"Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him. Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George...

Traces the history of the CIA, drawing on thousands of documents to explore how the agency was created, why it has so often failed in its missions, how it is viewed by Americans and the rest of the world, and other related topics.

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle -- not unusual in this line of work. But they have one thing in common: they all want to be back in the action. And they'll do anything...

While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received urgent orders for a daring mission to aid an escape. Soon, the unlikely-looking international spy was sporting a beautiful new hat that hid eight forged passports...

In the terrorist- and pirate-infested world of the Horn of Africa, Swedish security agent Ernst Grip can count on only his own shrewdness to survive when he must investigate the suspicious death of a Swedish army lieutenant.

A blown mission and a dead team leave Adam Hayes the last loose thread in a tapestry of betrayal in this latest high stakes international thriller from the world of Robert Ludlum. The most pressing issue on Adam Hayes' mind is planning his son's upcoming 5th birthday party. After years of operating in the world's most dangerous spots for Treadstone, he's ready to call it quits, but the feeling isn't mutual. Levi Shaw, Treadstone's director, calls...

The preceding novel in the George Smiley series, Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy ended with the devastating unmasking of a double agent at the heart of the British Secret Service. Now, in The honourable schoolboy, George Smiley, who has assumed the unenviable job of restoring the health and reputation of his demoralized organization, goes on the offensive. After the devastating unmasking of a double agent at the heart of the British Secret Service,...

British secret agent James Bond infiltrates the organization of ruthless criminal Auric Goldfinger and his caper with the Soviet unit known as SMERSH. James Bond investigates the mysterious dealings of England's richest man, Auric Goldfinger, and finds himself squaring against Goldfinger's deadly Korean henchman, Oddjob.

British secret agent James Bond arrives just in time for Vivienne at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court after two hardened mobsters show up.

Brahms Four is the best East German source the British ever had, but now he wants desperstely to come over the wall and escape from Berlin before he is exposed by a mole. There is only one person he still trusts: British agent Bernard Samson of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). In this opening book Len Deighton's Game, Set, Match series, Samson is thrown back into the field after having been retired to a desk job five years earlier. But before...