Bøger af Sharon Stein

A suicide bomber from the Palestinian Islamic Front for Jihad and Liberation (PIFJL) tries to blow up Waterloo Tube Station in London. Thanks to the efforts of the Mossad, the Semtex bomb fails to detonate, but it explodes later in a PIFJL safe house. Leaders of the PIFJL need a new place to set up base, and choose a remote Greek island. However, members of the anti-Moslem Greek Spartan League intercept the motor launch carrying the PIFJL explosives and weapons. When the League sees a letter describing the British Government's secret plans to recognize the Turkish occupation of Northern Cyprus, leaders plot retaliation using the stolen munitions. Despite the best efforts of MI5 and the Mossad, London's Tube commuters are once again in serious danger.

In August 1942, an Egyptian antiquities dealer buys photographs from a South African traitor and passes them on to Field Marshal Rommel. The photos reveal the highly successful weapons trial of a new anti-tank shell, made from an alloy of promethium, that will critically affect the outcomes of the pending tank battles at El Alamein and Stalingrad. The Abwehr dispatches agent Gretchen Konrad to New Zealand to locate the promethium mine. A Nazi agent already in New Zealand manages to acquire a government document that contains the locations of four secret mines. But which is the promethium mine? Gretchen struggles to visit each in turn. Eventually she manages to penetrate the exclusion zone in the southern tip of New Zealand to reach Coopers Island. But have the Allies really found a source of the rare-earth element there? And what effect does the new shell have on the war in the Western Desert and on the Eastern Front in Russia?

What do an artist, a scientist, a soldier, a jeweler, a journalist, a radiologist, an art dealer, a pornographer, and even an artificial intelligence device have in common? In this collection of twenty-five short stories, it turns out that the characters areall deceivers of one sort or another.

Hector Longstreet should have retired years ago, but he still teaches Latin and Greek at a school in England because it's the middle of the Second World War, and the younger schoolmasters are serving in the military. However, Hector's real interest in life is composing cryptic crosswords. His puzzles, published in a British Sunday newspaper, end up in the hands of the Germans. Is he passing secrets to the enemy via the answers to his fiendishly difficult clues, or perhaps via the clues themselves? Or is the crossword traitor Bridget Hawkesbury, another composer of cryptic puzzles, who was trapped in Germany when war broke out? Bridget is imprisoned in an internment camp in Upper Silesia. The camp commandant gives her Hector's puzzles to solve, after which he forwards her solutions to German Military Intelligence in Berlin. And what about the crossword set by MI5 officers to inform the Germans where the D-Day landings will take place? This fast-paced thriller has clues aplenty-but few answers until the exciting finish.

On May 10, 1941, Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer of Nazi Germany, flies to Scotland on his own initiative to negotiate a peace treaty between Britain and Germany. Furious, Adolf Hitler orders his secret agents in Britain to locate Hess and kill him. MI5, the British secret service, intercepts the message and uses it to smoke out German agents in Britain, employing two Hess look-alikes as bait. German Military Intelligence sends an SS assassin, Major Helmut Kirchgässner, to Britain to kill Hess. A tense game of cat-and-mouse ensues in southeast England and western Scotland, with multiple cats and multiple mice.