Bryan Forbes

'Written across the photo were the words To Theo with too much love. One corner was torn, obliterating most of the signature, but I had no difficulty identifying the face. It was a photo of Guy Burgess.' Familiar Strangers is a provocative and compelling novel of betrayal, deceipt and divided loyalt...

The price of a soul, or cost of success, for a hero in Hollywood. Robert Peterson, encouraged by easy words and the success of one novel, is a Hollywood innocent. His first lessons are harsh; pornographic films with a waiter's job to pay the rent seem the only option. Then he meets a powerful, eccen...

Henry Blagden, prominent MP, commits suicide in a Moscow hotel. A year later his closest friend sees him alive in Venice. The hunt begins. Because Blagden was involved in a business where he had forfeited the right to be called human. A business so horrific that his best friend Martin undertakes a s...

In this thrilling sequel to The Endless Game the hero, Alec Hillsden, struggles to keep peace while he unveils an unforgettable cast of double agents, moles, dupes, and unsung heroes in the world of international espionage and politics. "In the best tradition of John LeCarre."--New York Times Book R...

In the uneasy post-war peace of occupied Germany, a British soldier is billeted to a bombed Hamburg hotel. Alex's days are spent investigating Nazi war criminals, but it is a chance meeting with a German university professor in a shabby back-street bookshop that changes his life. Having befriended t...

Down on his luck and recovering from a bitter disappointment, Hollywood scriptwriter Harvey Burgess thinks his problems are solved when he is summoned to the South of France to rewrite the script of a flagging movie about the French Revolution. But the job is not as straightforward as it sounds. On ...