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In 1941, after a telephone tip off to the Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan police the body of a young woman, Sarah Davis is discovered during the hours of the Blackout and at the height of a bombing raid by two Scotland Yard Detectives. The murder victim as reported to the Yard was found on the floor of the master bedroom in a rather rundown South London terraced house in a side street off the Kennington Road. This was a swift, clinical killing, and a single bullet wound to the forehead had killed Sarah Davis instantly. With the nightly Blackout crime was easy to conceal, the house was already damaged by a bomb blast; a direct hit would have obliterated any chance of finding forensic evidence. If they hadn't reached the body, the auxiliary services would simply have pulled Sarah's mutilated body out of the rubble without a second thought, and assumed she died as a result of the bombing.As Chief Inspector Luke Garvan knelt over the body illuminated by the weirdly intense bluish light of the incendry bombs exploding along Monkton Drive, he felt that this was no ordinary murder; it had all the hallmarks of a professional killing. On returning to the crime scene the following day his suspicions were confirmed when he found the leading Home Office Pathologist Sam Menzies examining the body rather the local Police Surgeon.Back at Scotland Yard during a meeting with the Assistant Commissioner he is introduced to Spencer Hall who claims to be from The Home Office, he is in fact like Sarah Davis a member of MI5's shadowy Twenty Committee. In normal circumstances Special Branch would have taken the lead on an investigation involving the security services, but for some reason MI5 demanded that Garvan head up the inquiry. Garvan's initial instinct that the murder had all the hallmarks of a professional killing are confirmed when Spencer Hall explains that MI5 believe Sarah was killed by one of their double-agents on the direct order of German Intelligence, and that as a consequence the Twenty Committee is on the brink of disaster. Their work is vital for the future conduct of the War; and one rogue agent could bring the entire system crashing down like a pack of cards. The price and the stakes are high; the Investigation becomes a race against time to track down the killer of Sarah Davis before it's too late, and Britain's counter-espionage battle against the Abwehr is lost, and the result, could quite literally affect the final outcome of the War against Nazi Germany

At the height of the War in 1943 British Intelligence receives a microfilm containing vital information regarding Hitler's so called vengeance weapons, the deadly V-I and V-2 rocket programme being conducted at Peenemunde in northern Germany. A brilliant young French scientist, Jean Giscard, had been forced to join the development project as his family came under ever increasing threats from the Nazis in occupied France. Before the War Giscard had studied at Berlin University, and therefore knew many of the leading scientists now working in Peenemunde, they remembered him well, and requested that he be included to work on the top secret project with them. Horrified at the destructive nature of the weapons he is helping to develop, he tries escape in order to warn the Allies that not only are the lives of thousands of people at risk, but that the weapons could quite literally affect the final outcome of the War against Nazi Germany. After successfully making contact with the Special Operations Executive he is spirited out of northern Germany via an effective underground network to the relative safety of neutral Portugal. Chief Inspector Garvan, on secondment to MI5, finds himself ordered to accompany his British Intelligence colleague, Major Spencer Hall, to neutral Lisbon. Their mission is to escort the Frenchman safely back to England, but it's a race against time, SS Reichsfuhrer Himmler has ordered the Abwehr to track Giscard down and bring him back to Berlin.Unbeknown to Garvan there was another reason for his inclusion on the mission, for Major Spencer Hall has another remit, London suspected that one of their own agents is a traitor and working covertly for Berlin. After arriving in Lisbon, their fears are confirmed when the double-agent divulges the whereabouts of the French scientist to his Nazi spymasters, with bloody and deadly consequences. They then find themselves faced in a desperate race to track down the traitor operating out of Portugal who has fatally compromised not only their mission to Lisbon, but Allied secrets for the future conduct of the War. In their deadly game of smoke and mirrors no-one is ever quite what they seem.

Plunging behind the political curtain of Churchill's World War II coalition government, where plotting and manipulation run rampant and turning in spies is a matter of global security, Dead Man Walking is Toby Oliver's latest gripping thriller featuring Superintendent Luke Garvan and Major Spencer Hall.When Lord Oakways is found murdered in his London home, a DCI working the crime scene stumbles upon some potentially damning evidence in the cabinet minister's diary: a meeting with Toniolo, a suspected Soviet spy operating at the heart of British government. The case is handed over to Garvan and Hall, whose investigation centers on two suspects: foreign minister Jeremy Haining, a close friend of Oakways and former left-wing firebrand, and Jamie Burdis, the disgruntled former foreign minister known for being a flagrant philanderer.With the successful D-day landings, the Allied forces' victory seems more and more certain-as does a seemingly inevitable face-off with the Soviets.Garvan and Hall race to solve the murder and unmask the spy, but the more they dig, the more complex the web of betrayal appears to be.Who is Toniolo? And can they find him, or her, before it's too late?

Everyone has a different agenda when a former Nazi scientist and a current NASA rocket expert arrive in 1960s London for a conference. International spies and war criminals alike are still looking to settle old scores from World War II. Monitoring the conference are Spencer Hall of MI5 and Jack Stein of the CIA, top agents who became fast friends while fighting side by side for their lives. They've been called to protect their nations' vital secrets, but one of them harbours his own plans for revenge. Meanwhile, Bernard Zimmerman, the NASA scientist, wants everyone to forget his past work with the Third Reich so he can create a new life in America. Unfortunately, both the Soviets, Mossad, and the Germans remember him all too clearly.While Stein will stop at nothing to protect him, his loyal friend and intelligence source, Spencer Hall, is consumed with a personal vendetta.