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The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor, Hugh Bonneville and Lindsay Duncan, these enthralling dramatisations perfectly capture the atmosphere of le Carré's taut, thrilling spy novels.

From the Vatican to the Swiss Alps, from Australia to the heartland of America, the two masterful operatives known as Saul and Drew are being drawn together to solve a violent riddle: Why have 10 old men been abducted from around the world?

This is the first book in the George Melville Mystery series and as such sees our eponymous hero, investigative officer George Melville, who works for a law firm, get tangled up in the murky world of pre-Second World War espionage. He meets an eccentric Scottish laird who in fact is his British secret service contact, as he is unsuspectingly thrust into the dangerous life as an ill-prepared secret agent in Hong Kong, Macau, Cairo, and eventually Ireland, where he meets again his old friend Inspector Dodds, along with a policewoman named Yvonne.

Mario and company have the shock of their lives when their plane crashes in the ocean. Somehow, they survive. Mario and his team are still successfully running Global Aviation Leasing. His ex-fiancée Olga still owns GAL. LAI has gone public, making her a billionairess. Legally. But there are many changes in Mario’s life. After the jet crashes outside of Puerto Vallarta en route to Camila Camacho’s funeral in Colombia, Storm moves into Casa Luna. Olga hires a boy toy to share with Riana. On a trip to Puerto Rico, Mario discovers that Lola is alive.

A Cold War thriller, set in the early 1970s, unfolds high in the Himalayas, as a young Air Force officer, Bradford Lehman, is hand-picked for a special technical espionage mission sponsored by the United States and British intelligence agencies. A desperate, deadly clash between western and Soviet spies ensues on the slopes of Dhaulagiri, the seventh-highest mountain in the world. Climb. Fight. Survive - maybe.

This is the story of three very different men in love with the same woman. It is also the story of that woman, Francine Widmer.

The DEA, FBI, and CIA have failed for years to bring down the Spara family, who control the world's largest drug cartel. A secret society of spies whose members are under the age of 25 will try to succeed where the government has failed. At only 21 years old, James is the most skillful member of this society. His new target is the Spara family. Through their relationship with Russia, the Sparas are the largest distributor of heroin in the world.