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The Ways of the World

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Written by Robert Goddard — Spring 1919. The Great War is over. Farmers along the former Western Front struggle to restore the shattered landscape. A new war is beginning. Not a war of bullets and shrapnel, but a war of words and promises, both kept…
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Dead Lions by Mick Herron

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Every big organisation needs a place to put their screw-ups, and Slough House is where MI5 puts its ‘Slow Horses’. These are the disgraced or incompetent spies the service wants rid of, wearing them down with an endless series of demeaning jobs such as data…
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A classic revisited: Death of a Citizen

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Published in 1960, Death of a Citizen marked the beginning of the story Donald Hamilton’s counter agent/assassin Matt Helm. It would eventually spread over 27 novels, concluding with The Damagers, which came out in 1993. Books in the series have sold more than 20 million…
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The Double Game

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Written by Dan Fesperman — For those not familiar with the author, Dan Fesperman has written crime stories like the excellent Lie in the Dark, as well as war-themed and espionage stories such as The Arms Maker of Berlin. His thrillers are usually set in…
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The Fulcrum Files

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Written by Mark Chisnell — Europe in the 1930s and Hitler has ordered the German army back into the Rhineland. German industry is moving forwards with re-armament on a massive scale. His rhetoric is increasingly bellicose and the persecution of the Jewish population is intensifying….
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The Girl in Berlin

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Written by Elizabeth Wilson — It is the summer of 1951, and despite the manufactured optimism of The Festival of Britain, London is finding it hard to shake off the downbeat mood of austerity. Jack McGovern is a detective working with Special Branch. There is…
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