ORDER HOTLINE: 0207 474 2474 72140 SECRET HISTORY OF


MI6 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery


A professor of British history unveils the inner workings of the globe’s oldest and most famous spy agency. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service - also commonly known as MI6 - during the war years formed significant and highly influential ties with the US, a relationship that


would become vital to both countries and their security agencies as the 20th century unwound. New spy techniques included forgery, invisible ink, effective disguises, concealing mechanisms, secret communications and much more. But this is a warts-and-all view of MI6. Here are the challenges it faced trying to counter the spread of Communism and the growing threats from Germany, Italy and Japan - all this with inadequate resources. Read for the first time some of the human consequences, including embezzlement, treachery and suicide, as well as high-profile blunders. The war also brought the agency many of its greatest triumphs, among them the pioneering of cryptography on an industrial scale - such as the breaking of the Enigma codes - and the devising of some of the methods and equipment that would inspire Ian Fleming’s novels. MI6 also uncovered crucial info on Germany’s V rockets. 810 pages, archive photos in b/w. $39.95 NOW £7


72359 THE DANGEROUS OTTO KATZ: The Many Lives


of a Soviet Spy by Jonathan Miles


Dashing, intelligent and lethal, Otto Katz (1895-1952) was one of the 20th century’s most accomplished spies, the inspiration for Victor Lazlo in Casablanca. To the FBI he was “an extremely dangerous man” and MI6 thought that he was “director of all Communist policy” in the West,


but the reality was much more than they could ever have realised. Lover of Marlene Dietrich, one of the first to alert the world to the threat of Hitler, infiltrator of England and recruiter of the Cambridge spies, Stalin’s head of operations during the Spanish Civil War and arranger of Trotsky’s assassination, he was also a playboy socialite in Hollywood where he cajoled the top names in the movie industry into contributing generously to the Anti-Nazi League, a Stalinist front which he created, and none other than Noel Coward was employed by MI6 to attempt to “turn” him after WWII. But like many who knew too much and had outlived their usefulness to Stalin, he was accused of treason, convicted on charges that were patently untrue and hanged in Prague on 3 December 1952. 365pp, photos. $26 NOW £6


72597 BRIDGE OF SPIES: A True Story of the Cold War by Giles Whittell


Here is the true story of three extraordinary characters: Rudolf Abel - a British-born KGB agent jailed by the FBI, Gary Powers - the American U-2 pilot shot down whilst flying a reconnaissance mission over the closed cities of central Russia, and Frederic Pryor - a young American graduate student mistakenly arrested as a spy by the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police. Weaving the strands of their story together, the author masterfully portrays the intense political tensions and nuclear brinkmanship that brought the US and the Soviet Union so close to a hot war in the 1960s. Here is the tragicomedy of errors that eventually induced Khrushchev to deploy missiles to Cuba. The book vividly traces their paths to the point where, eventually, the three men were exchanged at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie, rescued against daunting odds. 274 compelling pages with dramatis personae, archive photos.


$24.99 NOW £5.50 71537 TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge


Spies edited by Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev This amazing volume is the first complete report on the Cambridge Five that gives the reader the opportunity to judge the extent of the damage that was done to the British intelligence agencies during World War II by the notorious spy ring that comprised: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Triplex was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London. MI5 entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt - little suspecting that he was already working for the NKVD, who answered direct to Stalin. Features the largest single collection of complete documents ever assembled from the archives of the Russian Intelligence Service. 363 pages.


$45 NOW £7


71534 UNSPEAKABLE CRIMES OF DR. PETIOT by Thomas Maeder


Was he a sadistic mass killer who lured innocent people to their deaths in his mysterious triangular room, or was he a hero of German-occupied Paris who liquidated members of the Gestapo and helped persecuted Jews and underground fighters escape from tormented France? This was the question as one of the 20th century’s most sensational murder cases came to trial in Paris in 1946, and Dr Marcel Petiot savagely fought for his honour and life. Dr Petiot dismembered his victims then buried them in a lime pit and was charged with luring 27 people with the promise of escape, then murdering them before plunder. Photos, 302pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


71425 PRISON COOKBOOK by Peter Higginbotham


It is perhaps not surprising that convicts at Dartmoor in the 1870s resorted to eating dead rats and mice, grass, candles, dogs and earthworms! Our copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food. It includes the full text of an original prison cookery manual compiled at Parkhurst prison in 1902, looks at the history of prison catering from the Middle Ages when prisoners were expected to pay for their own board and lodgings


while inside. Plus the work of reformers like John Howard and Elizabeth Fry. 256pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £4


71263 FOUL DEEDS AND SUSPICIOUS


DEATHS IN LONDON’S WEST END by Geoffrey Howse


With quotations from trial transcripts, headlines of the day, newspaper cartoons and pen and ink sketches from contemporary press reports plus dozens of photographs from the author’s own collection, here is the dark side of London’s glamorous West End. Read of the foul murder of the famous actor William Terriss by a madman in 1897, the horrific wartime murders of Gordon Cummins and the strange disappearances of the socialite MP Victor Grayson and Lord Lucan among many true cases. 192pp in large softback. £10.99 NOW £3


71852 DEATH ON THE WATERWAYS by Allan Scott-Davies


Here is a chilling glimpse into the murky depths of the criminal underworld whose murderous inhabitants used the country’s rivers, pools, lakes, bridges and tunnels to conceal the evidence of their nefarious activities. Did you know, for instance, that the infamous Burke and Hare both worked on the Union Canal or that the notorious Victorian baby farmers used waterways to dispose of the unfortunate infants in their care? Here too is the horrific murder of Christina Collins in 1839 on the Trent and Mersey Canal, whose story was the inspiration for an episode of the popular series Inspector Morse, The Witch is Dead. This grim book also considers the use of canal and inland waterway crime in literature and on film and TV. 159 paperback pages, illus. £12.99 NOW £4


CRIME FICTION


Judge: ‘Is this the first time you’ve been up before me?’ Prisoner: ‘I don’t know – what time do you normally get up?’


- Les Dawson


73142 RUSH OF BLOOD by Mark Billingham If you were planning to take this brilliantly plotted, utterly gripping thriller with you when you head off for a couple of weeks’ blissful indulgence in sun, sea and sand, have another think. Its theme revolves around perfect strangers, a perfect holiday …and a perfect murder! Three couples meet by the pool on their Florida holiday and


become fast friends. But, on the last night of the festivities, their revels take a tragic twist. The daughter of another holidaymaker goes missing, and her body is later found floating in the mangroves. When the shocked six return home they remain in contact and, over the course of three increasingly fraught dinner parties, they come to know one another better. However, they do not always like what they find. Buried beneath these apparently normal exteriors are some dark secrets, hidden kinks, ugly vices - and then a second girl goes missing. Could it be that one of these six has a secret far darker than anybody can imagine? 390 increasingly tense pages. £16.99 NOW £6


73015 PAPILLON by Henri Charrière An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is one of the greatest true tales of courage, resilience and an unbreakable will. This edition includes a new exclusive essay by Howard Marks. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charrière, known as Papillon, was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. 42 days


after his arrival, he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, his spirit remained untamed - in 13 years he made nine amazingly daring escapes, including one from the notorious Devil’s Island. 560pp in chunky paperback. £9.99 NOW £5


73026 SOME MUST WATCH by Ethel Lina White


The crime novel which inspired the classic film ‘The Spiral Staircase’ which director Robert Siodmak took as his inspiration for his classic, bone-chilling thriller. In this novel Helen Capel takes the position of lady-help in a remote country house owned by the Warren family. She learns that a murderer is on the loose. All four of his victims were


young girls, and the last of these was strangled in a lonely house just five miles away. Helen feels safe inside the house, protected, but the maniac is closer than she fears. Great to see this thriller back in print. 256pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £3.50


