The nuclear deterrent had failed While Britain had an arsenal of terrifying weapons that it dared not use, the other side only needed to use theirs once. When a Russian Scragg missile hit Bristol, Britain knew it was all over. There were some people who accepted the armistice and occupying forces without opposition, believing they were working for a better society. But for the others, the Resistance, there was never been any question of compromise.
Mamie knew Ike had another woman. But his affair with the glamorous Kay Summersby was a wartime thing. Then, on the eve of the election in 1956, love letters surface that show their liaison is still alive. Who would dare blackmail the President of the United States just as war in the Middle East is about to erupt?
SIS officer Will Landon assumes he is facing a routine task when he is asked to investigate and vet the sensational novelized memoirs of Ross Frazer. By all records, Frazer was an ex-Intelligence officer, quite possibly involved in some long ago political assassinations, and is currently very much deceased. But events quickly take a deadly, unexpected turn. First the London literary agent in charge of the manuscript is found gruesomely murdered and his copy stolen by two people claiming to be with law enforcement. Then the body of the New York bookshop owner who was the original source of the manuscript is found brutally tortured and murdered. This once simple situation quickly lands on the desk of Peter Ashton, now an assistant director of the SIS. In this confusing situation, Ashton clearly sees the footprints of a now disgraced former SIS director - but when he tries to locate her, he finds she's gone missing as well. With precious little to go on then, Ashton along with his protégé Will Landon must start making connections-and fast-in order to uncover who, and what is really behind this increasingly deadly situation.
Ten years ago, Edward Mills was not a dangerous man. That was before he served out a jail sentence for a theft operation in which a million dollars worth of bonds, intended for a defecting Russian scientist, went missing in Geneva. That defection went bad and Mills was the SIS agent who went down for the crime. Now he wants revenge.
Clive Egleton -- master of the classic espionage story -- returns with the latest featuring Peter Ashton, Intelligence Officer for Britain's SIS. When a Queen's Messenger is kidnapped, tortured, and murdered in Costa Rica, Ashton is assigned to investigate. But his greatest and most lethal enemies may be within his own government.
A new case for SIS Chief Charles Winter - 1962. America has set up a quarantine zone around Cuba, preventing Soviet ships from importing nuclear hardware. Meanwhile, SIS Chief Charles Winter is investigating the death of a double-agent whose KGB control, Vasili Korznikov, has recently defected to American Intelligence. Washington isnt keen to let Winter investigate Korznikov, but theres little time for diplomacy, since the Russian ships are already on their way to Cuba . . .
When an British secret service operative turns up dead in a London restaurant shoot-out, the SIS suspects that he was caught in the crossfire of a robbery with overtones of underworld drug gangs, and that his death was coincidental. But it soon turns out that one of the corpses was a shadowy figure with multiple identities and potential ties to terror organizations. Evidence of a cover-up emerges from somewhere deep within the British secret services, and it becomes clear to Peter Ashton and the SIS that something far more nefarious than a random shooting has taken place. Even more alarmingly, when suicide bombers attack British Council offices in Pakistan and Russia, it becomes obvious that a terrorist operation is underway. Now it's up to Ashton and his colleagues to follow the faint traces, uncover and disrupt the operation, and track down the two central figures at the heart of the conspiracy.
Fearful that his wife will be next, former spy Peter Ashton investigates the murder of three British agents in Yorkshire. Ashton's wife works for the British secret service.
Andrew Magrane, a senior British SAS agent who is the victim of botched psychedelic-drug experiments, escapes from a hospital in Scotland, which he mistakenly believes to be a top-secret medical facility in Siberia, and Major Donaldson is assigned to stop Magrane's deadly mission.
With a bouillabaisse of suspicious characters (The New York Times Book Review), Assassination Day finds SIS agent Peter Ashton in a quandry over a case as the bodies multiply but something doesn't quite add up.
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