Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind the kidnapping of a Muslim teenager.

"London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle--not unusual in this line of work. But they have one thing in common: they all want to be back in the action. And they'll do anything to...

James Bond tackles SPECTRE. The crime ring has perpetrated the most arrogant blackmail demand ever attempted. They want three hundred million dollars from the United States and England or else.

"What happens when an old spook starts to lose his mind? Do the Services have a retirement home for people who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secrets? Or does someone come to take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services...

In her junk closet, Mrs. Pollifax has found a young woman hiding. Kadi Hopkirk insists she's being followed by two men in a dirty white van. Mrs. P. soon learns Kadi is connected to the assassination of an African president.

Exploring a small island off the Washington State coast in 1941, five brothers make an astonishing discovery that is interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and has ramifications for Cabrillo's present-day investigation into a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle.

A warm-hearted, occasionally meddlesome widow from New Jersey, is hardly anyone's idea of a CIA operative - exactly why Emily Pollifax is so effective as a spy. Called upon to deliver eight expertly forged passports to the Bulgarian Underground, Mrs. Pollifax carries them in her hat, pretending to be a tourist visiting the scenic Balkans. Contact with the Underground might have been routine, but Mrs. Pollifax's habit of interfering - however benighnly...

British secret agent James Bond arrives just in time for Vivienne at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court after two hardened mobsters show up.

While on a Caribbean cruise with her grandmother and cousin, sixteen-year-old Jennie McGrady puts herself in great danger by her rash efforts to find her father, a government agent who disappeared five years earlier.

East Germany, 1975. Karin Müller, sidelined from the murder squad in Berlin, jumps at the chance to be sent south to Halle-Neustadt, where a pair of infant twins have gone missing. But Müller soon finds her problems have followed her. Halle-Neustadt is a new town - the pride of the communist state - and she and her team are forbidden by the Stasi from publicising the disappearances, lest they tarnish the town's flawless image. Meanwhile, in the...