David Audley series by Anthony Price (#1-#19)
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Overview: These books focus on a group of counter-intelligence agents who work for an organization modeled on MI5. They usually refer to their employer obscurely as "the Ministry of Defence",
Genre: Mystery, Spy Thriller
1. The Labyrinth Makers
David Audley is an unlikely spy. True, he works for England’s Ministry of Defense, but strictly as a back-room man, doing meticulous research on the Middle East. This new assignment, then, comes as something of a surprise: A WWII-era British cargo place has been discovered at the bottom of a drained lake, complete with the dead pilot and not much else. Why are the Soviets so interested in the empty plane and its pilot?interested enough to attend the much-belated funeral? And why has Audley been tapped to lead the investigation? As Audley chips away at the first question, he can’t stop asking the second. Could he possibly have been given the assignment in order to fail, to preserve the decades-old secrets at the bottom of the lake? If that’s the case, someone’s made an error. Audley’s a scholas by training, temperamentally allergic to loose ends. And the story he unravels is going to make some people very uncomfortable indeed.
2. The Alamut Ambush
The Assassin — He was right at home in Alamut. It was there, in Northern Persia in the eleventh century, that the sect of the Assassins began at Hashashin Castle. And it is from there today that a new killer comes to spread murder throughout the Middle East. From the moment the classic car belonging to the head of the Middle Eastern Section explodes, killing a young electronics expert, David Audley must put a cap on a deadly and explosive threat to security.
3. Colonel Butler’s Wolf
The Russians are looking for a few good men…
…and they’re doing most of their looking within the British university system. It’s a ploy which has served them well in the past, but now there’s a difference. As Dr. David Audley discovers very quickly, the aim of the Soviets is not simply to recruit, but lay the groundwork for destruction.
From the dim, comfortable reading rooms of Oxford to the bleak moors stretchin away from Hadrian’s Wall, Audley searches for the Russian wolf in don’s clothing. What Audley can’t know is that the agent has been forbidden to fail…on pain of death!
4. October Men
In Anthony Price’s fourth novel featuring the intellectual and understated British Intelligence agent, Dr. David Audley, British Intelligence fears it may be losing its vital agent to the other side. Anthony Price is a bestselling British author of sophisticated espionage thrillers.
5. Other Paths to Glory
Paul Mitchell spends his days researching WWI; his quiet life in the library can hardly be in greater contrast to the carnage he studies. Until, that is, the present catches up with him in the shape of Dr Audley of the MOD. Why does Audley want to know what really happened during the battle for Hameau Ridge on the Somme in 1916? The answer is complex and dangerous.
6. Our Man In Camelot
A US Air Force plane mysteriously vanishes on a flight from its base in Britain. The CIA investigation of the missing pilot turns up odd information. A search of Major Davies’ cottage reveals a strong interest in the literature about King Arthur. Strangely too, there are important links between Arthurian research and key documents held in Russian libraries. And there are some curious rumors that the KGB is also investigating the precise site of the Arthurian Battle of Badon.
What possible concern can the Soviet secret police have in the site of a 6th-century battle? Why should the Russians have shot down Davies–if indeed they did? And why should the CIA be so concerned? The top British agent, Dr. David Audley, becomes deeply involved before he realizes that he is being brilliantly conned.
By the time the surprising conclusion is reached, the reader has become engrossed in Arthurian legends and in an absorbing battle of wits waged between highly sophisticated players on all three sides.
7. War Game
In the rural peace of modern England a war game recreates the slaughter of the Civil War. But when the battle ends, a real corpse is left it the Swine Brook; and an aristocratic but impoverished revolutionary claims to have found a cache of ‘Cromwell’s Gold’.
When David Audley is called in, seventeenth-century secrets and the deadly game of modern espionage clash in a brilliantly intricate thriller of bluff and counter-bluff.
8. The ’44 Vintage
A few weeks after D-day the German army in the West is retreating, with the British and the Americans in hot pursuit. But Major O’Conor, ex-liaison officer with the Yugoslav Partisans, is conducting his own private war. As he leads his hand-picked team of ruthless fighters deep behind the German lines, it becomes clear that he regards French Resistance units and British Intelligence agents as more dangerous to his mission than the Germans.
So it is unfortunate for him that two interpreters attached to his task force happen to be Second-Lieutenant Audley and Corporal Butler, already revealing the cunning and resourcefulness that, in earlier novels, has taken them to the very top of their field.
Major O’Conor’s startling objective remains unknown to everyone except himself until the final pages – where a shattering surprise lies in store.
9. Tomorrow’s Ghost
In this latest and most brilliant espionage novel from the award-winning author of Here Be Monsters, an ex-secretary with a natural talent for espionage is recruited by spymasters Dr. David Audley and Col. Jack Butler to track down a "phantom" from the past.
