Brain Freemantle, Author, Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-312-07625-2
Although recent events have outrun its premise, this latest espionage thriller from a master storyteller still intrigues and satisfies. The KGB puts an East German agent in place to seduce the assistant of a West German Cabinet member and ply her...
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Brian Freemantle, Author Tor Books $17.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-312-85004-3
Freemantle ( Betrayals ) takes perhaps too much time getting his thriller off the ground, but once aloft it becomes a fascinating, deadly flight. Charles O'Farrell, 46, is a loving husband and father, a patriotic Vietnam vet and would-be biographer...
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Brian Freemantle. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-06623-7
The in-depth knowledge of the espionage business that Freemantle (The Namedropper) brings to this fly-on-the-wall look at the technical and bureaucratic aspects of the spy world helps compensate for the novel’s lack of excitement. CIA officer Jack...
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Brian Freemantle. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-03224-9
The talky concluding volume of Freemantle’s Red Star trilogy (after 2012’s Red Star Burning) finds MI5 operative Charlie Muffin in the custody of the FSB, the KGB’s successor, which seeks “to inflict the heaviest punishment possible for the...
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-24379-1
Starring returning hero Charlie Muffin and tackling an international WWII coverup when three perfectly preserved corpses emerge from a thaw in the Siberian tundra, Freemantle's gem of a spy thriller combines old-style espionage with millennial zing.
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Brian Freemantle, Author Thomas Dunne Books $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-312-18654-8
A full complement of subplots drives the action in Freemantle's suspenseful latest, a tale starring Claudine Carter, an Anglo/French forensic psychologist and criminal profiler. Carter works for Europol, a European Union agency that is modeled on...
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-14565-1
Charlie Muffin, the freewheeling, irreverent loose cannon of British Intelligence, returns in Freemantle's (No Time for Heroes) latest. Expecting to be downsized, Charlie is sent instead to Moscow as liaison to the Russian Interior Ministry in its...
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $6.99 (472p) ISBN 978-0-312-95927-2
A top FBI man joins forces with his Moscow counterpart to investigate the Russian mob. (Dec.)
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (472p) ISBN 978-0-312-11866-2
Though not an entry in his outstanding Charlie Muffin spy series, Freemantle's 22nd novel proves one of his very finest yet, an impressive blend of full-bodied characters and nerve-plucking action. Fallen together once more are top FBI supervisor...
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-10951-6
British spy Charlie Muffin, the wonderfully unorthodox hero of several seriocomic adventures by Freemantle, has been put into semiretirement, reduced by his new superiors to training fledgling agents. Charlie adjusts as best he can, forming a...
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Brian Freemantle, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85797-609-0
As the 15-nation European Union (EU) struggles to consolidate, crime continues to increase throughout the continent. Within two years, asserts Freemantle (author of the Charlie Muffin spy series), organized crime will be out of control in Europe. He
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (443p) ISBN 978-0-312-08166-9
Intricate, funny and highly satisfying, this fast-paced thriller again features veteran British intelligence agent Charlie Muffin, last seen in See Charlie Run . Here he is in operational limbo, dogged by the acting director general Richard Harkness,
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-312-08716-6
British writer Freemantle offers grand, literate fun dressed up as a novel of suspense. A young American economist is murdered in Moscow, her hair and the buttons on her clothes chopped off. Her uncle, a powerful U.S. senator, demands that the...
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Brian Freemantle, Author . Severn House $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5633-3
Numerous books and three popular motion pictures tell the story of the famous 1789 mutiny on the Royal Navy's HMS Bounty. Mystery and thriller writer Freemantle's contribution to the genre, first published in 1977 in the U.K., is more...
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Brian Freemantle, Author Tor Books $18.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-312-93138-4
Naive, vulnerable widow Janet Stone, lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies, is quietly romanced and won by handsome, enigmatic John Sheridan, who claims to work for the State Department. She is dismayed when he is sent on a mission to Beirut and then...
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Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-93014-1
The author of The Fix and Dirty White has written a modern morality tale that is less an action-filled, organized crime novel than it is a character study in the mold of George V. Higgins, although the writing is not quite up to Higgins's caliber....
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Brian Freemantle, Author Bantam $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28407-2
``Freemantle surpasses his earlier acclaimed thrillers starring Charlie Muffin, the British Intelligence agent foolishly underrated by his own government and foreign operatives alike,'' judged PW . Here, Charlie is assigned to investigate rumors of...
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Brian Freemantle, Author Bantam Books $15.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-553-05213-8
Freemantle (The Blind Run has merged the good humor of a Lawrence Block thriller, the seriousness of a le Carre spy novel and the slam-bang adventure of a popular espionage caper in this newest work about British secret agent Charlie Muffin. Muffin...
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Brian Freemantle, St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-31553-5
Last seen in 2002's Kings of Many Castles, working-class British spy Charlie Muffin once again proves that experience and intelligence (on the part of both author and hero) are at least as important as flying fists and explosions in this...
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Brian Freemantle, Author . Severn $28.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6207-5
The mundane title gives no hint of the rich panorama of events chronicled in British author Freemantle's second thriller (after 2004's The Holmes Inheritance
) starring Sebastian Holmes, Sherlock's audacious son. In 1913, amid suspicions
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Brian Freemantle, Author . Severn $28.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6056-9
British veteran Freemantle (Two Women
, etc.) offers a Sherlock Holmes pastiche worthy of the best of Conan Doyle. Young Sebastian Holmes, estranged son of the great detective, sails to America on the Lusitania
, at the behest of guardian Uncle...
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Brian Freemantle, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-31551-1
Taking a hiatus from MI6 operative Charlie Muffin (Kings of Many Castles
, etc.), this gripping intrigue revisits the savvy teamwork of veteran FBI agent William Cowley (now heading the Russian desk in Washington) and his old cohort Dimitri Danilov (
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Brian Freemantle, Author . Severn House $26.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5973-0
Freemantle pretty much defines "old pro" in the thriller genre; 2002 saw the publication of Ice Age
and Kings of Many Castles
(his most recent Charlie Muffin/MI6 adventure). But prolificacy can be a two-edged sword, as this creaky and...
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Brian Freemantle, Author . Severn House $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5828-3
Spy-fiction master Freemantle, the creator of British MI6 operative Charlie Muffin (most recently spotted in Kings of Many Castles, Forecasts, Nov. 1), takes a refreshing hiatus from the genre with this expert thriller, in which a mysterious...
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Brian Freemantle, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-30412-6
Often compared with John le Carré, espionage veteran Freemantle brings back colorful MI6 operative Charles Muffin, the urbane, cerebral spy last spotted in Dead Men Living. Charlie is assigned to the British embassy in Moscow and secretly...
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Brian Freemantle, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (419p) ISBN 978-0-312-24274-9
Freemantle, the prolific British espionage specialist best known for his Charlie Muffin series, always knows just how to kick a story into gear. Here, the problem is how to keep it going. The action unfolds with characteristic impact: a rocket, shot
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Brian Freemantle. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-00636-3
Freemantle’s dry satirical wit, aimed directly at the pomposity of intelligence bureaucrats and politicians, lifts his 16th thriller featuring spy Charlie Muffin (after 2010’s Red Star Rising). Muffin goes undercover in Russia to extract his own...
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