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Traitors by Robert McCaw

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The premise of Robert B McCaw’s new Washington, DC-based political thriller, Traitors, is that a group of five Russian sleeper agents has, over time, worked its way up into the highest reaches of the US government. The new head of the Department of Justice’s National…
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Red Star Down by DB John

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In 2018, Star of the North marked Welsh author DB John out as a first-rate thriller writer earning comparisons to Terry Hayes’ I Am Pilgrim. It was complex, multi-layered – a rare story that focussed on North Korea. It covered the mystery surrounding the disappearance…
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Meet the author: Catherine Merridale

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Moscow might not be top of your travel itinerary at the moment, but with crime fiction and historian Catherine Merridale you can safely travel there in your imagination in Moscow Underground. The setup is fascinating. As he consolidates power, Josef Stalin wants to show the…
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The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey

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Third in former CIA analyst David McCloskey’s riveting series of espionage thrillers, The Seventh Floor will grab your attention and hang onto it until the last page. Not only is the story a hair-raising exploration of international misdeeds, its underlying theme is how loyalty to…
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The Collaborators by Michael Idov

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Michael Idov’s firecracker espionage thriller starts with an unforgettable scene. A commercial airliner flying from Istanbul to Riga, Latvia, is intercepted over Belarus by a Russian MiG-29, which dogs the plane just 50 yards portside. In case anyone doubted its intent, the MiG speeds forward,…
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