New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia.

Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs.

With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen and lightning-fast military strike that could rupture the NATO alliance and bring Washington and Moscow to the brink of nuclear war. But in his blind spot is the former U.S. Secret Service agent, Marcus Ryker, trained to protect but ready to kill to save his country.

Lured by Israeli intelligence into the world of espionage, Charlie, a young actress, is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap to ensnare an elusive Palestinian terrorist.

One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history.

When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues.

What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London’s Chinatown.

In London, the legendary freedom fighter Gustavo Berrio-Brito, also known as “Felix,” is kidnapped. A romantic figure in the Che tradition, Felix is particularly close to the current Libyan dictator, Mourabet, who ascended to power after the untimely death of Qaddafi.

In Los Angeles, a high-level Libyan delegation is on an unofficial junket touring American defense plants, hosted by the President’s brother and mentor, Bingo McKay. When word reaches Mourabet that Felix has been kidnapped, he immediately concludes that the CIA is responsible and instructs his delegation to kidnap Bingo.

In Washington, the President receives grim evidence that his brother has been abducted — the Libyans send him Bingo’s ear, wrapped in a Gucci box, along with a polite proposal that an exchange of prisoners take place.

Felix has actually been kidnapped by Leland Timble, a Robert Vesco-type character who has been convicted in absentia for a daring bank scam. Timble wants to use Felix as a weapon to buy his reentry into the United States.

Enter Chubb Dunjee, the Mordida Man — ex-congressman, ex-UN representative, expatriate and bribery (“mordida” in Spanish) expert. Through an intermediary, the President engages Dunjee to find his brother, and what follows is an intricately plotted, immensely entertaining novel — Ross Thomas’ most stunning work to date.

Investigative reporter Jack Flynn is once again dodging assassins' bullets on the trail of a story that's even more politically explosive than he knows. Boston Globe columnist McGrory's second political thriller (after The Incumbent) crackles with newsroom energy as Flynn investigates corruption that's seemingly close to home: his beloved employer, the Boston Record, is about to be taken over and dumbed down by schlock-media mogul Terry Campbell. On a paranoid hunch from his boss, Flynn is sent to see whether Campbell had anything to do with the death, supposedly of natural causes, of the Record's publisher five years ago. The intrigue widens to include Lance Randolph, the compulsively poll-taking Massachusetts governor just nominated for attorney general, and Flynn discovers a much cozier relationship between politicians and some of his venerable Record colleagues than he had previously suspected. Flynn is a charmingly self-effacing narrator who never misses an opportunity to take a crack at politicos ("Randolph held onto the gun… like it was a campaign contribution"). McGrory offers a scathing take on the state of the news business, as well as the toadying and mutual mistrust that goes on between politicians and the press. Political junkies will love the roman … clef details in his memorable portrait of a political scion nervously trying to live up to the family legacy.

In the mode of The Fools in Town Are on Our Side, Ross Thomas’s best-selling novel to date, The Porkchoppers takes an inside look at corruption — this time in an American labor union. The result is Thomas’s toughest and most entertaining book.

Donald Cubbin is president of a 990,000-member American labor union, and he faces a tough, dirty campaign for reelection against Sammy Hanks, the union’s secretary-treasurer. When both Cubbin and opponent pull out the stops to defeat each other, the action — including election-stealing and assassination-comes fast and nasty, with unexpected results, all served up in the incomparable Ross Thomas style.

A classic Cold War spy story about the space race from the bestselling thriller writer Derek Lambert.

As the Soviet space-shuttle Dove orbits 150 miles above the earth on its maiden flight, Warsaw Pact troops crash into Poland. The seventy-two-year-old President of America wants to be re-elected, and for that he needs to win the first stage of the war in space: he needs to capture the Soviet space shuttle. But as the President plans his coup a nuclear-armed shuttle speeds towards target America – and only defection in space can stop it.

‘Writing as crisp as the Moscow winter… the Soviet setting is magically evocative’ New York Times

‘Lambert, author of many intelligent political thrillers, has another in this fastpaced, complex, and timely novel. Highly recommended’ Library Journal

‘A most satisfying thriller with a highly dramatic finish’ Publishers Weekly

A provocative and entertaining novel of political adventure in contemporary Africa...Clinton Shartelle, a Southern gentleman partial to seersucker, is the best rough-and-tumble political campaign manager in the United Stares. Peter Upshaw, the narrator, is a public relations man who searches out Shartelle and persuades him to run a very unusual campaign. The candidate is Chief Sunday Akomolo. and the office sought is the premiership of Albertia, an African colony soon to achieve independence.THE SEERSUCKER WHIPSAW is an exciting and suspenseful story, full of wild but wise humor and penetrating insights into American and African attitudes. But it is Clinton Shartelle, the Seersucker Whipsaw, who animates the entire narrative with his wit, charm and cunning. Whether he is planning his opponents’ mistakes or performing a drunken cakewalk, Shartelle is the unique character who makes this novel unforgettable.

