Humphrey Hawksley Bücher

Humphrey Hawksley's first novel Ceremony of Innocence was widely Hawksley is one of only a handful of authors taking the thriller in important new directions' Craig Thomas It begins with an SAS raid on a house in Khartoum which leaves the twins of an innocent neighbour orphaned. Saved from the orphanage by a Malaysian businessman, Samira and Yasin grow up in a world of wealth and privilege, but the seeds of hatred, sown when they were children, are about to reap a terrible harvest. When their home is plunged into violent chaos, Yasin knows the time has come for revenge. Suddenly the West is confronted by a terrorist with a plan so audacious that they are defenceless against it. Their only hope of stopping him lies with a man whose own life was also changed forever on that night in Khartoum, and with Yasin's twin sister Samira, who must make the most difficult choice of all.

After Iraq there is a lull, and then the opening stages of the Third World War. Hundreds die in the Indian parliament in Delhi, the president of Pakistan is assassinated, and a U.S. military base is hit by a North Korean missile. America and Britain discover chilling links between the attacks, but U.S. President Jim West wants to avoid another war. No one is yet aware that the war is already unstoppable. Detail by authentic detail, Humphrey Hawksley chillingly captures the unthinkable—a world speeding towards its own destruction.

A tense and twisting espionage thriller involving state secrets, lethal assassins and the threat of a new Cold War. Trauma surgeon Carrie Walker is taken aback when her estranged uncle makes contact out of the blue. Senior Russian naval officer Artyom Semenov claims to be in possession of an explosive piece of information which he is offering to share with the West. But can he be trusted? Travelling to Moscow undercover to meet with Semenov, Carrie finds herself stranded when the carefully-planned operation goes catastrophically awry. In grave danger, there's only one person she can turn to for help: her former fiancé, Major Rake Ozenna of the Alaska National Guard. Aware how vital it is that he reaches Carrie before others do, Rake knows he's pitted against a powerful and lethal enemy. But is it a rogue agent - or the Russian state? As preparations gather pace for a high-profile NATO exercise off the Norwegian coast, Rake must act fast if he is to prevent a global catastrophe.

A contemporary political thriller set in the snows of Alaska, where one incident could trigger the outbreak of a global war

The deafening roar of Chinese Air Force SC 27 Flankers shreds the tranquility of the gathering dawn. Within minutes burning phosphorus, shrapnel, and delayed action mines have ripped apart the main naval base at Cam Ranh Bay. Operation Dragonstrike has begun.. "By the end of the twentieth century, China had grown from one of the most impoverished, technologically destitute nations of the world to a regional superpower with global ambitions - ambitions that some in the Chinese government will stop at nothing to achieve.. "When a desperate China, weakened by the economic turmoil in Asia, seizes the oil-rich South China Sea, it ignites a furious conflict with Vietnamese and Taiwanese forces. As U.S. and British task forces arrive to impose order, the Chinese strike first, sinking U.S. warships and killing hundreds. Suddenly, Americans find themselves fighting a desperate battle on, above, and beneath the ocean, naval officers frantically try to out-maneuver the Chinese Navy, and SEAL teams fight a brutal action against elite Chinese Marine commandos. Diplomacy proves useless as the conflagration in the South China Sea threatens to engulf the entire world.

A debut novel of intrigue in which Hong Kong policeman Laurie McKillop finds his role has become largely symbolic now that the Chinese have taken over, but when he learns about a covert Chinese-American weapons project, he finds himself backon the front line and in mortal danger.