Bøker av David Brierley

"Brierley succeeds in escaping from John le Carré's shadow and turning out a book marked by a full measure of originality." New York Times George Orris is a half-Czech British agent working covertly in Prague in 1948 when all of his fellow spies are captured and killed...except for him. There are some spymasters in London who assume his escape obviously means that he's the traitor who betrayed the agents. To prove himself innocent, and to get revenge for the deaths of his colleagues, he sets a trap to expose the mole in war-ravaged Berlin, a city about to be ripped apart by the Communists. It's a complex, deadly game that pits him against the KGB...and his own intelligence service. Praise for Big Bear, Little Bear "Quietly impressive: a sort of shorthand le Carré novel, yet with its own voice: chillier, more sour, less consciously literary. The lean narrative authority is unmistakable." Kirkus Reviews"A good, tight spy thriller." Manchester Evening News "A tightly-plotted story skillfully told and jam-packed with dirty tricks. Readers who want spinetingling drama will find that this suspense novel ranks up there with the best of them." Ashbury Park Press "Done with style. Captures the authentic whiff of a seedy decade." The Guardian "Brierley writes taut chase scenes with surprising twists." Cincinnati Enquirer "Spy-stalks-spy in a spine-tingling finale as deadly and complex as any ever written." Madison Journal

The explosive fifth adventure in the classic Cody series of espionage thrillers.Cody is an ex-spy living in Paris who is hired by a wealthy businessman to find the people responsible for the murder of his wife and the kidnapping of his adopted, Romanian daughter. Her mission pits against corrupt police officers, old enemies in French Intelligence, and a ruthlessly violent European crime syndicate in the fight of her life.

Eve was dead. This much journalist Bazil Potter distinctly understood. Until the evening when he sees her on the TV news, in a clip filmed in Budapest, the city where she died. A clip all recordings of which are swiftly destroyed on the orders of government, the government Eve worked for. He may have no proof, but Bazil knows what he saw and he knows it was Eve. Because no man forgets his wife. So begins Bazil's journey of discovery. A journey that takes him back to Budapest, a city still tormented by memories of Soviet oppression, a city where shady diplomats and ruthless gangsters lie at the heart of a story Bazil knows he will never be allowed to tell, the city where his parents were born and where he buried his wife. Or at least what was found of her in the Danube. A single, severed hand. International praise for David BrierleyTough...witty...in the best tradition of suspense fiction.New YorkerSuper skilled graft of fiction onto history...an authentic winner.Sunday TimesUnusual, exotic and tantalising.Irish TimesHas the rancid strength of a distillation of the best of Le Carré and Deighton: an authentic winner.Sunday TimesIn the top flight of thriller writers.Natal MercurySmashing action scenes...superb entertainment.New York Times Book ReviewEspionage in the le Carré classThe ObserverBrierley's style is first class, and his evocation of external bleakness...is superb.The Jerusalem PostOne is definitely hooked from the first pageBBC French ServiceWritten with all the sly cynicism of the spy world, along with some wonderful descriptions of a country coming to terms with a changing present while living with memories of a cruel history, this is Brierley's first novel in more than twenty years and an elegant reminder of what a fine writer he is.>About the AuthorDavid Brierley was born in Durban. He moved to Canada, then England and back to South Africa all by the age of thirteen. Travel and curiosity about different countries is deep in his nature. After Oxford University, he taught at a lycée in France followed by work in London advertising agencies. Once his career as a novelist was established he moved to France. As>Also by David BrierleyNovelsDead Man Telling TalesCold WarBlood Group OBig Bear, Little BearShooting StarCzechmateSkorpion's DeathSnowlineOne Lives, One DiesOn Leaving a Prague WindowThe Horizontal WomanThe Cloak-and-Dagger Girl>Short Stories>Safe House Books is an independent British publisher of spy fiction which is reviving quality espionage for a new audience.

The third adventure in the classic Cody series of espionage thrillers.Ex-spy Cody is hired to find a pilot who disappeared with his plane somewhere in North Africa. Her search pits her against Skorpion, a terrorist group plotting to establish radical Islamist caliphates across the Arab world, a discovery that forces her into a brutal, agonizing death-march for survival across Tunisia's scorching, desert hell-scape."The events of a complicated plot are neatly strung on a taut thread of tension. It's Cody's mind and voice, however, that steal this book." Publishers Weekly"Cody is a breath of fresh air. She has style and guts. Mr Brierley is a fine writer and Cody is well worth getting to know." Daily Telegraph"Just the right mix of surprises, violence, bloodshed, terror and erotica." Coventry Evening Telegraph"Brierley's engrossing first person narrative becomes addictive. He engages all the senses with tactile descriptions of exotic locations and harrowing images of physical action. The suspense becomes palpable." Boston Herald"A stunner in more ways than one." The Observer (UK)

The fourth action-packed Cody adventure. Ex-spy Cody is hired to deliver $100,000 to fund a medical mission in war-torn village in El Salvador...but she's been tricked. There is no medical mission. There isn't even a doctor. There is only a brigade of violent revolutionaries who want that money to fund their international criminal ambitions. But they don't know Cody...who launches her own, one-woman war against the rebel's Snowline, their cocaine smuggling operation to the outside world. "A furiously-paced thriller in the Modesty Blaise-mold. Very enjoyable." Daily Post (Wales) 'Vividly realised and the pace never lets up" The British Book News "A marvelously entertaining read, a ripping-good adventure." Birmingham Metro News "A stylish thriller." Sunday Mirror

The second espionage adventure in the ground-breaking Cody series. "This tough-minded woman is a perfect heroine and David Brierley's novel is superb entertainment. This novel is packed with smashing action scenes." New York Times Ex-spy Cody reluctantly accepts an assignment from French Intelligence to rescue a rich industrialist's child who has been kidnapped by Blood Group O, a brutal terrorist group. But Cody has her own reasons for hunting them down -- to avenge the death of her lover. Along the way, she uncovers a horrifying assassination plot of massive proportions that only she can stop. "Cunningly contrived and all too believable." Yorkshire Post "A story of breathless excitement. The tension in this thriller is tremendous, the plotting intricate, the characters real and the writing always superb." Evening News "Packed with excitement...Tense, fast moving action spills over the pages in an atmosphere of stark realism." Staffordshire Sentinel "Action and atmosphere are orchestrated to perfection." Chicago Tribune "The plot is engrossing and when it moves, it moves fast." Publishers Weekly