Wilson, Robert

When private security expert Charles Boxer is hired by an Indian tycoon to find his missing daughter, he goes up against religious fanatics, Indian mobsters, and London's crime lords to beat the kidnappers at their own game.

A biography of Mathew Brady, nineteenth-century American photographer, discussing his impact on photography and the photographic record of the Civil War.

"The stifling summer streets of Lisbon are teeming with spies and informers when Andrea Aspinall, a brilliant English mathematician turned spy, disappears under a new identity. Double agent Karl Voss, experienced in the illusions of intrigue, arrives in Lisbon under the German Legation, though he is secretly plotting against the Nazis. In the lethal tranquility of a corrupted paradise, Andrea and Karl meet and embark on a brief, intense love affair."--back cover.

Discusses the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy and other Aegean sites; presents the mythology connected with Agamemnon; and speculates on the decline of the Mycenaean civilization.