Philip Bartley stops to pick up a hitch-hiker one rainy night, hoping for sexual favours in return. But when the car crashes into a hedge, the slender, blonde figure with the seductive tongue is nowhere to be seen... Reverend Peter Darley has a mortal sin on his conscience, and as he struggles with his faith, he finds that even the church cannot provide sanctuary from his impure thoughts... A whiff of perfume, a pair of hyacinth blue eyes are oddly familiar to James Connor. Will they cause the Deputy Police Commissioner to lose his head? That is just the beginning. There are three men with one woman in common. Now that woman, Anna, is dead. Her lover Richard Torrey is determined to get at the bottom of her brutal murder and bring her killers to justice. But his investigations, helped by journalist Kate Mallory and Inspector Bruce Daniels, are hampered by a

Set in the modern urban landscape of London, Hooky Gear deals with another of life's strugglers, the burglar. In the frenetic opening, our hero - along with his partner, Duane bungles a simple housebreak and is caught. He emerges from gaol to find his life has fallen apart. His girlfriend has left him, he can't get a job, and the only people pleased to see him are those who want to use him.

'Nick Barlay is a fine chronicler of London's grittier sub-cultures' Time Out

In Raymond Benson's chilling new James Bond novel, Bond comes face to face at last with the blind genius behind the brutal organization called the Union.

It begins at a movie studio in Nice where a police raid goes horribly wrong, killing innocent men, women and even children. The trail leads James Bond to Paris, where he meets the tantalising movie star Tylyn Mignonne, whose life is in mortal danger.
Meanwhile Bond's friend, French agent Mathis, has disappeared while tracking down the Union's mysterious leader known as 'Le Gérant. Bond's journey takes him to a thrilling underwater brush with death, a chase through the Corsican wilderness - and a final confrontation with a twisted criminal genius.

The enduring Cold War novel by one of our greatest storytellers.

'A great thriller, the best le Carre has written' The Spectator

John le Carré was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.

With this superb, now classic novel of suspense, le Carre changed the rules of the game. His story is of one last breathlessly perilous assignment for the agent who wants desperately to end his career of espionage - to come in from the cold. 'Superbly constructed, with an atmosphere of chilly hell' J.B. Priestley

Uncertain evidence suggests Soviet missiles are being put in a place close to the German border, while vital film has gone missing and a courier is dead. The Department has to find an old hand who will prove its mettle.

A new hardback edition for an enduring le Carre novel How long was it since the Department had mounted an operation? Too long. Now it has a job on its hands. Uncertain evidence suggests Soviet missiles being put in place close to the German border, while vital film has gone missing and a courier is dead. The Department has to find an old hand who will prove its mettle. Fred Leiser, a German-speaking Pole turned Englishman, once a qualified radio-operator, now something in the motor trade, must be called back to the colours and sent East...

John le Carré was born in 1931. He attended the universities of Bern and Oxford and later taught at Eton. He spent five years in the British Secret Service.

The brilliant new topical thriller from the author of Green Light and Underworld. It's the very near-future in a new Northern Ireland, and as a result of the accelerating peace process the British government has been forced to release one of the most vicious of IRA paramilitaries, 'Mad' Mike Houlihan. In a desperate measure to contain the damage, SAS operative Steve Barnes is sent to 'elminate' the problem. But when his first attempt fails and he is recalled to save further embarrasment, he decides to stay on, sink into the Irish underworld and complete his mission...all alone.