<div><b>A retelling of the classic saga of the mutiny on the <i>Bounty</i>, from master of suspense Brian Freemantle<BR><BR></b>On April 28, 1789, the H.M.S. <i>Bounty</i> was very far from home. After a long journey around the Cape of Good Hope, Captain William Bligh and his crew emerged into the hot, still air of the South Pacific, and a kind of madness began to take hold. Led by Fletcher Christian, eighteen unhappy sailors set upon Bligh in the night, and at sword-point forced him and his officers into a small rowboat, to try their luck upon the open sea. But why? Although it is history&rsquo;s most famous mutiny, the events leading up to Christian&rsquo;s fateful decision are shrouded in mystery. In this thrilling account, master espionage author Brian Freemantle imagines what might have influenced a loyal sailor to turn mutineer. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Hell's Fire

<div><b>As the dust settles after the demise of the Cold War, Charlie Muffin must thwart a plan that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust</b><b> </b>It has been more than five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Charlie Muffin, Britain&rsquo;s cagiest spy, is beginning to feel obsolete. As the machine of state intelligence is dismantled around him, he expects that he too will soon be on the scrap heap. But Britain needs him in Russia one more time. Since the demise of the Soviet empire, Charlie&rsquo;s old stomping grounds have gone to seed. The Communist bureaucracy has degenerated into chaos. Rampant corruption, coupled with easy gangland money, means that disorder reigns. In the anarchy, 250 kilograms of uranium goes missing and Charlie must track it down before it goes to the highest bidder. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

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Bomb Grade

<div><B>A decidedly un-Bond-like British spy outwits the Soviets&mdash;and his bosses&mdash;in this thriller from a multimillion-selling author that offers &ldquo;pure delight&rdquo; (<I>Chicago Tribune</I>).</B><BR />  Charlie Muffin is an anachronism. He came into the intelligence service in the early 1950s, when the government, desperate for foot soldiers in the impending Cold War, dipped into the middle class for the first time. Despite a lack of upper-class bearing, Charlie survived twenty-five years on the espionage battle&rsquo;s front line: Berlin. But times have changed: The boys from Oxford and Cambridge are running the shop again, and they want to get rid of the middle-class spy who&rsquo;s a thorn in their side. They have decided that it&rsquo;s time for Charlie to be sacrificed. But Charlie Muffin didn&rsquo;t survive two decades in Berlin by being a pushover. He intends to go on protecting the realm, and won&rsquo;t let anyone from his own organization get in his way. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I> </div>

Overdrive

Charlie M

<div><B>A burned ship might burn bridges for the rogue British spy. &ldquo;Charlie&rsquo;s exploits are more like miniature Le Carr</B><B>&eacute;</B><B>s . . . a mini-marvel of neat intrigue&rdquo; (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).</B> <BR />  They call Charlie Muffin a traitor. He has been on the run ever since the blow-up in Berlin, when British intelligence declared him obsolete and tried to kill him. Charlie outsmarted them then, and he has done so ever since, staying one step ahead by forgoing any semblance of an even halfway normal life. Now he is alone in Hong Kong and his only protector and friend, Rupert Willoughby, is a hemisphere away. Now Rupert is in trouble. He has invested &pound;6 million in a massive new ocean liner but the ship is destroyed by arsonists, burning completely down in a Hong Kong harbor. The owners blame Chinese agents, but Charlie smells a rat and agrees to investigate. But the conspiracy is more dangerous than anyone knew, and it&rsquo;s not long before Charlie realizes that his good deed could be his last. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin

<div><B>A British thriller featuring &ldquo;the most interesting character to hit novels of international intrigue since the spy came in from the cold&rdquo; (<I>Newsday</I>).</B> It could be the most sensational defection of all time. The head of the Russian KGB&rsquo;s cipher section comes with every code, every plot, every secret. But his most startling disclosure of all is that the Russians are planning a shocking assassination. But the defector doesn&rsquo;t know who. Or where. Or how. Or when. All Charlie knows is that he must stop the murder from happening&mdash;without being marked for death himself. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Run Around

<div><b>A lawyer gets caught in the crossfire of a deadly civil war in Africa</b> Richard Deaken has lost his nerve. Once a globally renowned trial lawyer, he has suffered a string of bad results that have sapped his confidence and dulled the edge necessary for success in the high-stakes world of international law. Resigned to life in obscurity, he has retreated to an unimpressive office in Geneva, where the trickle of low-paying clients doesn&rsquo;t come close to supporting the lifestyle that he&mdash;and his wife&mdash;are used to. But a big case is right around the corner. Deaken&rsquo;s new employers are soldiers in a vicious African civil war on the brink of erupting into unprecedented bloodshed. An order of $50 million worth of arms is on its way to his client&rsquo;s opponents, and to stop it they have kidnapped the arms dealer&rsquo;s son. They ask Deaken to negotiate the ransom&mdash;the guns in exchange for the child&mdash;and he cannot say no, because the guerillas have also kidnapped his wife. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Deaken's War

