(Paperback)

When the big man in Washington assigned Matt Helm to ride shotgun on a top secret mission in Norway, Helm wanted to know why. But this was a need-to-know deal, at least until his partner-a woman posing as his mistress-was killed. Now Helm was mad, mad enough to blow the operation sky high.

(Paperback)

A man wakes up in a hospital in Canada. He has survived a plane crash, but his memory has been completely wiped - he has no idea who he is. Then in walks Kitty, a stunningly gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer, and her fiance. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone seems to think otherwise. Things don't add up...

(Paperback)

Matt Helm, code name Eric, has been recently reactivated as an operative for a secret American government organization after 15 years as a sedentary photographer and family man in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In his first assignment after returning to the service, he is sent to Sweden to eliminate Caselius, a long-time enemy agent.

(Paperback)

Matt Helm finds himself in Hawaii, trying to unhatch a plot of unrivalled viciousness. When an agent turns bad, nobody's business is private anymore, and when that agent decides to start a war, someone has to finish him - fast. Between the rogue agent and the stranger who insists she is his sister-in-law, this won't be a relaxing Pacific holiday.

(Paperback)

A prim young lady needs a favour: help her father beat a bum drug rap. But when Dad's boat detonates outside Miami Harbor, Matt discovers that young Amy isn't as innocent as she looks.Lured to the Bahamas, he will discover an unlikely pack of fanatics hatching an explosive plan, and that daddy's little girl is surprisingly deadly.

(Paperback)

People are vanishing without a trace. To get to the bottom of the mystery, Matt Helm follows two beguiling and treacherous women, who lead him all the way to his ancestral home - Scandinavia. With a coup from within the agency, and a terrorist threat from without, it's clear that nobody can be trusted.

(Paperback)

Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency, vacationing in the Mediterranean, finds himself involved with the security of nations when he stumbles onto an assassination conspiracy in Spain.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

After years of war, Paul Haydn was on his way home to New York at last, but he would never forget the tormented people of Berlin. They had survived the War - but now a new, sinister presence threatened them.

(Paperback)

A phone call prompts Bill Lammiter, a young American playwright, to follow a former girlfriend to Rome. There Lammiter saves a mysterious Italian girl from a beating and the fat is in the fire.

(Paperback)

Nothing could shake William Denning's resolve to leave the army and return to the States. Nothing, except one of the largest diamond hauls ever - which, in the wrong hands, on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, was a potentially lethal force. In the Swiss mountains, Denning discovered not only a jewellery robbery at stake, but a ruthless world.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Political corruption forces a former White Army counterintelligence officer to choose between love and the emerging Lithuanian state.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

They were worlds apart. Sarah Bly, a sophisticated career woman on a chauffeur-driven tour of America. Jim Brent, an old-fashioned cowboy, ill at ease away from his rugged mountain ranch. Yet a wrong turn on a remote road unexpectedly brings them together. Can two such different people every really overcome their differences and give in to love

(Paperback)

When Karen Cornell, a beautiful journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, she is pulled into an astonishing web of terrorism, political assassination, blackmail, espionage, and treason in the highest levels of both superpowers.

(Paperback)

A young woman escapes from Czechoslovakia and the clutches of her ruthless ex-husband, an officer in the secret police. Soon she realises that she has been allowed to defect, in the hope that she will lead the Communists to her father, a writer in hiding in the west.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

While traveling to Greece, John Craig meets one of his old professors and becomes entangled in a plot to destroy the United States.

(Hardback)

A Fast Paced Espionage Thriller for Alan Furst Fans Sent In Post-Cold War Poland.

(Paperback)

A sprawling, epic saga of adventure, romance, war, and resistance based on the savage conflict in East Africa during World War I. In German-occupied East Africa during World War I, British forces have arrived.

(Paperback)

For Nina O'Connell, a trip round the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Travelling in a group, she is surprised when she runs into an old flame. But Bob Renwick is not there by chance. He is on the hunt for two terrorists who have left a trail of murder in their wake, and soon Nina is caught up in a grim game of life or death.

(Hardback, Centenary Edition)

The Only Problem, Muriel Sparks seventeenth novel, was first published in 1984.