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Introducing Max Ward, a modern spy in a dangerous world.Know your enemy…Spared certain expulsion by a faceless puppet-master, MI6 spook Max Ward is happy riding an analyst’s desk at the British Embassy in The Hague and seeing his married lover whenever their schedules allow. Then, out of nowhere, the favour is called in. The same puppeteer finally breaks cover. He’s been watching Max since before he was recruited and now he wants him to face down an enemy Max knows only too well. An enemy both of them have good reason to pursue, and even better reason to leave well alone.Max’s carefully-ordered world is turned upside down as a mission with no escape routes forces him to confront everything he’s forgotten and everyone he’s betrayed. A mission that will finally force him to make a deal with the devil himself.Max Ward is a modern spy in a dangerous world. A world where counter intelligence, drug cartels and global terrorism intersect. A world where the beauty of an Old Master painting hides a deadly game of deal, double cross and revenge.

Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard often calls upon Paul Temple to help with his latest unfathomable case…In a small country lane, the well-known American, Myron Harwood, is found dead. The murder heralds the start of a spate of celebrity deaths – and each time the victim is found with a small white piece of cardboard, bearing the inscription ‘The Marquis’.When a woman is pulled from the river with the same note attached to her dress, Paul Temple sends a note to Sir Graham Forbes. His message reads: ‘is it true what they say about Rita?’ Rita Cartwright was a private detective hired to investigate the Marquis murders – and now she is the eighth victim. The police are baffled and the Home Secretary is calling for Paul Temple to intervene…