The Jinn Spymaster of Valdis Maj has been working in secret for years, but that's all about to change.It's a turbulent time in the Kingdom of Valdis. There is a new face at the King's court - a hardened warrior looking to settle down in one place after a lifetime of wandering. He has earned the respect of the King and is asked to liaise with the spymaster. What he doesn't expect is that the spymaster is a woman. A very intriguing, very beautiful woman. Something about her speaks to him on a very basic level. He wants her. But, more importantly, he wants her in his life...forever.Isolde is a very good spy, but she has never found one man who can make her weak in the knees and also earn her respect. When she meets the general, she suspects he might just be the one. It will take two wild dragons and multiple assassination attempts on their liege lord to throw them into danger - and prove their attraction isn't just a fleeting thing.They might just have a shot...

Oleg Kalugin oversaw the work of American spies, matched wits with the CIA, and became one of the youngest generals in KGB history. Even so, he grew increasingly disillusioned with the Soviet system. In 1990, he went public, exposing the intelligence agency's shadowy methods. Revised and updated in the light of the KGB's enduring presence in Russian politics, Spymaster is Kalugin's impressively illuminating memoir of the final years of the Soviet Union.

From USA Today Bestselling Author and Daphne du Maurier Award Winner Grace Callaway comes a riveting tale of passion, peril, and a love for all time... She buried her husband twelve years ago...didn't she? As the founder of a society of lady detectives, beautiful and intrepid widow Lady Charlie Fayne has made it her life's mission to help women in need. Her desire stems from her own dark past...which rises like a spectre during her latest case. Suddenly, everything she has worked for—her independence, her society, and her future—is threatened by secrets and heartbreak she cannot escape...and steamy passion she cannot resist. Torn between her past and present, between a charming new suitor and a seductive second chance romance, Charlie must decide her own fate. Yet every move she makes also unravels a deadly mystery that could lead to her undoing. Choosing who to trust and who to love will prove to be Charlie's most perilous...

The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series!Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules—all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath is more cunning, more dangerous, and deadlier than ever before. If you have never read a Brad Thor novel, this is the place to start!

In the court of Elizabeth I, the daughter of the queen's powerful spymaster becomes a secret agent, and plays a dangerous role in saving her country from its ruthless enemies.In Tudor England, traitors are everywhere and the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, is assembling the greatest intelligence-gathering network in the world. Walsingham's only daughter, Lady Frances Sidney, is smart, courageous, and unhappy in love. She longs for the excitement of decoding encrypted messages and setting traps for those working for rival Mary, Queen of Scots. But Frances's father refuses her any opportunity to contribute to the desperate effort of keeping England safe.Then Elizabeth, impressed with Frances's fiery spirit, calls her to court as a lady-in-waiting, and Frances seizes the chance to prove herself. Soon, she wins the trust of her father's de-coders and begins her secret work, thrilled with the freedom to test her talents. But her peril is compounded as her...

The start of a swashbuckling adventure from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Weis and Robert KrammesCaptain Kate Fitzmaurice was born to sail. She has made a life of her own as a privateer and smuggler. Hired by the notorious Henry Wallace, spymaster for the queen of Freya, to find a young man who claims to be the true heir to the Freyan, she begins to believe that her ship has finally come in.But no fair wind lasts forever. Soon Kate's checkered past will catch up to her. It will take more than just quick wits and her considerable luck if she hopes to bring herself—and her crew—through intact.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

After her father is wrongly accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, lovely Jess Whitby infiltrates the London underworld for the real traitor — only to end up naked in the bed of a rude merchant captain. Not only is she falling in love with him, but he may be the scoundrel she's looking for.

Chief intelligence officer for the Knights Templar, Lucien de Aubric, finds himself in a valiant fight to defend a divided kingdom that teeters on the brink of civil war while facing the growing forces of the mighty Saracen leader, Saladin.In the midst of trying to avert war and provide accurate intelligence for his Order and Jerusalem's rulers, Lucien crosses paths with a beautiful, compassionate noblewoman who is in desperate need of a guardian angel.Struggling to build a worthy life for herself after being set aside by her brutal and powerful husband, Gabrielle de Chatillon is determined to aid the smallest victims of war-torn Palestine. Then a cynical spy with tarnished idealism and uncompromising chivalry walks into her life and offers to aid her in her search for Muslim homes for her orphans.Their involvement quickly turns dangerous when Gabrielle's estranged husband re-enters her life. Seeking to wed another heiress who would greatly expand his power and influence in the kingdom, he puts Gabrielle under a fatwa, a death contract with the deadly Hashshashin.Lucien is compelled to aid the courageous noblewoman he has come to admire and care deeply for. Fleeing an assassination attempt in Jerusalem, he takes Gabrielle along on his mission to restore unity to the divided political factions in the region and to assess the Saracen threat. Their journey to the far reaches of the kingdom, then behind enemy lines allow their feelings for one another to deepen.Caught up in the turbulent months before the fall of Jerusalem in 1187, Gabrielle and Lucien find their forbidden relationship challenged on every level. Together they risk all to survive a murderous husband, a fanatical Grand Master, the bloody battle of Hattin, and a secret that is as liberating as it is treacherous.Like the other books in this series, The Spymaster's Protection highlights the life of a Templar during the time of the Crusades and his struggle with the forbidden temptation of love.

