John Trenhaile Books

A biography of George Bush's wife discusses Barbara's pampered childhood in posh Rye, New York; her years at elite Smith College; her marriage to George; the loss of her three-year-old daughter to leukemia; and more. Reprint.

"In a Soviet prison camp near Murmansk - temptingly close to the Finnish border - is an old man, broken but not bowed, known only by a number. Were his name to be made known, his fellow inmates would kill him. For this old man with blackened teeth and arthritic legs is Stepan Ilyich Povin, former KGB general, now disgraced but kept alive for the sake of the secret which - unwittingly - he has retained through two years of interrogation and beatings. Povin's secret is the final link in a chain whose completion would make his former masters very happy indeed - an which draws British Intelligence ever closer to the camp on the Arctic Circle...."

Ivan Bucharensky: KGB Superagent. — Code name: Kyril. — Assignment: to smoke out a British mole in the KGB. — The British think Kyril's a double agent. The mole thinks Kyril suspects his identity. The Russians in London know Kyril must die. Hunted by both the West and East, Kyril weaves a web of espionage and counter-espionage throughout Europe. — While in London, quietly waiting, are the killers cloaked in many disguises, the only woman who has ever loved him, and the sleeper agent who has the strangest identity of them all...

As the handover of Hong Kong to Communist China grows ever closer, the bitter struggle for power in the Far East has already begun. Outside forces are determined to undermine Hong Kong's financial stability - and to ensure that China inherits nothing but a worthless, empty shell. Pitted against them are the elite of Chinese Intelligence, the Mahjong Brigade, who plan to sabotage the plot, using as their instrument Simon Young - an influential Hong Kong tai-pan. A master in the mannered warfare of global finance, Young is a novice in the hostile world of international espionage. If he is to survive at all he must secure his own allies in this deadly game. But even his beautiful Chinese wife, Jinny, has secrets to conceal...

When a file containing sensitive top-secret foreign-policy information disappears, the world's most powerful nations scramble to retrieve it before its contents can destroy the delicate balance of world power. Reprint.

In this thriller, Francis Thornton, ex-barrister and successful businessman, has been accused of attempting to murder the Queen. The shadowing figure of Krait, an international terrorist and assassin, holds the key to the mystery of Thornton's plight.

In autumn 1990, the world's attention is on the approaching Gulf War. But in England an event is about to take place that could have a devastating effect on the fragile Western alliance - Iain Forward, wrongly imprisoned for murdering his boss, is being released and he's out to clear his name.

Hongkong, die Perle des Ostens, kurz vor dem Rückfall an China: Um ihre Vermögen dem Zugriff Chinas zu entziehen, planen zwanzig der mächtigsten Wirtschaftsführer der Kronkolonie in einem raffinierten Schachzug, gleichzeitig alle ihre Guthaben und Forderungen ins Ausland zu verlagern. Die Zeit drängt, denn im selben Augenblick spitzt sich die Lage imn Reich der Mitte dramatisch zu: Der Vorsitzende der kommunistischen Partei liegt im Sterben, und Studentenunruhen und brutale Machtkämpfe um die Führung Chinas erschüttern das Land. In fieberhafter Eile versuchen die Tai-Pane ihr Komplott voranzutreiben. Da beginnen sich mit einem Mal die Ereignisse zu überstürzen. Die Verschwörung der Tai-Pane Ein Politthriller ersten Ranges von Fernost-Kenner John Trenhaile: authentisch, actiongeladen und temporeich. Das atemberaubende und fast prophetische Szenario eines ausgeklügelten Komplotts vor dem Hintergrund politischer Wirren in China und der drohenden Rückgabe Hongkongs an das Reich der Mitte.