On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy & might even still be alive. As life returns to normal, Anna struggles to sort fact from fantasy. Did her mother have a secret life? & how do you know who a person was once she is dead? The size of this book is 19.7cm in height & 12.9cm wide with 310 pages ...

Discovery means certain death. & he’s running out of time.

It’s 1990, & Dmitry Kalyagin is about to attain membership

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James Bond Roger Moore, in his tenth screen outing, joins forces with a glamorous Russian spy Barbara Bach to outwit a megalomaniac shipping magnate Curt Jurgens who intends to achieve world domination by causing nuclear war between the superpowers. The film features the submersible Lotus Esprit, underwater battles, & Jaws, a seven-foot villain with steel teeth. ...

Vivienne Michel is running away – from pain, from rejection, from humiliation. When she stumbles into a criminal plot, her life seems over... until a chance encounter with James Bond turns her world upside down. Ian Fleming’s tenth 007 novel is a unique view of Bond, through the eyes of a woman who loves him. ...

In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessive colleague in a hotel in South Kensington. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising, but that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable.

The daughter of a feckless Polish aristocratic & his wealthy Jewish wife, she would become one of Britain’s most daring & highly decorated secret agents. Having fled Poland on the outbreak of war, she was recruited by the intelligence services long before the establishment of the SOE, & took on mission after mission. She skied over the hazardous High Tatras into Pol&, served in Egypt & North Africa & was later parachuted into Occupied France, where an agent’s life expectancy was only six weeks.

Her courage, quick wit & determination won her release from arrest more than once, & saved the lives of several fellow officers, including one of her many lovers, just hours before their execution by the Gestapo. More importantly, perhaps, the intelligence she gathered was a significant contribution to the Allied war effort & her success was reflected in the fact that she was awarded the George Medal, the OBE & the Croix de Guerre.



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Luneta is tired of living in dull Orkney with her mother & father (the most boring knight of King Arthur's Round Table). She prides herself on always getting what she wants, so when the opportunity presents itself, she jumps at the chance to stay at a family friend's castle near Camelot. Her handsome cousin, Sir Ywain
- a young knight seeking adventure
- arrives just in time to escort her. Along the way, they pick up a witty, honorable knight-turned-fool named Rhience. Before their journeys end, they will face danger, enchantment, trials & sorrow, all for the sake of love & honour.

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The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural & professional spheres of the most powerful empire Europe has ever seen. Often referred to as 'the state within a state', the SS was Heinrich Himmler's personal fiefdom & its influence pervaded all walks of German life, both private & public. Its tentacles extended into the army & police, the business world & of course the death camps. The author reveals Himmler to be a man despised but indulged by Hitler who was obsessed with crackpot theories of Germanic mythology & deeply involved in the Final Solution. He assesses the career of Reinhard Heydrich, who put the organisational muscle & ruthlessness into the SS. The Totenkopf Brigade, set up specifically to run the concentration camps & death camps, is examined, as is the Waffen-SS, the military formation which killed thousands of Jews & partisans across Eastern Europe & fought bitterly against the Allies in Normandy. The postwar story of the SS is also outlined, from clandestine organisations of former SS men to the activities of ex-Nazis & neo-Nazis today. Supported by photographs & the words of former SS men, their close friends & colleagues, Guido Knopp brings back to life a generation whose fanaticism & violence shaped the identity of the Third Reich. ...

The SS was one of the least understood institutions of the Third Reich Germany but also one of the most important. At the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police & internal security duties & the militarised Waffen SS has more than 800, 000 men serving in the field, in direct rivalry with the traditional German armed forces, the Wehrmacht. Using previously unavailable material, this definitive book refocuses attention on & enhances understanding of the hard-nosed political fanatics & opportunists who were responsible for one of the most appalling crimes in human history: the attempted execution of the Jews of Europe. ...

In the darkest moment of history, one child found the courage & strength to survive the unimaginable. This is Henry's true story. One hot, humid day in July, 1944, the Gestapo abducted fifteen-year-old Henry & his mother, forcing them onto cramped cattle cars in the Lódz Polish Ghetto. Like so many Jews before them, they had been selected to disappear
- they were being sent to Auschwitz. Exhausted after hours of traveling, they finally emerged from the stifling, filth-ridden cattle car. Already devastated at having lost his father to starvation, Henry clutched his mother's frail h&, knowing she was all he had left in the world, & that he was the only one left to protect her. In a flash, he felt them being brutally torn apart. Crying out for her, his heart shuddered as he watched her disappear into a sea of other women. Henry knew that was the last time he would ever see her, & he felt like he had failed her. He was now completely alone in the world. Starving, & close to...
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After one body of a young woman has been discovered in Bellahouston Park, it is a matter of months until the second has too.

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