Ted Allbeury Books in Order

Ted Bailey thought his intelligence days were over. Dragged back to face an old KGB master spy, he finds the Cold War still runs on fear, manipulation and choices no decent man can make cleanly.

A buried 1940 agreement is uncovered, and Soviet agents plan to use it to wreck NATO. MI6 sends Tad Anders, its hardest operator, into a dangerous hunt for a document that could shake the whole Western alliance.

Scientist James Hallett's Omega Minus discovery puts him in the sights of every major intelligence service. As spies close in and his glamorous mistress is threatened, the race to control the secret turns ruthless.

A wartime friendship formed inside collapsing Nazi Germany returns to haunt Britain decades later. Retired agent Stephen Felinski is called back when a Soviet plan for social and industrial chaos starts to move.

Boat dealer Max Farne is drifting through an easy life on the Italian coast when a beautiful stranger, a missing rich man and a sudden killing pull him into real danger. The trouble only gets worse from there.

What should have been a routine meeting for Max Farne becomes abduction, blackmail and gangland pressure. Forced back into danger, he heads into the Italian mountains to protect an old friend's daughter.

In Moscow, a compromised ambassador, a KGB-backed actor and a web of guilt and desire begin a tense dance of treason. Allbeury turns diplomatic weakness into a Cold War thriller with national consequences.

Fascist violence is rising in West Germany, and the links reach back to the Nazi years. Former intelligence officer David Mills is pulled into a murky fight against sabotage, terror and old loyalties that never died.

A suspicious suicide in modern Britain opens onto the buried history of a French Resistance network. As investigators trace old betrayals back to Vichy France, wartime courage and postwar secrets collide.

Dave Marsh is ordered to investigate Charlie Kelly, a Labour MP and his oldest friend, for passing secrets to the Russians. The case looks simple until Charlie points him toward the hidden truth of the Alpha List.

A devastating 1956 nuclear explosion in the Soviet Union may have been far more than an accident. One man holds the final piece of the puzzle, and what he knows could shift the balance of Cold War power.

A fanatical band of Nazi true believers launches its own invasion of wartime England after Hitler refuses the risk. Their desperate stunt could trigger panic, bloodshed and the emergency signal known as Codeword Cromwell.

Anna Woltman hunts the men responsible for wartime atrocities and her husband's murder. As her revenge trail crosses Europe and America, the secret Nazi network ODESSA moves to stop her.

An SIS agent suspects the American president-elect is tied to Soviet influence through his own inner circle. As witnesses start dying, James Mackay races to prove the threat before inauguration day.

Richter survived a dangerous wartime mission in England and hoped postwar Germany would let him disappear. Instead chance catches up with him, and only one man from his past may be able to save him.

Britain's most notorious traitor wants to come home after years behind the Iron Curtain. John Powell must probe rumor, deception and old loyalties until he reaches the dark heart of Kim Philby's story.

In an alternate 1982, a collapsing neutral Britain accepts Soviet help to restore order. As occupation remakes daily life, a few resisters go underground to decide whether freedom is still worth fighting for.

When Russian defector Colonel Petrov suddenly stops talking, SIS agent James Lawler suspects an older terror beneath the silence. His search leads back into the murky legacy of George Blake and the psychology of treason.

James Harmer and Jane Frazer were brought together by the French Resistance and torn apart by the Gestapo. The war leaves them with betrayal, unfinished love and a thirst for revenge that will not fade.

A Cold War plot driven by mind-control experiments, political murder and secret bargains pulls intelligence officers into territory where conscience barely counts. The real question is what anyone is willing to pay.

SIS officer John Rennie traces a kidnapped colleague to an Arab terrorist cell, then is ordered to answer with a kidnapping of his own. When he rejects the moral cost, his own side turns on him.

Former intelligence man Johnny Grant returns to Ethiopia decades after wartime service, supposedly to look into Soviet and Cuban activity. In Addis Ababa, espionage, local politics and unexpected love pull him far deeper.

Tad Anders has been quietly pensioned off as too violent and unpredictable. But when the KGB launches a wave of kidnappings and assassinations across Europe, British intelligence sends him back for one deniable mission.

