Thriller
Any Survivors?
The narrator is a refugee in London in 1939. Turfed out of his lodgings and finding himself homeless with five…
A Game of Lies
In this third book in a series, journalist Hannah Vogel, wanted by the Nazis, returns to Berlin, ostensibly to cover…
Potsdam Station
Potsdam Station is the fourth of David Downing’s “Station” series, which covers the very unorthodox World War II experiences of…
The Red Coffin
It is 1939, and the Soviet Union is desperately trying to prepare for an anticipated war against Nazi Germany. When…
Blood of the Reich
Best-selling author Dietrich took a 1938 Nazi expedition to Tibet and changed the names to create a rip-snorting, intricately plotted…
Prince
Editors' choice
It is the year 1593, and England is a powder-keg of rumour and fear. Plague threatens London, famine is rife…
Prophecy
Editors' choice
Take a devious plot, a clutch of spies, a dash of counterspies, and set the story in Elizabethan England where…
Rome: The Coming of the King
Sebastos Pantera, spy for the Emperor Nero, is hunting Saulos, a dangerous and ruthless adversary. After his failure to burn…
Conspirata
In Imperium, we saw Cicero rise from humble origins to achieve the highest office of Rome. Now, in the second…
The Nine Lives of Otto Katz
Otto Katz was never a man to hide his light under a bushel, enthralling Hollywood in the Thirties with his…
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