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The India Spy

Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:08:29 +0200

A gripping espionage thriller from internationally bestselling author of FORGET MY NAME. Previously published as The Cardamom Club. A young British Asian doctor is posted to Delhi with MI6, tasked with uncovering a brutal organisation working at the heart of colonial government. A fast-paced thriller from the internationally bestselling author of FIND ME. Raj Nair, a young British Asian doctor, is posted to Delhi. It's his first time in India, his first job with MI6 and not every one is pleased to see him. Ambitious and patriotic, he is soon forced to question his own loyalties, particularly when his father is arrested in Britain on spying charges. Raj realises he is up against a secretive, colonial organisation working at the very heart of Whitehall: the Cardamom Club. Is it responsible for a chilling sati and other brutalities at odds with a modern, progressive India? Can his father really be a traitor? And will Raj...

Previously published as The Cardamom Club.

A young British Asian doctor is posted to Delhi with MI6, tasked with uncovering a brutal organisation working at the heart of colonial government. A fast-paced thriller from the internationally bestselling author of FIND ME.

Raj Nair, a young British Asian doctor, is posted to Delhi. It's his first time in India, his first job with MI6 and not every one is pleased to see him. Ambitious and patriotic, he is soon forced to question his own loyalties, particularly when his father is arrested in Britain on spying charges. Raj realises he is up against a secretive, colonial organisation working at the very heart of Whitehall: the Cardamom Club. Is it responsible for a chilling sati and other brutalities at odds with a modern, progressive India? Can his father really be a traitor? And will Raj expose the Club before it destroys him?

THE INDIA SPY is an electrifying and sinister thriller which asks disturbing questions about patriotism, identity and the West's relationship with India.

Dead Spy Running

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:07:04 +0200

Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, is running the London Marathon. He is also running out of time. A competitor is strapped with explosives, and if he drops his pace, everyone around him will be killed, including the U.S. ambassador to London. Marchant tries to thwart the attack, but is he secretly working for the terrorists? There are those who already suspect him of treachery. Just like they suspected his late father, the former head of MI6, who was removed from his job and accused of treason. On the run from the CIA, Marchant is determined to prove his father's innocence. His quest to do so takes him from the streets of London to India, where the U.S. president is due for his first visit. Marchant soon finds that to clear his family's name he will have to expose a plot that could throw world politics into chaos. In Dead Spy Running, Jon Stock delivers a breakneck thriller that updates the spy novel for...

Games Traitors Play dm-2

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:20:13 +0200

Dirty Little Secret

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:07:05 +0200

The final book in an espionage trilogy that has been called "as elegant as le Carré and as cynical as the twenty-first century" (Lee Child)The "special relationship" between London and Washington is in tatters. Salim Dhar, the world's most wanted terrorist, has disappeared after an audacious attack on an American target in the United Kingdom. The CIA believes Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, was involved. But Marchant has a bigger secret: Dhar has agreed to work for MI6, promising to protect Britain from future terrorist atrocities. He has also asked for something in return: Marchant must help him with a final strike against America. Will the UK sign up to this Faustian pact or hunt them both down?
In Dirty Little Secret, a high-octane finale to a trilogy that will appeal to fans of Alex Berenson and Olen Steinhauer, Marchant wrestles with his conscience and the question: Does loyalty to one's country come above all else, whatever the price? "Twisty and relentless. Stock has brought the literary spy novel into the twenty-first century." --Portsmouth Herald

From Booklist

MI-6 operative Daniel Marchant has convinced the world’s most-wanted terrorist, his half-brother, Salim Dhar, to help protect Britain from future terrorist attacks. But Marchant clinched the deal in a Russian fighter while Dhar was shooting down a U.S. plane at a British air show. The CIA, which had already renditioned and water boarded Marchant in a black jail (Dead Spy Running, 2010), is after him again. Marcus Fielding, head of MI-6, is also on the run. The Yanks believe that Marcus is a Russian mole, although Fielding and Marchant believe the real mole is Fielding’s ambitious deputy, Ian Denton, who owes his ascension to a bull-in-a-china-shop CIA thug. Stock’s Marchant trilogy started strongly but lost momentum in Games Traitors Play (2012). Despite some very interesting bits about spooks using supermarket barcodes to pass on intel and the claim that Bush-era “enhanced interrogation techniques” are essentially still in use, this one is a bit disappointing. Too much going on; not enough narrative focus. --Thomas Gaughan

Review

'As elegant as Le Carre and as cynical as the twenty-first century - exactly what we need from a spy novel now' LEE CHILD on Dead Spy Running 'An elegant, unstoppable front runner of a spy thriller' THE OBSERVER on Dead Spy Running

Games Traitors Play

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:07:05 +0200

"The perfect post-Bond spy...Move over, Jason Bourne." --BookPageSalim Dhar is the world's most wanted terrorist. After he narrowly failed to kill the U.S. president, the CIA is under pressure to hunt him down. Echelon, the West's intelligence analysis network, is in meltdown, monitoring all channels for the faintest trace of Dhar. But no one can find him. Only Daniel Marchant, renegade MI6 officer, knows where he is.

Marchant pursues Dhar up into the Atlas Mountains outside Marrakech, where he sees an unmarked military helicopter take off and head east. Is someone shielding Dhar to perpetrate an act of proxy terrorism on the West? Or is the CIA right when it claims to have killed him?

To discover the truth, Marchant must be recruited by Moscow. It's a role that will require him to believe his late father was a traitor, an allegation that he fought long and hard to dispel. Now he must rekindle those rumors and confront dark truths about his own...

Dead Spy Running dm-1

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:20:13 +0200