<div><B>Charlie Muffin comes face-to-face with his KGB nemesis in this thriller filled with &ldquo;</B><B>intricate plotting, gripping intrigue, and a memorable romance&rdquo; (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).</B> Charlie Muffin is too good an agent to be working a desk, but after a bust-up with his new director, he has been relegated to clerk work. Among the heaps of papers, though, Charlie stumbles upon the clues to a last-gasp plot from the collapsing Soviet Union. The signs point to a new Soviet Star Wars system&mdash;and to the involvement of a British traitor. Or do they? After all, the KGB wants one more chance to eliminate their old adversary Charlie. When the agency discovers his involvement, it sets a nasty trap. As the Soviet regime crumbles, it could take Charlie down with it. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Comrade Charlie

<div><B>A diplomat&rsquo;s murder reunites Cowley and Danilov in a global search for the killer</B><BR />   There&rsquo;s nothing surprising about the body. The wounds are precise, their meaning clear. The Washington, DC, cops have seen enough like them to know that they mean a mob hit. And when mobsters kill their own, there&rsquo;s not much the police can do about it. They&rsquo;re prepared to dismiss the case when someone looks at the dead man&rsquo;s ID. He was Russian&mdash;and a diplomat. William Cowley, the head of the FBI&rsquo;s Russian office, takes on the case. A year earlier he had solved a strange killing with the help of Dimitri Danilov, a Russian cop with a sense of honor rare in the lawless, post-Communist world. Now they rejoin forces, embarking on an around-the-world search for the meaning of the diplomat&rsquo;s death. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.<BR /><BR /><I>No Time for Heroes is the second book in the Cowley and Danilov Thrillers, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

No Time for Heroes

<div><b>At the precipice of a major disarmament plan, Soviet intrigue threatens to tip the world into all-out war<BR><BR></b>The treaty is so simple that the American president can hardly believe his luck. In exchange for a few million tons of grain, the Russians, gripped by famine, will withdraw all troops and missiles from Eastern Europe. What&rsquo;s more, this great success comes in an election year! It&rsquo;s too good to be true&mdash;and something is about to go wrong. As soon as the first grain shipments arrive, the Politburo plans to disrupt the disarmament talks, allowing them to tactfully back out of their half of the bargain. The whole Soviet plan rests on the shoulders of KGB Agent Altmann, a Holocaust survivor who&rsquo;s much cleverer than his handlers realize. Altmann knows that the KGB is wary of him, and one way or another, this lone spy is about to change the world. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The November Man

<div><B>&ldquo;If Brian Freemantle isn&rsquo;t the best writer of spy novels around, he&rsquo;s certainly, along with John le Carr&eacute;, in the top two&rdquo; (<I>The Philadelphia Inquirer</I>).</B><BR />  Charlie Muffin was once the toughest agent in British intelligence. He wasn&rsquo;t strong, fast, or charming, but he knew how to survive. When his agency branded him a traitor, he eluded their pursuit for years. After eventually proving his innocence, he&rsquo;s invited back into The Firm. But only just. Consigned to a monotonous desk job, it takes months for Charlie to get a real assignment. A KGB agent in Tokyo wants to defect to the other side. Charlie&rsquo;s role is to bring him across. But as Charlie has learned from all those evasive years, there&rsquo;s never anything simple or safe about running away. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I></div>

See Charlie Run

<div><b>On the eve of a vital CIA assignment, an agent&rsquo;s hesitation leads him to the brink of disaster<BR><BR></b>His grandfather was a lawman too. That&rsquo;s how Charles O&rsquo;Farrell rationalizes his work. He keeps a picture of his ancestor by his bed, a faded sepia portrait of a short, plain-looking man made remarkable only by the long-barreled Colt strapped to his hip. His grandfather killed to make the frontier safe&mdash;O&rsquo;Farrell has the faded newspaper clippings to prove it. In the service of America, O&rsquo;Farrell kills too. But his killings never make the front page. A trained CIA assassin, O&rsquo;Farrell lives like a machine, operating according to a perfect routine because routine keeps him sharp. Routine keeps killers from getting killed. But now, as he readies his next hit, a terrible twist will disrupt his once meticulous process. Doubt has begun to creep into Charles O&rsquo;Farrell&rsquo;s mind, and in a business where even the smallest hesitation can spell certain death, doubt is very dangerous indeed. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

O'Farrell's Law

<div><b>An accountant&rsquo;s attempt to rectify the books of his father-in-law&rsquo;s company sends him headlong into war with the New York mafia<BR><BR></b>John Carver is too good an accountant not to see the irregularity in his father-in-law&rsquo;s files: three companies, all off shore, with balance sheets that don&rsquo;t match the ones in the official records. Three companies that represent substantial investment by organized crime. When John confronts his father-in-law, George W. Northcote, the old man insists he has control of the situation, and that the firm is about to be extricated from its criminal association. A few days later, George is dead. His father-in-law&rsquo;s creative accounting draws John into a knock-down, drag-out battle with the heads of the Five Families of the New York mafia. The battle moves quickly off the balance sheets and into the realm of flesh, blood, and death, and soon everyone John loves&mdash;including his wife and mistress&mdash;find themselves in the mob&rsquo;s vengeful crosshairs. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Two Women

