Mark Henshaw Libri

When a body with Russian military tattoos is found floating in a lake outside Berlin, the CIA immediately takes notice. The body is identified as the director of Russia’s Foundation for Advanced Nuclear Research, who is also a CIA asset. And the murder coincides with the defection of one of the CIA’s upper-level officers. Alden Maines is jaded after years in the CIA cleaning up the messes of incompetent political appointees in dangerous foreign posts. When he is passed over for promotion, Maines crosses the Rubicon and decides to cash in as a double agent for Russia. But while Maines dreams of off-shore bank accounts and a new secret life, Arkady Lavrov of Russia’s intelligence service (GRU) has other plans. He immediately announces Maines’s defection to the world and then pumps him for every last ounce of intel, including the names of every agent in the CIA’s Moscow Station and their assets working in the Kremlin. But why would Lavrov burn an asset whose intel and access could pay dividends for years to come? What is Lavrov up to? Traveling from Langley to Berlin and finally Moscow—working black without backup—analyst Jonathan Burke and agent Kyra Stryker are up against their most formidable enemy yet, and their lives and the fate of America’s most important assets in the New Cold War hang in the balance.

New Red Cell Chief Kyra Stryker has barely settled into the job when an attack on an Israeli port throws the Middle East into chaos. The Mossad -- Israel's feared intelligence service -- responds with a campaign of covert sabotage and assassination, determined to protect the homeland. But evidence quickly turns up suggesting that a group of moles inside Langley are helping Mossad wage its covert war. Convinced that Mossad has heavily penetrated the CIA's leadership, the FBI launches a counterintelligence investigation that threatens to cripple the Agency -- and anyone who questions the official story is suspect. With few officials willing to help for fear of getting accused, Kyra turns to her former mentors -- now-retired Red Cell Chief Jonathan Burke and his wife, former CIA Director Kathryn Cooke -- to help uncover who is trying to tear the CIA apart from the inside out

I felt as though I was walking on a precariously thin, transparent laminate between the mirror image of two separate worlds. Any minute, if I lost my footing and missed meeting the foot which rose to meet mine, I ran the risk of falling through. When Wolfi, a brilliant young philosophy student, begins recounting his life—from his inquisitorial father and passionate mother, to his eccentric grandmother who paid for his sexual initiation with the beautiful Andrea—we are lured into a mysterious and erotic maze. But what in fact is fact, and what in fiction is fiction? Brilliantly seductive, Out of the Line of Fire was the literary sensation of the year when it was first published, in 1988.

A novel of exquisite beauty, which evades categorisation The Times

Chinas neue Geheimwaffe droht den 3. Weltkrieg zu provozieren. Nachdem ihr erster Einsatz in einer Katastrophe endet, wird die junge Agentin Kyra Stryker zu Schreibtischarbeit verdonnert. Schlimmer noch: Sie soll mit dem arroganten Analytiker Jonathan Burke zusammenarbeiten, der sich mit seinen Chefs angelegt hat. Als kurz darauf bei einer Razzia in Taiwan chinesische Spione erschossen werden, plant die chinesische Regierung die Invasion des Inselstaates. Kyra und Burke erhalten nun die Chance, sich zu rehabilitieren, indem sie einen in die Invasionspläne eingeweihten chinesischen Überläufer aus seinem Heimatland herausholen. Doch ihre Aufgabe entpuppt sich schon bald als Himmelfahrtskommando …