The clandestine delivery out of the Soviet Union of a literary masterpiece and the brutal murder of the courier sent Paul Christopher on a search for the security break. But he finds, as well, some startling truths about the motives of agents, the methods they use - and the damage they do. Set at the height of the Cold War this is an extraordinary novel that reveals more about the realities of the intelligence community than you would want to know.

From a foxhole on Guadalcanal (shared with Barney Ross) to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the '40s, Nate Heller fights his memories and the Mob. Something happened at the Canal, something Heller's blocking out. What he can't block, though, is the wound he received - the 'million-dollar wound', the one that got him home. Back in the States, and back in Chicago, he becomes involved once again with Frank Nitti during the gang boss' last violent days, and with the gangland attempts to take over the movie unions.

A Russian scientist defects, believing that in the West he will more easily realize his dream of contacting planets in outer space. But British Intelligence and the CIA have more worldly plans for him and move quickly, relentlessly, leaving behind a trail of blood which stretches from the Sahara desert to Manhattan, Paris, Dublin and halfway back across Africa.

Although it was a marriage of convenience, Marianne finds herself falling in love with Axel, the husband she hardly knew.....Until he takes her to Haraldsdyke, the lonely house in the middle of the Kent marshes, where the atmosphere becomes oppressive with witchcraft and murder.....How had Axel's father died? What happened to his half-brother? - did he really drown in the marshes? What is the secret Axel seems determined to keep from her?

Excitement and suspense.....The pace rarely slackens, the flying sequences are authentic, the sub-plot intrigues. Good reading' Bristol Evening Post

The Dream: Perestroika succeeds, the world begins to disarm, a new era of peace and stability is ushered in. The Soviet President continues with his program of reform and liberalisation... The Nightmare: Patrick Hyde, of British Intelligence, on patrol with a mujahideen group inside Soviet Tadjikistan, witnesses the shooting down of a Soviet military airliner by the Red Army. When he recognises a senior CIA officer and, to his horror, the identity of one of the aircraft's passengers, he has only one priority, to reach London and Sir Kenneth Aubrey.

The pope is dead - but the papacy lives on. Already, from all corners of the globe, grizzled, scarlet-suited cardinals are gathering to elect a successor. Within the hushed confines of the Vatican, the air is alive with intrigue. Then in the midst of the most frenzied canvassing, comes a surprise result. The new Pope, Kiril I, is the youngest cardinal - and a Russian, recently released from seventeen years in the labour camps.

Rebecca' was Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. But what happened next? After the tragic fire at Manderley what did fate hold in store for the evil Mrs Danvers and the fatally flawed Maxim de Winter? What would be the destiny of Maxim's second wife, Rebecca's successor, the beautiful but lonely Mrs de Winter?

AMERICA: John Barron, a member of an elite squad of the LAPD, is hunting a cold-blooded assassin. EUROPE: A powerful and influential group of people, many with pure Romanov blood in their veins, gathers in Paris for a meeting which will change the political map of the world. RUSSIA: In the harsh old of St Petersberg, the Romanovs prepare for what they believe is their birthright - to re-establish the monarchy

Mary Ashley, a bright young professor and mother of two, is appointed US ambassador to an Iron Curtain Country. But even before she takes up her post, unseen and powerful enemies - including the sinister Angel, assassin par excellence - plot her destruction. From the White House to the romance of Paris, from Rome to the shady menace of Bucharest, the action races.