This is a true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Boris Hembry went out to Malaya as a rubber planter in 1930 to work on estates in Malaya and Sumatra. Following the Japanese invasion in December 1941 he volunteered for Freddy Spencer Chapman's covert Stay Behind Party and spent a month in the jungle behind enemy lines before escaping by sampan across the Malacca Strait to Sumatra. Hembry returned to Singapore shortly before its surrender then escaped to Java and subsequently to India, where he joined V Force, a clandestine intelligence unit operating in Burma. In 1943 Hembry was recruited into the Secret Intelligence Service – given the bland cover name Inter-Services Liaison Department (ISLD) – and returned to Sumatra and Malaya several times by submarine on intelligence-gathering missions. He became Head of Malayan Country Section ISLD in 1944,...

She's never met a man she couldn't deceive...until now. She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit.

It's a slow day for Helena Duncombe if she's not scandalizing the ton with her daring fashions and sharp wit. Enjoying herself makes it easier to hide a dark reality. A tragic turn of events forces her to take refuge in the last place on earth she belongs: a church.Julian Grey wants everyone to believe he's a quiet country vicar, but Helena discovers his secret. He never expected her to help catch a traitor to the crown, and he's even more shocked to discover she has quite a talent for it. But he's not the only one with a claim on Helena...

After her father is wrongly accused of selling secrets to Napoleon, lovely Jess Whitby infiltrates the London underworld for the real traitor—only to end up naked in the bed of a rude merchant captain. Not only is she falling in love with him, but he may be the scoundrel she's looking for.

A career is blooming... A glittering French aristocrat is on the run, disguised as a British governess. England's top spy has a score to settle with her family. But as they're drawn inexorably into the intrigue and madness of Revolutionary Paris, they gamble on a love to which neither of them will admit.

A Desperate Widow Once a penniless orphan, Evelyn D'Orsay became a countess and a bride at the tender age of sixteen. But the flames of revolution forced her to flee France, with the aid of a notorious smuggler. Recently widowed and without any means, Evelyn knows she must retrieve the family fortune from France for her daughter's sake - but only one man can help her[unknown-8230]the smuggler she cannot forget. A Dangerous Spy Jack Greystone has been smuggling since he was a small boy - and he has been spying since the wars began. An outlaw with a bounty on his head, he is in hiding when he becomes aware of the Countess's inquiries about him. He is reluctant to come to her aid yet again, for he has never been able to forget her. But he soon realizes he'll surrender anything to be with the woman he loves[unknown-8230].

Queen Elizabeth I and England's First SpymasterSir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth's rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her. Though he cut an incongruous figure in Elizabeth's worldly court, Walsingham managed to win the trust of key players like William Cecil and the Earl of Leicester before launching his own secret campaign against the queen's enemies. Covert operations were Walsingham's genius; he pioneered techniques for exploiting double agents, spreading disinformation, and deciphering codes with the latest code-breaking science that remain staples of international espionage.

Attacked on a rainy London street, veteran spy Justine DeCabrillac knows only one man can save her: Hawker, her oldest friend . . . her oldest enemy. London's crawling with hidden assassins and someone is out to frame Hawker for murder. The two spies must work together to find who's out to destroy them

The historical romance that began Joanna Bourne's spectacular spymaster series! She's never met a man she couldn't deceive...until now. She's braved battlefields. She's stolen dispatches from under the noses of heads of state. She's played the worldly courtesan, the naive virgin, the refined British lady, even a Gypsy boy. But Annique Villiers, the elusive spy known as the Fox Cub, has finally met the one man she can't outwit.

German-occupied Brussels Belgium, April 1915 Judith Goddard is hiding in plain sight. A dual citizen with family ties to Belgian royalty and the British military, she works as a Red Cross nurse in a German hospital, learning what she can, ever fearful her true allegiance will be discovered. British Expeditionary Force Captain Michael Lawrence is on a mission to rescue the daughter of his mentor. He doesn’t expect to find a strong beautiful woman in place of the naïve girl whose love he rejected years earlier. Jude is shocked when Michael turns up in her hospital, wounded and in German uniform. Though he broke her heart, she agrees to flee Belgium with him—she has information about an imminent attack that she must deliver to the British War Office, before it’s too late. Posing as a married couple, Jude and Michael journey to the border, in constant danger of discovery—and of giving in to their mutual passion...