Spy Stories

Undertaker Francis Hancock enters the world of Romany gypsies in a tale of murder, magic and Nazi spies set in Epping Forest during the Blitz.

Nat, a veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, thinks his years as an agent runner are over. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, MI6 have other plans. Nat is put in charge of The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. His weekly badminton session with the young, introspective, Brexit-hating Ed, offers respite from the new job. But it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Nat down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.

In 1943 an Indian princess is parachuted into France to join the Resistance as a radio operator. She and John Sutherland, a British Commando, are to join the Prosper network in Paris, she to furnish London with information and he to blow up a railway station and discover a spy. Based on the true story of SOE agent, Noor Inayat Khan.

The Arena is rooted in the City of London, where a run-down firm of City merchant bankers, Bonavias, have a hold on Radarmic: and Radarmic is top secret. When an upstart firm presses for a merger, there is more than money at stake; and Colonel Charles Russell, head of Security Executive, uncovers a cesspool of violence and intrigue.

The ultimate intelligence nightmare is an 'invisible', a person who is an ethnic native of a target country so can cross borders unchecked and infiltrate institutions with ease. When Liz Carlyle, an officer in MI5, receives the report of an 'invisible' on mainland Britain, an operation starts in which she is tested to the limits.

A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.

Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.

In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.  Book 8 of series.

The Kalashnikov AK47. A symbol of freedom fighters and terrorists across the globe. Undercover officer Andy Knight has infiltrated an extremist group intent on bringing the rifle to Britain - something MI5 have been struggling for years to prevent. He befriends Zeinab, a young Muslim student, who is at the centre of the plot - and though Andy knows that the golden rule of undercover work is not to get emotionally attached to the target, sometimes rules are impossible to follow...

Bernard Samson is put back into the field, after 5 years of being desk-bound, to help a high-ranking ‘mole’ come over the Berlin Wall.  Book 1 of series.

Texan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at nothing to bring down the USSR - even if it puts the whole world at risk. The fourth and final novel featuring the cynical, insolent narrator of The IPCRESS File sees him sent from his shabby Soho office to bone-freezing Helsinki in order to penetrate Midwinter's vast anti-Communist network - and stop a deadly virus from wiping out the planet.  Book 4 of series.

Berlin, 1933. Aspiring actress Clara Vine arrives in Berlin to find work. Through a chance meeting, she is drawn into a circle of Nazi wives, led by Magda Goebbels. British Intelligence officer Leo Quinn sees Clara as the perfect recruit to spy on her new elite friends. But then Magda reveals to Clara a dramatic secret and entrusts her with an extraordinary mission. Book 1 of series.

November, 1940. I.A. Serebin, a writer from Odessa and former decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, is on his way to Istanbul following a cryptic letter from a former lover.

Ostensibly there on official business for the International Russian Union, an emigre organisation based in Paris, he is drawn into a clandestine world of international spies and political players. With war in Europe drawing nearer, Serebin is recruited by the British secret services - his mission to stop the export of Romanian oil to Germany.

In a race against time, Serebin's journey will take him from the glittering salons of Paris to the back alleys of Bucharest and the Black Sea ports, in a covert operation to staunch the flow of oil, the precious 'blood of victory'.

1989: The Cold War will soon be over, but for BOX 88, a top secret spying agency, the espionage game is heating up. Lachlan Kite is sent to France to gather intelligence on the Lockerbie bombing. What he uncovers is terrifying…2020: Kite has been taken captive and brutally tortured. He now has a choice: reveal the truth about what happened in France thirty years earlier – or watch his family die.

Former double agent, dr Rudi Rosenharte, is summoned to Trieste by a former lover - a woman he last saw dead in her bath. Rudi is reluctant to make contact, but is forced to by the Stasi who imprison his family.

Following a gruelling operation in Paris, Liz Carlyle’s bosses post her to MI5’s counter-espionage desk, but they haven’t counted on the fallout from Putin’s incursions into the Ukraine. Liz needs to track down a Russian spy who has entered the UK before he completes his fatal mission.

After a routine security check by George Smiley civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the death he begins his own investigation meeting Fennan's widow to find out what led him to such desperation. On the very day Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined? 

The face of war is changing. The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore. There's thinking, in some circles, that we need to play by a different set of rules too. Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond has been recruited to a new agency. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of Five, Six and the MoD, with its very existence deniable. Its aim: to protect the Realm, by any means necessary. The Night Action alert calls Bond from dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfil his mission.

At the casino in Deauville, Bond's game is baccarat, for stakes that run into millions of francs. But away from the discreet salons, it's 007 versus one of Russia's most powerful and ruthless agents.

Bernard Samson returns to Berlin in the final novel in the classic spy trilogy, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY. Bernard continues to chip away at the mystery of his sister-in-law Tessa Kosinski's death in Berlin on the crucial night when his wife Fiona was brought out of the East.

