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Bloody Passage
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Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)
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The Insider
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A Firing Offense
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The Donut Legion
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Days without Number
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The Company
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Bloodmoney
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Yesterday's Spy
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Down Cemetery Road (The Oxford Investigations, #1)
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Agent in Peril (The Wolf Pack Spies #2)
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To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Second World War thriller from bestseller Alex Gerlis.

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A Little White Death (Inspector Troy, #3)
The latest novel from the master spy novelist John Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard’s chief detective, deep into a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair.
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Agent in the Shadows (The Wolf Pack Spies #3)
June, 1943. In Lyon, the capital of the French resistance, a secret meeting is held under orders from General de Gaulle . The objective is to unite all resistance factions. The future of France is on …
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East of Suez, West of Charing Cross Road
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1963. While London is beginning to swing, George Horsfield has settled into a stultifying routine - pushing paperwork around at the War Office on behalf of the fading British Empire, then catching the…
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