John Trenhaile
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Beyond help. Beyond redemption?
In a Soviet prison camp near Murmansk is an old man, bowed but not broken, identified only by a number. Were his name known, his fellow inmates would kill him.
For this old man is Stepan Povin, former KGB general, now disgraced but kept alive for the sake of the secret that he has retained through two years of interrogation.
Povin's secret is the final link in a chain, the completion of which would make his former...
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The endgame begins…
China's supreme leader is at the point of death, and a complacent world yawns, convinced that the 'sleeping dragon' will never awake. But what if the world is wrong, and China has covertly managed to amass inconceivable military might?
In Hong Kong, the financial and commercial giants have secretly arranged to leave before the Chinese takeover in 1997, their vast assets wired to safety by brilliant software codenamed The...
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There's a mole at the top of the KGB…
A double agent is leaking crucial Soviet secrets to London from the heart of Moscow. He must be stopped before the leak becomes a full, raging meltdown.
The KGB director turns to Ivan Bucharensky – codename Kyril – to smoke him out.
Kyril becomes live bait for both sides. The British think he's a double agent. The Russians in London know Kyril must die. The mole thinks Kyril suspects his identity.
Hunted...
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A new supercomputer spells doom for Taiwan…
Amid the explosion of computer technology in the 1990s, nothing comes close to Apogee – a software program able to process human speech in any language, paving the way for pilotless planes, driverless tanks and a global communications network limited only by human imagination.
China, soon to resume control of Hong Kong, is now obsessed with an even greater prize in its long march to Pacific supremacy:...
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The game has begun, Hong Kong is the prize.
Britain's surrender of Hong Kong to China has been set for 1997. But not everyone is happy. Russia, in particular, dreads the catastrophic upheavals – strategic, economic and political – that must follow.
The KGB plot to ensure that China will inherit only a worthless shell, racked by social and financial instability. Pitted against them are the elite cadres of Chinese Intelligence – the Mahjong...