It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city--Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York--he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing...

Lachlan Kite, a member of a top-secret transatlantic black ops team, must reckon with the legacy of his first espionage mission thirty years earlier when his pregnant wife is abducted and held as collateral for information he is sworn to protect.

A chronicle of the English spymaster's contributions to the regime of Elizabeth I describes his organization of an intelligence network, role in declaring war against Catholic Irish rebels, and participation in the execution of Mary Queen of Scots.

From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life-one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven Area Controllers-an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of...

When a trusted advisor to the tsar of Russia counsels a separate peace with Germany during the First World War, Cleary, a British intelligence officer, is tasked with ending the advisor's influence.