Spy & Espionage Thriller

The Spy Coast is the instant Sunday Times bestseller. Imagine a thrilling combination of Killing Eve and The Thursday Murder Club in this exhilarating novel that introduces retired spy Maggie Bird. 'The Spy Coast is The Thursday Murder Club on steroids' - SAGA Magazine 'I loved it. A hugely entertaining read!' - ANN CLEEVES Maggie Bird wears many hats. She's...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR The fourth thriller in the “so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written” (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Terminal List series follows former Navy SEAL James Reece as he is entrusted with a top-secret CIA mission of retribution twenty years in the making. It’s been twenty years since 9/11. Two decades since the United...

Your new puzzle obsession from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Murdle. Bordergrams: A Quest for the Queen combines daring feats, cryptic clues, and connections-style puzzles in this must-have adventure for noble puzzlers! A Queendom is in peril, and only Sir Render, a once-great Knight of the Hexagonal Table, can help re-establish peace and prosperity. With the help of...

007. Le Chiffre. Vesper Lynd. In the ground-breaking first novel of Ian Fleming's classic series, James Bond is dispatched to a French casino for an unforgettable, and possibly lethal, game of baccarat. This prestige hardback features bonus content as well as brand new cover art by legendary designer Michael Gillette.

Adventure can be a deadly business. It began in the manner of all the very best adventures: in a coffee house. When one Richard Hannay—intrepid, inquisitive, and on the hunt for intrigue—encounters an old acquaintance in Constantinople, he has an inkling that something thrilling is afoot. Charged with an item of great mystery and import—a washbag, no less!—he soon finds...

Tom Clancy Rules of Engagement by Brian and Jeffrey Andrews and Ward Larsen challenges President Jack Ryan with coordinated terrorist attacks around the world in this latest shocking entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. The western world is stunned as coordinated terrorist attacks blaze around the globe. President Jack Ryan is working from the Oval Office to...

Mark Greaney, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy's recent Jack Ryan novels, delivers another breakneck thriller following the world's deadliest assassin - the Gray Man. After five years on the run, The Gray Man - Court Gentry - is back on the inside at the CIA. His first mission makes him wish he wasn't, when a...

Pre-order the next, nail-biting Jack Ryan thriller, Tom Clancy Executive Power, now! __________ Jack Ryan returns in a blockbuster new novel of action, thrills, and intrigue in the No.1 bestselling world created by master storyteller Tom Clancy. For decades, Taiwan has been a thorn in the side of the Chinese government. New Chinese President Li Jian Jun is done fooling...

From a former spy comes an electrifying novel about the mystery, paranoia and ruthlessness of the secretive world of British espionage. 'Wolff is the new maestro' — Simon Sebag Montefiore The Head of British Intelligence is having a bad day. Only six months off retirement and Sir William Rentoul is wondering if he'll make it that far, what with the...

From acclaimed writer Steven Carroll comes the second in his new series of post-war literary crime novels featuring Detective Sergeant Stephen Minter. Queenscliff, Victoria, winter, 1951 It's a cold, Monday morning. Mid-winter. No swimmers in sight. A deserted beach. And there on the sand, a neat pile of clothes. Almost like a coded message waiting to be deciphered. Detective Sergeant...

'Tense, marvellously detailed' - The Sunday Times Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's breakthrough international bestseller, is a heart-racing, exciting tale about the fate of the Second World War as it rests in the hands of a master spy, his opponent, and one brave woman. Written when he was only twenty-seven, it launched the career of master storyteller Ken Follett...

CIA agent Miles Brookhaven was attacked in a souk while infiltrating rebel groups in the area. No one was certain if his cover had been blown or if the act was just an arbitrary attack on Westerners. Months later, the incident remains a mystery. Now, Liz Carlyle and her Counter Terrorism unit in MI5 have been charged with the task...

You've seen the worldwide #1 Netflix film - now read the latest breathtaking Gray Man thriller. Court Gentry is caught between the Russian mafia and the CIA in the new novel from the new king of the electrifying non-stop action thriller. When you kick over a rock, you never know what's going to crawl out. Alex Velesky is about to...

