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At the precipice of a major disarmament plan, Soviet intrigue threatens to tip the world into all-out war The treaty is so simple that the American president can hardly believe his luck. In exchange for a few million tons of grain, the Russians, gripped by famine, will withdraw all troops and missiles from Eastern Europe. What's more, this great success comes in an election year! It's too good to be true-and something is about to go wrong. As soon...
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Disavowed spy Charlie Muffin wages war against his former employers Charlie Muffin has come back to England. The ex-spy, a veteran of twenty-five years' service to the Crown, was last seen in Berlin, where an attempt on his life by his own organization led to international embarrassment. They had expected Charlie-a disheveled, middle-aged survivor of every double cross in the book-to die easily. Instead, he disappeared. But after months on the...
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 9
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Trapped at a desk job, Charlie Muffin uncovers a deadly KGB plot Charlie Muffin is too good an agent to be working a desk, but after a bust-up with his new director, he has been relegated to clerk work. Among the heaps of papers, though, Charlie stumbles upon the clues to a last-gasp plot from the collapsing Soviet Union. The signs point to a new Soviet Star Wars system-and to the involvement of a British traitor. Or do they? After all, the KGB...
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On the eve of a vital CIA assignment, an agent's hesitation leads him to the brink of disaster His grandfather was a lawman too. That's how Charles O'Farrell rationalizes his work. He keeps a picture of his ancestor by his bed, a faded sepia portrait of a short, plain-looking man made remarkable only by the long-barreled Colt strapped to his hip. His grandfather killed to make the frontier safe-O'Farrell has the faded newspaper clippings to prove...
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A diplomat's murder reunites Cowley and Danilov in a global search for the killer There's nothing surprising about the body. The wounds are precise, their meaning clear. The Washington, DC, cops have seen enough like them to know that they mean a mob hit. And when mobsters kill their own, there's not much the police can do about it. They're prepared to dismiss the case when someone looks at the dead man's ID. He was Russian-and a diplomat. William...
6) Charlie M
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 1
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A cagey British spy fights enemies from without and within Charlie Muffin is an anachronism. He came into the intelligence service in the early 1950s, when the government, desperate for foot soldiers in the impending Cold War, dipped into the middle class for the first time. Despite a lack of upper-class bearing, Charlie survived twenty-five years on the espionage battle's front line: Berlin. But times have changed: The boys from Oxford and Cambridge...
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 6
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Imprisoned for treason, Charlie Muffin hunts for a way out-by crossing a line After a trumped-up trial, Charlie Muffin lands in jail for treason-ready to learn the secrets of his fellow inmate, a convicted British traitor. Nobody expected KGB agents to stage a prison break to free their man. Charlie faces another choice: go to Moscow to complete his assignment or face 40 long years in prison. It doesn't take him long to decide. Charlie doesn't...
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Charlie Muffin's new job puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious American drug lord Charlie Muffin has done well since he "died." He's been on the run for years from the intelligence forces of Great Britain and the United States when an official declaration of death finally puts an end to their pursuit. Suddenly, Charlie can breathe again. He's even put a lid on his single malt whisky habit. Now all he needs is a job. He puts his espionage skills...
9) Bomb Grade
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 11
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As the dust settles after the demise of the Cold War, Charlie Muffin must thwart a plan that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust It has been more than five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Charlie Muffin, Britain's cagiest spy, is beginning to feel obsolete. As the machine of state intelligence is dismantled around him, he expects that he too will soon be on the scrap heap. But Britain needs him in Russia one...
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 3
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On-the-run spy Charlie Muffin investigates the destruction of an ocean liner They call Charlie Muffin a traitor. He has been on the run ever since the blow-up in Berlin, when British intelligence declared him obsolete and tried to kill him. Charlie outsmarted them then, and he has done so ever since, staying one step ahead by forgoing any semblance of an even halfway normal life. Now he is alone in Hong Kong and his only protector and friend, Rupert...
11) See Charlie Run
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 7
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Back at work for British intelligence, Charlie's Japanese assignment might just be his last Charlie Muffin was once the toughest agent in British intelligence. He wasn't strong, fast, or charming, but he knew how to survive. When his agency branded him a traitor, he eluded their pursuit for years. After eventually proving his innocence, he's invited back into The Firm. But only just. Consigned to a monotonous desk job, it takes months for Charlie...
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The un-Bond-like British spy is back-from a multimillion-selling author who hauls you aboard and won't let you off until the roller coaster stops. In his long-running Charlie Muffin series, Freemantle gives us an atypical British spy. Charlie is neither high cultured nor well mannered. He's working-class, scruffy, and fond of a drink. But he gets the job done . . . The Run Around: It could be the most sensational defection of all time. The head of...
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Charlie Muffin isn't your typical British spy. He's neither high cultured nor well mannered. He doesn't care about being smooth, pretty, or popular; he only cares about getting the job done . . . Charlie M: After twenty-five years serving the Crown in the shadows of the Cold War, Charlie finds himself under fire from a new breed of superiors who believe his lack of proper breeding makes him a liability in the spy game against the Soviets. But Charlie's...
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The un-Bond-like British spy is back-from a multimillion-selling author who hauls you aboard and won't let you off until the roller coaster stops. In his long-running Charlie Muffin series, Freemantle gives us an atypical British spy. Charlie is neither high cultured nor well mannered. He's working-class, scruffy, and fond of a drink. But he gets the job done . . . Charlie Muffin U.S.A.: Officially declared dead, Charlie can breathe again without...
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