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Brought to you by Penguin. A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway Set in the missing decade between two iconic instalments in the George Smiley saga, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker...

The stunning spy thriller that blows the world of James Bond wide open! *A Finalist for the McIlvanney Prize: Scottish Crime Book of the Year* Six days. A bomb goes off at the BBC. But this is just the beginning. In six days' time, terrorists will strike again. Three agents. With James Bond...

Ashraf Zain, an outsider and popular leader who breaks into Bihar politics after parting ways with the Bharatiya National Congress (BNC), is killed in a road accident in Begusarai. BNC blames the ruling party, SDP, over the death of Ashraf, an inspirational and visionary “minority” leader. Enter Yohan Tytler, a recently promoted CBI lead investigator, along with his associates—the analytical Sukumar Azhagu, and the 'I always play by the books' investigator Ila Qureshi.

It's 1986, the heart of the Cold War. Marie Mitchell is an intelligence officer with the FBI. She's brilliant and talented, but she's also a black woman working in an all-white boys' club, and her career has stalled with routine paperwork - until she's recruited to a shadowy task force aimed at undermining Thomas Sankara, the charismatic, revolutionary president of Burkina Faso, whose Communist ideology has made him a target for American intervention. In the year that follows, Marie will observe Thomas, seduce him and ultimately have a hand in the coup that will bring him down.

When the system lies, someone has to pull the trigger. Married assassins Aaron and Natashia Haynes live by one rule—walk like you talk—and they’ve built their reputation on precision, loyalty, and finishing what they start. But when a routine hit exposes a deep-rooted conspiracy tied to corrupt officials and secret government programs in their hometown of Siler City, North Carolina, the Haynes and their elite eight-member crew find themselves at war with a shadow syndicate that controls the city from behind closed doors.

When former detective Trevor “Finn” Finnegan became a PI, he adopted a new mandate: catch the LAPD’s worst in the act. While on surveillance in Venice Beach, Finn tails two potentially dirty cops: Detective Martin Riley and Finn’s ex-partner, Detective Sally Munoz. Things take a deadly turn when an unknown assailant executes Riley and wounds Munoz. In an instant, Finn goes from private eye to eyewitness. Munoz needs Finn to help find Riley’s killer, but doing so could blow his cover.

A perfect Stasi marriage is rocked by receipt of a shocking heirloom; a haul of Nazi looted masterpieces. All key to Operation Metatron, the sordid brainchild of Kremlin hardliner, General Usov. The BARBELL cell of Breakspear (St John Bradley) and Kestrel (Jamie Wallace) are deployed on their thirteenth mission: Amsterdam, to infiltrate Perpetual’s GDR-bound vice-line and make the trade with Oniwaban in East Berlin. What could go wrong?

El señor Machi es el perfecto reflejo del éxito y del desprecio. Dueño de un pequeño imperio en Argentina, hizo su fortuna bajo la dictadura militar y luego la afianzó bajo los dos primeros gobiernos de la democracia casándose con una mujer de doble apellido, hija de un terrateniente. Lo que no le impide rodearse de bellas mujeres que obedecen a todos sus caprichos. Hasta que un día, encuentra un cadáver en el maletero de su BMW, atado con las esposas rosas de peluche que usa con sus amantes. Y entonces empieza otra historia.