Brian Freemantle Books in Order

British intelligence officer Adrian Dodds interviews a celebrated Soviet aeronautical scientist who has defected to the West. As Dodds probes Viktor Pavel's motives, he must decide whether this valuable newcomer is trustworthy or concealing a dangerous purpose.

Released from a Siberian prison camp, Soviet negotiator Josef Bultov receives an unusual assignment: arrange a Nobel Prize for a provincial Russian novelist. His own survival depends on satisfying Moscow while navigating the politics surrounding the award.

Israeli commandos search an Austrian lake for Nazi records that could expose escaped war criminals. An ambush and an unexpected discovery of gold turn the operation into a hunt for a missing container and its secrets.

An American grain agreement promises relief for Soviet famine in exchange for military concessions in Eastern Europe. While Washington celebrates, Moscow plans to break the bargain through KGB agent Altmann, whose personal agenda complicates the operation.

Veteran British spy Charlie Muffin has survived decades of dangerous work in Berlin. His new, class-conscious superiors consider him expendable, forcing the rumpled operative to protect himself against betrayal from within his own intelligence service.

The clash between Captain William Bligh and Fletcher Christian drives this fictional account of the Bounty mutiny. It follows the divided crew through an open-boat ordeal, the search for refuge, and the consequences of rebellion.

After his intelligence service tries to sacrifice him, Charlie Muffin disappears abroad with his wife. Returning secretly to England seems safe enough, but former colleagues are still determined to eliminate the embarrassing survivor of their betrayal.

In Hong Kong, fugitive spy Charlie Muffin investigates the destruction of an ocean liner in which his protector has invested millions. An apparent insurance case becomes a dangerous inquiry into arson and competing claims about responsibility.

An abandoned merchant ship triggers an inquiry in Gibraltar after its captain, family, and crew vanish. Prosecutor Frederick Solly Flood suspects murder, while the narrative reconstructs the Mary Celeste's voyage alongside the proceedings against her discoverers.

Working for an English insurer, Charlie Muffin travels to America to protect a valuable collection of Romanov stamps. His security assignment collides with a scheme to use the collection as bait for a powerful drug criminal.

A German consortium builds a secret rocket facility in Africa, ostensibly to launch a communications satellite. When its real surveillance capabilities threaten international security, American and Soviet intelligence must cooperate against a potentially destabilizing technological breakthrough.

CIA operative Hartman, a concentration-camp survivor, tracks a former commandant hiding in Panama behind an altered face. The pursuit exposes wartime arrangements that may implicate a powerful Soviet intelligence figure in protecting escaped Nazi criminals.

Charlie Muffin accepts a jewelry-security job in Rome while struggling with drink and evidence that he is being watched. A mole in the British embassy draws him into another collision between rival intelligence services and hidden agendas.

Harry Rudd inherits his wife's hotel business after her death and concentrates on expanding it into an international empire. As success becomes his consuming ambition, concealed enemies threaten both the company and the man who controls it.

Struggling lawyer Richard Deaken is drawn into an African conflict when rebels demand an arms shipment as ransom for a captive. The kidnapping of his own wife makes negotiations personal and leaves him trapped between armed enemies.

Freemantle examines Soviet intelligence as both an international espionage apparatus and a system of domestic control. His account extends beyond spies to the organization's influence over censorship, education, imprisonment, and the everyday lives of Soviet citizens.

After losing money in a failed silver speculation, a Saudi prince pursues a vast scheme involving gold. Banks, mining interests, and rival nations become entangled in a financial operation capable of disrupting markets far beyond its organizers.

Economist Tom Pike recognizes that international debt defaults could trigger a chain reaction through Western economies. His investigation uncovers a deliberate Soviet scheme, turning an approaching financial disaster into a struggle to prevent the dollar's collapse.

An unsuccessful journalist is assigned to write a flattering biography of his famous war-correspondent father. Investigating a celebrated Vietnam operation instead reveals dangerous secrets connecting its supposed heroes with a man poised for political power.

Newly posted to Moscow, British agent Jeremy Brinkman hopes his diplomatic role will free him from his domineering father. Instead, embassy society and Soviet surveillance entangle him in another system of manipulation he scarcely understands.