This is the most explosive thriller of the year - you won't be able to put it down. Extraordinary...smart, sophisticated, suspenseful - and important. If you try one new thing this year, make it Star of the North - LEE CHILD North Korea and the USA are on the brink of war. A young American woman disappears without trace from...

Re-issued in stunning new livery, this is one of Frederick Forsyth's best books - a gripping masterclass in espionage fiction from one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Soldier Years ago, Cal Dexter was a Vietnam tunnel rat recruited to ferret out the enemy. Today, he's hired to pursue a new target - a dangerous, violent man, responsible for...

1945. In London, it feels as if the peace is harder than the war. Years of devastating Luftwaffe bombing have obliterated stretches of the city and left others abandoned. Against this backdrop, psychologist-investigator Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the plight of a group of adolescent orphans, along with a gravely ill demobbed soldier who are squatting in a Belgravia mansion....

The new Kurt Austin adventure in the NUMA Files series from UK No. 1 bestseller Clive Cussler. The world's oil supply is vanishing, the stock market is plummeting, and the key to saving the future seems to be a baffling historical mystery. Can the NUMA crew crack it in time? After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three...

The stunning new thriller from the master of modern espionage When Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, apparently of a heart attack, legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon is quickly summoned to Rome. The Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati, suspects his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch the night of the pope's death...

Pre-order the brand-new, heart-wrenching and emotional Italian historical fiction novel from Tessa Harris, bestselling author of Beneath a Starless Sky! A war-torn city. A stolen masterpiece. Two lives in the balance… Italy, 1940. With Florence on the cusp of war, Il Scorpione, the no-nonsense Englishwomen of the city, find their genteel livelihoods under grave threat by the approach of the...

The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright used to say, but he forgot to add they can be dangerous too, especially if they've fallen...

Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real devastation in this new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Gray Man series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or something even...

The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the action blockbuster Argylle, starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Samuel L. Jackson, directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the...

Don't miss the next utterly gripping novel in the Cotton Malone series from New York Times Bestselling author Steve Berry, available to pre-order now! Former Justice Department operative, Cotton Malone, has been asked to assist the Swiss guard with determining whether Cardinal Jason Richter has engaged in bribery and theft. It's a favour for Stephanie Nelle, once his boss at...

This is seriously good… the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it – so read it while you can! — Lee Child A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come. — Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan...

From the author of TikTok sensation Icebreaker comes a deliciously swoonworthy romance following two summer camp counsellors who reconnect after a sizzling one-night stand. Order Daydream to read Henry’s love story now! When Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts cross paths at a college party, a drinking game results in a passionate one-night stand. Never one to overstay her welcome (or...

The much-anticipated publication of John le Carré's last complete novel is now available in paperback. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But after only a couple of months into his new career, Edward, a Polish emigré, shows up at his door with a...

The new white-knuckled thriller in the NUMA series from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure, Clive Cussler. Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system, and a sinister cult in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure"...

In John le Carré's thrilling novel, Agent Running in the Field, the greatest chronicler of espionage weaves a gripping tale set against the backdrop of a nation in turmoil. Nat, a seasoned veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, is poised to settle into a less volatile phase of his career, only to be thrust back into the fray by MI6....

Urgent, topical and shot through with insider knowledge, the final thriller in the Red Sparrow trilogy is writing on a grand scale. Russian counterintelligence chief Colonel Dominika Egorova has been an asset of the CIA for over seven years. She has also been in a forbidden and tumultuous love affair with her handler Nate Nash, mortally dangerous for them both,...

Only the Dead is the explosive new thriller from Jack Carr, the bestselling author of The Terminal List, now a major TV series starring Chris Pratt. Navy SEAL James Reece faces a devastating global conspiracy in this high-adrenaline thriller ripped from the headlines by the “seriously good” (Lee Child) #1 New York Times bestselling author, Jack Carr. In 1980, a...

Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel, which revolutionised the genre, is now published in Penguin Classics for the first time. A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far...

