Spies, Family and Other Traitors 
Sixteen-year-old Alistair Quinn is tall, handsome, hedonistic, and has an attitude to match. Bored with his boarding school life and estranged from his family, he runs away from his prestigious North London school and heads straight for the bright lights of Soho. 
Seduced by the charismatic Madam Valerie, Alistair finds himself surrounded by the city’s most notorious in the halls of her brothel. It is here that he meets the formidable Vasali Vlatkov, a Soviet “diplomat” that MI5 and the CIA would like to turn. 
Recruited by British intelligence for his proximity to the target, Alistair is euphoric at being involved with such a prestigious institution. Fresh out of commando training and now fluent in Russian, he’s chosen to schmooze Vlatkov at an embassy party — and set up a crucial meeting. 
When a senior intelligence officer suspects foul play, Alistair becomes the bait for a potentially lethal sting operation. But as one enemy surfaces, another remains hidden… 
Neither Despise Nor Fear is a spy thriller, based on the real-life experience of a Cold War MI5 operative.

Neither Despise Nor Fear (The Neither Despise Nor Fear Series)

Knox, V M

Literature & Fiction

Thorpe

In Spite of All Terror (The Clement Wisdom Series)

Genre Fiction

Victoria Knox

September 1940. Britain stands alone facing an imminent Nazi invasion. 
Handpicked groups of men form the covert Auxiliary Units; ordinary by day, they will be saboteurs and assassins by night. With a life expectancy of two weeks, their identities are a closely guarded secret from all but the local senior policeman but once activated, that policeman will be the cell's first victim. 
Clement Wisdom, a humble vicar and leader of the East Sussex Auxiliaries, receives the invasion alert and assembles his team. Burdened with the tension between his faith and his patriotic duty, he sets out to eliminate the Police Inspector, only to find him dead already. While assisting Lewes Police to find the Inspector's killer, events take an ominous turn as one by one, members of Clement’s team are found callously murdered. Priorities shift and every aspect of life is called into question when Clement becomes embroiled in the murky world of espionage, where nothing is what it seems. 
In Spite of All Terror is the first in a series of crime thrillers that mix historical fact, crime fiction and superb characterisations. They will keep you hungry for the next piece of this wartime puzzle.

In Spite of All Terror

Leschenault Press

Britain 1941. Still reeling from the greatest loss of his life, the Reverend Major Clement Wisdom is called on again to serve his nation in its time of need.\nUnder the cover of taking up a new parish in far northern Scotland, Clement is sent to the remote village of Huna, in Caithness, to locate a possible enemy agent who is sending out encrypted radio messages. Arriving in the depths of winter, Clement quickly finds it isn’t only the temperature that is unnervingly cold. Perched on the edge of Great Britain, the isolated community is wary of strangers. Struggling to gain trust from the locals and where even his assigned Government contact, the local Postmistress, is antagonistic, he becomes entangled in a web of silence.\nWhen the husband of his contact is found dead, the body horrifically impaled on a shard of window glass, Clement is at first unsure if it is an unfortunate accident, or a gruesome warning. As more deaths are uncovered, Clement realises he is facing not only an enemy spy but a ruthless killer. With limited time, Clement must act quickly, and, if necessary, alone.\nGrantchester and Maisie Dobbs fans will be enthralled. -Publishers Weekly Starred Review

If Necessary Alone

Leschenault Print

In the dark days of 1941, Britain fights on.\nInvasion threatens and fear hangs in the air. Some yearn for peace and an end to the relentless Nazi bombing. Others are spurred on to fight for victory, no matter the cost. And some will manipulate a divided country for their own ends.\nOn a winter’s night, a German spy parachutes into the Cambridgeshire fenland while another man is secretly murdered in the same field. Is he another enemy spy or has he been sent to his death? Either way, a killer lurks.\nMajor Clement Wisdom of Special Duties Branch of the SIS is sent to discover the dead man’s identity and almost immediately uncovers a sinister network of conspiracy where kidnap, murder and revenge threaten not only the safety of the country but Clement’s life.

Where Death and Danger Go

The fourth in the Clement Wisdom Series\nIn late 1941, the Pacific is a very different place from only one year earlier. Japan threatens and vast numbers of Imperial Army spies have infiltrated throughout the Pacific Islands in readiness for conflict.\nJust as he is preparing to leave Australia and return to Britain, Major Clement Wisdom is seconded to lead a small guerrilla force. Their mission: to secure a vitally important person in Singapore and take him, and the secret he carries, back to Australia.\nWhile enroute to the island bastion of the British Far East Fleet, Clement learns that Malaya, Singapore, and Pearl Harbour have all been bombed and war is declared.\nWith no up-to-date intelligence on the volatile region, and leading a group of men he barely knows, much less trusts, Clement’s orders leave him with no option but to proceed. His fears are compounded when one of his men dies in an apparent suicide and it seems likely that there is an enemy spy on board; one who will kill to evade discovery and who is motivated by that oldest of reasons; revenge.

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