Top Results for British Intelligence

Horse Under Water is Len Deighton's second novel about an unnamed British intelligence officer, published in 1963. The story centers on an operation to recover material from a German Type XXI U-boat sunk off the Portuguese coast near the end of the Second World War. It combines espionage, investigat...

Our Game is a 1995 spy novel by British writer John le Carré. Retired intelligence officer Tim Cranmer investigates after his former double agent and friend, Larry Pettifer, disappears with Cranmer's former mistress; the trail leads from England into Moscow and Ingushetia in the North Caucasus. Set...

Single & Single is a 1999 novel by British writer John le Carré. Its story follows British Customs and Excise officer Nat Brock as he investigates crimes connected to the House of Single, a finance company entangled with a Russian crime syndicate, and works with Oliver Single, the estranged son of i...

Secret Asset is a 2006 spy novel by Stella Rimington, the former Director-General of MI5, and serves as the second installment in her Liz Carlyle thriller series.

An Expensive Place to Die is Len Deighton's 1967 standalone spy novel, set in Paris during the Cold War. Its plot brings together a private clinic, a secret NATO dossier, and intelligence operators whose decisions are shaped by compromised loyalties and uncertain motives. The book belongs to the esp...

Len Deighton's 1974 novel in which naval war-games analyst Pat Armstrong discovers someone has been living under his identity while he is drawn into a real Cold War operation.

Silverview is John le Carré’s final novel, published posthumously in 2021. The story follows a London financier who moves to a quiet English coastal town and becomes acquainted with a mysterious Polish émigré. Their relationship draws the protagonist into questions involving personal loyalties, secr...

A Choice of Enemies is a Cold War spy novel by British writer Ted Allbeury. Its subject is the pressure placed on intelligence officers by defection, divided loyalties, and the ideological conflict between Eastern and Western blocs. The novel belongs to the tradition of morally complex British espio...

At Risk is a 2004 espionage novel by Stella Rimington, who previously served as director-general of the British Security Service, MI5. The novel introduces Liz Carlyle, a British intelligence officer who investigates a contemporary national-security threat. Its setting and plot draw on the procedure...