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Espionage Thrillers

Marcus Vane

Cold, cerebral espionage in the le Carre tradition - one city, one ledger, one betrayal at a time.

5 books · read in order

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Book One

The Lisbon Exchange

“For readers of John le Carré, Alan Furst, Mick Herron, and Charles Cumming.”

A dead mentor. A mole no one will name. A betrayal that has been waiting patiently for years. Fourteen months ago, intelligence officer Marcus Vane walked away — from the Service, from the work, from a mission that ended in disast…

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Book Two

The Bucharest Ledger

“For readers of John le Carré, Alan Furst, and Mick Herron.”

The backdoor had an architect. And the architect left a ledger. One betrayal has been exposed — but Marcus Vane knows every operation has a beginning, and this one’s roots run east. From the archives of a service that no longer ex…

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Book Three

The Istanbul Signal

“For readers of John le Carré, Daniel Silva, and Mick Herron.”

Three weeks before she could switch on the most secure communications network the West had ever built, Dr Elif Şahin — one of the finest cryptographers of her generation — was found face-down in the Bosphorus. Officially, an accid…

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Book Four

The Warsaw Revenant

“For readers of John le Carré, Alan Furst, and Charles Cumming.”

At the funeral of a retired GCHQ analyst, Marcus Vane sees a man in the third row who has been dead for years. No one else notices. No one else could — the dead man was very good at being dead. What follows is a quiet excavation o…

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Book Five

The Belgrade Cipher

“For readers of John le Carré, Mick Herron, and Daniel Silva.”

Four investigations. Four times the trail turned away from Belgrade at the exact moment it mattered. Marcus Vane has finally stopped asking who he is chasing and started asking a colder question: who has been steering him away — a…

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Cold, cerebral espionage in the le Carre tradition - one city, one ledger, one betrayal at a time.

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