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1) To Do or Die
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Treachery and valor square off in a series debut set during the Second World War from the author of Right and Glory and Operation XD.
As Hitler's armies march across Europe, Eddie Dawson, an explosives expert and lance-corporal in the Royal Engineers, is sent to France on an assessment mission.
His task completed, he anticipates an early return to Britain. Instead, he's sent to German territory where the French have launched an ill-advised...
2) Payback
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A race against time in the Middle East.
Hauled back from an exercise with the SAS, Paul Richter is tasked with a short-notice extraction. It goes well and as a reward he's given an easy job: investigating James Holden, a middle-aged Englishman living in Dubai, who appears to predict terrorist attacks.
It should be simple, but almost as soon as he arrives in Dubai, Richter is diverted to Bahrain. Then it all begins to get complicated. Who is the...
3) Pandemic
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Eliminate everyone who knows...
Off the island of Crete an illicit diver finds a 30-year-old aircraft on the seabed. He recovers a steel case containing four sealed flasks from amongst the corpses still trapped inside. Within twelve hours he succumbs to a hideous death.
Agency trouble-shooter Paul Richter is sent to investigate, but encounters far more questions than answers. Why has the CIA ordered the total destruction of the aircraft's remnants?...
4) Insurrection
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An action-packed espionage techno-thriller featuring a British intelligence agent who must stop a terrorist attack on the United States.
Maverick British agent Paul Richter returns in his most dangerous mission yet.
In Syria, a ritualistic ISIS beheading seems like another barbaric part of a terrible war. But this time is different . . .
In London, Paul Richter is briefed about a series of apparently unconnected events, notably a...
5) Overkill
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The Cold War is far from over…
A group of disgruntled Russian supremos decide the time has come to deploy their secret nuclear arsenal. They team up with al-Qaeda in order to neutralise America and take political and economic control of western Europe.
Only one man can stop them – a British intelligence agent: Paul Richter.
Richter discovers that Europe has been seeded with neutron bombs, with more lethal nuclear devices planted in strategic...
6) Timebomb
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An action-packed espionage techno-thriller featuring a British intelligence agent who must stop a bomb threat before innocent lives are lost.
What should have been a routine arrest turns into a bloody shoot-out near Geneva that leaves four terrorists and four policeman dead, and maverick British agent Paul Richter on the run from a murder charge. Closer to home, a homeless person is viciously murdered on the Isle of Sheppey, then a surveillance...
7) Foxbat
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In this "rip-roaring thriller," a British secret service agent goes on an international chase to uncover a source of weapons of mass destruction(The Guardian). Stop the nuclear strike – at all costs. . . .
1976: A Russian pilot defects to Japan in a MiG-25 Foxbat interceptor, but is prematurely captured by the Americans. Before the aircraft is handed back to the Russians, it is reduced to a pile of components and then rebuilt. Despite the...
8) Retribution
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Paul Richter is back!
An African prince is gunned down outside a London restaurant. But this is no ordinary assassination. Who is the third killer? Why was there no threat warning? And why did the killers kidnap one of the bodyguards, a former SAS soldier?
Paul Richter is sent on the case. Before long he is in a deadly game of cat and mouse, wounded and chased through the English countryside. Richter will have to rely on all his combat skills and...
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The true story of one young naval officer's journey to war. Spring 1982. The government of Argentina seizes control of an obscure group of islands in the South Atlantic. And the Falklands War, the last great naval conflict of the 20th century, is about to begin. On board the HMS Illustrious a young naval officer started keeping a diary of the voyage to the South Atlantic - the story of a young man embarking on a terrifying adventure from which he...
10) Operation XD
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Eddie Dawson returns in his most explosive outing yet-a World War II thriller based on true events from the author of Right and Glory and To Do or Die.
If an officer wants to talk, something's usually wrong. Plucked from his unit, Eddie Dawson knows trouble awaits.
The Netherlands is under Nazi invasion from land and sea. Amsterdam is besieged. But the Nazis aren't interested only in conquest; they want the enormous Dutch oil reserves...
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A riveting true life account of a Royal Navy serviceman on board an aircraft carrier.
14th June, 1982: The Argentine government officially surrenders to the British, ending the Falklands War. Six British ships were lost in the conflict, along with 255 British servicemen. Victory was won, but at a cost.
Having emerged from his first experience of combat alive and well, we follow our author while serving on the British Navy aircraft carrier, the HMS...
12) Right and Glory
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Bravery and close combat in the fight against Hitler. Eddie Dawson and Major Sykes are sent to the impregnable Eben Emael in Belgium, the strongest fort in the world. That night activity in the village wakes them and they return to the fort and witness a group of German soldiers landing on the roof in gliders. This main attack lasts 20 minutes, leaving Eben Emael crippled. But Dawson is disturbed – he has seen the Germans do the impossible: blasting...
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