A complex, psychological novel about familial loyalty, new to Penguin Modern Classics. A corporate lawyer from the House of Single & Single is shot dead in cold blood on a Turkish hillside. A children's entertainer in Devon is hauled to his local bank late at night to explain a monumental influx of cash. A Russian freighter is arrested in the...

Funeral in Berlin is a vintage spy thriller and part of The IPCRESS File series, where a Russian scientist defects to the West. The setting is the dark and dangerous Berlin of 1963. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File is tasked with arranging the defection of a leading Soviet scientist, orchestrated through an elaborate mock coffin. However, he quickly...

In one of the most luxurious cities on earth… A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. In the heart of the British establishment… Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred...

Cold Sunset, the third novel starring accidental spy Gabriel Dax, takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken, and every step could be fatal, in a tautly woven mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd. The new stylish mystery from acclaimed bestseller William Boyd takes you deep into a shadow-drenched world where loyalty blurs, motives darken, and...

The blockbuster new novel from the master storyteller Frederick Forsyth, bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal, now a hit TV series. One bullet is all it takes... The stranger stands in the rafters of New York's Grand Central Station, his rifle ahead of him. The President's security team are compromised, rendering the President vulnerable just as he is...

The final novel featuring Bernard Samson, one of Deighton's most enduring characters, who must return to Berlin for one last case. 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...

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, perfect for fans of the #1 bestselling Slough House series. Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Secrets. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to the buried secrets of the Cold War, Herron's novellas capture the drama, humour, and high stakes of everyday life in the world of spycraft....

From the master of spy thrillers, John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold is a gripping story of love and betrayal at the height of the Cold War, published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he's been out in the cold for years, spying...

A year after his older brother made the ultimate sacrifice, Sergeant Major Luke Carter, decorated hero of 22 SAS, is sent to Perth on a recruiting job. His orders: select two candidates from the SASR for a highly sensitive mission on foreign soil. But when a sudden crisis threatens to derail the plan, Carter and his new colleagues find themselves...

Pre-order CRY HAVOC, the explosive new Jack Carr thriller introducing young Navy SEAL Tom Reece, a man torn between the blurred lines and allegiances of the military and the increasingly murky world of intelligence. This is how it all began . . . COMING SUMMER 2025. NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT 'Jack Carr is the real...

Gabriel Dax returns in this elegant, twisting mystery of espionage and obsession and takes the reader deep into one of history's most infamous assassinations. Gabriel Dax, travel writer and accidental spy, is back in the shadows. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler, Faith Green, he has returned to a life of secrets and subterfuge. Dax is sent...

Set within the gritty world of Colombian drug cartels, Tom Bradby's new standalone depicts the dark underbelly of the crime world with his signature atmospheric plotting his readers have come to love. Life for Dr Laura Strong shouldn't be this hard. Nights working thankless A&E shifts. A much-loved disabled brother to look after. Loan sharks at her door. She needs...

In a world fractured by geopolitical tremors, Lines of Conscience plunges readers into the raw, moral heartbeat of the conflict in Ukraine. This is not merely a chronicle of war, but an intimate exploration of the impossible choices forced upon ordinary individuals when survival becomes a moral battleground.The narrative follows the interlocking lives of those caught in the crossfire: Taras,...

MAMista is a dramatic departure for Len Deighton, taking readers to the jungles of Spanish Guyana where Marxist revolutionaries are fighting for their lives. Deep in Marxist Guerrilla territory, a hopeless war is being fought. The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle, cradling their AK 47s,...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war—each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. A haunting portrayal of love and betrayal in a London hollowed by war. It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Stella discovers that her...

British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, Willa Karlsson, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard Flood is ordered to investigate—quickly. Notorious for his sharp elbows and blunt manner, Leonard's only objective is to get...

From Mark Greaney, the New York Times bestselling author of Gunmetal Gray and a co-author of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels, comes a high-stakes thriller featuring the world's most dangerous assassin: the Gray Man. Court Gentry's flight on a CIA transport plane is interrupted when a security team brings a hooded man aboard. They want to kick Gentry off the...