Britain’s premier thriller writer’s new book is an edge of the seat ride through a richly imagined America; a country riven by fear and distrust. It is a world where the FBI and the CIA fight a barely restrained turf war. where gangsters mix with the brightest stars of Hollywood and where there is a price on everyone’s head.November 1960. Against the odds a 43 year old Roman Catholic has beaten Richard Nixon in the presidential race and John F. Kennedy will be the first new President of the decade. It is an uneasy time. The Cold War is close to boiling over, the Soviet Union is matching America in the arms race and has beaten her into space. Anti-Communist fever is rampant and paranoia about Castro’s Cuba is running high.For the Mafia, keen to free up their operations in the Caribbean. Castro presents a different sort of problem but a real one nevertheless; so they employ Tom Jefferson. America’s most efficient assassin, to kill him. But Jefferson has his own agenda, his own target, much closer to home. If he succeeds he will change history. And no

Michael Corleone stands on the dock at Palermo. His two-year exile in Sicily is over, but the Godfather has charged him with a mission: do not return to America until he can bring with him the man named Salvatore Guilano. Giuliano – a legend, the bandit ruler of Western Sicily, a vicious leader fighting for his peasant countrymen against the corrupt government of Rome. But Guiliano's deadliest battle is not with the police or the armies of Rome, but with Don Croce malo, the ruthless Capo di Capi of the Mafia. By challenging the Don's iron-clad control, Guiliano sets in motion a feverish war in which the loser must surely die. Enter Michael Corleone, at sea amid a flood of treachery, passion, and deceit. The secret is that he soon discovers promises greater success than Michael hoped for – and the cruelest threat he has ever faced. Once again, Mario Puzo has created a masterful story of evil on an epic scale, mesmerizing us with the terrible magic of the Mafia.

Picture a highly industrialized, prosperous nation. A nation under severe economic and political stress. A nation polarized along racial and sectional lines. A nation ripe for revolution.

How would you manage a takeover? Mass armies on the border? Launch a general strike? Stage a military coup?

Paul Kavanagh knows another way. All you need is one man with a gun.

A man named Miles Dorn.

This is Miles Dorn speaking:

“Jocelyn, I first killed a man when I was seventeen years old. I killed him because he was a Serb and I was a Croat. At the time this seemed reason enough. Since then I literally cannot count the men I have killed. I do not know their number.”

Consider Miles Dorn, inactive, retired, tucked away in a quiet college town. Reading his books, cooking his meals, tutoring an occasional pupil. Cultivating his garden. A bomb defused, an antique firearm with the firing pin safely removed.

Until another man named Heidigger replaces the missing part and puts five bullets in the chambers. And then once again Miles Dorn is in a world in which the hatreds of a few become the hatreds of millions, in which terror is the only road to power and ruthless cynicism the only path to survival. He reads his books, cooks his meats, gives German lessons.

And he sets in motion a chilling ans savage scenario for the destruction of American democracy...

“Allbeury, like le Carré, is a master of the genre, and this novel represents some of his best work.”— BooklistIt’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

An Alistair MacLean’s UNACO novel #6

The African state of Zimbala has a new leader, but someone wants him dead – and the only man who knows details of the hit is being hunted by UNACO’s top agent on an illegal mission of personal vengeance. Can UNACO stop their top assassin from killing his nemesis?

Alphonse Mobuto has ruled the state of Zimbala for forty-five years. On his death, the Presidency passes to his eldest son, Jamel. Determined to introduce democracy and rid Zimbala of his father’s oppressive regime, Jamel faces retribution from those who once benefited from it.

In New York to deliver an important speech at the UN, Jamel is an obvious target for an assassin’s bullet. The time and place of the assassination are known by only one man, Jean Jacque Bernard, an international terrorist and now a CIA operative.

Clearly a case for UNACO. But deputy director Serge Kolchinsky realizes he has a potentially explosive situation on his hands. For he discovers crack team member Mike Graham has gone AWOL. Graham is in Beirut on a strictly illegal mission of personal vengeance – to track down and kill Bernard…

Fast-paced and compulsive, Time of the Assassins is the fourth novel to be written by Alastair MacNeill from a detailed story outline by Alistair MacLean. Although MacLean died in 1987, it is hoped that his many fans will find that these novels offer the same pace and excitement as the bestsellers by the master himself.

A frightening, prophetic vision of our world…In Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, fugitive US intelligence officer Joshua Kold is held in limbo, unable to leave the airport’s transit area. He is on the run, after blowing the lid off the terrifying reach of covert American global surveillance operations. Will the Russian authorities grant him asylum, or will they hand him over the clutches of the global octopus eager for revenge for his betrayal?As this gripping psychological and political thriller unfolds, a Moscow lawyer takes Kold to a secret bunker and grills him intently on just why he did it. Upon Kold’s answers hang not only his own fate, but much, much more as the true extent of this chilling 1984 world unfolds.* * *Anatoly Kucherena is the famous Russian lawyer who took on the case of the American whistleblower Edward Snowden whose revelations about US intelligence operations sent shockwaves around the world in 2013. Time of the Octopus is a fiction, but it is based on Kucherena’s own interviews with Snowden at Sheremetyevo, and provides the basis for Oliver Stone’s major Hollywood movie ‘Snowden’ starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, one of the movie events of 2016.According to Stone, “Anatoly has written a ‘grand inquisitor’-style Russian novel weighing the soul of his fictional whistleblower against the gravity of a 1984 tyranny that has achieved global proportions. His meditations on the meaning of totalitarian power in the 21st century make for a chilling, prescient horror story.”Is Kold simply a traitor, or the courageous hero of a terrifying struggle against the dark forces of oppression?Translated by John Farndon with Akbota Sultanbekova and Olga Nakston