For Lia Beckett life is good. Not a care in the world. Until the night the war came to Cape Town...
It’s October 1942 and a surprise attack by German U-boats sinks 4 ships off the Cape coast. Lia’s father is amongst the sailors reported missing. She’s alone. In the blink of an eye life has become very serious. Responding to a newspaper advertisement she finds herself thrust into a world of top secret technology. Then a man comes into her life. He makes everyone else she’s ever dated seem like boys. He has a mysterious side which is a little intriguing, even thrilling. Then the doubts set in. Could he be responsible for her misfortune? Is this her worst nightmare? Can she use the secret technology at her fingertips to exact revenge – or will he simply slip away? Using anecdotes and actual historical events this thriller will keep the reader guessing until the last page.
‘You wouldn’t be my first choice,’ Churchill told him – and right now Penn McGavell doubts he’d even be his last...
It’s 1914, the eve of the Europe’s biggest conflagration and McGavell has just botched a crucial espionage assignment. When London casts him aside to the far-flung outpost of Zanzibar, he goes to war. A personal war ultimately catapulting him from East Africa into the midst of the Arabian Revolution. Ambushing trains is dangerous enough, but close on his heels are two women with vastly different designs on his fate. It’s all building to a dramatic conclusion. Will he succeed or succumb? And will the conflict in the ancient gebels of Arabia force him to confront the greatest demon of all: his own redemption? This is one of the great untold stories of the First World War and perfect for fans of Wilbur Smith, Clive Cussler or Tony Maxwell.
A land of opportunity. A tragic past. A brutal future ... The gripping sequel to Those Who Favour Fire.
After intervening in an Irish arms-smuggling operation, Ram and Tarran McGavell flee to the continent they were torn from as boys. Back on African soil the brothers join forces to build a business empire. They’re also about to discover a simple truth: you can be fiercest friends and fiercest foes … but you can’t be both. After returning from the Second World War Ram relishes his prosperity and life with the only woman he ever loved. But he soon discovers it’s the eye of a storm. A brief interlude before being swept into a conspiracy of shifting alliances and dark ambitions. Of two brothers set on a collision course against a backdrop of unfolding violence in a region liberating itself from its colonial past. From the treacherous Irish Sea to the hostile goldfields of South Africa, from the unforgiving Libyan Desert to the awe-inspiring “Painted Hills”, Bring Me Giants is a riveting saga of love and hate, betrayal and revenge, and a ruthless pursuit of destiny that leaves no-one unscathed.
Africa's ultimate Cold War countdown. It’s the 1970s and the South African government is playing by the world’s nuclear rule book …
Until they discover a hostile neighbour concealing a ballistic missile. Then the gloves come off.
With ever-deepening international sanctions and isolation, Washington wants to know what they’re up to. Regan Coleman is sent to find out.
But how do you infiltrate a fortress?
She targets Letterman McGavell. Called “the fixer” he’s deep inside South Africa’s nuclear establishment. But he has problems of his own. With a spy on his doorstep and snooping satellites overhead, he’s outgunned and overstretched.
Then a rogue Atlantic nuclear detonation sends everything spiralling.
Will he cross the line and collaborate with the CIA?
Because in a deadly race against time, the only other person he can rely on is the one he trusts least. And it’s his own flesh and blood.
From the Kalahari Desert to the ice-clogged Arctic Circle, from sun-dappled trout streams to the rattling heartbeat of the Moscow underground, this third McGavell novel is an electrifying tale of espionage, conspiracy and betrayal in classic Cold War style. A must-read for Tom Clancy, Frederick Forsyth and Wilbur Smith fans.