Best of
Espionage

1975

The Eagle Has Landed


Jack Higgins - 1975
    The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman Liam Devlin.As the deadly duo executes Hitler’s harrowing plot, only the quiet town of Studley Constable stands in their way. Its residents are the lone souls aware of the impending Nazi plan, and they must become the most unlikely of heroes as the fate of the war hangs in the balance.

The House on Garibaldi Street


Isser Harel - 1975
    This is his account, revised and updated, with the real names and details of all Mossad personnel.

Harry's Game


Gerald Seymour - 1975
    In the wake of a national outcry, Harry Brown is sent in to find out what he can, with the killer having disappeared in the city of Belfast. For Harry Brown, suspicion is cast upon him from as soon as he arrives in Belfast, during the height of The Troubles, where a single wrong move could result in your immediate danger.

Message from Absalom


Anne Armstrong Thompson - 1975
    Four years later, Susannah left her covert job with the CIA, still wondering where Novak had been sent, what important and dangerous assignment claimed him. Then - on an innocent vacation in Bulgaria - she watches as Novak is shot down on a street in Sofia. But Susannah already has his message, an urgent message that she alone must deliver to the President of the United States.And Susannah is back in the business again - with no one to trust, no one to help her, and one of the best agents in the Russian KGB pursuing her. As this shrewd, handsome, magnetic man comes closer to her secret, Susannah finds herself irresistibly attracted to the one man who can destroy her.

The Special Collection


Ted Allbeury - 1975
    British agent Stephen Felinski is parachuted into Hitler's fast-collapsing empire with orders to reorganize a group of Soviet agents abandoned by Moscow. Thirty years later, a top British politician defects to the Russians and Felinski is called out of retirement to help - because of a friendship formed among the ruins of Nazi Germany. The link is The Special Collection, a daring and meticulously planned Soviet attempt to bring social and industrial chaos to Britain. It is already set on its ruthless, violent course and only Stephen Felinski can stop it.