Rogue operatives. Untouchable enemies. One war against evil.When the call to arms comes, Vance, Ice, Mitch, and Bishop answer with unwavering resolve. These highly trained operatives have gone rogue, forming PRIMAL, a global vigilante unit dedicated to protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty in the name of justice. Their first target: a wealthy jihadist supporter plotting to eradicate Western...

When INTREPID falls, only Morgan can pick up the pieces.Alex Morgan faces his most perilous mission yet as he plunges into the shadowy depths of Europe's criminal underworld. Tasked with toppling an oligarch and extracting a spy, Morgan soon discovers that his target may be closer than he thinks. As old allies resurface and INTREPID teeters on the brink of...

The new international spy thriller in the world-famous Jason Bourne series from the world of Robert Ludlum. Bourne's latest mission is not only deadly... it's personal. Killing is part of Jason Bourne's job. But this time it's personal. When his lover, Johanna, is murdered, Jason Bourne finds himself drawn into a murky world as he pursues a revenge more personal...

Filled with wit and verve, Vaseem Khan brings his vibrant and dynamic style to this spin-off cosy crime series set in the world of James Bond. Charming, drily humorous, and intelligently crafted, Quantum of Menace, the first in the Q mystery books, will appeal to Bond fans, readers of Murder Before Evensong, The Thursday Murder Club, and Slow Horses novels,...

From bestselling author James Patterson comes a gripping standalone thriller where an FBI agent must pose as a nanny in a wealthy NYC home to infiltrate a dangerous drug cartel. Perfect for fans of The Housemaid and the Women's Murder Club series. Discover the new compelling novel from Sunday Times bestselling thriller writer, James Patterson... My name is Elinor Gilbert....

The Metropolitan Police have an unsolvable problem: Lachy Wilson is a ruthless and obscenely rich British drugs lord who has bought off dozens of their officers. Thanks to these informants, no one can lay a glove on Wilson, and he is considered 'untouchable'. Wilson is dreaming of one last, game-changing shipment of heroin into the UK. The Met turn to...

A wonderfully crafted space thriller. It has everything we loved about The Martian or Gravity, but more psychological depth. It’s also a chilling picture of the Russian mentality and its workings, written by someone who truly understands it. With the resurgent conflict between the East and the West and the return of the threat of totalitarianism, this blockbuster book couldn’t...

Smoke in Berlin is a beautiful, atmospheric detective story set in Berlin during the Second World War. Oriana Ramunno's Hugo Fischer series is full of tension, drama and, ultimately, hope. Berlin, June 1944. Hugo Fischer is forced to work for the Nazi secret service, though he keeps his own dangerous secret from the Third Reich. Faced with a series of...

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce these modern classics to a new generation. Uniquely among authors of naval fiction, Patrick O'Brian allows...

Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact by Mike Maden sees Jack Ryan Jr return in a thrilling series that served as the inspiration behind the smash-hit on Amazon Prime. At a suspected Hezbollah hideout in Argentina, a team of elite counter-terror commandos is preparing for an offensive. What they don't expect is to be brutally ambushed themselves—slaughtered with no survivors. On screens...

‘Gripping, compelling and beautiful.’ Emma Cowell, author of The House in the Olive Grove A secret big enough to destroy the Führer’s reputation. . . January 1939: When Katja Heinz secures a job as a typist at Doctor Viktor’s clinic, she doesn’t expect to be copying top secret medical records from a notebook. At the end of the First World...

Clive Cussler's Hellburner by Mike Maden features Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon as they must track down a nuclear torpedo before it unleashes World War III in this electrifying new instalment of the bestselling series. When Juan Cabrillo's Oregon uncovers a ship full of contraband, smuggling turns out to be the tip of a very deep (and...

Innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world in this urgent and electrifying thriller, now in the giftable hardback series. An English couple, Perry and Gail, are taking an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula and a diamond-encrusted gold...