<div><B>The end of the Cold War could put British spy Charlie Muffin out of work. &ldquo;Secrets hide within secrets . . . Superior work from a master of the form&rdquo; (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>).</B><BR />  Charlie Muffin shouldn&rsquo;t be condemned for mourning the end of the Cold War. For decades the KGB provided him with endless professional success and now that it&rsquo;s gone, Charlie is nearly out of a job. Removed from active duty, he is now training new recruits on operations in a post-Soviet era. It&rsquo;s dull work that leaves Charlie yearning for the adventures of old and this time, he&rsquo;ll get more than he bargained for. One of Charlie&rsquo;s first pupils is arrested within days of arriving in Beijing to extract a blown British agent. Now Charlie must go to China and get both of them out. Meanwhile, someone is searching for Charlie&mdash;Natalia Fedova, a former lover, who surfaces with a new job high up in Russian intelligence and a daughter she says is his. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Charlie's Apprentice

<div><B>Home is where the heat is for disgraced British spy Charlie Muffin, &ldquo;a marvelous creation&rdquo; from the </B><B>multimillion-selling author (<I>The Daily Mail</I>).</B> Charlie Muffin has come back to England. The ex-spy, a veteran of twenty-five years&rsquo; service to the Crown, was last seen in Berlin, where an attempt on his life by his own organization led to international embarrassment. They had expected Charlie&mdash;a disheveled, middle-aged survivor of every double cross in the book&mdash;to die easily. Instead, he disappeared. But after months on the run, dulling his instincts with alcohol and laziness, the strain of life in the shadows finally gets to Charlie. By now the heat back home must have died down, and he shouldn&rsquo;t have any trouble sneaking across the Channel. Now, he expects, he can finally be safe in England. Charlie Muffin is dead wrong. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Here Comes Charlie M

<div><b>When his son is caught trafficking cocaine, a successful financial advisor swears to take down the Colombian drug lords who sold it to him</b>Walter Farr has done well for himself. One of the top investment counselors in New York, he has earned a fortune and amassed everything he could ever want, except a close relationship with his son, Howard. When the boy&rsquo;s mother died, Walter did what he could for their child, but each year Howard pulled further and further away. Even so, Walter never expected something like this. Howard has been arrested for importing cocaine. The charge is not trivial&mdash;Howard&rsquo;s crime could put him away for life&mdash;and to get him out of it Walter will do the unthinkable. He&rsquo;ll join the FBI to go after the dangerous Colombians who sold Howard the drugs in the first place. It&rsquo;s a gamble that could prove fatal, but Walter Farr will never fail his son again. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Dirty White

<div><b>In the throes of the Cold War, the Soviet Union engineers the financial collapse of the West. </b>The world financial market has become unbalanced. Nations in South America, Africa, and Eastern Europe are trillions of dollars in debt, and a default by any one of them could start a domino effect that would eventually topple the economies of America and Europe. Across the Western hemisphere, economists such as Tom Pike are devising a brilliant plan to head off the collapse. The situation is dire, but with transatlantic cooperation there should be time to stave off disaster. But something is not as it seems. Before long, Tom realizes that the economic turmoil was deliberately created. The culprits are in Moscow, where a plot is in motion to totally destabilize the Western economy. Now Tom must stop the scheme before the dollar collapses. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Kremlin Conspiracy

<div><B>British operative Charlie Muffin infiltrates a Russian spy ring in a Cold War thriller that&rsquo;s &ldquo;good dirty fun&rdquo; (</B><B><I>The New York Times Book Review</I></B><B>).</B><BR />   <B>Edgar Award Finalist </B><BR /><BR /> After a trumped-up trial, Charlie Muffin lands in jail for treason&mdash;ready to learn the secrets of his fellow inmate, a convicted British traitor. Nobody expected KGB agents to stage a prison break to free their man. Charlie faces another choice: go to Moscow to complete his assignment or face 40 long years in prison. It doesn&rsquo;t take him long to decide. Charlie doesn&rsquo;t have the full picture, of course, which is the way of espionage. But Charlie doesn&rsquo;t regret his Iron Curtain escape, as it leads him to Natalia Fedova, the KGB interrogator assigned to determine if his defection is genuine or staged. For anyone else, the risk would be suicidal. But for Charlie, the greatest danger may be falling in love. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I></div>

The Blind Run

<div><b>The son of a celebrated journalist searches for the truth to his father&rsquo;s dark past<BR><BR></b>Everyone knows Hawkins is not the reporter his father&mdash;a famous war correspondent&mdash;was. Hawkins&rsquo;s fondness for drink disqualifies him from the kind of reporting that is his birthright. But with a father like his, the newspaper cannot let him go. Instead, the board has asked him to write a biography of his father&mdash;a fluff project designed to keep Hawkins out of trouble. But the assignment leads to unsuspected, shocking revelations. Hawkins&rsquo;s father made his name as a war correspondent in Vietnam, where terrible secrets still remain buried. When Hawkins digs into the story of one raid&mdash;a skirmish that produced four heroes, a future president among them&mdash;the horrible truth he discovers will change his life forever. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Rules of Engagement

<div><b>Charlie Muffin&rsquo;s new job puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious American drug lord</b>Charlie Muffin has done well since he &ldquo;died.&rdquo; He&rsquo;s been on the run for years from the intelligence forces of Great Britain and the United States when an official declaration of death finally puts an end to their pursuit. Suddenly, Charlie can breathe again. He&rsquo;s even put a lid on his single malt whisky habit. Now all he needs is a job. He puts his espionage skills to work for an English insurance company, ensuring the security of the Romanov stamps. A priceless collection assembled in the years before the Russian Revolution, the stamps survived only because the Bolsheviks failed to recognize their value. Now the American government means to use them as bait for a brutal drug lord. He wants the stamps, and Charlie must stop him from getting them&mdash;even if it means getting &ldquo;killed&rdquo; a second time. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Charlie Muffin U.S.A.

