David Brierley

The third adventure in the classic Cody series of espionage thrillers.Ex-spy Cody is hired to find a pilot who disappeared with his plane somewhere in North Africa. Her search pits her against Skorpion, a terrorist group plotting to establish radical Islamist caliphates across the Arab world, a discovery that forces her into a brutal, agonizing death-march for survival across Tunisia's scorching, desert hell-scape."The events of a complicated plot are neatly strung on a taut thread of tension. It's Cody's mind and voice, however, that steal this book." Publishers Weekly"Cody is a breath of fresh air. She has style and guts. Mr Brierley is a fine writer and Cody is well worth getting to know." Daily Telegraph"Just the right mix of surprises, violence, bloodshed, terror and erotica." Coventry Evening Telegraph"Brierley's engrossing first person narrative becomes addictive. He engages all the senses with tactile descriptions of exotic locations and harrowing images of physical action. The suspense becomes palpable." Boston Herald"A stunner in more ways than one." The Observer (UK)

The fourth action-packed Cody adventure. Ex-spy Cody is hired to deliver $100,000 to fund a medical mission in war-torn village in El Salvador...but she's been tricked. There is no medical mission. There isn't even a doctor. There is only a brigade of violent revolutionaries who want that money to fund their international criminal ambitions. But they don't know Cody...who launches her own, one-woman war against the rebel's Snowline, their cocaine smuggling operation to the outside world. "A furiously-paced thriller in the Modesty Blaise-mold. Very enjoyable." Daily Post (Wales) 'Vividly realised and the pace never lets up" The British Book News "A marvelously entertaining read, a ripping-good adventure." Birmingham Metro News "A stylish thriller." Sunday Mirror

"Brierley succeeds in escaping from John le Carr 's shadow and turning out a book marked by a full measure of originality." New York Times George Orris is a half-Czech British agent working covertly in Prague in 1948 when all of his fellow spies are captured and killed...except for him. There are some spymasters in London who assume his escape obviously means that he's the traitor who betrayed the agents. To prove himself innocent, and to get revenge for the deaths of his colleagues, he sets a trap to expose the mole in war-ravaged Berlin, a city about to be ripped apart by the Communists. It's a complex, deadly game that pits him against the KGB...and his own intelligence service. Praise for Big Bear, Little Bear "Quietly impressive: a sort of shorthand le Carr novel, yet with its own voice: chillier, more sour, less consciously literary. The lean narrative authority is unmistakable." Kirkus Reviews"A good, tight spy thriller." Manchester Evening News "A tightly-plotted story skillfully told and jam-packed with dirty tricks. Readers who want spinetingling drama will find that this suspense novel ranks up there with the best of them." Ashbury Park Press "Done with style. Captures the authentic whiff of a seedy decade." The Guardian "Brierley writes taut chase scenes with surprising twists." Cincinnati Enquirer "Spy-stalks-spy in a spine-tingling finale as deadly and complex as any ever written." Madison Journal