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For Nina, the trip around the world was the holiday of a lifetime. Her new friends were lively students but terrorism was the only degree attractive James Kiley was pursuing.

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. A kidnapping, a battle in a Renaissance villa, a shrewd gamekeeper, a chance snapshot and a touring preppy contribute to the excitement and suspense of this Cold War thriller.

A thriller by the author of "North from Rome", "Prelude to Terror", "Snare of the Hunter", "Ride a Pale Horse", "Unconquerable" and "Message from Malaga".

"A master of the suspense novel." THE BOSTON GLOBE It began very innocently. A holiday visit to Poland. But before enojoying the sights and sounds of this fascinating new place, happiness took a violent turn and became a nightmare of terror...when suddenly you're mistaken for a Nazi spy, and to save your life, you have to prove you are innocent.

A game of espionage ... Fenner burned Rosenfeld's message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that was grim business. A girl constantly beside him who wasn't his. How the hell had he walked into this upside-down world? Where, he wondered suddenly, would Venice lead?

To the accompaniment of flamenco guitars, a drama of espionage begins in a cafe courtyard in Malaga. For Ian Ferrier, on a vacation visit to his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is more than just a wine exporter...he is in fact a CIA agent who smuggles Cuban refugees into Spain. When a more important refugee--a high-ranking, defecting KGB agent--arrives, the drama intensifies. Ferrier finds himself alone and responsible for the defector's safety.

The scene is Vienna, where an American art expert, Colin Grant, has been dispatched by a Texas millionaire to buy a painting by the Dutch master Ruysdael. He is instructed to get the painting "at any cost" but to keep his employer's name a secret. This seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare for Grant as he finds himself in the center of a conspiracy to unleash bloody international terrorismThe art world meets cloak-and-dagger intrigue in this Cold War thriller. A triumph of pacing from a veteran of the genre.

A novel of love between an American diplomat's wife and a Czech official, set in Washington.

When Igor Insarov, KGB agent, meets an Auschwitz survivor who can identify him as an SS Colonel, he reacts with savage speed - within a day, his former victim is dead.

Just another routine overseas assignment. That's what successful young New York architect Ken Strang thought when a national travel magazine sent him to Europe to sketch Greek ruins. What he did not know, until it was too late, was that from the moment he boarded the ship, he had become the pawn in a murderous game of international intrigue.

They were worlds apart. Sarah Bly, a sophisticated career woman on a chauffeur-driven tour of America with the wealthy Mrs Margaret Peel. Jim Brent, a tough, old-fashioned cowboy, ill at ease away from his rugged mountain ranch. Yet a wrong turn on a remote road in Wyoming unexpectedly brings them together. The discovery of the ranch house Rest and be Thankful opens Sarah’s eyes to the beauty of the West and makes the brash cynicism of the city seem irrelevant. After years of travelling the world, this idyllic place could be what she’s been searching for. But can two such different people every really overcome their differences and give in to love?

When Bob Renwick of Interintell, a counter-terrorist agency, discovers his name on the Minus List, it is just the beginning of a riveting tale of suspense that sweeps from London to New York, Washington, Paris, Chamonix, Amsterdam, Zurich, and exotic Djibouti. An international munitions firm is secretly operating training camps for terrorists and supplying everything necessary for violent subversion. It is a hidden and hideous force threatening freedom everywhere. It must be stopped, by a man marked as its victim.

It is the summer of 1939. A young Oxford don, Richard Myles and his wife Frances are about to leave for their usual long vacation on the continent. At the request of a Foreign Office friend of Richard's they agree to serve as messengers to a man who has been involved in rescue work and anti-Nazi espionage, a man who now seems to have gone missing. Their qualifications? Next to nothing except for Richard's superb memory and the fact that they look so very innocent. Across a continent on the brink of war from Paris to Innsbruck and beyond Richard and Francis travel ever deeper into danger.

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. One false move could cost Karen her life -- and throw the world into violent war.

Intermezzo in Prag - bk338; Bastei Lübbe Verlag; Helen MacInnes; pocket_book; 1987

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Vor einundzwanzig Jahren, mit den Alliierten im Nacken, versteckten die Nazis eine versiegelte Truhe in den dunklen, unheimlichen Wassern des Finstersee - einem See, umgeben von den düsteren Gipfeln der österreichischen Alpen. Einer der wenigen Männer, die von ihrer Existenz wissen, ist Richard Bryant, ein britischer Agent. An einem frühen Morgen, halb verborgen im wirbelnden Nebel, macht er sich allein auf den Weg, um das Geheimnis des Sees zu entdecken - und entfesselt eine Reihe von gewalttätigen Reaktionen - und gewalttätigen Toden ...

Agentenkrieg - bk961; Blanvalet Verlag; Helen MacInnes; Paperback; 1976

1951. De Koreaanse oorlog is in volle gang, de Koude Oorlog is op een hoogtepunt. In Washington worden alle regeringsfunctionarissen op hun betrouwbaarheid onderzocht, want men is doodsbang voor spionage. In deze sfeer van spanning en achterdocht keert de Tsjechische Jan Brovic, zes jaar eerder uit Amerika vertrokken, terug. In de tweede wereldoorlog vocht hij aan de zijde van de Amerikanen tegen de nazi's en was hij bij alle leidende figuren in Washington een geziene gast. Nu wordt hij echter door iedereen gemeden, want Jan is gekomen als lid van een Tsjechische regeringsmissie, en Tsjechoslowakije is sinds kort communistisch. Alleen de mooie Sylvia Plydell, getrouwd met een van de belangrijkste mannen in Washington, weet dat Jan uitsluiten naar Amerika is gekomen om haar terug te zien - maar hun liefde lijkt nog uitzichtlozer dan zes jaar gelezen.

Napínavý příběh prvních dnů 2. svět. války. Čtenář s napětím sleduje líčení dramatického příchodu špiona do rodiny, do prostředí malé bretaňské vesničky, kde má vystupovat jako jeden její obyvatel, zajatý v Anglii. Díky veliké podobě obou se mu podaří oklamat vesničany i přátele, jen matka a milenka sedláka, jehož místo zaujímá, prohlédnou jeho přestrojení. Přesto se však stanou jeho spojenkyněmi a spolubojovnicemi, když v něm najdou stejného antifašistu jako jsou samy. Kniha je po literární stránce místy poněkud naivní, je však psána s velkou dávkou osobního prožitku.