Secondhand Crime, Thriller & Adventure Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2969

Secondhand Crime, Thriller & Adventure Fiction Bargain Book Box SP2969

Twenty-four novels of espionage, military adventure, and action fiction — Wilbur Smith (five titles), Len Deighton (two), Alistair MacLean, Robert Ludlum, Derek Robinson, Gavin Lyall, Ranulph Fiennes, and more. A box for readers who want pace, plot, and something that doesn't let go.

1. The Icarus Agenda — Robert Ludlum — An American congressman stumbles into a terrorist crisis in Oman and discovers a conspiracy that reaches into the highest levels of government. Ludlum at full throttle.
2. HMS Ulysses — Alistair MacLean — MacLean's debut novel and arguably his finest: the near-suicidal Arctic convoy run in a warship whose crew is already at breaking point. The definitive novel of the naval war.
3. The Eldorado Network — Derek Robinson — 1942: a brilliantly inventive German spy is running a network of agents in Britain — except they don't exist. A taut and darkly comic thriller from the author of Goshawk Squadron.
4. Blame the Dead — Gavin Lyall — A British intelligence agent investigates a suspicious car crash in Switzerland and finds himself in the middle of something much larger and more dangerous.
5. Shout at the Devil — Wilbur Smith — East Africa, 1912: a disreputable ivory poacher and a young English aristocrat form an unlikely partnership — and take on a German river gunboat. Riotous adventure.
6. Men of Men — Wilbur Smith — The second Ballantyne novel: Zouga Ballantyne and his sons in the diamond fields and the wars with the Matabele. Smith's African epics at their most ambitious.
7. Take or Destroy — John Harris — A vital desert war mission: destroy Rommel's fuel dump before the Afrika Korps can break through to Cairo.
8. Double Jeopardy / The Heights of Zervos — Colin Forbes — Two complete thriller novels in one volume from the bestselling author.
9. In Close Waters — J.E. MacDonnell — Naval action fiction from one of Australia's most prolific thriller writers.
10. Emerald Decision — Craig Thomas — From the author of Firefox: a compulsive thriller set during the Battle of Britain, uncovering a secret that could have changed the war.
11. Lammas Night — Katherine Kurtz — Adolf Hitler believed in witchcraft. Could the witches of England weave a spell to keep him from destroying their land? A unique supernatural thriller set in wartime Britain.
12. Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories — 25 famous writers including Pearl Buck, C.S. Forester, Hemingway, Huxley, Maugham, Steinbeck, and Thurber. An extraordinary anthology.
13. The Eunuch of Stamboul — Dennis Wheatley — A British agent in 1930s Istanbul uncovers a plot to destabilise Turkey. One of Wheatley's best-crafted thrillers.
14. Special Deliverance — Alexander Fullerton — An elite SAS team on a mission behind Argentine lines during the Falklands War, pursued by their own government as much as the enemy.
15. The Ipcress File — Len Deighton — The first Harry Palmer novel: a nameless British agent, a missing scientist, and a brainwashing programme. Deighton's antidote to Bond — sardonic, working-class, and genuinely clever.
16. Rage — Wilbur Smith — A Courtney family novel set in apartheid South Africa: the collision between personal ambition, loyalty, and the coming storm.
17. Mirage — James Follett — A thriller built around the Mirage jet fighter: the true story of how Israeli intelligence obtained the aircraft's blueprints.
18. Goodbye Mickey Mouse — Len Deighton — American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in 1944. Deighton's most personal novel about the air war, and one of his finest.
19. A Tradition of Victory — Alexander Kent — Richard Bolitho in the Mediterranean, 1801, fighting the last actions of a long war — and facing the question of what peace will mean.
20. Picture of Defeat — John Harris — A war of retreats and salvage operations, seen from the perspective of the men who don't get the headlines.
21. Eagle in the Sky — Wilbur Smith — An Israeli fighter pilot and a young South African woman, a love story played out against the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War.
22. The Diamond Hunters — Wilbur Smith — The first Courtney-adjacent novel: diamond dredging, greed, and the sea off the Skeleton Coast.
23. The Feather Men — Ranulph Fiennes — Fiennes's account of a real assassination squad targeting former SAS soldiers, and the vigilante group that hunted them. The No. 1 bestseller.
24. Again the Three — Edgar Wallace — The Three Just Men return in another Wallace thriller of crime and justice.