The No.1 hardback bestseller sequel - now in paperback. He was once called Orphan X. As a boy, Evan Smoak was taken from a children's home, raised and trained as part of a secret government initiative buried so deep that virtually no one knows it exists. But he broke with the programme, choosing instead to vanish off grid and use...

The Heist by Daniel Silva follows Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy, as he searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio. This is another action-packed tale of high-stakes international intrigue from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one... Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel...

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva delivers another stunning thriller in his latest action-packed tale of high-stakes international intrigue featuring the inimitable Gabriel Allon. Another gripping thriller from the author of The Heist. Master novelist Daniel Silva has thrilled with eighteen thoughtful and gripping novels featuring a diverse cast of compelling characters and ingenious plots that have taken them...

Master of international intrigue Daniel Silva, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, comes with an explosive thriller featuring art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon. The most beautiful music hides the deadliest secrets ... Once Russia's richest man, Victor Orlov now resides in exile in London, waging a crusade against the kleptocrats in the Kremlin. His mansion is protected...

Sure to be the debut thriller of 2025, The Peak is a nail-biting and unputdownable read, a powerfully taut, gripping, and fast-moving international thriller. The story weaves themes of friendship, love, and betrayal with the ruthless geopolitics of China's rise, set in the last 24 hours of the world as we know it. 'Now I'll tell you what happened, as...

Dresden, East Germany, 1980 - A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People's Police homicide captain Karin Müller arrives at the scene, she discovers that all of the body's identifiable features have been removed - including its fingertips. The deeper Müller digs, the more the Stasi begin to hamper...

Alternate history meets Cold War thriller in a vintage Len Deighton escapade. XPD begins on 11 June, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border. For more than forty years, the events of...

An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa. A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him and sends an unnamed spy—perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File—to look after him. But what follows is a blood-streaked trail across three continents... Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy reveals...

The latest title from the bestselling author John le Carré to come into Penguin Modern Classics. The Tailor of Panama follows Harry Pendel, the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes. Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a...

Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel, now adapted into a major new ITV series. A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool,...

The gripping new thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Jeffery Deaver Twist left. Unique Investigator Colter Shaw is searching for the answer to his father’s final, posthumous riddle. It will lead him to evidence that will topple the secretive espionage company, BlackBridge. Twist right. He believes BlackBridge to be responsible for his father’s murder and brother’s disappearance. They can...

The Cold War plays out in the shadow of the Second World War as old loyalties collide. Sinister rumours link clandestine Arab arms dealing with a hero of the French resistance. Time to re-open the master file on Yesterday's Spy...

The British Secret Service turns their attentions to a linguistic prodigy in the Congo in this espionage thriller, new to Penguin Modern Classics. At a top-secret meeting between Western financiers and Congolese warlords, an interpreter finds his conscience re-awakening. Bruno Salvador has worked on clandestine missions before. A highly skilled interpreter, he is no stranger to the Official Secrets Act....

Enthralling and thought-provoking, The Little Drummer Girl is le Carré's only spy novel set in the Middle East, and is now published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into...

Le Carré's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and drama. The Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making wine on his Somerset estate. But then he discovers that his former double agent Larry—dreamer, dissolute, philanderer and disloyal friend—has vanished, along with Tim's mistress. As their...

The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolment. World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead, he is torn between...

The unnamed spy of The IPCRESS File uncovers a secret buried deep in a Nazi U-Boat. A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic ocean floor since the Second World War—until now. Inside its rusting hull, among the corpses of top-rank Nazis, lie secrets people will kill to obtain. The sequel to Len Deighton's game-changing debut The IPCRESS File,...

The race is on to find a German agent, hiding somewhere in the maze of wartime Cairo. January 1942. Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt – perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself. And Rommel has a spy in the city – a source so well-informed that the German commander knows in advance every movement of...

Le Carré exposes the ugly face of international relations in this spy thriller, new to Penguin Modern Classics. West Germany, a simmering cauldron of radical protests, has produced a new danger to Britain—Karfeld, the menacing leader of the opposition. At the same time, Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing—along with more than forty Confidential...