Imprisoned for treason, Charlie Muffin escapes alongside a convicted British traitor during a KGB operation. Continuing his secret assignment in Moscow exposes him to Soviet interrogation and a growing attraction to the woman testing his loyalty.

This nonfiction account examines the Central Intelligence Agency's history, personnel, and covert activities. Freemantle considers how its clandestine operations relate to its national-security role, placing the people who conduct intelligence work alongside the institution they serve.

Financial adviser Walter Farrson Howard faces a long prison sentence after his arrest for importing cocaine. Cooperation with the FBI takes him into the world of Colombian traffickers, where helping investigators creates a new set of dangers.

Charlie Muffin goes to Tokyo to help arrange a KGB assassin's defection to America. The Russian insists that his wife receive separate protection in Britain, leaving Charlie to navigate an operation built around distrust and divided loyalties.

Hotel magnate Eddie Franks is drawn into a proposal combining Caribbean cruises with hotel casinos. Organized-crime financing and pressure from the FBI threaten to unravel the business empire and family security he has spent his life building.

Freemantle investigates the international drug business, tracing the power of traffickers and the spread of narcotics beyond Western markets. He examines the shortcomings of efforts to suppress the trade and considers alternatives to prevailing enforcement policies.

This nonfiction investigation examines counterfeiting, stolen corporate secrets, and the appropriation of established brands. Freemantle explores illegal activity within international commerce and warns about the ways illicit practices can acquire acceptance within the legitimate economic system.

KGB hardliner Victor Kazin sees Soviet reform as a threat to the intelligence establishment he serves. Using a mole inside the CIA, he engineers a crisis intended to revive Cold War hostility and preserve the old order.

A defecting KGB cipher specialist brings valuable secrets and a warning of a planned assassination. With the intended victim, location, and timing uncertain, Charlie Muffin must decipher the threat before the killers carry out their mission.

When Janet Stone's fiancé is kidnapped in Beirut, she learns that his supposed State Department job concealed CIA work. Frustrated by official evasions, the widowed lecturer travels to Lebanon and enters a maze of deception and extortion.

A scheme involving stolen American defense secrets draws Charlie Muffin into conflict with his scheming superior and Soviet intelligence. The arrival of his former Russian lover adds a personal vulnerability to an operation designed to compromise him.

CIA assassin Charles O'Farrell has built his life around discipline and certainty about his work. Doubt and drinking begin to undermine that confidence as a new assignment involving an arms-buying Cuban diplomat challenges his professional resolve.

Samuel Bell, director of an overseas branch of British Intelligence, discovers that a Soviet mole is leaking secrets. Across twelve linked stories, his attempt to trap the traitor himself puts his organization at risk of disastrous consequences.

East German spy Otto courts Elke Meyer, a lonely West German official's assistant raising an autistic child. Their apparent romance conceals an effort to obtain government secrets, making personal attachment another weapon in a divided country's intelligence war.

The murder of an American embassy economist in Moscow brings Russian investigator Dimitri Danilov together with FBI agent William Cowley. Their search for a killer becomes entangled with political pressures and corruption surrounding the international investigation.

Relegated to training recruits after the Cold War, Charlie Muffin faces a crisis when his first apprentice is arrested in Beijing. Rescuing the inexperienced agent requires him to return to dangerous operational work against Chinese intelligence.

A Russian diplomat's murder in Washington sends investigator Dmitri Danilov and FBI agent William Cowley after an international criminal network. Their inquiry crosses borders while corrupt officials and competing interests threaten to derail their unusual partnership.

Stolen nuclear-weapons material places Charlie Muffin undercover in Moscow as an arms dealer. He must penetrate the post-Soviet criminal world and prevent a dangerous shipment from reaching buyers willing to exploit Russia's chaotic new opportunities.

Freemantle investigates the expansion of organized crime across Europe after communism's collapse. Drug trafficking, money laundering, weapons, and stolen art feature in his account of international criminal networks and the difficulties confronting police cooperation across national borders.

Sixteen witnesses see Jennifer Lomax kill her husband in his glass-walled office. Her claim that his dead first wife possessed her creates a disturbing question for the ensuing trial: what explains an apparently undeniable act of murder?

After losing his fortune in a failed silver-market scheme, Saudi prince Tefwik Hassan plans to recover it through gold. His international operation attracts powerful and greedy allies, whose competing interests threaten financial chaos and a dangerous struggle for control.

