[PDF] The Conduct Of Major Maxim eBook

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448201675

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'An absorbingly and well-written book' New York Times Major Harry Maxim, ex-SAS and special adviser to number 10 Downing Street, is about to get drawn into conflict on an international scale. An English corporal, a cabinet convulsion in East Germany, and a double murder in a small West German town all seem to be connected by a dark secret from the past, and it's down to Harry Maxim to uncover before it's too late. The Conduct of Major Maxim is the second novel in the Major Harry Maxim Series. 'Gavin Lyall is one of the best writers of intelligent, macho, spy thrillers in the business' Spectator

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448210801

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'The vortex of Caribbean politics made even more turbulent by one of the most compelling of contemporary storytellers' New York Times Flying charter cargoes around the Caribbean wasn't quite the same as flying in Korea, but it was still a living, and Carr had built up a solid reputation over the years, managing to keep his hands clean. But when he is almost brought down by mercenary pilots flying for the newly instated La Republica government, he realises it is inevitable that things will get messy. As both the new government and the FBI seek his services, Carr takes a job flying a camera plane for a major Hollywood movie in order to escape the conflict. It soon becomes apparent, however, that his new employers have more in mind than aerial shots.

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448210119

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'A first-class piece of work' New York Times Book Review Major Harry Maxim, formerly of the SAS, is as surprised as anyone when he is hired by 10 Downing Street to assist in matters of defence and security. When there is a suspicious suicide at the Ministry of Defence, and a hand grenade thrown through the door of number 10, Major Maxim's military intelligence training is put to the test. It all seems to point towards Professor John Tyler, a nuclear strategist who will state Britain's case when Europe's think tank on Armageddon gathers in Luxembourg. The Secret Servant is the first novel in the Major Harry Maxim Series.

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 144820187X

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'Stirring period piece set in the anxious months before the outbreak of the First World War' Sunday Times With the shadow of the First World War looming ever closer, Britain is quietly relieved when Turkish bandits hold to ransom engineers working on a railway that threatened its oil interests in the Persian Gulf. Feigning help, the Foreign Office sends the notorious Lady Kelso, once the lover of the bandit's chief, with members of the fledgling Secret Service Bureau to serve as 'diplomatic protection'. Ambush, betrayal, murder and bombardment all ensue as there are others – German, Turkish and French – all honourably putting their own country's interests first.

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448201683

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'Cary is great with a gun and deadpan about danger' Spectator Bill Cary makes a precarious living flying aerial surveys over Lapland. When he's hired by a wealthy American hunter, Frederick Wells Homer, to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border, the job seems shady indeed, and when a major crook wants him to go on the hunt for Tsarist treasure, things get messy. With thugs and the Finnish Secret Service already on his tail, matters get worse when Homer's beautiful sister turns up to search for him, and Cary's fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary begins to realise that it may all stem from an incident in his wartime past. The Most Dangerous Game was shortlisted for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. 'A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade' Book Week

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448201888

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'Lean and literate suspense' Guardian It seemed like money for old rope. All Kemp had to do was arrange the smooth passage of a Cezanne across the border to Switzerland, and anything was preferable to London in January. But on awaking in a Zurich park with a bump the size of a burial mound on his head, minus the priceless work he'd been carrying, he reckons he may have underestimated the situation. Running into Harry Burroughs at the airport the next day can't be a coincidence, as Burroughs is a fine art dealer, and an even finer crook. If he is mixed up in all this, Kemp knows that from now on he will have to earn his money the hard way.

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448201454

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'A first-class piece of work' New York Times Book Review Major Harry Maxim, formerly of the SAS, is as surprised as anyone when he is hired by 10 Downing Street to assist in matters of defence and security. When there is a suspicious suicide at the Ministry of Defence, and a hand grenade thrown through the door of number 10, Major Maxim's military intelligence training is put to the test. It all seems to point towards Professor John Tyler, a nuclear strategist who will state Britain's case when Europe's think tank on Armageddon gathers in Luxembourg. The Secret Servant is book one in the Major Harry Maxim Series.

Author : Gavin Lyall
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1448210798

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'Terrific – when better novels of suspense are written, lead me to them' P. G. Wodehouse Making a threadbare living flying charter cargos of dubious legitimacy around the Mediterranean, Jack Clay's ambition of starting his own chartering company remains a distant dream. All this changes in Athens when Clay bumps into an old wartime buddy helping the former Nawab of Tungabhadra recover his stolen fortune. Clay joins the hunt, but he is not the only one looking; there are many men – and women – who are prepared to lie and cheat, murder and maim, in order to get to the diamonds first. First published in 1961, The Wrong Side of the Sky was Gavin Lyall's debut novel and became an international bestseller. 'A model thriller ... Like its hard-flying hero, it's a natural' New York Herald Tribune

Author : Nancy-Stephanie Stone
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"This essential sourcebook to the spy and thriller novel offers mystery fans fully annotated entries on more than 1,300 titles by over 150 authors in the genre. The perfect companion to early classics by Ian Fleming, Somerset Maugham, and Graham Greene, this volume also covers more recent works by Len Deighton, John le Carre, and Tom Clancy."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved