Books by Adrian Magson and Complete Book Reviews
Adrian Magson, Author . Crme de la Crime $17.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-9551589-7-1
This intelligent crime novel, the fourth in Magson's series to feature Riley Gavin and Frank Palmer (after No Sleep for the Dead
), should garner the British author a larger following in the U.S. The mismatched pair—Gavin is a freelance...
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Adrian Magson, Author . Crme de la Crime $17.95 (266p) ISBN 978-0-9557078-1-0
The absence of twists or suspense mars the emotionally muted fifth installment of Magson's Gavin and Palmer series (No Tears for the Lost
, etc.). When the police summon Riley Gavin, a British investigative journalist, to a murder scene in the...
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Adrian Magson, Severn, $28.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6939-5
British author Magson (No Kiss for the Devil) takes a break from crime fiction with this solid, suspenseful first of a new espionage series. When a drug bust on the Essex coast commanded by MI5 agent Harry Tate goes bad, resulting in the deaths of a
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8013-0
British author Magson stumbles in his second thriller featuring former MI5 agent Harry Tate (after Red Station). A routine assignment to locate Abuzeid Matuq, a Libyan banker who disappeared with a lot of money, leads Tate and Rik Ferris, his...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8130-4
Near the outset of Magson’s solid third thriller featuring former MI5 officer Harry Tate (after 2011’s Tracers), Harry, who’s just finished a freelance job involving an Iraqi terrorist, receives a call from MI6 officer Richard Ballatyne. Ballatyne...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.95 (234) ISBN 978-0-7278-8222-6
In this standout thriller, Magson’s fourth featuring Harry Tate (after 2012’s Deception), the former MI5 agent pursues a deadly terrorist, Kassim, who comes out of the remote hills of Afghanistan in 2012 and starts killing members of the KFOR team...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8282-0
Magson’s exciting fifth Harry Tate thriller pits the former MI5 operative against a pair of Russian assassins gunning for his friend Clare Jardine, an ex-MI6 agent who was shot while saving Harry in 2012’s Retribution. After an attempt on her life...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8370-4
Magson (Execution and four other Harry Tate thrillers) introduces freelance shadow operative Marc Portman in this action-filled adventure pitting Portman against seemingly insuperable odds in various foreign hot spots. Portman’s daring, improvised...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8504-3
In Magson’s fine second Marc Portman thriller (after 2014’s The Watchman), the CIA hires the freelance operative, “a close-protection specialist,” to rescue a State Department negotiator, Edwin Travis, who was sent to Ukraine to talk to the various...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $29.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8607-1
Leonid Tzorekov, an old pal of Vladimir Putin, needs protection in British author Magson’s inconclusive third Marc Portman thriller (after 2015’s Close Quarters). Tzorekov, a former KGB officer turned successful businessman who now lives in London,...
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Adrian Magson. Midnight Ink, $15.99 trade paper (360p) ISBN 978-0-7387-5043-9
In Magson’s pedestrian sequel to 2016’s The Locker, James Chadwick, a British business consultant with a passion for radio-controlled planes, has taken out a policy from Cruxys Solutions, a London-based private insurance and security company that...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8699-6
In Magson’s frenetic fourth Marc Portman thriller (after 2016’s Hard Cover), the wily freelance close protection specialist takes on a job for France’s main intelligence agency, the General Directorate for External Security. Consultant engineer...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8947-8
In Magson’s fast-paced sixth contemporary spy thriller featuring former MI5 officer Harry Tate (after 2013’s Execution), Rik Ferris, another former MI5 officer, lands in Belarus and promptly disappears, along with confidential information he...
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Adrian Magson. Severn, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-5027-0
Magson’s engrossing fifth Marc Portman thriller (after 2017’s Dark Asset) finds deep cover intelligence specialist Portman in Lebanon on what’s supposed to be a simple assignment to pick up a memory stick from a source, until he comes under sniper...
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