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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 6
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British operative Charlie Muffin infiltrates a Russian spy ring in a Cold War thriller that’s “good dirty fun” (The New York Times Book Review).
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After a trumped-up trial, Charlie Muffin lands in jail for treason—ready to learn the secrets of his fellow inmate, a convicted British traitor. Nobody expected KGB agents to stage a prison break to free their...
Edgar Award Finalist
After a trumped-up trial, Charlie Muffin lands in jail for treason—ready to learn the secrets of his fellow inmate, a convicted British traitor. Nobody expected KGB agents to stage a prison break to free their...
2) Charlie M
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 1
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2011
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A decidedly un-Bond-like British spy outwits the Soviets—and his bosses—in this thriller from a multimillion-selling author that offers "pure delight" (Chicago Tribune).
Charlie Muffin is an anachronism. He came into the intelligence service in the early 1950s, when the government, desperate for foot soldiers in the impending Cold War, dipped into the middle class for the first time. Despite a lack of upper-class bearing,...
Charlie Muffin is an anachronism. He came into the intelligence service in the early 1950s, when the government, desperate for foot soldiers in the impending Cold War, dipped into the middle class for the first time. Despite a lack of upper-class bearing,...
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2011
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Home is where the heat is for disgraced British spy Charlie Muffin, “a marvelous creation” from the multimillion-selling author (The Daily Mail). Charlie Muffin has come back to England. The ex-spy, a veteran of twenty-five years’ service to the Crown, was last seen in Berlin, where an attempt on his life by his own organization led to international embarrassment. They had expected Charlie—a disheveled,...
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2011
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Charlie Muffin’s new job puts him in the crosshairs of a vicious American drug lordCharlie Muffin has done well since he “died.” He’s been on the run for years from the intelligence forces of Great Britain and the United States when an official declaration of death finally puts an end to their pursuit. Suddenly, Charlie can breathe again. He’s even put a lid on his single malt whisky habit. Now all he needs is...
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 3
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2011
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English
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A burned ship might burn bridges for the rogue British spy. “Charlie’s exploits are more like miniature Le Carrés . . . a mini-marvel of neat intrigue” (Kirkus Reviews).
They call Charlie Muffin a traitor. He has been on the run ever since the blow-up in Berlin, when British intelligence declared him obsolete and tried to kill him. Charlie outsmarted them then, and he...
They call Charlie Muffin a traitor. He has been on the run ever since the blow-up in Berlin, when British intelligence declared him obsolete and tried to kill him. Charlie outsmarted them then, and he...
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On the eve of a vital CIA assignment, an agent's hesitation leads him to the brink of disaster His grandfather was a lawman too. That's how Charles O'Farrell rationalizes his work. He keeps a picture of his ancestor by his bed, a faded sepia portrait of a short, plain-looking man made remarkable only by the long-barreled Colt strapped to his hip. His grandfather killed to make the frontier safe-O'Farrell has the faded newspaper clippings to prove...
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 16
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In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by the FSB, Russia's intelligence-service successor to the infamous KGB. Charlie is Russia's long term target in British counter-intelligence and Moscow is determined to extract, by whatever means necessary, every secret of British---and Western---espionage over Charlie's thirty-year career.
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 15
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Hiding his marriage to a Russian intelligence colonel with an awareness that discovery would result in her execution, his imprisonment and their daughter's abandonment in a Russian state orphanage, MI5 field agent Charlie leads a frantic mission to outwit both governments and save his family when their secret is exposed.
9) The watchmen
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Only a miracle-and faulty workmanship-prevents a germ-packed warhead from exploding when a terrorist missile slams into the United Nations building in New York. The lettering on the side of the rocket is Russian, which presents the West with its worst nightmare: a direct link between a fanatical U. S. terrorist group and Russian gangsters with access to the germ warfare arsenal of the former Soviet Union.
This potentially devastating attack reunites...
10) Dead men living
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 12
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In Siberia, a sudden thaw uncovers two fifty-year-old murder victims as well as a host of disturbing questions. Since each is dressed in the uniform of a WWII Allied officer, Russian authorities decide to invite agents from England and the United States to join in a collaborative effort to discover the truth behind the murders.
Charlie Muffin, the British operative, is having enough problems without traveling to the hell-on-earth that is Siberia,...
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A diplomat's murder reunites Cowley and Danilov in a global search for the killer There's nothing surprising about the body. The wounds are precise, their meaning clear. The Washington, DC, cops have seen enough like them to know that they mean a mob hit. And when mobsters kill their own, there's not much the police can do about it. They're prepared to dismiss the case when someone looks at the dead man's ID. He was Russian-and a diplomat. William...
12) Bomb grade
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 11
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English
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In post-Communist Moscow, British agent Charlie Muffin joins forces with operatives of the Russian ministry of interior to retrieve plutonium stolen by local gangsters. The plutonium is destined for Iraq and there is enough of it to make three dozen atom bombs.
13) See Charlie run
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 7
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English
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British Secret Service agent Charlie Muffin becomes a pawn in an elaborate scheme when a top KGB assassin defects to the American CIA in Japan.
14) Comrade Charlie
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 9
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In this new addition to the highly acclaimed Charlie Muffin spy series, Brian Freemantle's scruffy hero becomes entangled in the high-stakes complexities of a KGB intelligence-gathering mission. As the Soviet Union is about to come apart, Moscow focuses its attention on one goal: not only to match but beat the American development of the Star Wars Defense Program and prove yet again that the Soviet Union is the leader in space exploration. Meanwhile,...
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The un-Bond-like British spy is back-from a multimillion-selling author who hauls you aboard and won't let you off until the roller coaster stops. In his long-running Charlie Muffin series, Freemantle gives us an atypical British spy. Charlie is neither high cultured nor well mannered. He's working-class, scruffy, and fond of a drink. But he gets the job done . . . The Run Around: It could be the most sensational defection of all time. The head of...
16) Triple cross
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Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov teams up with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, in the hopes of stoping the Mafias of the United States, Russia, and Itialy from forming themselves into an organized-crime conglomerate with the power to rule the world.
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