Brian Freemantle, der auch unter Pseudonymen wie John Maxwell, Jack Winchester, Harry Asher und Richard Gant schrieb, gehört zu den gefeiertsten britischen Autoren von Spionageromanen. Seine Werke, die sich weltweit millionenfach verkauften, schöpfen aus seiner journalistischen Erfahrung. Freemantle erlangte internationale Anerkennung durch seine ikonische Serie um Charlie Muffin, die das Genre maßgeblich prägte. Er erkundete auch andere fesselnde Erzählungen, darunter Geschichten über einen unehelichen Sohn von Sherlock Holmes und die Zusammenarbeit eines FBI-Agenten mit einem russischen Detektiv im Kampf gegen das organisierte Verbrechen nach dem Kalten Krieg.
When Western intelligence services recognize a global jihadist attack has been mounted, the United States and the UK lead the counter-offensive. Attack after attack is foiled but the Al Qaeda mastermind eludes MI5 and the CIA. As they prepare for the final attack, they realize that the plot is more sinister than they had ever thought possible.
The new thriller from the master storyteller - Harvey Jordan is The Namedropper, a multi-millionaire who steals other people's identities to strip them of their assets. Following an ill-judged affair, Jordan finds himself cited in a divorce action by one Alfred Appleton, as well as being sued for criminal conversation a multi-million dollar marriage-wrecking damages claim. So Jordan plans his own type of revenge the identity-stealing kind and in so doing discovers the murky depths of Appletons past . . .
Jack Mason, once Russia's most successful CIA embedded traitor, has spent the last fifteen years in a penitentiary planning his vengeance on the defector who exposed him. Former KGB Colonel Dimitri Sobell has made a life for himself in America. Until he gets an official letter advising him of the man's impending release, he'd virtually forgotten Jack Mason
Only a miracle-and faulty workmanship-prevents a germ-packed warhead from exploding when a terrorist missile slams into the United Nations building in New York. The lettering on the side of the rocket is Russian, which presents the West with its worst a direct link between a fanatical U. S. terrorist group and Russian gangsters with access to the germ warfare arsenal of the former Soviet Union.This potentially devastating attack reunites the FBI's Russian expert William Cowley and Moscow's Organized Crime Director Dimitri Danilov. Their to penetrate and destroy the unknown group claiming responsibility before they can strike again.And as the Superpowers teeter on the brink of diplomatic meltdown, Cowley and Danilov make another nightmare discovery. The terrorists are being cleverly financed by ultra-sophisticated hackers looting U. S. banks, breaking into law enforcement and Pentagon computers, and keeping themselves always one click ahead of the frantic pursuit.The Watchmen is a spine-chilling chase that strikes at the heart of our fears of terrorism and its prevention.