<div><b>A fight for control of the world&rsquo;s largest hotel chain turns vicious</b>Harry Rudd has put his past behind him. He has forgotten his impoverished roots, his carefree college days, and his life with Angela. Forgetting Angela has been the hardest, but Rudd does what he can to keep his wife, who died giving birth to their first child, out of his mind. It is time to focus on business. With Angela&rsquo;s death, Rudd inherited Best Rest, once a modest chain of Boston motels, now a global hospitality empire. For a company of such size, growth is crucial, and Rudd aims to expand quickly. But Best Rest has enemies the chairman doesn&rsquo;t know and when his company hits a speed bump, the obstacle could prove deadly for Best Rest&mdash;and for Rudd. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Takeover

<div><b>In the last days of the KGB, a nefarious plot against the United States threatens to reignite the Cold War<BR><BR></b>The Soviet Union is in turmoil. With the election of Gorbachev have come new ideas about freedom, compassion, and openness&mdash;ideas that leave no place for the dark machinations of the KGB. Reform is coming to the Soviet intelligence service, unless Victor Ivanovich Kazin can stop it. Kazin is one of the Old Guard, and an agent doesn&rsquo;t survive three decades in the KGB without being relentless. He is a liar, a cheat, a backstabber&mdash;and he is proud of it. To oppose this latest wave of reform, Kazin has planned an audacious operation targeting the CIA, using a mole deep inside Langley. It will require every ounce of his cunning and cruelty, and Kazin never fails. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Bearpit

<div><b>After fifteen years in prison, a disgraced spy hunts down the man who put him away<BR><BR></b>Jack Mason is ready to kill. For fifteen years he has plotted revenge from his prison cell. He has exercised daily, keeping his body and mind fit, and learned all he could about computers, so that he can finally manipulate them at will. He will need to use all his mental powers to find Sobell, then merciless strength to kill him. An ex-CIA agent, Mason was jailed for spying on his country for the Russians. Sobell was the KGB colonel who recruited him and, when the scheme turned sour, sold him out. He is hidden somewhere in the United States, with a new identity courtesy of Witness Protection, and a mistress in the form of Jack&rsquo;s ex-wife. When Jack gets out of prison, he&rsquo;s going to take them both down&mdash;no matter what the cost. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Time to Kill

<div><b>A failed commando raid leads to a global hunt for the last remaining Nazi war criminals<BR><BR></b>Six Israeli commandos land on a lakeshore in Austria, hunting for something that has been hidden underwater for over thirty years. The lake holds many secrets left behind by the Nazi high command as their regime crumbled in 1945. There are millions of dollars in international currency, bonds, and gold bullion, but the commandos want none of it. They have come for boxes of files&mdash;containing information about the hiding places of every Nazi war criminal who evaded judgment at Nuremberg. But the commandos have been caught. Shotguns sing out, killing all but one of the Israelis. He escapes with one box, which holds nearly $2 million in gold but no information. The assassins recover two of the other boxes. A fourth is missing. Many men will die to find it&mdash;a price the Israeli secret service is willing to pay in the hope that justice may finally be served. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow

<div><B>An ex-spy is about to upend the world of international intrigue. Meet &ldquo;the most degenerate and lovable character ever cast in the role of secret agent&rdquo; (<I>Manchester Evening News</I>).</B><BR />  Charlie Muffin is back at rock bottom. The ex-spy has had a rough few years since British intelligence first turned on him and forced him to go into hiding. He&rsquo;s drinking again, forgetting things&mdash;getting soft. He hasn&rsquo;t even noticed the tap on his phone. Though Charlie doesn&rsquo;t know it yet, the walls are closing in again. He takes a job for his only friend, Rupert Willoughby, who sends Charlie to Rome to check   the security system for some valuable jewels. Charlie has chosen the wrong time to visit the Eternal City. There&rsquo;s a mole in the British embassy there, and the agents of the East and West are homing in fast. Charlie, unlucky as always, is about to find himself caught between a very solid rock and an equally hard place. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I></div>

Madrigal for Charlie Muffin

<div><b>A con man gets in too deep during a risky job on the French Riviera<BR><BR></b>Harvey Jordan is no ordinary thief. A few years ago, an identity-theft scheme left him destitute, his fortune stolen and his wife gone with it. After two years in the gutter, Harvey learned who ruined him and returned the favor, stealing back his money by taking over the crook&rsquo;s identity. He didn&rsquo;t recover his wife, but he did find a new career. Now he travels the world among the fabulously wealthy, cozying up to them before he empties their bank accounts. Anonymity is his greatest asset, so when a casual seduction leaves him embroiled in a sensational divorce case, Harvey plans to escape by orchestrating the greatest swindle of his life, stealing the identity of the man whose wife Jordan seduced. As the reasons for his crime become more and more personal, and a love affair shatters his hard-boiled fa&ccedil;ade, this man without a name finds himself trapped in a con he cannot escape. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Namedropper

