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The Secret Servant

(1980)
(The first book in the Harry Maxim series)
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DISCOVER ONE OF THE MOST ELECTRIFYING SPY THRILLER SERIES EVER WRITTEN

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ‘Where Harry Maxim goes, mayhem follows’ Chicago Sun-Times

⭐���⭐⭐⭐ ‘Splendid… all the fascination of a le Carré plot’ The Times

Meet Harry Maxim, SAS Major on secondment to Downing Street. With the authority of the Prime Minister behind him, Maxim’s job is to take care of secret tasks which can never be officially recorded. The only certainty is that trouble will never be far away...

As portrayed by actor Charles Dance in the hugely popular BBC television series, Harry Maxim is an iconic figure of espionage fiction.

Fans of Len Deighton, John le Carré, Ian Fleming and Frederick Forsyth will devour this classic spy series full of twists.
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A hand grenade is thrown through the door of Number 10 while KGB assassins prowl the streets of London…

As Professor John Tyler, the west’s key nuclear weapons strategist, prepares to address NATO on its plans to cope with Armageddon, international tensions are running terrifyingly high.

Tyler’s aim is to preserve world peace. But he has a horrific secret concealed in his past and malign forces are desperate to use it against him.

Harry Maxim is assigned to protect Tyler from a deadly enemy.

But as that enemy will soon discover, Harry Maxim is no ordinary bodyguard…

What everyone is saying about Gavin Lyall’s HARRY MAXIM SPY THRILLERS:

‘A first-class piece of work’New York Times

‘If The Secret Servant is not a bestseller there is no justice’ Daily Mirror

Brilliantly sustained… how Lyall can write!Evening Standard

Lyall’s technical mastery of his material couldn’t be bettered… nail-biting stuff�� Sunday Telegraph

A master of the rare art of storytellingThe New York Times

Gavin Lyall is one of the best writers of intelligent spy thrillers in the businessSpectator

THE SECRET SERVANT is Book 1 of the HARRY MAXIM SPY THRILLERS:

Book 1: THE SECRET SERVANT

Book 2: THE CONDUCT OF MAJOR MAXIM

Book 3: THE CROCUS LIST

Book 4: UNCLE TARGET
Genre: Thriller

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