'If there are thriller writers better than this, I'd like to know who they are.' Jack Higgins It is February 1940, and England is desperate to find out when and how Hitler will make his move west toward France. Eva Bernhardt, a young sleeper agent in Berlin who has been seduced into spying by a roguish MI6 agent, receives a vital piece of information and makes a run for it. But the Germans are on to her fast - too fast. In a lethal game of ruse and counter-ruse, the British and Germans engage in an intelligence war. Uncertain whom to trust, Eva must take her future into her own hands - and with it, perhaps, the future of the entire war. A book to devour at one sitting, with dazzling set pieces, unpredictable twists and unforgettable characters.

A Game of Spies

Altman, John

Harpercollins Pb

A British agent with divided loyalties is sent to stop a female spy who is headed back to Germany with stolen atomic secrets. 75,000 first prnting.

A Gathering of Spies

Literature & Fiction

Literary

G.P.Putnam's Sons

Set in 1940 England, a gripping thriller follows a young sleeper agent named Eva Bernhardt, who has a crucial piece of information and is on the run from the Germans and other enemies, as she is plunged into a deadly game of ruse and counter-ruse, where nothing is what it seems and no one can be trusted. 30,000 first printing.

An ordinary woman is caught in extraordinary circumstances, in the crackling new thriller from a major new talent. John Altman's first two suspense novels won remarkable praise. Now, Altman gives us his best yet. Hannah Gray is on the run. Unwittingly involved in an insurance fraud, she's leapt upon a friend's offer of tickets to an Adriatic cruise just to clear her head and figure things out. Maybe the fraud has been discovered-or maybe the threat of exposure exists only in her mind. Couldn't it be? But on the ship, she meets Renee Epstein, and that's when her life changes. Renee's husband is a scientist, and he's on the run himself. He's taken off with equations about to be used for a purpose he had not at all intended, but while he's trying to figure out what to do with them, he's scribbled them on the flyleaf of a book. And now his wife has given the book to some fool woman she's met on the boat. Before he can retrieve it, the Epsteins are murdered, Hannah herself is targeted, and an extraordinary adventure begins through the Greek islands and Turkey, as Hannah Gray must use all of a hitherto-unsuspected resourcefulness to battle her way through a situation that only becomes more perilous by the minute. Filled with vivid characters, breathtaking suspense, and delicious atmosphere, Deception is indeed what thrillers ought to be and seldom are.

Deception

United States

Assigned to question an Al Qaeda prisoner whose cooperative nature seems too good to be true, reluctant psychiatrist Louis Finney suffers from nightmares for his part in experiments to induce multiple personalities and finds his assignment challenged by an assassin who would kill the prisoner before he reveals terrorist secrets. 20,000 first printing.

The Watchmen

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

In 1943, a British agent with divided loyalties is sent to stop a female spy who is headed back to Nazi Germany with stolen atomic secrets, as the fate of the world and the outcome of the war hang in the balance. A first novel. Reprint.

Contemporary

BERKLEY

In England in 1940, a young sleeper agent named Eva Bernhardt, who has a crucial piece of information and is on the run from the Germans and other enemies, finds herself plunged into a deadly game of ruse and counterruse.

Unwittingly involved in insurance fraud, Hannah Gray leaps at the chance to take an Adriatic cruise, but after she befriends the wife of a scientist, she finds herself drawn into an intrigue that may cost her her life. Reprint.

In a remote safehouse three men are facing off: an unusually cooperative Al Qaeda prisoner who's under interrogation; a psychiatrist whose specialty is mind-altering drugs; and a CIA agent dispatched on an assassination mission.

A lone female agent finds herself abandoned in enemy territory in this riveting espionage thriller Having completed her mission to silence an agency defector, CIA operative Cassie Bradbury finds herself cut adrift in Moscow with no documents, no tickets and no identification. Hot on her trail are the Kremlin, the Russian Mafia – and Sean Ravensdale, the disgraced ex-CIA agent who has been sent to track her down. Realizing that she has been set up and is now expendable, Cassie will need all her courage and resourcefulness to outwit her pursuers – and stay alive long enough to exact revenge on the man who recruited her, who trained her – who betrayed her.

Disposable Asset

Severn House

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Books by Altman, John

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A Game of Spies

A Gathering of Spies

A Game of Spies

Deception

The Watchmen

A Gathering of Spies

A Game of Spies

Deception

The Watchmen

Disposable Asset