<div><b>Brian Freemantle resolves one of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time</b><BR><BR>What happened to the <i>Mary Celeste</i>? A merchant vessel sailing out of New York with an Italy-bound shipment of commercial alcohol, the brigantine began her fateful journey in November 1872. One month later she was sighted on an apparent return course, her sails set but torn, her deck abandoned. The ship was in good condition, with her cargo intact. There was no sign of an attack, but the crew had vanished. What was to follow spawned the most famous maritime ghost story of all time: Convinced of murder and mystery, the British court investigator suppressed evidence to bolster his case. Rumors abounded of sea monster attack, Barbary Coast piracy, and the crew having been sucked from the vessel as it sailed over the site of the fabled Atlantis. Regardless, the mystery remained unsolved. Until now. In this thrilling retelling, Brian Freemantle depicts for the first time how the truth was turned into fantasy and legend, largely through the imagination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes.  This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Mary Celeste

<div><b>The CIA closes in on an escaped Nazi hiding out in Panama<BR><BR></b>The CIA sends Hartman because he knows the target&rsquo;s face. Hartman spent two years in Bergen-Belsen and knows camp commandant Fritz Lang&rsquo;s face better than anyone. The Nazi has taken up residence in a Panamanian port, supplementing his realtor&rsquo;s salary with monthly infusions from a numbered Swiss account. Despite Lang&rsquo;s extensive plastic surgery, Hartman recognizes him. It&rsquo;s a face he could never forget, and it&rsquo;s time to make him pay. Rumors have circulated that, in the waning days of World War II, a KGB operative helped Lang and others escape the wrath of the Red Army in exchange for massive bribes. That operative is now the KGB&rsquo;s top man, and getting the dirt on him would mean destabilizing all of Russian intelligence. Hartman&rsquo;s task is not to arrest Lang, but to spook him and follow when he runs. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Iron Cage

<div><B>At the end of the Cold War, a brutal murder in a Moscow alley forces two rival agents together in a mission to catch a serial killer&mdash;before it&rsquo;s too late</B><BR />   Moscow is a bad place for an American to walk alone, particularly a woman as beautiful as Ann Harris. An economist in the American embassy, she thinks she knows the town. She thinks she is safe. She&rsquo;s wrong. Colonel Dimitri Danilov is irritated that Harris had to die on his watch. The peculiarities of the murder promise an interesting case, but American involvement will make everything needlessly complicated. Gumming up the works is William Cowley, the head of the FBI Russian desk, whose job is to keep men like Danilov from sweeping the murders of Americans under the rug. But as a serial killer terrorizes Moscow, the two must work together to thwart not only the killer, but also the corrupt city that protects him. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.<BR /><BR /><I>In the Name of a Killer is the first book in the Cowley and Danilov Thrillers, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</I></div>

In the Name of a Killer

<div><b>An East German agent uses seduction to spy on the West</b>Elke has long led a quiet life, dedicated to her job as an assistant to an important official in the West German government. But beneath her plain exterior is a deep insecurity, born of the pains of caring for her autistic child&mdash;the result of a long-ago romance that was her life&rsquo;s sole moment of passion. And then she meets Otto. Tall, handsome, and suave, he is every woman&rsquo;s dream, and the interest he takes in her seems impossible&mdash;because it&rsquo;s all a lie. Otto is a spy, sent from the East German Stasi to gain a last advantage in the impending reunification of the divided country. His real target is not Elke but the state secrets to which she has access. When Elke accidentally discovers his deceit, the &ldquo;little grey mouse&rdquo; reveals a taste for revenge. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Little Grey Mice

<div><b>A Saudi prince&rsquo;s grab for wealth plunges the world&rsquo;s superpowers into chaos</b>As the first in line for the Saudi throne, Prince Tefwik Hassan cannot afford public embarrassment. So when he loses his fortune in a failed scheme to corner the world&rsquo;s reserves of silver, Hassan is left scrambling. To recoup his millions, he devises an intricate plan that spans the globe and involves players from the upper echelons of both American and Soviet power: Hassan begins buying gold. The plan requires incredible international coordination, from the wood-paneled halls of London banks, to the arid fields of South Africa, to the frigid wastes of the Soviet Union. Every greedy man in the world wants a piece of Prince Hassan&rsquo;s plot, and when such dangerous men turn on each other, pandemonium ensues. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Gold

<div><b>A new British operative in Moscow becomes mired in a web of deceit<BR><BR></b>The KGB is never surprised. When Jeremy Brinkman&rsquo;s file lands on the director&rsquo;s desk, informing him of the new British cultural attach&eacute;, the spymaster knows what it means: The Queen has a new agent working in Moscow. To the director, Jeremy is simply another small concern&mdash;something to be contained and controlled. But this new spy is not one for control. Jeremy joined the secret service to get away from his father, and he took an assignment in Moscow because it was supposed to mean autonomy. What he finds there is something else: a suffocating world of expatriates who each night hold the same cocktail parties and tell the same anecdotes. Beneath the fa&ccedil;ade something big is brewing, but to get to the truth Jeremy will have to navigate a strange society where the diplomats are never as dangerous as their wives. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Lost American

