#allbeury_ted

Ted Allbeury, The Secret Whispers

Eric Ambler, Epitaph for a Spy

James Buchan, Heart’s Journey in Winter

Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

Frederick Forsyth, The Fourth Protocol

Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul

Alan Furst, Night Soldiers

John Kruse, The Hour of the Lily

John Le Carré, The Perfect Spy

Gavin Lyall, Spy’s Honour

W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden

Anthony Price , The Labyrinth Makers

Ruth Rendell, Talking to Strange Men

Hardiman Scott & Becky Allan, Bait of Lies

British novelist (1917-2005)

Allbeury writes packed, fast spy thrillers, usually with cold-war settings. His titles include A Choice of Enemies, Moscow Quadrille, The Man With the President's Mind, The Lantern Network, The Alpha List, The Crossing, Children of Tender Years and The Secret Whispers (about double agent attempting to escape from East Germany). He also uses the pseudonym Richard Butler (Where All Girls Are Sweeter; Italian Assets).

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Duff Hart-Davies, The Heights of Rimring Ted Willis, The Churchill Commando Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate John Le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carré, The Perfect Spy

('autobiography' of ipper-echelon British spy - and double-agent, trying to discover where his loyalty lies)

Spy Stories

John Lear, Death in Leningrad  (ex-spy Ashweald revels in Leningrad - but there is a price to pay)

John Trenhaile, The Mahjong Soies  (can Chinese Intelligence stop KGB destablising Hong Kong?)

Philip Macdonald, The List of Adrian Messenger  (10 people on list, marked for death. What is the link - and can they be saved in time?)

Michael Molloy, The Kid from Riga  (can SAS officer give up his career for love? In the meantime ...)

Jack Higgins, Confessional  (KGB agent sent to Belfast to stir things up)

Martin Cruz Smith, Stallion Gate  (can Mexican folk magic halt 1945 race to develop atomic bomb?)

Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios/Coffin for Dimitrios  (hero tracks down elusive, deadly master-criminal)

Ted Allbeury, The Secret Whispers  (double agent escaping from eastern to western Europe)

A. J. Quinnell, In the Name of the Father  (who is killing off ageing world leaders, one by one?)

Ian Fleming, Doctor No  (super-agent 007 outwits psychopathic master-criminal)

Len Deighton, Horse Under Water  (drugs, spies, master-criminals, all boiled together in Marrakesh)

Robert Ludlum, The Parsifal Mosaic  (can "burnt-out" agent"s secret knowledge prevent World War III?)