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- Location(s): England, Moscow
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1940s
Winter, 1947. Britain’s secret services have been penetrated. The country is more vulnerable than ever – and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin knows it. He decides it is time to send his master of ‘Special Tasks’ to create extra chaos....
- Location(s): London, Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present day
Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
The early 2000s, and Martin, an expat student recently arrived in Moscow to write a doctoral thesis on the heroines of Russian literature, needs all the guidance he can get to fathom the mysterious Russian soul. Distracted from his...
- Location(s): Portsmouth, Canada, Mexico, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
As the red rose drifted away in the sea with the ashes, it was not the end of the story. It was the start of a new spy thriller – “Beyond the Funeral” – a fast-moving story in which...
- Location(s): East Coast USA, Moscow
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960s
Moscow, 1961: With the launch of Sputnik, the Soviet Union’s international prestige is at an all-time high. And the most notorious of the defectors to the Soviet Union, former CIA agent Frank Weeks, is about to publish his memoir....
- Location(s): Moscow, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1812-1990s
Devil’s Acre is a novel about love, Russia and forbidden architecture. Moscow, 1982. The oppressive Soviet regime is solidly in place: Leonid Brezhnev is praised to the skies for the brilliance of his unreadable memoirs: and the KGB is...
- Location(s): Kinshasa, London, Montevideo, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
- Era(s): 1960
From Leopoldville, to Antwerp to the quiet South American capital of Montevideo, Uruguay, Doomed Spy is a psychological spy thriller set in an unconventional distant posting at the height of the Cold War. At the center of the intrigue...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1949
Moscow, Christmas Eve, 1949.The Soviet secret police intercept a call made to the American embassy by a Russian diplomat who promises to deliver secrets about the nascent Soviet Atomic Bomb program. On that same day, a brilliant mathematician is...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Historical, Political, Thriller
- Era(s): 1930s
Moscow, 1934. Moscow’s glittering new subway is under construction at last. The first line will run through the centre of the city, cutting deep through Moscow soil. But futures cannot be created without digging up the past. Though Russia’s...
- Location(s): Russia, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
‘Peppered with memorable characters, carved with precision, … highly recommended’ Shots Magazine ‘Given that the definitive thriller in 1980’s Moscow already exists (Gorky Park), Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it’s one that comes off’ Sunday Times ‘A...
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