New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2011). First edition - An international thriller introducing Sam Capra, CIA agent in London, husband and soon-to-be-father -but when a bomb blows the CIA office to smithereens and he only survives because his wife told him to get outside, he is imprisoned and tortured for months, since he is either a traitor himself or a fool - when he is finally released - set up as bait - he encounters another group dedicated to justice - Enthralling, violent and yet still human. Laid in a card with some cocktail recipes from Sam's bars. 400 pp.

New York: New American Library - NAL / Signet, 1979. First edition - "Who was the assassin called Phoenix?" Espionage novel published simultaneously in hardcover and paperback - this proof is for the pocket paperback edition. 298 pp.

Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1934) dj. Hardcover - A young adult adventure novel (with elements of fantasy) set in Baghdad, Persia and Saudi Arabia. 252 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2012). First edition - Set in Vienna in 1913 on the eve of the Great War, this is gripping espionage novel and a moving love story. 353 pp.

New York: Harper Collins, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - An award-winning novelist's contribution to the James Bond series - "It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James BondÑBritish special agent 007Ñis summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime." 322 pp. ISBN: 978-0062223128.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third novel in her award winning series featuring Hannah Vogel, a young woman struggling to make it as a journalist in 1930s Berlin in the years of the rise of the Nazis. In this novel she is covering the 1936 Olympics while posing as a travel reporter and as a lover of an SS officer - and also smuggling secrets out of Germany to Switzerland. Glossary, author's note. 318 pp. ISBN: 978-0765327338.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel by this leading Spanish journalist, a thriller set in post-Franco Spain. Translated by Philip W. Silver. 162 pp. ISBN: 1-555841457.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1987) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in post-Franco Spain, a country rejoicing in newfound freedom but still beset by terrorist violence, corruption and the presence of neo-Fascists and Basque separatists, this is the story of a romance between a politician, advisor to the President, and a young girl, a militant member of the political left, who find themselves caught up in espionage and murder. The first novel by an award-winning journalist. Translated from the Spanish by Philip W. Silver. 162 pp. ISBN: 1-555841457.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, nd. (1959, c 1940, 1941 and 1952.) dj. Hardcover - Omnibus edition containing 3 classic Tony Hambledon spy adventures - Drink to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, and Alias Uncle Hugo. (The first one in the series, 'Drink to Yesterday' was a Haycroft-Queens Cornerstone.) A Crime Club selection. 480 pp. Dust jacket by Ronald Clyne.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, a comic thriller. "Interpreter Stavros de Battista is in Bangkok to work the World League of Parliaments annual conference and to meet his lover Christine, also an interpreter, at the meeting. A switched briefcase is the trigger for a fireworks display of murders, attempted murders, kidnapping, disappearances, and murky political intrigue that suddenly engulf the increasingly befuddled Stavros - who also has to contend with a series of ill-timed phone calls from his shrewish wife at home in Vienna." (Library Journal) 191 pp. ISBN: 0-340508906.

New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A spy thriller in the best English tradition." When Chief Superintendant David Cooper of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad is set to Cambridge to open the investigation into the murder of a visiting professor from Texas, the murder case quickly changes into a conspiracy that threatens thousands. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-312186401.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Bond is recruited by a new agency, conceived in the post 9/11 world. SIGNED on the title page. Deaver is the fifth author to continue the work of Ian Fleming. Glossary. 408 pp plus a note about Ian Fleming. ISBN: 9781451620696.

Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1988. Hardcover - An attractive edition of this first novel featuring a protagonist without a name. Basis for the Michael Caine movie. Frontispiece by Terry Widener, New introduction by the editors. 279 pp.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth espionage novel by this master of the genre, featuring his anonymous and cynical anti-hero (who was given the name 'Harry Palmer' in the films based on his books.) The title refers to Oscar Wilde's comment about Paris. Includes the "Top Secret In Transit Docket," complete with all ten enclosures laid in. 254 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

New York: Putnam, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Deighton's third spy novel featuring his unnamed secret agent, but the second to be published in the US and the second to be made into one of the Harry Palmer films featuring Michael Caine. Nominated for the Edgar award. 312 pp.

New York: Random House, (1981) dj. Hardcover first edition - His second novel, an international thriller - two journalists find themselves hunted and caught up in a world of oil cartels, big business and international espionage. 374 pp. ISBN: 0-394519612.

New York: St Martin's, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth novel in the Jennifer Norrington series by this prolific author (who wrote under many names - Drummond is what he used for his spy novels). The three friends - Jenny, Sandy and Colly - are on the warpath after a friend of Colly dies from a fall off a cliff in Vermont. 224 pp.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel of international intrigue and espionage set in India, by this master of the genre. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-340496606.

New York: Atheneum, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's seventh novel, a complex international thriller involving a defection gone wrong, missing money, and a man determined to prove his innocence, being trailed by the Fraud squad, Special Branch and 2 IRA killers. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-689-109105.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's fourth novel, a stand-alone thriller. "Revere Falk - FBI veteran, Arabic speaker - is an interrogator at 'Gitmo,' assigned to a 'hold-out,' a Yemeni prisoner who may have valuable information about al-Qaeda. But these duties are temporarily suspended when the body of an American soldier is found washed ashore in Cuban territory." Winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award. 323 pp. ISBN: 1-400044669.

New York: Ballantine, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, an international thriller. When the director of the CIA is killed in a car accident (or assassinated), his son-in-law, an attorney and ex-agent, is lured back into the employ of the CIA, where he becomes involved in a top-secret espionage project in telepathy that will endow him with "extraordinary powers." SIGNED on the title page. 449 pp plus brief author's note. ISBN: 0-345386213.

New York: Viking, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An espionage thriller which starts out with a simple jewel robbery, but some becomes a train of plots and counterplots, of mistakes and miscalculations. 389 pp. ISBN: 0-670-32637-2.

New York: Dial Press, (1979) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His second published novel a cold war thriller about a CIA agent who finds himself forced to disobey orders. A NY Times Notable book. SIGNED on the title page. 323 pp. ISBN: 0-8037-86255.

New York: Random House, (2004.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - World War II adventure story of a Dutch tramp freighter whose captain is secretly working for the intelligence division of the British Royal Navy. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 1400060184.

New York: Random House, (2012.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical espionage novel set in 1938 in a Paris where 'political warfare' is at its peak and the money of the Germans is never spoken of - Frederic Stahl, a Hollywood film star, has become part of an informal spy service run out of the American embassy. SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on the title page. 255 pp. ISBN: 9781400069484.

New York: Random House, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Espionage novel set in the world of the Italian resistance to Mussolini, those who had fled to Paris and fought fascism with their typewriters. Maps. 272 pp. ISBN: 1400060192.