Fighting to uncover the truth, he must also confront the key relationships in his own life: Fiona is still far from stable now that she has returned to work, and their children remain in the clutches of his wealthy and manipulative father-in-law. Meanwhile, Werner Volkmann, Bernard's friend since childhood, is reluctant to get involved in Bernard's crusade.   Book 9 of series.

The most degenerate and lovable secret agent, Charlie Muffin, becomes involved in the defection of a KGB General from the East.

Liz Carlyle and her Counter Terrorism unit in MI5 have been charged with the task of watching the international under-the-counter arms trade and have become increasingly concerned that extremist Al-Qaeda jihadis are building their power base ready to launch an attack. As the pressure mounts, Liz and her team must intercept illegal weapons before they get into the wrong hands.

When Agent Osbourne ends his latest mission floating in the sea off the coast of Brittany, he is thankful to be picked up by a German E-boat, but he soon makes a startling discovery that plunges him into a deadly game of espionage and intrigue.

Gentleman spy Henry Gresham is called to the deathbed of his archenemy, Robert Cecil, and given the task of retrieving letters that could be used against the King. Little does he realise that he is being set up, as live bait, to draw out a madman determined to destroy James I.

James 'Max' Maxted is sent on a mission for legendary German spy Fritz Lemmer, the very man who claims responsibility for the murder of Max's father. As Max travels to Scotland's remote Orkney Islands to collect a mysterious grey file from a German captain, it is life and death for all concerned. Book 2 of series.

Farideh's husband is a corporal in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, entrapped by MI6 for interrogation, but he won't talk unless Farideh is brought out of Iran. The SAS say it's too dangerous, but the director of the operation doesn't want to lose his prize. He assembles a little team of three ex-soldiers and one student drop-out who knows the language and smuggles them into Tehran...

An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent. The CIA's highly classified Special Activities Division is in the business of tracking people down and keeping secrets hidden. Then a botched field operation reveals some dark dealings between an officer's superiors and an informant, dealings she's not supposed to know about. And a plot that could kill thousands of Americans. Including her husband and daughter.

Knowing that her leadership is corrupt to the core, intelligence officer Amy Cornwall is forced to give up her identity and to work from the shadows. But it's not easy staying hidden when your enemies are elite intelligence operatives. Will she get the truth out into the light before losing her identity, her history, her family?

Procane, a top Washington official, is about to defect, but until they know exactly who he is they can do nothing to stop him. In London, Tweed and SIS sit and wait!

Introducing Luke Carlton - ex-Special Boat Service commando, and now under contract to MI6 for some of its most dangerous missions. Sent into the steaming Colombian jungle to investigate the murder of a British intelligence officer, Luke finds himself caught up in the coils of a plot that has terrifying international dimensions.

At MI5 they call Jonas Merrick 'the eternal flame', because he never goes out. Never goes undercover, or on surveillance, or kicking down doors. But in Jonas is a steely concentration, a ruthless ability to find the enemy who hides in plain sight like a submerged crocodile. When Cameron Jilkes, a young man from a broken background, trained as a Jihadi in the harshest theatre of war comes ashore near Dover, he plans to live unnoticed, before unleashing a terrifying strike. And this time, Jonas Merrick must go out - to hunt the crocodile himself.

For Eric DeHaan, captain of the Dutch tramp freighter Noordenam, life at sea has always been his great, but not his only, love affair. Recruited by Dutch navel intelligence while in the port of Tangier, DeHaan steers his ship, disguised as a neutral Spanish freighter, through a series of secret missions for British naval interests.

Andre Szara is a journalist working for Pravda in 1937 but with war imminent, he is co-opted to join the Soviet secret intelligence agency. When he is sent to retrieve a battered briefcase he is drawn into ever more complex intrigues.

London, 1956. Spymaster Henry Bone is convinced that 'Butterfly' is the Holy Grail of Cold War Intelligence. However, Butterfly is an aristocratic pervert whose political tastes are as ugly as his sexual preferences. Worst of all, he has the ability to identify traitors - and every serving British spy who helped them.

Max Flynn, undercover agent, has the unenviable job of spying on his own side. But the hazy, murky world of counter espionage leaves no room for errors of judgement and Flynn knows he's finished if he makes one false move.

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to finish their washed-up careers. Now they have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Jackson Lamb soon uncovers a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets. How many people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?  Book 2 of series

MI5 Intelligence Officer, Liz Carlyle, receives alarming information about an operation to disrupt a peace conference at Gleneagles, laying the blame at Syria's door. Liz's task is to prevent a plot that threatens the future of the whole of the Middle East.

After the death of his best informer, gentleman spy Henry Gresham suspects foul play. Meanwhile he is summoned back to Court and ordered to investigate the private life of Sir Francis Bacon. During this investigation and the one into his informer's death, Grisham stumbles upon an unbelievable Catholic plot!

Set during the Cold War and featuring all the glamour, thrills and excitement that one would expect from any adventure involving Bond, Faulks has written a continuation of the 'James Bond' legacy picking up from where Fleming left off in 1966.