<div><b>A dozen stories of espionage in Berlin, from one of the genre&rsquo;s masters</b><BR>In 1990&mdash;after the Iron Curtain has lifted but before East and West Germany become one&mdash;an uneasy truce exists between the spy agencies of Berlin&rsquo;s two halves. As the governments of the divided state negotiate reunification, espionage continues quietly. That calm is about to explode. An English agent, on a routine collection of microfilm on the other side of Checkpoint Charlie, is arrested for spying, and all hell threatens to break loose. He is the fourth officer in six months to fall, and the arrest confirms everyone&rsquo;s fear: There is a mole in English intelligence. Responsibility falls on Samuel Bell, the head of the Berlin espionage department, nicknamed &ldquo;the Factory.&rdquo; But Bell&rsquo;s search for the mole&mdash;an unwanted strain on his alcohol-frayed nerves&mdash;is only one of this collection&rsquo;s dozen stories of life in the Factory, where deception is rampant and death is never far behind. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Factory

<div><b>Desperate for worldwide success, a businessman places himself in the hands of the unforgiving mafia<BR><BR></b>Born a refugee, Eddie Franks intends to live like a Rockefeller. He wants wealth, not for its own sake but because it means never having to be like his father, who fled Nazi Germany only to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder. For most of his childhood, Eddie was raised by the Scargos, an American family whose patriarch kept his real son, Nicky, in constant competition with Eddie. Their battle has never ended. Though now an internationally successful hotel magnate, Eddie still feels the need to outdo Nicky. At his stepbrother&rsquo;s suggestion, he goes into business in the Americas, opening a cruise company in the Caribbean. Expansion is the name of the game, and Nicky offers financing, with strings attached. The money is an investment from organized crime, and Eddie is unaware that the interest will be paid in blood. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

To Save a Son

<div><b>After his release from a Siberian gulag, a Soviet negotiator discovers that freedom in Russia can be just as dangerous as imprisonment<BR><BR></b>Josef Bultova nearly died in a Russian prison camp. Once one of the Soviet Union&rsquo;s most adept international negotiators, his work with the West grew so intimate that the suspicious Politburo exiled him to Siberia. The meager food, heavy work, and bitter cold took its toll, sapping his strength until, just as he was sure he could no longer go on, the Politburo let him go. Now Josef has a new assignment: shepherding a provincial Russian author whose evocative portrayals of life in the impoverished countryside have him on the shortlist for the Nobel Prize. Josef&rsquo;s task is to ensure that the author wins the prize&mdash;whatever the cost. But as Moscow watches his every move, Josef realizes that he may not have escaped the gulag after all. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Face Me When You Walk Away

<div><b>On the eve of her wedding, a woman must fight to rescue her fianc&eacute; from an international terrorist plot<BR><BR></b>It&rsquo;s been nearly a year since Janet&rsquo;s husband, Hank, died of a terrible illness. Though she thought she would never love again, John Sheridan proved her wrong. Like Janet, he works in government, analyzing files for the State Department. They fall in love shortly after meeting at a party, and it isn&rsquo;t long before Janet, finally ready to leave Hank in the past, agrees to marriage. But their plans are quickly disrupted. Posted overseas in war-torn Beirut, John disappears just before the wedding. It&rsquo;s a race against the clock as Janet must face the specter of international terrorism to save the second love of her life&mdash;before it&rsquo;s too late. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Betrayals

<div><b>Sixteen people saw her kill her husband, but Jennifer swears she is innocent<BR><BR></b>The traders call the office &ldquo;the goldfish bowl&rdquo; because its walls are all glass. There is no privacy, not even for office manager Gerald Lomax. And so it is that everyone in the office watches him die. Gerald&rsquo;s former mistress, Jennifer, married him when his first wife, Jane, passed away. Married for six years, their life seems blissful until the day she brings a kitchen knife to his office and stabs him to death in broad daylight. It is an open-and-shut case, but Jennifer pleads innocence, claiming that it wasn&rsquo;t she who stabbed him&mdash;it was Jane, possessing Jennifer&rsquo;s body to take revenge on her unfaithful husband from beyond the grave. Is Jennifer mad? Is she lying? Or might her tale of supernatural possession hold a sinister truth? This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

A Mind to Kill

<div><b>In the midst of the Cold War, a secret project in the jungles of Central Africa threatens to ignite World War III</b>Peterson is bewildered by the satellite photos in front of him. As head of the CIA, he is never supposed to be surprised, but what could be happening in Chad alarms him. The pictures show a small research installation, nestled in the African jungle, where a West German company claims to be building a base to launch communications satellites for use by developing African nations. But Peterson&rsquo;s analysts tell him that the ordinary, innocent-looking silo is just the size necessary to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile into outer space. If it&rsquo;s nothing more than a harmless research project, why the armed guards? Why did they kill two of the agents the CIA sent to investigate, and capture another? And why are the Soviets interested? The answer to these questions is a single terrible secret&mdash;one that could lead to nuclear war. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Target