Jake Malik is sent to West Germany to uncover KGB activity, but his superiors have a hidden purpose of their own. When his liaison's sister falls for him, the mission threatens far more than a case file.

Four different people in Britain, Berlin and America betray their countries for very different reasons. As love, pressure and ambition pull them in, separate acts of treason begin connecting in dangerous ways.

David Collins rises from a poor Birmingham childhood into a more successful, restless life. As ambition pulls him away from Mary, the wife who shared his beginnings, meeting Sally forces a painful emotional choice.

Drawing on a famous Cold War prisoner swap, this novel follows lives and loyalties shaped by decades of East-West bargaining. Personal history and state secrets meet where human beings become pieces in a geopolitical exchange.

When a senior SIS field officer disappears, Thornton is told to investigate quietly. The trail leads into obstruction, rival intelligence plots, a gifted German girl and a missing spy whose conscience may be the real danger.

The wartime Scorpio network in occupied France was smashed, and only Henri Masson escaped. Forty years later Harry Chapman reopens the case and finds destroyed files, surviving witnesses and secrets powerful people still want buried.

Two Russian defectors tell remarkably similar stories, but they cannot both be telling the truth. MI6 debriefers Hoggart and Fletcher soon fear the case points to a mole placed high inside British intelligence.

This short story collection gathers Allbeury's espionage fiction in compact form. Old operations, private compromises and political loyalties flare up quickly here, showing how much damage betrayal can do in only a few pages.

British intelligence fears a journalist will expose its wartime and postwar dealings with war criminals. Sent to get ahead of the scandal, Mallory uncovers murder, deceit and evidence others would rather erase.

In 1942 three young women are dropped into the Dordogne to work for an SOE network under Harry Bailey. As D-Day approaches, waiting gives way to action, and each must find her own kind of courage.

Charlie Foster betrays his own side to save arrested couriers in East Berlin, then builds a priceless list of Stasi and KGB collaborators. When the Berlin Wall falls, everyone wants either the list or Charlie himself.

Andrei Aarons begins as a young Soviet true believer and grows into a legendary spy in America. His covert life becomes a portrait of communist faith, power and the strange trust leaders place in dangerous men.

Lord Carling seems like a distinguished former SIS officer until whispers suggest his Cold War intelligence was too good to be honest. Tim Mathews digs into his past and finds love, old loyalties and a deception tied to Kim Philby.

In the uneasy years after the Cold War, disillusioned men in Washington, London and Berlin think public life has been hijacked by opportunists. Then the buried secrets of a dead spy offer a dangerous chance to seize control.

In 1985 a well-placed American walks into the Soviet embassy and offers his services, becoming a priceless KGB asset. The CIA officer hunting him faces a brutal question about how dirty a democracy can play.

Former MI6 chief Sir James Frazer sues a hostile biographer and finds his past dragged into public court. The case opens old wounds, private scandals and secrets that could shake the intelligence world.

David Collins returns from war determined to outrun the limits of class and habit, rising from a Birmingham drawing office into London advertising. Success strains his marriage to Mary, and meeting Sally forces a life-changing choice.

Katya Felinska thinks she knows the man she has loved for years, until Max Inman's secret life as an MI6 source turns disaster into a personal crisis. She becomes the one who must fight to save him.

In Moscow, compromised officials, private guilt and intelligence work tangle together around a dangerous web of betrayal. What begins as a personal drama grows into a Cold War crisis with far wider stakes.

Senator Joe Maguire is charged with overseeing MKUltra, the CIA's deeply secret program of drugs, hypnosis and mind control. As the human cost mounts, he must decide how far a democracy can go in the name of defense.

John Rennie investigates the kidnapping of a fellow SIS officer and is pushed toward brutal methods in return. When he recoils from what his service is willing to do, survival becomes his next mission.

Max Farne's lazy days on the Italian coast end with the arrival of a beautiful woman, a disappearance and a killing he cannot avoid. The result is a fast slide into criminal violence and pursuit.