Harry Palmer

The nameless protagonist of this adventure - later christened Harry Palmer - is transferred from British Military Intelligence to a civilian department known as WOOC(P). Here, an apparently straightforward operation to trace a missing biochemist leads him to confront a massive conspiracy.  Book 1 of series.

Our anonymous secret agent from The Ipcress File (13623) is now working with his WOOC(P) boss Dawlish. But he must draw on all his abilities, good and bad, when plunged into a story of murder, betrayal and greed every bit as murky as the waters off the coast of Portugal, where the answers lie buried.  Book 2 of series.

In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West – for a price. British intelligence are willing to pay, with their own top secret agent to act as go-between. But it soon becomes apparent that behind the facade of an elaborate mock funeral lies a game of deadly manoeuvres, in the intricate moves of cold war espionage…  Book 3 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.

Paris in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch, which supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city's elite - all the while secretly filming guests in order to blackmail them. Into this decadent underworld steps a bespectacled British spy. Sent on what seems like a simple mission, he soon finds himself playing a game where the rules are unknown - and even victory could be fatal.   Book 5 of series.

A web of violence and treachery is woven from a sinister Scottish stronghold, to the nuclear submarines trawling beneath the Arctic ice cap, and a secretive London college of war studies.  Book 6 of series.