<div><b>At the height of the Cold War, a British intelligence agent </b><b>investigates a Russian defector with a deadly secret</b>Adrian Dodds is a man without hobbies, friends, or family, who works a very peculiar job. Though he looks like a pencil pusher, he is a British counter-intelligence agent. In his own quiet, bureaucratic way, Dodds is vital to the security of the United Kingdom. His latest assignment is debriefing Viktor Pavel, a Soviet aeronautics genius who escapes his handlers to become the Cold War&rsquo;s most high-profile defector. Can he be trusted, or was he sent over as part of an elaborate Russian ruse? The truth is more complex than Dodds can imagine. Based on years of experience covering foreign affairs for English newspapers, this is one of the first novels by Brian Freemantle, one of the finest espionage authors of the Cold War. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Goodbye to an Old Friend

<div><b>A sinister ring of child abductors sends the FBI on a frenzied manhunt to save an ambassador&rsquo;s daughter before it&rsquo;s too late<BR><BR></b>The people in the car don&rsquo;t recognize Mary as anything special. They see the skinny ten-year-old as just another young girl on the streets of Brussels, not as the daughter of a US ambassador. The black car stops and Mary, used to having a chauffeur, climbs aboard. Before she knows what&rsquo;s happening, she is on her way to a mansion in Antwerp with a specially designed, child-sized cell. She has been abducted. Now, a team of FBI agents, along with Europe&rsquo;s foremost psychological profiler, are on the hunt for the girl&rsquo;s captors. They must find her before time runs out and Mary is murdered&mdash;or worse. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Predators

<div><B>A scientist&rsquo;s miraculous discovery pits him against a multinational drug company in a fight for his life </B><BR />  Richard Parnell is one of the leading minds in gene therapy research, and he expects the job at Dubette, Inc., to be his first step to a Nobel Prize. But when he arrives at the American pharmaceutical giant, he finds himself shut out of the main avenues of research, isolated from the cutting edge in a way he has never been before. To force his way into the inner circle, he must forgo ethics. By testing a new gene therapy on human subjects, Parnell hits upon something miraculous. A shot from his syringe makes AIDS victims recover and tumors disappear. The corporate heads at Dubette are thrilled, and rush Parnell&rsquo;s brilliant discovery to market. But what is he to do when he learns that, far from being a miracle cure, his breakthrough may actually be a recipe for certain death? This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Dead End

<div><B>Reborn generation after generation, a serial killer is steps away from true immortality in this tale of horror from &ldquo;a master storyteller&rdquo; (<I>Publishers Weekly</I>).</B><BR />  Death is no obstacle for Harold Taylor. Since the eighteenth century he has been reincarnated into a handful of identities. He won fame as an eye surgeon in Victorian England, established St. Louis&rsquo;s first brothels as an American settler, and survived the trenches of the First World War only to be executed in a court martial. But despite his different lives, one thing always remains the same: Harold Taylor is a murderer. Blood is the secret to Taylor&rsquo;s reincarnation. At each rebirth, he marks for death those who wronged him in the past, and by spilling their blood he guarantees himself another try at life. This time he has a new plan: to avoid death altogether by leaping into the body of another. For Harold Taylor, murder is only the beginning&mdash;unless, of course, someone can stop him. <I>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</I></div>

The Return

<div><B>&ldquo;If Brian Freemantle isn&rsquo;t the best writer of spy novels around, he&rsquo;s certainly, along with John le Carr&eacute;, in the top two.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Philadelphia Inquirer</I></B><BR /><BR /> Charlie Muffin isn&rsquo;t your typical British spy. He&rsquo;s neither high cultured nor well mannered. He doesn&rsquo;t care about being smooth, pretty, or popular; he only cares about getting the job done . . .<BR />  <BR /><I>Charlie M</I>: After twenty-five years serving the Crown in the shadows of the Cold War, Charlie finds himself under fire from a new breed of superiors who believe his lack of proper breeding makes him a liability in the spy game against the Soviets. But Charlie&rsquo;s going to show them that you don&rsquo;t survive as long as he has without knowing how to turn the tables on your enemy . . .<BR />  <BR /><I>Here Comes Charlie M</I>: On the run, Charlie has slowly devolved into what his former masters once accused him of being. His formerly razor-edged instincts have been dulled by indolence, drink, and the monotonous tension of living in the dark. Believing the heat must have cooled by now, he returns to England, only to discover how very wrong he was&mdash;and how much more dangerous life has just become . . .<BR />  <BR /><I>The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin</I>: Charlie has been keeping his head down with the help of his only friend and ally, Rupert Willoughby. But Rupert&rsquo;s own fortunes turn sour when an ocean liner he invested in burns and sinks in the Hong Kong harbor. Desperate, he turns to Charlie to find out what really happened. Charlie can hardly refuse&mdash;but he&rsquo;ll wish he had.</div>

