Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2815

Secondhand Crime Fiction & Thriller Bargain Book Box SP2815

Five Len Deighton spy novels — spanning both the Game, Set & Match and Hook, Line & Sinker trilogies — anchor a thriller box of outstanding range, with six Alistair MacLean adventures from Where Eagles Dare and The Guns of Navarone to Ice Station Zebra and The Satan Bug. John le Carré's The Russia House, Leon Uris's Topaz, Colin Forbes across three novels, and appearances from George MacDonald Fraser, Georgette Heyer, and John Fowles make this a box for readers who appreciate a thriller done properly — twenty-one titles from the golden age of British spy and adventure fiction.

1. Spy Line — Len Deighton — The second book of the Hook, Line & Sinker trilogy; Bernard Samson's loyalties are stretched to breaking point as the double-cross at the heart of the series deepens.
2. Berlin Game — Len Deighton — The first book of the Game, Set & Match trilogy; Bernard Samson is sent back to East Berlin to extract an agent, and what he uncovers will change everything he thought he knew.
3. London Match — Len Deighton — The third and final book of the Game, Set & Match trilogy brings Bernard Samson's first great crisis to its devastating resolution; Deighton's plotting at its most intricate and emotionally punishing.
4. Spy Sinker — Len Deighton — The concluding volume of the Hook, Line & Sinker trilogy, retelling the whole story from a different perspective with a revelation that reframes everything that came before.
5. Spy Hook — Len Deighton — The first book of the Hook, Line & Sinker trilogy; Bernard Samson uncovers a financial discrepancy in SIS operations that draws him into territory more dangerous than anything he expected.
6. Double Jeopardy — Colin Forbes — One of Forbes's Colonel Tweed thrillers; tightly plotted international intrigue with the cool-headed pacing and high-stakes tension that defined his best work.
7. The Leader and the Damned — Colin Forbes — Forbes's WWII thriller imagining a secret double for Adolf Hitler in the final years of the Reich; one of his most ambitious and disturbing novels.
8. Topaz — Leon Uris — Based on the real Sapphire spy scandal, a French intelligence network in Cuba becomes the key to the missile crisis; Uris's meticulous research and narrative drive at full strength.
9. Gentleman Traitor — Alan Williams — A thriller unmistakably inspired by Kim Philby, about the greatest spy of all time; one of the most explosive Cold War intelligence novels of the 1970s.
10. Footsteps in the Dark — Georgette Heyer — One of Heyer's early mysteries, written before she found her métier in Regency romance; a country house thriller with amateur sleuths, a genuinely sinister atmosphere, and real suspense.
11. The Russia House — John le Carré — A publisher who receives a manuscript full of Soviet military secrets becomes an unwilling agent in a game neither side fully controls; one of le Carré's finest late novels.
12. The Drifters — James A. Michener — Six young people adrift across Europe, Africa, and Asia in the turbulent late 1960s; Michener's panoramic storytelling applied to a generation caught between idealism and disillusionment.
13. Terminal — Colin Forbes — A fast-moving international thriller from Forbes's most productive period; conspiracy, counter-intelligence, and relentless momentum.
14. Flashman — George MacDonald Fraser — The first Flashman Papers novel, in which Tom Brown's notorious bully becomes a reluctant hero of the First Afghan War; wickedly funny, scrupulously researched, and endlessly entertaining.
15. The Golden Gate — Alistair MacLean — A presidential convoy is hijacked on the Golden Gate Bridge; MacLean's mastery of logistics and set-piece action in a typically relentless and precisely engineered plot.
16. Where Eagles Dare — Alistair MacLean — One of the most celebrated WWII thrillers ever written; a small Allied team attempts to extract a general from an impregnable Bavarian castle in a story that never lets you go.
17. South by Java Head — Alistair MacLean — A harrowing survival story set in the aftermath of the fall of Singapore; MacLean's earliest masterwork of endurance, treachery, and the sea.
18. The Satan Bug — Alistair MacLean — A deadly virus stolen from a top-secret research station; a race-against-time thriller that was among the first novels to use biological warfare as its central threat.
19. Ice Station Zebra — Alistair MacLean — A nuclear submarine races to a stricken Arctic weather station to recover a downed satellite before the Soviets do; technically accomplished, ice-cold, and relentlessly suspenseful.
20. The Guns of Navarone — Alistair MacLean — MacLean's masterpiece; a small team must destroy enormous German guns on a Greek island to allow a naval evacuation — one of the great WWII adventure novels.
21. The Collector — John Fowles — A butterfly collector kidnaps a young woman and keeps her captive in his cellar; Fowles's debut novel is one of the most psychologically devastating and technically accomplished thrillers in modern English fiction.