Kirjahaku

The first bullet caught the girl her in the shoulder, the second in the thigh...The Chinese border guard stopped firing - she was dead, snared in the wire that had ended her dash for freedom. The Hong Kong police could collect her body in the morning.The murderous old men who clung to power in Peking would never know how close she had come to unmasking their prize spymaster in the West. The elusive Scorpion - who has penetrated the nerve centre of the Trident submarines they fear so much because they still have no defence against them.And now Scorpion has also penetrated the seething opposition that threatens to destroy the last and greatest Communist empire . . .The Year of the Scorpion is Michael Hartland's finest achievement - an explosive thriller packed with action, courage, love and betrayal.

Nepal, 1978.High in the Himalayas, a renegade Chinese agent is brutally murdered while trying to reach the British Embassy in Kathmandu. A Triad revenge killing? Or does the mutilated corpse point to sinister espionage activity that might set the powder-keg of South East Asia ablaze?SIS China-watcher David Nairn sends vulnerable Ruth Ash to investigate. In Hong Kong she mistrusts the loyalty of station chief Benjamin Foo. But, threatened by danger at every turn, Ruth uncovers an ugly trail of deception and violence snaking back through fifty war-torn years - and forward to the most terrifying clash yet between China and the enemies at her gates . . .Hurtling from Hong Kong and Bangkok to London and Vienna, Down Among The Dead Men is the spectacular debut of a major international thriller writer - and a sensational novel of action and betrayal.Praise for Michael Hartland: 'Cleverly plotted and impressive' - The Guardian'A book as current as today's headlines... rich, well-paced cat-and-mouse novel, authentic in detail, well-grounded in historical fact' - Baltimore Evening Sun'Fine first novel . . . sinuously sinister' - The Scotsman

Brutal violence has swept across a strife-torn Poland, a spark that could set the Soviet prison of Eastern Europe ablaze.Desperate to avoid history repeating itself, the West has dangerous plans, and Bill Cable, now the British Ambassador in Vienna, finds himself in grave danger. He is being hunted.The faceless men and women trailing him will do anything to stop the fall of the Soviet Union, even if it means the fall of Cable. To prove their intent, they kidnap his daughter, Sarah.But who will he betray, Sarah or his country and the freedom of millions?Praise for Michael Hartland: 'One of the best thrillers I have ever read' - The Independent'A stunning display of diplomatic and undercover know-how, SAS dare-devilry and global double-cross' - The Sunday Times'Very good Indeed - a cross between le Carre without the longeurs and Adam Hall with intellect' - The Guardian

In 1973, Sir Jack Carteret, Director-General of MI5, is buried in a lonely Somerset graveyard. Was he the traitor who laid bare his nation's secrets to the Soviet Union? Or is there, as many believe, an agent or ring of agents still in place, silently revealing all to our deadliest enemy?Thirteen years later, fear and suspicion are destroying British intelligence - and their vital ally the United States no longer trusts them. David Nairn of the Secret Intelligence Service is desperate to untangle the web of deception, violence and blackmail woven in Moscow forty years ago.Suddenly the defection of a young East German scientist could lead to the vital breakthrough. But first they must turn his mother, the elusive Sonia, a top-ranking Soviet spy who ran Klaus Fuchs and the other atom bomb spies in the War - and whose loyalty to Moscow is utterly unassailable. Nairn knows he must risk everything, including Sarah Cable's life, to expose the most dangerous mole of all time.In The Third Betrayal, the new master of the espionage novel probes a tantalizing secret.

Dr Nazim Khan is the secretive mastermind of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, and the target of British Intelligence officer Sarah Cable, now twenty-six, ambitious and dangerous. Her task is to worm her way into his trust...The job is distasteful, vital and dangerous. One agent is already dead. Three more await public execution.But there are greater dangers. In Moscow, Gorbachev, struggling to withdraw from Afghanistan, faces revolt from the Soviet military, still determined to crush the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. An unstable nuclear-armed Pakistan could set half the world ablaze.Sarah's courage, ingenuity and humanity are about to be tested to breaking point...