Books like Declare
In 1963 Andrew Hale, a British academic who was a wartime spy, gets a coded phone call that sends him back to Operation Declare, the secret mission on Mount Ararat that went wrong in 1948.
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Last Call
Scott Crane, a professional gambler who lost an eye in a strange poker game on a houseboat on Lake Mead twenty years ago, finds that the men he played with then want to finish what they started.
A Dark Matter
In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.
The Dragon Waiting
In a fifteenth century where Byzantium rules much of Europe and the old gods were never quite driven out, a Welsh wizard, a Florentine physician, a German mercenary and a Byzantine prince come together around the young Duke of Gloucester.
Mythago Wood
Back in England after the Second World War, Steven Huxley returns to the family house beside Ryhope Wood, the ancient forest his late father spent his life studying, where his brother is now as obsessed as their father was.
Alif the Unseen
Alif, a young grey-hat hacker in an unnamed Gulf emirate, hides his clients from the state's security service until a broken love affair puts him in its sights, along with a mysterious old book, the Thousand and One Days.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
A retired spy is called back to find the Soviet mole buried deep inside British intelligence, in a methodical, devastating dismantling of institutional betrayal.
The Separation
The historian Stuart Gratton comes across a puzzle in Churchill's memoirs, a J. L. Sawyer who seems to have been at once a bomber pilot and a conscientious objector, and the answer lies with Jack and Joe Sawyer, identical twins who rowed for Britain at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Harry August, born in 1919, lives his life, dies and is born again in the same year with all his memories, and at the end of his eleventh life a little girl brings him a message from the future.
Foucault's Pendulum
Three Milan editors invent a conspiracy theory as a joke, linking the Templars to every secret society in history, and then discover that some people believe it.
Our Share of Night
A boy is chosen by a secret society that harvests children's pain, and the horror spans decades and continents in this sprawling Argentine gothic.
The Secrets We Kept
In 1956 the CIA recruits Irina, a young Russian-American typist, to work alongside Sally, an experienced agent, on a plan to smuggle Boris Pasternak's banned Doctor Zhivago into the Soviet Union.
Tree of Smoke
A CIA operative, a missionary, and a Vietnamese double agent move through the fog of the Vietnam War, where no one's motives are what they seem.