandoned by Moscow. Thirty years later, a top British politician defects to the Russians and Felinski is called out of retirement to help - because of a friendship formed among the ruins of Nazi Germany. The link is The Special Collection, a daring and meticulously planned Soviet attempt to bring social and industrial chaos to Britain. It has already been set in motion and only Stephen Felinski can stop it.
A Time Without Shadows
by Ted AllbeuryWhen the SS destroyed Special Operations Executive's Scorpio network in Occupied France, only Henri Masson escaped. Then his post-war trial was abruptly halted after a high level British intervention. Forty years later, awkward questions are raised in Westminster and the case has been reopened. The first thing Harry Chapman of MI6 discovers is that all records were destroyed by a senior SIS officer. The second is that there are still survivors from the Scorpio affair - and that Henri Masson might be among them. Chapman begins a jouney into the past, to France in the 1940s, to a time when few men were what they seemed - and fewer still could be trusted.A TIME WITHOUT SHADOWS is a classic espionage thriller from one of the true masters of the genre.
The Twentieth Day of January: The Inauguration Day Thriller
by Ted Allbeury"Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre, and this novel represents some of his best work." — Booklist "A flawlessly structured plot." — Publishers Weekly"Uncannily predicted the rise of Donald Trump." — Slate.comIt's 1980 and the Cold War continues to rage. Seemingly out of nowhere, wealthy businessman Logan Powell has become President-elect and is only weeks away from assuming the most powerful position in the world on the twentieth day of January. Across the Atlantic, veteran British intelligence agent James MacKay uncovers shocking evidence that suggests something might be terribly wrong with the election. With the help of a reluctant CIA, MacKay sets out on a dangerous and daring mission to discover if the unthinkable has occurred: is President-elect Powell actually a puppet of the Soviet Union? Written by the bestselling author of The Crossing and Pay Any Price, this remarkably plausible thriller offers a heady mix of political intrigue and intense suspense — with the very future of America and the free world hanging in the balance. "Allbeury's novels have won a reputation not only for verisimilitude but for crisp, economical narration and high drama … there's no better craftsman." — Chicago Sun-Times"A most knowledgeable chronicler of espionage." — The New York Times Book Review "When I say Ted Allbeury knows where the bodies are buried I mean it literally. Truly a classic writer of espionage fiction." — Len Deighton, author of The Ipcress File
The Twentieth Day of January: The Inauguration Day thriller
by Ted AllbeuryA spookily prescient espionage thriller from one of the masters of the genre. What if the Soviet Union gained control over the US Presidency?SIS agent James Mackay fears that this may already be happening when he realises the newly elected president's press secretary is a former communist radical with links to the KGB. When the witnesses who support his suspicions are systematically eliminated, MacKay must race against time to prove that the President-Elect is not his own man before Inauguration Day and avoid a national catastrophe.'When I say Ted Allbeury knows where the bodies are buried I mean it literally.' - Len Deighton, author of The Ipcress File.
Where All the Girls are Sweeter
by Ted AllbeuryBoat dealer Max Farne spends his days relaxing, lounging around the pier at Santa Margherita and escaping the hot Italian sun in cool Italian bars. But following the sudden arrival of a beautiful woman, the disappearance of a rich man and the appearance of a soft-treading, armed stranger, who Max is forced to kill, it seems that the violence has only just begun...
A Wilderness of Mirrors
by Ted AllbeuryA senior SIS field officer has gone missing. Thornton is ordered to investigate discreetly. He'd talk to a few people, invent some plausible, probably bureaucratic reason. Check records. Pull back if anyone got too interested. He knew that Fisher, the missing man, was good. Good enough to do things his own way, not the head office way, and get away with it. No money troubles. No indiscretions. Balanced. No question of defection. Thorton soon enters a maze of lies, obstruction and deception surrounding an innocent German girl with extraordinary powers, KGB and CIA plots and counter plots, an East/West kidnapping - and a spy with a conscience.
Clearing The Dark
by Hania Allen'Refreshing . . . I look forward to reading more' Alex Gray'First-rate' Sunday SportWhen it comes to murder, there's no such thing as a coincidence ...When DI Dania Gorska is called to investigate the shooting of a young man on a Dundee street, the nail hammered into his forehead suggests that local gangster, Archie McLellan has left his calling card. Clues point to his involvement in an illegal replica firearms venture, a scam that may include other members of the infamous McLellan family.The chance discovery of human remains buried in the grounds of Breek House, once owned by the McLellans, convinces Dania the two cases must be related. But who was the mysterious tenant of Breek House at the time the bodies were put into the ground? Identifying them is complicated as all the teeth have been removed - post mortem, to prevent identification? Or was the back room at Breek House used by the McLellans as a torture chamber?As Dania moves closer to discovering what went on at Breek House she disturbs dangerous secrets from the past which threaten the lives of those in the present...Praise for Hania Allen'A fresh new find for crime fans' Sunday Post'Nicely nasty in all the right places . . . The story rattles along until bringing the curtain down with an unnerving twist' Craig Robertson'Captivating characters and an intriguing plot. A great new find for crime fans' Lin Anderson'Pitch-perfect . . . a witty, tense crime novel written in a highly readable style' Russel D McLean