In this collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite convincingly--as a nun. In another, an invitation to join the Vatican Secret Service sends a prospective operative down a rabbit hole of controversy and confusion. A third story finds an author, on the brink of public ruin,...

A lone operative working in the shadows for Treadstone, Jason Bourne engages in a cat-and-mouse game across the British countryside with the assassin known only as Lennon--a mission that calls into question everything he thought he knew about the past.

When he unwittingly becomes caught in a war between the world’s oldest bank and the CIA, one that directly involves the Black Eagle Trust and a legendary treasure worth billions, retired Justice Department operative Cotton Malone, must stop cryptocurrency from being weaponized to attack the world’s financial systems.

In 1928, 12-year-old orphan Cristabel Seagrave and the rest of the household build a theatre from a whale’s skeletal rib cage, where imagination comes to life and where her acting comes into play years later as she becomes a British secret agent on a dangerous mission in Nazi-occupied France.

Waking up in Paris with no memory of who she is, a young woman discovers that she is the identical twin of a rogue spy and, to stay alive, must team up with a very grouchy, very sexy, very secret agent to unravel a deadly conspiracy and clear her sister's name.

During the D-Day invasion, sniper Earl Swagger embarks on a secret and dangerous mission to find the spy who is tipping off the Germans about American positions.

1985. When a possible Soviet defector offers the CIA details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum, former Marine and brilliant CIA analyst Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to find answers before the Cold War turns into a Red Winter.

Extraordinary intelligence field agent Evan Ryder, when an elite Russian scientist and the American secretary of defense die, at the same time half a world apart, of inexplicable sudden catastrophic brain damage, risks her life to stop a quantum war.

It's 1998, and Andrew Callahan arrives in Beijing planning to spend an adventurous year teaching at the renowned International Affairs University. The IAU is known as a training ground for diplomats and spies. But Andrew has no idea that his budding relationship with Lily Jiang will also entangle him in a conspiratorial web of worldwide proportions. A CIA officer approaches Andrew and informs him that Lily's father is a top Chinese general who wants...

Gentleman spy and MI6 legend Alex Hawke finds his plans for some R&R thwarted by his boss who wants to use him to drive a knife into the heart of a conspiracy involving an unholy alliance of nations who are plotting to attack Western democracies.