Category Archives: Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

Audiobook: Secret Agent

The Secret Agent is Conrad’s dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies,

Audiobook: Spy

James Fenimore Cooper’s second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott’s Waverly

Audiobook: Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist

Audiobook: Riddle of the Sands

Containing many realistic details based on Childers’ own sailing trips along the German North Sea

Audiobook: History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and

Audiobook: Elusive Isabel

Elusive Isabel is a novel by Jacques Futrelle (April 9, 1875 – April 15, 1912)

Audiobook: Michael Strogoff

This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander

Audiobook: Find the Woman

Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you

Audiobook: Moneychangers

A story of white collar crime and intrigue told from the point of view of

Audiobook: Great Impersonation

E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30

Audiobook: King of the Khyber Rifles

Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI.

Audiobook: Wife of the Secretary of State

In this political thriller set at the turn of the 20th century, several lives, both

Audiobook: Philip Dru: Administrator

Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously

Audiobook: Democracy – An American Novel

Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the

Audiobook: Red and the Black, Volume I

Stendhal – a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to

Audiobook: Mr. Standfast

This is the third of Buchan’s Richard Hannay novels, following The Thirty-nine Steps and Greenmantle.

Audiobook: Octopus

Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel

Audiobook: False Faces

This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his

Audiobook: Pawns Count

“I am for England and England only,” John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. “I am for

Audiobook: Emperor’s Candlesticks

When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions.

Audiobook: Dangerous Days

Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will

Audiobook: Greenmantle (Version 2)

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in

Audiobook: Under Western Eyes

Under Western Eyes (1911) is a novel by Joseph Conrad. The novel takes place in

Audiobook: Cabinet Secret

Witty spy adventure set during the Boer Wars of the late 19th Century. – Summary

Audiobook: Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Version 2)

The Secret Agent tells the story of Adolf and Winnie Verloc. He is a phony

Audiobook: Savrola

Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania is the only major fictional work of

Audiobook: Gadfly

An adventure thriller set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of

Audiobook: Moonstone (version 2)

Said to be the first detective novel ever written, it is wonderful for its blending

Audiobook: House of Whispers

This is a story about a young lady and her blind father who live in

Audiobook: Strangers And Pilgrims

Strangers and Pilgrims follows the journey of Elizabeth Lutterell from a vain, beautiful and self-centred