Navalny's career from young optimist in the years after the Gorbachev revolution takes us steadily and almost amiably into his fast-growing determination to challenge the Putin regime, no matter what the risk, and the ultimate cost of his life. It is a sobering but uplifting experience to read this book published after his death in Putin's modern Gulag.
Two men on the run in the 1660s in the North American colonies since they were among the judges who sentenced King Chares to death during England's civil war. The nature of religion, of loyalty, of family honour and human trust and decency are all explored with an intelligence and sympathy that brings to life these early days of England's adventure.
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'From what is it they flee?' He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside. He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'
1660. Colonel Edward Whalley and his son-in-law, Colonel William Goffe, cross the Atlantic. Having been found guilty of high treason for the murder of Charles the I, they are wanted and on the run. A reward hangs over their heads - for their…
A frighteningly realistic spy story, set in modern Britain, with an ageing hero who has prostate problems, battling the prospect of an creeping privatisation of SIS, the British intelligence service that traces its heritage back to the 16th century days of Good Queen Bess. The tale in spiced with two elderly and one young woman are intelligent, likable and credible. The author, a well-known and well-travelled Scottish journalist who also served in the ranks of SIS, knows his territory, its people and its skills at betrayal.
When investigator Septimus Brass delves into the strange death of an intelligence officer and the vanishing of two others, he encounters a web of official deceit.
The stakes are high. Some government ministers are eager to dismantle the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6.
The world's largest private security firm is ready to buy up the remnants of the Ziggurat, the SIS headquarters on London's Albert Embankment.
Without the SIS, the UK will be left vulnerable in a dangerous world.
The latest novel in the 'Bruno, chief of police' series, set in the Perigord region of France, opens with the arrival of an American woman fleeing an unhappy marriage coincides with the purchase of a run-down chateau by an English family and the opening of a half-forgotten grave brings the wartime past - and its modern echoes - back to life. This international best-seller, now in 18 languages with more than 7 million copies sold, is now under development as a TV series.