72971 COVER HER FACE by P. D. James


The first novel by P. D. James here published in the Faber Firsts series. St Cedd’s Church fête has been held in the grounds of Martingale Manor house for generations. In addition to organising the event, Mrs Maxie also has to contend with the news of her son’s sudden engagement to her new parlour maid, Sally Jupp. On the following morning, Sally’s


body is discovered, and Detective Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh must delve into the complicated passions


beneath the calm surface of English village life. 217pp in paperback in this collectable series. £8 NOW £4


72952 CHASING DARKNESS:


A Cole & Pike Novel by Robert Crais The real enemies lie in the shadows... One murder per year for seven years, apparently unconnected, but now with the discovery of the ‘death album’ there is a link. Only one suspect had been charged in any of those cases, and Elvis Cole supplied the evidence which set him free. That suspect is the body now found in


the fire, and the police are out for Cole. A first rate puzzle, 387pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


72925 SKIN by Mo Hayder When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks, the police are convinced it’s a suicide, but DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of a predator, a brutal killer who waits, hiding in the shadows. As Sergeant Flea Marley, a police diver and body recovery expert works alongside Caffery, she is aware that her feelings for him may go beyond the professional. But when she finds


something so unexpected and so terrifying that it changes everything, she knows that this time, no one and not even Caffery can help her. A macabre tale. 459pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.25


73043 WORLD OF TIM


FRAZER by Francis Durbridge From the creator of Paul Temple, here is a crime classic in welcome reprint with fairly large text. Tim Frazer receives a message from erstwhile business partner Harry Denston telling him to meet him at a remote fishing village. Tim keeps the rendezvous but there is no sign of Harry. A series of strange happenings including a Russian


shipwreck and a dying secret agent pulls him into the murky world of international espionage and leads him to uncover the truth behind Harry’s disappearance. 222pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £3.50


73156 VANISHING POINT by Val McDermid


The multiple-award-winning author’s novels have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold over 10,000,000 copies. This breath-taking oeuvre tells the riveting story of a mother who, on her way to what was to be an idyllic holiday, watches in panic- stricken disbelief as her five-year- old son Jimmy is led away by a


uniformed agent, while she is trapped on the other side of the airport security gates. The authorities, unaware of Jimmy’s existence, see nothing but a woman behaving erratically. She is brutally wrestled to the ground and blasted with a taser gun to restrain her. By the time she can tell them what happened, Jimmy is long gone. However, as she tells her story to the FBI, it becomes clear that everything is not as it seems with this apparently normal family. What is Jimmy’s background? Why would someone want to abduct him? And, with time running out, how can his mother get him back? 434 pages. £16.99 NOW £5


69990 KILLER IN WINTER by Susannah Gregory


Christmas 1354, and in Cambridge the winter is as bad as anyone can remember. A drunken attempt at blackmail by Norbert Tulyet, leaves him dead at the hostel door. And in St. Michael’s church, a second unidentified body holds an even greater mystery. For Matthew Bartholomew, the murders would be difficult to solve at any normal time of year, but now he has the distraction of Phillipa Abigny, to whom he was once betrothed, to deal with. The mysterious body in the church turns out to be Walter’s servant. 488pp in paperback.


£9.99 NOW £4


71342 HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES AND THE SIGN OF THE FOUR by Arthur Conan Doyle


A stylish embossed black cover with an easy-to-use elastic closure make this a strikingly handsome edition and endpaper image. There are new introductions by Caroline Dalzell, Steve Sims and David Sinclair. Conan Doyle presents us with Sherlock Holmes’ flawed personality from early on and we see him as a tormented soul who finds relief from unbearable pain with his 7% solution of cocaine - he is a cold, dark and troubled man. The complete texts are rendered in modern, readable typeface, there is a Hound of the Baskervilles character list, a timeline and a colour map of Dartmoor, home of The Hound. 228pp, colour illus. ONLY £2.50


