The numbers are small. Scattered across the landscape that was Nazi Germany, the Resistance looks puny: too little, too late. And yet, in the context of a police state, it assumes larger proportions. For those who have never known life under such a regime, it is hard to grasp the daily terror that makes an act of political graffiti a capital offense, that labels resistance "treason." Read More...

For John Rain, getting out of the life was never going to be easy. but with a new identity in Paris, and the help of his lover, Mossad agent Delilah, he was beginning to leave the killing business behind. And then he receives a message from rogue CIA operative Jim Hilger... Read More...

Mr Davenport has written a witty and learned introduction on various methods of murder. He has explored the many possibilities, including a number that are not included in this anthology. The examples are drawn from history and fiction, and range from classical Greece and Biblical times to the present. Read More...

When the English capture Calais, the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, there is no end to the fighting. He has to find the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy: his cousin, Guy Vexille. Read More...

It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal and push the British back into the sea. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. Read More...

It is 1810 and the French are making yet another attempt to invade Portugal and push the British back into the sea. Facing them is a wasted land, stripped of food by Wellington's orders, and Captain Richard Sharpe. But Sharpe is in trouble. Read More...

India, 1803. It is four years since Richard Sharpe earned his sergeant's stripes at the siege of Seringapatam, and four years in which Sharpe seems to have discovered the easiest billet in the British army. But that comfort is rudely shattered when he witnesses a murderous act of treachery by ... Read More...

Harlequins are lost souls, so loved by the devil that he would not take them to hell, but left them to roam the world. In French the word is hellequin and that is what they called the English archers who came across the Channel to lay waste the towns and countryside. Read More...

Following the outstanding success of his Arthurian trilogy, Stonehenge is the story of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple we know as Stonehenge. Read More...

'It is a good season, Igraine tells me, to write of old things and so she has brought me a fresh pile of skins, a flask of newly mixed ink and a sheaf of quills. Tell me of Arthur, she says, of Golden Arthur, our last and best hope, our king who never was king, the enemy of God and scourge of Saxons. Tell me of Arthur.' Read More...