Beautiful, seductive and extremely dangerous, Franca Tantardini is one of Italy's most ruthless political extremists. When she is captured in a shoot-out, her fanatical young lover, Giancarlo Battestini, vows to set her free and, with quiet watchfulness, waits for the moment to strike. In Rome, a British businessman, Geoffery Harrison, has been taken hostage by a ruthless organised crime syndicate - kidnap is, after all, a growth industry. The British Government are adamant that they will not pay the two-million-dollar ransom and discharge responsibility to the Italian police. As political...

Peter Holt, a young diplomat, witnesses the horrific murder of his fiance and the British Ambassador within days of a new posting to the Soviet Union. The report of the murder lands on the desk of a British Intelligence officer who suspects Palestinian involvement, althought the Russians insist that it was not a terrorist attack. The British government are determined to extract revenge and Holt is the only man able to identify the assassin. He is sent to the Lebanon and the perilous Beqa'a Valley, which serves as a stronghold for the most extreme guerilla groups. Unauthorised access to the...

A young man starts a journey from a dusty village in Saudi Arabia. If his mission in faraway England succeeds, he will go to his god a matyr - and many innocents will die with him. For David Banks, an armed protection officer charged with neutralizing the growing menace to London's safety, the certainties that ruled his thinking are no longer black and white. Banks has begun to realise that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Never have those distinctions been more dangerous to a police officer with his finger on the trigger - and to those who depend upon him. On a bright...

'The Glory Boys' tells the tale of a three-man assassination squad whose target is Israel's leading nuclear scientist. The attack is to take place while he is on a visit to London.

When a young Russian fakes his own death and defects from East Germany, his interrogators discover that his father, Otto Guttman, is a leading scientist working on Soviet missile systems. The British authorities need to persuade Otto to join his son in exchange for valuable intelligence. Johnny Donoghue appears to be the right man for the job. He enjoyed a glittering career in the British Army until he was discharged for his involvement in the shooting of a young girl in Northern Ireland. Now a teacher in a small provincial town and living with his mother, it is not difficult to convince him...

Running a small errand for the British Intelligence Service turns into a nightmare for a young man when he is arrested by the Soviet Secret Police and sentenced to fifteen years in a desolate labour camp.

It is an unwritten rule in the Intelligence Services that desk heads never travel. But when Mattie Furniss is ordered to improve the quality of information coming out of Iran by travelling to the region, the risk must be taken.

Albert Packer is master of all he surveys. He rules the manor with an iron fist. For 20 years, he's had it all his own way - the police and intelligence services have targeted him but have yet to get close to any sort of effective prosecution.

Officially the Cold War is over. In private, though, the intelligence war goes on. A high-ranking Russian naval officer, Viktor Archenko, has been passing valuable information to MI6, but when suspicion falls on him, the time has come to get him out and more rides on this than one man's life.

An SAS captain is sent to the Afghanistan border to organise a search and destroy mission.