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1) Piccolo
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This is very much a 21st century thriller, involving 'a new kind of treason'. Police Inspector Steven Redmond, of Special Branch, is charged with investigating the suspicious deaths by 'accident' or 'suicide' of several Ministry of Defence computer experts. He soon realises that he is expected to deliver a 'whitewash' report and that to buck the system is to put his career on the line. Compelled by his assistant, computer expert Sergeant Gail Harper,...
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A brand new present day thriller, set in the old Central Asian Republics of the USSR. The main character, Cairns, is an experienced courier working for the British Secret Service, who is sent into Sary Shagan, the centre of Russian Missile Defence research, in order to make contact with 'Tamerlane', the codename of a high level MI6 source in the Defence Ministry in Moscow - Tamerlane has acquired some explosive information that needs to be transmitted...
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The next book in the acclaimed Cormack and Woodward series, set during the Berlin Blockade of 1948, which has sometimes been described as the Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1940s, where a highly volatile situation could easily have developed into a full-blown conflict. Cormack arrives in Berlin to take over a new post as the head of a counter-intelligence unit whose job is both to detect Soviet agents and to deal with Black Market activity. He is soon...
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David Rankin is an ex-member of the Special Boat Service who has used his underwater expertise to develop a successful marine salvage company and has just secured a multi-million pound contract that will set him up for life. However, he then receives news of the mysterious death of his brother Gordon, who worked for MI5 and soon finds himself running for his life following attempts to kill or kidnap him, simply because of a digital flash drive that...
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The two super-powers, the USA with a new President and the USSR with a Premier building on his progressively liberal attitude, have agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals by 50%. The military 'hawks' of both nations are horrified and join forces in a secret compact to try and oust their leaders in favour of 'the old regime'. The plot they hatch - The Alaska Project - is, literally, murderous and would do irreparable damage to world peace. Peter Kendrick,...
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THE DUTCH CAPER First in the Cormack and Woodward series, it involves a dangerous mission into wartime Europe in order to try and find vital information about the 'Liechtenstein' onboard radar system that Luftwaffe night fighters are using to shoot down RAF bombers in ever increasing numbers. The only way to do this is to steal a night fighter from a securely guarded Luftwaffe air base... Based on a true story. EMERALD Sequel to The Dutch Caper, where...
7) Emerald
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Second in the Cormack and Woodward series. Based on a true story, Emerald is the fast-moving sequel to The Dutch Caper, showing Cormack and Woodward being flown into Berlin in order to bring out 'Emerald', the mistress of a high-ranking member of Hitler's staff in Berlin but also a long-standing British undercover agent. She has been passing on information from Hitler's Berlin Bunker for several months now, but has now become the object of an intensive...
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Set during World War II, The Faust Conspiracy centres on a plot by the Germans to kill 'Faust', the codename for a high ranking British target, by sending in Karl Vogel, a trained assassin. The operation is partly to forestall the activities of the Anti-Hitler Conspiracy, a group of German military officers who want to kill Hitler, replace him and the Nazis with a more moderate leadership and negotiate a peace with the UK and the USA. This group find...
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The First in the acclaimed Cormack and Woodward series. On May 9, 1943, while World War II raged in Europe, a German Ju88 night fighter landed at Dyce Airfield, Aberdeen, Scotland, equipped with the new FuG202 Liechtenstein airborne radar. The authorities have never disclosed the story of where this plane came from and how it reached the UK. Originally published as The Radar Job in the UK, The Dutch Caper weaves fact and fiction into a gripping story...
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