The kidnapping of an American ambassador's young daughter in Brussels exposes a sinister child-abduction network. FBI investigators and a psychological profiler pursue her captors across Europe, racing to find the girl before the criminals can carry out their plans.

Europol profiler Claudine Carter investigates a serial killer whose mutilated victims appear across Europe without an obvious connection. Her husband's recent suicide leaves her vulnerable to personal scandal, complicating a pursuit in which the killer may turn his attention toward her.

Harry Rudd concentrates on expanding the hotel empire inherited after his wife's death, determined to leave personal grief behind. But rivals and hidden enemies turn the company's growth plans into a struggle that threatens both the business and his life.

Serial murderer Harold Taylor has survived successive deaths through reincarnation, using bloodshed to secure another life. Now he seeks a more direct route to immortality by taking another person's body, making his latest scheme a threat that ordinary death cannot resolve.

A Siberian thaw reveals murdered men wearing Second World War Allied uniforms, prompting an international investigation. British operative Charlie Muffin encounters surveillance, obstructive colleagues, and official resistance as he uncovers a secret several governments would prefer to keep buried.

Scientists found at an Antarctic research station have aged far beyond their years, suggesting a disease released from ancient ice. Rival nations search for a cure while political leaders attempt to suppress news of a threat capable of causing worldwide panic.

An assassination attempt against the American and Russian presidents draws Charlie Muffin into a politically explosive investigation. The captured suspect seems an easy answer, but Charlie's doubts put him at odds with fellow agents and endanger both his career and personal relationships.

A missile attack on the United Nations reunites American investigator William Cowley and Russian counterpart Dimitri Danilov. Further attacks by a mysterious group and sophisticated computer intrusions force them to pursue terrorists whose financing and targets cross national boundaries.

Accountant John Carver discovers organized-crime investments hidden in his father-in-law's business records. After confronting the irregularities, he is drawn into a dangerous conflict with New York's mafia, exposing his wife, mistress, and other loved ones to retaliation.

Gene-therapy researcher Richard Parnell makes a breakthrough after compromising his ethics to regain professional standing. His pharmaceutical employer rushes the treatment toward market, but evidence of deadly consequences turns the apparent triumph into a struggle against a powerful corporation.

Sebastian Holmes, Sherlock's estranged son, travels to America to investigate suspected weapons deals with Germany before the First World War. Posing as an investor, he navigates industrial wealth and political intrigue while his father and Mycroft monitor events from Britain.

William Cowley and Dimitri Danilov investigate an alliance between American, Russian, and Italian organized crime. A bombing and the murder of Danilov's lover make the assignment personal, threatening their partnership as professional duty collides with revenge and concealed weaknesses.

In 1913, Sebastian Holmes travels to St. Petersburg as a journalist to investigate Britain's reassuring diplomatic reports. Suspicions of German interference draw him into revolutionary politics, secret-police activity, and intrigues that the British embassy has failed to recognize.

Released after years in prison, former CIA double agent Jack Mason prepares revenge against the Russian officer who exposed him and married his wife. Their protected new life becomes the target of a carefully designed campaign of psychological destruction.

Identity thief Harvey Jordan finances a comfortable life by exploiting wealthy targets through his computer skills. A holiday affair unexpectedly entangles him in an American divorce case, provoking a revenge campaign in which an experienced con man finds himself manipulated.

A disfigured corpse discovered at Britain's Moscow embassy brings Charlie Muffin into a murder investigation obstructed by both diplomacy and intelligence politics. His hopes of seeing his secretly married Russian wife and daughter complicate a case with increasingly dangerous implications.

A desperate call exposes Charlie Muffin's secret marriage to Russian intelligence officer Natalia Fedova. Leading a mission to rescue her, he discovers that his own superiors have priorities beyond protecting his family and must outmaneuver both British and Russian agencies.

Captured during a failed escape from Russia, Charlie Muffin faces interrogators determined to extract decades of Western intelligence secrets. While resisting through deception, he tries to discover whether his wife and daughter escaped and whether anyone can help secure his freedom.

Cyber-intelligence specialist Jack Irvine and British analyst Sally Hanning penetrate terrorist networks to disrupt planned attacks. Their successes conceal growing danger from an elusive mastermind, competing agencies, and colleagues whose political agendas threaten the operation from within.