The Charlie Muffin Thrillers Volume One

<div><B>The un-Bond-like British spy is back&mdash;from a multimillion-selling author who &ldquo;hauls you aboard and won&rsquo;t let you off until the roller coaster stops&rdquo; (<I>Los Angeles Times</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;If Brian Freemantle isn&rsquo;t the best writer of spy novels around, he&rsquo;s certainly, along with John le Carr&eacute;, in the top two.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Philadelphia Inquirer</I><BR />  <BR /> In his long-running Charlie Muffin series, Freemantle gives us an atypical British spy. Charlie is neither high cultured nor well mannered. He&rsquo;s working-class, scruffy, and fond of a drink. But he gets the job done . . .<BR />  <BR /><I>Charlie Muffin U.S.A.</I>: Officially declared dead, Charlie can breathe again without the intelligence forces of Great Britain and the United States hunting him. He puts his espionage skills to work for an English insurance company, ensuring the security of the Romanov stamps, a priceless collection assembled before the Russian Revolution. When the American government decides to use them as bait for a vicious drug lord, Charlie gets stuck in the middle. But he&rsquo;s not licked yet.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Fine, lightweight-caper entertainment.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Kirkus Reviews</I><BR />  <BR /><I>Madrigal for Charlie Muffin</I>: Since British intelligence first turned on him and forced him to go into hiding, the ex-spy has had a rough few years. He takes a job for his only friend, Rupert Willoughby, who sends Charlie to Rome to check the security system for some valuable jewels. But Charlie has chosen the wrong time to visit the Eternal City. There&rsquo;s a mole in the British embassy there, and with agents of the East and West homing in fast, he&rsquo;s soon caught between a rock and a hard place.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;The most degenerate and lovable character ever cast in the role of secret agent.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Manchester Evening News</I><BR />  <BR /><I>The Blind Run</I>: In this Edgar Award finalist, after a trumped-up trial, Charlie lands in jail for treason. But when KGB agents stage a prison break to free his fellow inmate, a convicted British traitor, Charlie also flees to Moscow. There he meets Natalia Fedova, the KGB interrogator assigned to determine if his defection is genuine. For anyone else, the risk would be suicidal. But for Charlie, the greatest danger may be falling in love.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Unpretentious, sly rather than stately, but powerful nonetheless: the best of the Muffin novels thus far.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Kirkus Reviews</I><BR />  <BR /><I>See Charlie Run</I>: Back at work for British intelligence, Charlie finally has a real assignment: A KGB agent in Tokyo wants to defect to the other side. Charlie&rsquo;s role is to bring him across. But as he himself has learned from all those evasive years, there&rsquo;s never anything simple or safe about running away.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Freemantle has merged the good humor of a Lawrence Block thriller, the seriousness of a le Carr&eacute; spy novel and the slam-bang adventure of a popular espionage caper.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I></div>

The Charlie Muffin Thrillers Volume Two

<div><B>The un-Bond-like British spy is back&mdash;from a multimillion-selling author who &ldquo;hauls you aboard and won&rsquo;t let you off until the roller coaster stops&rdquo; (<I>Los Angeles Times</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;If Brian Freemantle isn&rsquo;t the best writer of spy novels around, he&rsquo;s certainly, along with John le Carr&eacute;, in the top two.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The Philadelphia Inquirer</I><BR />  <BR /> In his long-running Charlie Muffin series, Freemantle gives us an atypical British spy. Charlie is neither high cultured nor well mannered. He&rsquo;s working-class, scruffy, and fond of a drink. But he gets the job done . . .<BR />  <BR /><I>The Run Around</I>: It could be the most sensational defection of all time. The head of the KGB&rsquo;s cipher section comes with every code, every plot, and every secret. But his most startling disclosure of all is that the Russians are planning a shocking assassination. But the defector doesn&rsquo;t know who, where, when, or how. All Charlie knows is that he must stop the murder from happening&mdash;without being marked for death himself.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Freemantle surpasses his earlier acclaimed thrillers.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR />  <BR /><I>Comrade Charlie</I>: Charlie uncovers a last-gasp plot from the collapsing Soviet Union. The signs point to a new Soviet Star Wars system&mdash;and to the involvement of a British traitor. But can he trust the intel? Or does the KGB want one more chance to set up their old adversary? His nemesis, Berenkov, sets a nasty trap using Natalia Fedova as bait, and as the Soviet regime crumbles, it could take Charlie down with it . . .<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Intricate, funny and highly satisfying.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR />  <BR /><I>Charlie&rsquo;s Apprentice</I>: Following the end of the Cold War, Charlie is tasked with training new recruits. When one of his trainees is arrested within days of arriving in Beijing to extract a blown British agent, Charlie must go to China and get both of them out. Meanwhile, his former lover Natalia Fedova is searching for him&mdash;with a daughter she says is his.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Superior work from a master of the form.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR />  <BR /><I>Bomb Grade</I>: It has been more than five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Britain&rsquo;s cagiest spy is beginning to feel obsolete&mdash;until he&rsquo;s assigned to Russia one more time. The British government needs him to go undercover as an arms dealer to retrieve 250 kilograms of uranium stolen from their nuclear silos. To complicate the explosive situation, heading the anti-smuggling unit is none other than his old flame, Natalia Fedova.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;Once again, Freemantle confirms his place as one of the masters of the genre. Thumbs-up for his latest&mdash;it&rsquo;s everything an espionage thriller should be.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>Booklist</I></div>

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