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'He came on the shortest day of the year between the storms that
carried the sea twenty miles inland and the great snow of that winter.
But before his arrival there was an equally mysterious disappearance!'
The first in a proposed trilogy, "The House of Skirl" sees Thirteen
year old orphan Kim living with his elusive guardian, surly tutor, and
various servants, in a grand but dilapidated old house called Skirl -
the ancient home of the Drago family. When one of the servant girls
goes mysteriously missing, a dark cloud descends on the house. And the
arrival of a stranger in the dead of night, claiming to be a long-lost
relative of the Drago family, plunges the house and Kim's life into
more mystery and magic - that goes right to the heart of his family... Read reviews at The Guardian and The Observer
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Orchard Books ISBN: 1846166241
Date of publication: 03/01/2008
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The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations
in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East
Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers,
the torture chambers in the Stasi jail, the hundreds of thousands of
informers could do nothing to prevent the rebellion that saw the fall
of the Berlin Wall. It is in the context of these last few paranoid
weeks of the Communist world, when a population that had been oppressed
for nearly sixty years found the will to rise up, that this outstanding
thriller is set. Its hero is Dr Rudolf Rosenharte, an academic from
Dresden and agent for MI6; his controller is Robert Harland, from A
SPY'S LIFE and EMPIRE STATE. When Rosenharte's security is compromised
he is faced with a stark choice: to defect to the West, leaving his
beloved family to the mercies of the Stasi, or return to East Germany
to carry out a dangerous assignment under the Stasi's suspicious eye...
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The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in a spectacular set piece killing at Heathrow ...
An airport employee and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge ...
In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath receives two postcards showing the Empire State Building ...
A group of migrant workers are brutally gunned down in Macedonia ...
The
quest to find the link between these apparently random events is
pursued by Robert Harland - drawn back to a world he thought he'd left
behind with a dual role for the UN and MI6.
Orion Books ISBN: 0752858920 Buy from Amazon
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Constantine Lindow is waiting for his brother Eamonn outside a central
London tube station when a bus turns into the street and explodes. The
next day Con is arrested as the prime suspect for the bombing.
Con
is determined to prove his innocence, but the only way he can do that
is to find the real bomber. As he digs deeper, he finds himself
confronted by his own brother's secret life - and the cold-blooded
killers from his past.
The trail leads Lindow halfway across the
world and back to London, where he tracks down a killer with a genius
for encryption codes. Only Lindow can crack the code. Only Lindow can
stop that telephone ringing...
Orion Books ISBN: 0752827715 Buy from Amazon
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Robert Cope Harland ended his career as a British spy in an Austrian
hospital, after being tortured and beaten by Czech security agents in
the last days of the communist regime. He was young enough then to find
a new life with the Red Cross and then with the UN.
Twelve years later his UN plane crashes in mysterious circumstances at La
Guardia airport, New York and Harland is the only survivor. Was it
sabotage, and if so, was Harland the target? It is soon clear to
Harland that the answers are to be found in his past, a past which,
along with its secrets and tradecraft, he has desperately tried to
forget. And now the crash has thrown him back into a world of
relentless intrigue and mistrust, to his youth, and a life-changing
love affair.
Orion Books PAPERBACK ISBN: 0752848062 Buy from Amazon
Orion Books AUDIO TAPE ISBN: 0752845888 Buy from Amazon
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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Con Lindow, a brilliant young scientist, is
waiting for his brother, Eamonn, when a bus turns into the street - and
explodes. Lindow is arrested as the prime suspect and pitched into a
web of intrigue. Caught between the British Security Service, New
Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist squad and the cold-eyed killers from his
brother's past, Lindow must find the bomber to prove his own innocence.
A SPY'S LIFE
When
Robert Harland's career as a British spy came to a brutal end he
rebuilt his life, working with the Red Cross and the United Nations.
Twelve years later, he was the only survivor of a horrific plane crash.
Was it sabotage and, if so, was Harland the target? He realises that
the answers are linked to a past he has tried hard to forget...
EMPIRE STATE
The
head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated at Heathrow…A
family are found murdered in their home…A group of migrant workers are
brutally gunned down…And in New York, an osteopath receives two
postcards of the Empire State Building which convinces him a friend is
in terrible danger. This series of apparently random events catapults
Robert Harland back to the UN and MI6 - and a life he hoped he had left
behind for good…
Orion Books ISBN: 0752867342 Buy from Amazon
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 At his funeral the bells of the church were rung open rather than
half-muffled, as is usual for the dead. Jessica Lockhart has come with
corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs to a beautiful
town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the
brightest government servant of his generation. All that remains of
Eyam are the burnt fragments of a man killed far from home in a
devastating explosion. But Eyam has left a devastating legacy and
certain members of the congregation on that bitterly cold March day are
desperate to suppress it. A group of locals come to feel the full
weight of the state's determination. Jessica Lockhart, now a Mergers and
Acquisitions lawyer from Manhattan but a former SIS officer in
Indonesia is equal to Eyams legacy . She becomes the focus of the State's paranoiac power and leads the local resistance to it, with all
the cunning of her former trade, directed from beyond the grave by
Eyam. The state is no match for the genius of the dead.
Orion Books ISBN: 0752874845 Pre-order from Amazon
Date of publication: September 4, 2008
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