London, 1978. Frau Fenderman approaches a warder at the Tower of London, asking questions about her husband – a Nazi spy who’d been imprisoned and executed there thirty years ago. But there’s no record of anyone called Claus Fenderman having ever been executed on British soil. Tasked with investigating the mystery, British Intelligence Officer Herbie Kruger digs into the strange operations of the Psychological Warfare Executive. Beginning to put the pieces together, he discovers that the group was trying to push false occult predictions into the Nazi mind using the famous Nostradamus prophecies. But something had gone very, very wrong. The deeper he delves into the investigation, the bigger and more dangerous the web becomes, for more than one of the participants in the Nostradamus Operation has something lethal to hide…

In a desperate bid to save his top spy network, Herbie Kruger goes back over the Berlin Wall… When a high-ranking KGB officer commits suicide, Big Herbie Kruger – first introduced in The Nostradamus Traitor – mounts a perilous operation to uncover the double agent before he or she destroys Kruger’s ‘Telegraph Boys’ in East Berlin. Against orders, Britain’s German-born spymaster offers himself to the Soviets. But while Kruger hunts his quarry – and the KGB close in – he also makes a shattering journey into his own past…

It’s time to bring their man home. Just as the Soviets recruited Philby in the 1930s, so British Intelligence suborned a young Russian boy during the days of the British Mission to Russia at the end of World War One. Over the decades that boy has grown to be the main British asset within the clandestine world. The secret of his identity has been handed down from one Director General of British Intelligence to the next. ‘Stentor’, as he is coded, now occupies a place of prime importance within the First Chief Directorate of the KGB. But he is an old man, ready for retirement. It is time for the Herbie Kruger to fulfil an old promise and bring the Russian to England and a home he has never seen… In The Quiet Dogs John Gardner again provides a skilfully constructed thriller, as intriguing, exciting and detailed in character as its widely acclaimed predecessors. ‘A master storyteller at the height of his power’ - Len Deighton, acclaimed author of Funeral in Berlin 'Cool polished story-telling with all the sexy sidelines in the best James Bond tradition' - The Evening Standard John Gardner was educated in Berkshire and at St. John’s College, Cambridge. He has had many fascinating occupations and was at one time a Royal Marine officer, a stage magician, theatre critic, reviewer and journalist.

A stirring epic tracing the career of a man whose deceits, tragedies and betrayals mirror the greatest conflicts of our turbulent century… America’s greatest living orchestra conductor, Louis Passau, is ninety. Still sound in mind and body, he prepares to commemorate this milestone at a concert at New York’s Lincoln Center. But scandal threatens to spoil Passau’s celebration when he is accused of having spied for Hitler and of aiding clandestine KGB operations in the United States during the Cold War. Western intelligence services have come to an arrangement with the Maestro: he may conduct the concert, but he is to be interrogated immediately afterward by SIS agent Herbie Kruger. When the concert ends, an attempt is made on Passau’s life and Herbie takes the Maestro into hiding. There Kruger listens to the extraordinary confession of this fatally flawed man—brilliant on the podium, charming in public, foul-mouthed and streetwise in private—a man whose deceits, successes and often tragic loves are as improbable as they are enthralling. It becomes more and more difficult to separate truth from fiction, it also becomes nearly impossible to determine who the Maestro actually is—the musician, Passau, or his interrogator, Kruger. Praise for John Gardner: 'A master storyteller' — bestselling author Len Deighton 'John Gardner is undoubtedly one of Britain’s most talented thriller writers' — The Evening News 'Gardner writes with authenticity... He is one of the best writers of espionage fiction' — Booklist

When Gus Keene, one of the best interrogation artists or "confessors" the British Secret Intelligence Service has ever known, is blown to bits in a car explosion, the service calls his friend and former associate "Big Herbie" Kruger out of retirement to investigate. As Kruger delves into his friend's past and the black arts of a "confessor," he discovers a strange fact—the victim was not only a master at uncovering the truth, but of concealing it as well. HC: Otto Penzler Books.