Kirjahaku

A spy thriller with industrial espionage and romance.Why should the SVR, Russia's successor to the KGB, be interested in a small scientific glassware business in north-west London? Elizabeth Fielder, one of their agents, takes the place of Peter Lewis' secretary after she is killed in a hit and run "accident". Lewis has the entr e to a Swiss laboratory which is developing a personality-altering drug and which the Russians plan to steal. Another foreign security service, led by Sam Charles, is keeping Elizabeth under surveillance. Sam has fallen for Elizabeth but can only admire from afar. Meanwhile Lewis and Elizabeth fall in love and he moves into her apartment.The theft of the drug is planned for Lewis and Elizabeth's visit to Basel to make a delivery to the laboratory during the annual Fasnacht Carnival. There is a kidnapping, a rescue by the other security service, a shooting and Elizabeth's arrest on a murder charge. For Lewis the discovery that Elizabeth is not who she purports to be is shattering. For Sam the next campaign is to get Elizabeth out of prison, whether or not she will respond to his affection.

Former Mossad agent Sam Charles has a serious problem. He has fallen for Elizabeth Fielder an agent of Russia's SVR, the successor to the KGB, while keeping her under surveillance in London and Basel, Switzerland. Unfortunately Elizabeth is held in Basel's remand prison, charged with the murder of a colleague. Sam is determined to secure her liberty - but how? Lifting her off the prison roof by helicopter is impossible and so begins a period of intense frustration for him.While visiting Poland to explore the Holocaust and his family roots he realises that he must risk his own liberty to ensure that the court knows the full circumstances of the killing: he had bugged Elizabeth's hotel room in Basel and has the tapes of the events that led to the shooting. By giving evidence in court his own liberty will be at risk but he thinks he can limit his own period of incarceration. Will this work and will anything come of his infatuation with Elizabeth? Along the way he has to sort out Sylvia Brunner, Elizabeth's defence lawyer, who is being torn apart by false "memories", planted by her therapist, of sexual abuse by her father. And what will be the outcome of Elizabeth's trial which is an important part of the story?

The Final Part of The Basel TrilogyTerrorism, drug smuggling, a nuclear threat to the State of Israel and romanceAt a private bank in Basel a client's telephone call is overheard and Swiss Security are alerted to a terrorist threat against the State of Israel. Captain Erik Blum is sent to liaise with Mossad and insists in dealing with Sam Kagan whom he has previously met as a result of Mossad action in Basel.The threat is being funded by drug smuggling and Sam Kagan and his wife Elizabeth are sent to Cassis, a port near Marseille, to keep the smuggling operation under surveillance. Jakob Schmidt, the mastermind of the terrorist cell has links with a French woman psychiatrist and one of Blum's young officers becomes her patient in the quest for information.The date of the expected attack is 16th September 2001 but with only a few days to go the Security Services are still without the information they need to thwart the attack. Time is running out fast ...Of The Basel Formula (Part 1 of the Trilogy): Annette Shaw wrote in Devon Life: "It's a fast moving story ... (with) music and cultural touches and I really enjoyed his writing."