Adrian Magson

When a Paris street criminal is stabbed to death near the village of Poissons-les-Marais, in rural Picardy, it seems just another job for Inspector Rocco. But the Interior Ministry in Paris has other ideas, odering him off the case to babysit a Gabonese government minister on the run after a coup.

France, 1964. At the exclusive Clos du Lac sanitarium, a man is discovered standing in the therapy pool: someone has chained him to the bottom, and left him there to slowly die. Inspector Lucas Rocco believes it to be an elaborate method of execution, but finds that the inhabitants of the Clos du Lac are unwilling to talk. Meanwhile, ministry officials sent from Paris to 'assist' in the investigation attempt to impede Rocco's efforts to find answers....

When two British intelligence agents are despatched to negotiate the release of a group of western hostages in Somalia, something about the operation doesn't stack up. Unwilling to sacrifice two agents, MI6 operator Tom Vale covertly hires deep cover specialist Marc Portman to protect.

Marc Portman, codename Watchman, is in Russia providing covert back-up to wealthy Russian businessman Leonid Tzorekov. A former KGB officer sympathetic to the West, Tzorekov has close links with Vladimir Putin and is planning to use his influence with the President to improve relations between Russia, the USA and the European Union. However, there are those with vested interests in maintaining hostilities: powerful men who will go to any lengths to...

Harry Tate must find Clare Jardine, a former agent as skilled as himself, who was wounded saving his life and has now disappeared after the Russians assassinated a fellow hospital patient, before the Russians and an old enemy find her first.

Former MI5 officer Harry Tate is charged with finding the truth about a war atrocity that allegedly took place under his watch in Kosovo in 1999, but a skillful assassin is taking out potential witnesses before Harry can discover the facts.

In this mystery novella set in 1960s France, the assassination of an ex-priest has a rural police inspector digging through the war-torn past. A former village priest shot dead execution-style in a snow-covered field re-opens memories of a wartime scandal around the villages of Poissons-les-Marais and Fouillmont, when young infatuation led to a spate of coldly efficient assassinations. But who's responsible for this particular killing? And why...

In this mystery set in 1960s France, a series of unusual suicides lead a rural police inspector to a troubling conspiracy. Murder by suicide? Three senior government officials-a judge, a politician, and an ex-police chief-are all dead by their own hands. Inspector Lucas Rocco finds himself once more working for the Interior Ministry: undertaking an investigation meant to avoid a government scandal and ignoring unpalatable truths. He's soon convinced...

In this mystery set in 1960s France, a rural police inspector is on his own when no one believes his suspicions of three seemingly normal English tourists. France, 1963. A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Amiens, Picardie, followed by gunfire. A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight. A homeless man's body is discovered in a burnt-out truck. All this occurs after multiple attempts on the President's life. Inspector...

Second in the brand-new Harry Tate thriller series - In western Baghdad, a suicide bomber blows up a fortified house, killing everyone inside. In Norfolk, England, a runaway Libyan banker is assassinated. Different events, half a world apart - but closely linked. Former M15 agent Harry Tate has been hired by a government fixer to find two runaways, but then both are assassinated. Despite his misgivings, he is persuaded into a third assignment, but...