A captivating blend of military adventure, political intrigue & espionage, with plenty of pace, tension and twisting plots by some of the leaders in the genre:

The Veteran by Frederick Forsyth

A collection of five heart-stopping stories from the master thriller writer. A miracle in war-torn Siena that begins with the persecution of a young nun in the turbulent days of the sixteenth century and culminates in the bitter German retreat from Italy; a drug smuggling heist on an international flight where the Knock pit their wits against the smugglers; a brutal urban murder, where a brilliant QC decides to defend the killers, resulting in a startling justice; an incandescent art scam at a famous London auction house, and a brilliantly plotted revenge that shatters the elegant world of the Old Masters; and a brilliant novella, Whispering Wind, which begins with the single survivor of Custer's Last Stand at the battle of Little Big Horn, followed by the rescue from rape and murder of a Cheyenne girl and a flight across the mountains and forests of the West, ending in a savage present-day manhunt in the wild lands of Montana.

The Company of Strangers by Robert Wilson

This tale begins early in the 1940s - the world is at war, secrets are more valuable than currency, and love seems almost as impossible as peace. Physicist Karl Voss is a trusted, if junior, intelligence officer for the German army, facing the knowledge that the Nazi war machine is self-destructing. As the personal and political costs of the war soar, Voss becomes a double agent - an enemy of the Nazi state, yet still a loyal defender of the German nation - a role that necessitates lying to colleagues and enemies alike. His superiors place him in Lisbon, to facilitate secret communications with the Allies. Oxford-educated British mathematician Andrea Aspinall admires the simple elegance of numbers and the complexity of what they can express. Her brilliance and her loveliness, combined with fluency in German and Portuguese, make this young woman perfect for the spy game. Soon after leaving school, she's offered a job abroad... and a new identity. Officially, "Anne Ashworth" will be working for Shell Oil in Lisbon, a clandestine existence to cover Andrea's real work for the Company, untangling threads that could connect to German atomic research. Amid power plays and betrayals that blur the lines between friend and foe, Andrea and Karl make an unexpected and unsanctioned connection, learn that too little trust can kill as quickly as too much... and share secrets that still have power decades later.

Final Winter by Brendan Dubois

After 9/11 the US Government vowed that any similar attack on American soil would be thwarted, and the newly created Homeland Security knew that the only way to achieve this end was to have the very best intelligence. A group of elite officers from the police, the FBI and the CIA are recruited to form a special branch within the new organisation, operating in deep cover, their contact with each other and with other agencies strictly compartmentalised. One of these is Brian Doyle, an NYPD detective, chosen for his dogged determination and deductive instincts - instincts which serve him and his masters well, because at the heart of the organisation is one person ruthlessly using the carefully gathered intelligence to unleash a biological attack across the United States. And when Doyle does work out the truth it seems as though he is too late to stop it.

The Disciples by Joseph J Andrew

Old-fashioned romance becomes the saviour of democracy in this tale of high-tech espionage and the fall of Eastern bloc communism circa 1989. When sexy National Security Agency operative Rebecca Townsend disappears with her new recruit, the agency discovers her extended family's involvement in the secret information trade. Veteran analyst T.C. Steele must return from mandatory retirement to repair the security breach and make sense of the international storm gathering around Rebecca. With the help of his wife Carolyn, who is a corporate tycoon and expert pilot, and a small band of agency outsiders - ultimately including Rebecca's fiance - Steele sets out to find the AWOL agent and foil the powerful, international syndicate to which she apparently has defected.

The Commander by Patrick A Davis

Unfairly passed over for promotion, disillusioned Air Force investigator Major Burton Webber has resigned from the service to work in his Korean wife's jewelry store, located in the red light district outside Osan Air Base. When an old friend, the commanding general's executive officer, approaches him about solving the brutal murder of a beautiful Amerasian bar girl, Webber reluctantly agrees. After discovering the shocking secret behind the killing, he finds his hunt for the murderer blocked by those at the highest level of the Korean and American governments. With reputations and lives teetering in the balance, Webber searches for the truth, never knowing whether he is to be the next victim… or whom to trust.

The Devil’s Garden by Ralph Peters

The headstrong daughter of a prominent U.S. senator came to a forgotten corner of the earth to make a difference - and to escape the influence of her powerful father. But Kelly Trost escaped too well - for now she has vanished into the dark heart of a lawless, oil-rich nation struggling through a violent rebirth in the wake of the Soviet collapse. No one knows if she is a prisoner of fanatics or mountain warlords - or even if she is alive - as her fate suddenly becomes the concern of governments and multi-national corporations jockeying for power in the area. Only one American, Lt. Colonel Evan Burton, has the courage and the local experience to track down Kelly Trost. Disillusioned by the hopelessness and cruelty of other men's wars, and by the cynicism of his own government, Burton is prepared to hang up his uniform - when the fate of one young woman calls him back to duty.

All books are paperback in very good condition.