10. The Hour of the Donkey
24 May 1940. Why did Hitler stop the Panzers and allow the British army to escape to Dunkirk?
Anthony Price provides an answer in this brilliant, compulsively readable thriller of two young officers pitchforked into the chaos of war. The German advance strands them behind enemy lines, where they witness an extraordinary scene: a high-ranking British officer consorting with Nazis. The possible explanations are shattering – not only for them but for the fate of the whole British Expeditionary Force.
11. Soldier No More
Britain’s master spy Dr. David Audley goes up against the KGB and a band of Algerian terrorists in this fast-paced thriller set in 1957 France. "The ingenuity is staggering, and the execution impeccably neat".–Times Literary Supplement.
12. The Old Vengeful
When David Audley, that most subtle of Intelligence chiefs, sends his insubordinate protege Paul Mitchell off to investigate a KGB operation by researching a long-forgotten naval engagement off France in 1812, it doesn’t look to Mitchell as if it will lead anywhere. But the fate of the crew of the Vengeful has more than a few surprises in store for Mitchell and suddenly the past throws a dazzling and very dangerous light on the present.
13. Gunner Kelly
An innocent advertisement placed by a retired war hero and British countryside squire leads to explosive results when the IRA becomes involved. Spymaster David Audley of British Intelligence is assigned the case and quickly finds evidence of involvement by the CIA and KGB!
14. Sion Crossing
In this, the author’s 14th David Audley novel, Oliver St John Latimer – the Deputy-Director of the Research and Development Section of British Intelligence – is sent to deepest Georgia. Here he follows in the footsteps of General Sherman’s troops to the Sion Crossing ruins, with fearful results.
15. Here Be Monsters
The death of a former member of the elite U.S. Army ranger fighting force is the opening salvo in a new battle between Dr. David Audley of British Intelligence and the KGB. Twelfth in a series of novels about this intellectual spy, including the most recent Sion Crossing. Newspaper advertising in major markets.
16. For The Good Of The State
General Zarubin, the Soviet mastermind, confronts his Number Two, the infinitely wily Professor Nikolai Andrievich Panin, on a point overlooking the British Channel.
Meanwhile, Henry Jaggard of British Intelligence, has two pressing problems. He knows the Soviets are mounting a defensive program against a Polish dissident group in Britain, but he cannot intervene without jeopardizing his best inside agents. And Dr David Audley, of the Intelligence R&D Department, has been playing clever politics again; to bring him to heel, Jaggard needs firsthand evidence.
Jaggard sees his opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. The Professor has formally requested a meeting with Audley, his old adversary. And, with one of Jaggard’s own men to abet him, Audley can be safely relied upon to overstep the mark in his attempts to frustrate the KGB…
17. A New Kind Of War
A New Kind of War takes us back to the Greece and Germany of 1945 – as the old kind of war comes to its official end.
Why has David Audley broken the British-Greek truce? And furthermore, why did his brigadier order his actions? Is it just coincidence that Audley is surprised near Delphi by Captain Fattorini of the Royal Engineers?
As a result of that unfortunate encounter, Fattorini finds himself in occupied Germany as the newest member of TRR-2: a special Intelligence unit engaged in a dangerous and brutal game. It is not until he at last meets Audley’s mysterious brigadier that Fattorini learns the full truth about his own assignment in the ill-omened Teutoburg Forest.
18. A Prospect Of Vengeance
The evacuation of Philip Masson’s body near Mrs Griffin’s cottage resurrects several old ghosts that send the newshounds scurrying to dig in their clippings archives. Rumours, matured with the passing years since Masson’s ‘disappearance’ way back in 1978, once more abound.
But the investigative team of Ian Robinson and Jenny Fielding are already on a trail of discovery that leads back to the end of the Wilson/Callaghan era. Jenny has overheard a snatch of gossip at an embassy party which seems to implicate British Intelligence’s David Audley in the original cover-up of Masson’s death . . . and Jenny has a personal interest in that affair.
But it is not until the labyrinthine trails come together on a Spanish battlefield that Jenny learns why it is that Philip Masson had to die.
19. The Memory Trap
Even in the era of glasnost a defector is worth having, especially if he is a senior computer specialist in Russian military intelligence. But when the defection goes wrong, the British are left with three bodies and two inadequate clues to the nature of the information they might have been offered, and which now lies buried somewhere in the collective memories of David Audley and his one-time colleague Major Peter Richardson.
But what is the secret Audley shares with the half-Italian Richardson, now frightened into hiding somewhere in Italy? For once David Audley has no idea and the race is on to find the elusive Major. But Audley’s objective is fast being overtaken by modern political imperatives – ones very different from the black and white certainties of the old Cold War days…
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