intelligence officers

The C.I.A. defector who sold the agency's most sensitive information to the KGB, disappeared, then surfaced a year later in Moscow.

Jack Ryan, having jumped at the offer to join the CIA as a freelance analyst in the early 1980s, quickly finds himself in over his head when he uncovers a KGB plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.

Nick Stone, strapped for cash, agrees to kidnap a Russian mob boss and deliver him to St. Petersburg, but he soon finds himself knee deep in Russia's attempts to steal the West's military secrets.

When a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries.

The author recounts how, as part of the U.S. National Security Agency, he helped blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to U.S. businesses.

Presents five short stories that find James Bond facing all sorts of danger from which he escapes through fast thinking and keen wit.

Bond uses a beautiful nemesis in order to infiltrate a diamond-smuggling business that stretches from Africa via London to America, but once inside the states, he becomes the hunted instead of the hunter.

Nicholas Bryson, a former operative for the American secret intelligence group the Directorate, is forced to rely on his rusty skills and unreliable contacts for help when he is recruited years after his retirement by the CIA to infiltrate the group which Bryson has just learned was working against the best interests of the country.