71371 BRYANT & MAY OFF THE RAILS by Christopher Fowler


Arthur Bryant, John May and the Peculiar Crimes Unit are on the trail of an enigma - a young man called Mr Fox. But his identity is false, his links to society are invisible, and his home yields no clues. All they know is that somehow he has escaped from a locked room and murdered one of their best and brightest. The detectives are lured into the darkest recesses of the London Underground where their quarry, expertly disguised, has struck again. 379pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3


Crime Fiction 7


JAMES PATTERSON The International Bestsellers


72942 BLACK MARKET by James Patterson The threat was absolute. At 5.05 p.m., Wall Street would be destroyed. No demands, no ransom, no negotiations. A multiple firebombing, orchestrated by a secret militia group would wipe out the financial heart of America. Faced with catastrophe on an unimaginable scale, Federal agent Archer Carroll and Wall Street lawyer Caitlin Dillon


are pitched into a heart-stopping race against time, tracking the unknown enemy through a maze of intrigue, rumour and betrayal. A truly shocking climax to this tough, twisting tale. 400pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


72945 MIDNIGHT CLUB by James Patterson John Stefanovitch is a tough New York cop. Nobody knows the underbelly of the city like him. He is out to nab the most treacherous and powerful member of the Midnight Club, a secret international society whose membership is limited to an élite group of ruthless crime czars, all of whom are ‘respectable’ businessmen. Stef’s the ideal


man for the job, until he’s levelled by a blast from a shotgun and left for dead. Now he is back, wheelchair-bound, yet sworn to destroy his enemy with the help of a beautiful journalist and a Harlem cop. 293pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


72954 HIDE AND SEEK by James Patterson Maggie Bradford is on trial for murder in the celebrity trial of the decade. As one of the world’s best-loved singer-songwriters, she seems to have it all. So how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands? Will Shepherd was her second husband, a magnificent athlete and film star and just as famous as Maggie. But he had dark,


dangerous secrets that none of his fans could have imagined - that his own wife could never have dreamed of. A hair-raising twisting narrative. 356pp in paperback.


£6.99 NOW £3.50


71359 EYE OF THE NEEDLE by Ken Follett


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His weapon is the stiletto, his codename The Needle. He is Hitler’s prize undercover agent, a cold and professional killer. In the week before D-day, the Allies are disguising their invasion plan with a phoney armada of ships and planes. The plan would be ruined if an enemy agent found out - and then The Needle does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leaves a murderous trail across Britain to awaiting U-Boat. But he hasn’t planned on encountering a remarkable young woman on a storm- battered island. About the fate of war resting in the hands of a spymaster, his opponent and a brave woman. 464pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3


71236 THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR by Josephine Tey


Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law. They have led a quiet and unremarkable life in their country home, The Franchise. Unremarkable that is until the police turn up on their doorstep with a demure young woman. Not only does Betty Kame accuse them of kidnap and abuse, she can back up her claim with a detailed description of the attic room in which she was kept, right down to the crack in its round window. But there is something about Betty’s story that doesn’t quite add up. Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is stumped. It takes Robert Blair solicitor turned amateur detective to solve the mystery. With an un-guessable ending, 278pp in paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3.50


71237 THE SINGING SANDS by Josephine Tey


On his train back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a case of misadventure, but Grant is not so sure. Teased by some enigmatic lines of verse that the deceased had apparently scrawled on a newspaper, he follows a trail to the remote Outer Hebrides. And although it is the end of his holiday, it is also the beginning of an intriguing investigation into the bizarre circumstances shrouding Charles Martin’s death. Another first class read. 246pp in paperback.


£7.99 NOW £3.50


71238 TO LOVE AND BE WISE by Josephine Tey


It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go to any lengths for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was this gifted creature doing in such an English village backwater as Salcott St Mary? And why, and how, did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder or fraud, or simply some macabre practical joke? 256pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


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