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Product Description: Major Harry Maxim, formerly of the SAS, is a mysterious man who lost his wife to a horrific plane accident. He is as surprised as anyone when he is hired by 10 Downing Street to assist in matters of defence and security.Using all the knowledge from his days in military intelligence, he tries to understand and counter a number of suspect events: a suicide at the ministry of defence, a hand grenade thrown through the door of number ten and a Czech defector with a file worth killing for...read more

Hardcover:

9780708906828 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: After a sequence of sinister incidents, Harry Maxim, SAS major on special assignment to Downing Street, is under strict instructions to watch Professor John Tyler, nuclear strategist and insatiable lecher.

Paperback:

9781448213580 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 29, 2013, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Major Harry Maxim, formerly of the SAS, is a mysterious man who lost his wife to a horrific plane accident.
9780345338235 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, November 1, 1986), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Harry Maxim, a government agent, investigates a mysterious secret in the past of one of Britain's leading nuclear strategists

Paperback:

9781448200573 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 28, 2013, cover price $17.99

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Product Description: Based in Lapland, Bill Cary makes a precarious living by flying aerial surveys in the search for nickel deposits. Towards the end of the season, a wealthy American hunter hires him to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border in order to hunt bear...read more

Paperback:

9781448200368 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 28, 2013, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Based in Lapland, Bill Cary makes a precarious living by flying aerial surveys in the search for nickel deposits.

Major Harry Maxim finds himself at odds with the KGB, the CIA, and his own government while uncovering a secret that threatens his life and the world

Hardcover:

9780708983270 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, April 1, 1986), cover price $27.99
9780670808038 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Major Harry Maxim finds himself at odds with the KGB, the CIA, and his own government while uncovering a secret that threatens his life and the world

Paperback:

9781448200139 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, January 31, 2013), cover price $17.99
9780140096163 | Reprint edition (Select Penguin, January 1, 1987), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Major Harry Maxim finds himself at odds with the KGB, the CIA, and his own government while uncovering a secret that threatens his life and the world

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Product Description: Major Harry Maxim is ex-SAS and he now works as a special member of number 10's backroom staff, advising the PM on matters of defence and security. This time he is going to be drawn into the shadowy - and deadly - world of East-West intrigueA deserting English corporal, a cabinet convulsion in East Germany, a double murder in a small West German town, and a widowed piano teacher in Yorkshire: they're all somehow related by a dark secret from the past, and it's down to Harry Maxim to uncover before it's too late...read more

Hardcover:

9780670237111 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1983, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: The battle-scarred Major Harry Maxim, Intelligence aide at Number 10 Downing Street, must find what links a deserting corporal, East German politics, a double killing in West Germany, a South London fight club, and a widowed Yorkshire piano teacher

Paperback:

9781448200351 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2012), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Major Harry Maxim is ex-SAS and he now works as a special member of number 10's backroom staff, advising the PM on matters of defence and security.
9780140094176 | Reprint edition (Select Penguin, October 1, 1986), cover price $3.50 | also contains Exceptional Treehouses | About this edition: The battle-scarred Major Harry Maxim, Intelligence aide at Number 10 Downing Street, must find what links a deserting corporal, East German politics, a double killing in West Germany, a South London fight club, and a widowed Yorkshire piano teacher

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781850898726 | Unabridged edition (Isis Audio, June 1, 1993), cover price $69.95

This is a detective story written by the author of "Blame the Dead", "Shooting Script", "Uncle Target" and "Judas Country".

Hardcover:

9780854563708 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, June 1, 1992), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: This is a detective story written by the author of "Blame the Dead", "Shooting Script", "Uncle Target" and "Judas Country".

Paperback:

9781448200566 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2012, cover price $16.99

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Product Description: With the shadow of the First World War looming ever closer, Britain is quietly relieved when Turkish bandits hold to ransom engineers working on a railway that threatened its oil interests in the Persian Gulf. Feigning help, the Foreign Office sends the notorious Lady Kelso, once lover of the bandit's chief, with members of the fledgling Secret Service Bureau to serve as 'diplomatic protection'...read more

Hardcover:

9780340708545 | Hodder & Stoughton, June 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: When a local bandit holds engineers of the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly delighted - the railway is a potential threat to her interests in the Persian Gulf.

Paperback:

9781448200559 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2012, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: With the shadow of the First World War looming ever closer, Britain is quietly relieved when Turkish bandits hold to ransom engineers working on a railway that threatened its oil interests in the Persian Gulf.
9780340708552 | Hodder & Stoughton, June 1, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: When a local bandit holds engineers of the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly delighted - the railway is a potential threat to her interests in the Persian Gulf.

Paperback:

9781448200856 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 20, 2012, cover price $17.99

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Part of 'Freedom's Battle' trilogy, this work talks about the great dramas of the air war - from the brilliant summer nonchalance of 1940 to the grim, anonymous exhaustion of the bomber crews delivering the infernos of Hamburg and Dresden - described by the men in the British and Commonwealth Air Forces who did the fighting.

Paperback:

9781845950842 | Vintage Uk, September 6, 2007, cover price $14.75 | About this edition: Part of 'Freedom's Battle' trilogy, this work talks about the great dramas of the air war - from the brilliant summer nonchalance of 1940 to the grim, anonymous exhaustion of the bomber crews delivering the infernos of Hamburg and Dresden - described by the men in the British and Commonwealth Air Forces who did the fighting.

Paperback:

9780752867175 | Orion Pub Co, May 19, 2005, cover price $12.55

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The Italian senator thinks the fledgling British Secret Service can offer him protection from assassins, an aeroplane and the means of fuelling a strike in a Trieste shipyard. Those recruited could accidentally change history in this adventure set in the early days of modern espionage.

Paperback:

9780340681909 | New edition (Hodder & Stoughton, April 3, 1997), cover price $11.80 | About this edition: The Italian senator thinks the fledgling British Secret Service can offer him protection from assassins, an aeroplane and the means of fuelling a strike in a Trieste shipyard.

Trailing a notorious anarchist in Ireland, artillery Captain Matthew Ranklin teams up with scruffy but streetwise Conall O'Gilroy and encounters a web of espionage involving agents of the Kaiser, Archduke Ferdinand, and the death of a British agent.

Hardcover:

9780312118983 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, January 1, 1995), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Trailing a notorious anarchist in Ireland, artillery Captain Matthew Ranklin teams up with scruffy but streetwise Conall O'Gilroy and encounters a web of espionage involving agents of the Kaiser, Archduke Ferdinand, and the death of a British agent

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Product Description: Televised as "The Secret Servant" this thriller features Major Harry Maxim whose mission to Jordan changes from a simple demolition job to an epic run for freedom. A woman's unofficial line of enquiry into his activities leads to the heart of the matter and a change in the direction of his fate...read more

Hardcover:

9780708919453 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, February 1, 1989), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Televised as "The Secret Servant" this thriller features Major Harry Maxim whose mission to Jordan changes from a simple demolition job to an epic run for freedom.
9780670822287 | Viking Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Major Harry Maxim must retrieve the prototype model of Britain's latest military tank, which unluckily has fallen into the hands of a rebellious Jordanian unit that threatens to reveal its technology to the Soviets

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780816191260 | G K Hall Audio Books, January 1, 1989, cover price $70.95

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Hardcover:

9780708900697 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, November 1, 1977), cover price $15.95

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