This cold-war thriller, winner of the British Crime Writers' Association's 2005 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, is set weeks before the fall of the Berlin Wall. In September, 1989, the Stasi threaten the family of one of its ex-agents...

In Henry Porter's critically acclaimed novel The Bell Ringers, England in the near future is eerily familiar. There are concerns about terrorism, the press is feisty, and the prime minister is soon to call a general election. But quie...