As the long night of war looms, a killer emerges.

Riptide is the fourth title in the Frederick Troy series, which Grove Press UK are reissuing to celebrate the release of A Lily of the Field in paperback.

1963: A Tory government beset by a defection, sexual scandal, cover-up and a ministerial resignation - Frederick Troy, now Britain's most senior police detective, unravels a trail that leads to death at the very heart of the Establishment and a failing administration.

Chief Inspector Troy, first featured in 'Black Out', is brought in to investigate murder, politics, and a diplomatic incident, as the Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev arrives in Britain. Troy's investigation leads him to the rotten heart of MI6 and into the path of an old flame.

Bringing to life pre-war Vienna and post-war London - spanning the rise of Hitler to the post-atomic age - this breathtaking novel is espionage fiction at its best.

In war-time London children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Detective Troy it is the start of a manhunt which will lead him into a world of stateless refugees, military intelligence and corruption in high places.

Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, a condition that he thinks excuses him from morality. Cat burglar and card sharp, the last thing he wants is to get drafted. But in 1946 he finds himself in the Royal Air Force, facing a stretch in military prison, when along comes Lt. Col. Burne-Jones to tell him MI6 has better use for his talents.

The second book in the Joe Wilderness series.

A new novel in the Inspector Troy series, a tale of Cold War spy dealings centred around Guy Burgess

The third Joe Wilderness spy thriller from a master of the genre, moving from icy Finland to tumultuous Cold War Prague, Hammer to Fall is a tale of vodka smuggling and a legendary female Red Army general who is playing a dangerous game.