For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth - Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia - fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy…
When it was first published in 1932, "Memoirs of a British Agent" achieved bestseller status both in the United States and in Great Britain. R.H. Lockhart's account of the years he spent representing …
The complex story of a notorious law-suit in which love and inheritance are set against the classic urban background of 19th-century London, where fog on the river, seeping into the very bones of the …
The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy masterpieces, Go Spy the Land is George Alexander Hill's account of perilous adventure in pre- and post-Bol…
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new idea…
The final episode of the trilogy depicting ‘Sam Mitchell’s war with Russian organised crime’ is again an ambitiously conceived, complex and plausible conspiracy thriller, enmeshed with thought-provoki…
In this gripping narrative Peter Hopkirk tells how Lenin and his revolutionary comrades tried, in the period between the two world wars, to set the East ablaze w…
From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as “crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today.” Sweeping from the dra…
An extraordinary true life espionage classic and a fascinating document of the horror and excesses of early Soviet Russia. Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revoluti…
Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War…
