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Quiller Books In Order

Quiller Books In Publication Order

  1. The Berlin Memorandum / Quiller Memorandum (1965)
  2. The 9th Directive (1966)
  3. Striker Portfolio (1968)
  4. The Warsaw Document (1971)
  5. The Tango Briefing (1973)
  6. The Mandarin Cypher (1975)
  7. Kobra Manifesto (1976)
  8. The Sinkiang Executive (1978)
  9. The Scorpion Signal (1980)
  10. Peking Target (1981)
  11. Northlight (1985)
  12. Quiller’s Run (1988)
  13. Quiller KGB (1989)
  14. Quiller Barracuda (1990)
  15. Quiller Bamboo (1991)
  16. Quiller Solitaire (1992)
  17. Quiller Meridian (1993)
  18. Quiller Salamander (1994)
  19. Quiller Balalaika (1996)

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The Berlin Memorandum / Quiller Memorandum

You are a secret agent working for the British in Berlin. You are due to go home on leave, but you are being followed by your own people, or by the enemy. A man meets you in the theater and briefs you on a plot to revive the power of Na*zi Germany. You do not believe him, but you remember that one of the suspects mentioned was a senior SS officer you met with in the days when you were working as a spy in Na*zi Germany. The next day you make contact with a beautiful girl who may know something. Someone tries to kill both of you. Your name is Quiller. You are the hero of an extraordinary novel which shows how a spy works, how messages are coded and decoded, how contacts are made, how a man reacts under the influence of truth drugs and which traces the story of a vastly complex, entertaining, convincing, and sinister plot.

The 9th Directive

In Bangkok on assignment, Quiller must assassinate a visitor so important he is only called ”The Person,” but before he can, he realizes that he is merely the bait in an elaborate scheme. NYT.

Striker Portfolio

The latest British super fighter has killed thirty six pilots in high impact crashes, and Quiller is determined to solve the mystery. NYT.

The Warsaw Document

As the Cold War winds down, Quiller is forced into a partnership with a representative of a rebel group that plans to seize power from the communists in Poland.

The Tango Briefing

Quiller, the Bureau’s top intelligence agent, faces the toughest assignment of his career a job that takes him to the Sahara Desert to locate a downed plane, photograph its crew, and identify its cargo. NYT.

The Mandarin Cypher

Quiller, the Bureau’s top intelligence agent, prowls the streets of Hong Kong, trailing his prey to the opulent Oriental Club and to an oil rig on the South China Seas.

Kobra Manifesto

When four top operatives die mysterious deaths, Quiller, the Bureau’s top intelligence agent, follows the world’s five deadliest men from the French Riviera, to Rome, to Cambodia, to New York, and to Brazil. NYT. PW.

The Sinkiang Executive

When satellite cameras pick up a strange new missile complex in Yelingrad, a frozen city on the Russo Chinese border, Quiller, the Bureau’s top intelligence agent, is sent to investigate. NYT.

The Scorpion Signal

Quiller, the Bureau’s top intelligence agent, travels from a clinic in Berlin to the heart of Lubyanka Prison to track down the British agent who has vanished from Moscow. NYT.

Peking Target

After two statesmen are assassinated and two top agents murdered, Quiller, the Bureau’s number one agent, travels from Tian’anmen Square, to Seoul, to the Korean mountains on the trail of justice.

Northlight

Secret agent Quiller is back in this heart stopping spy thriller. Quiller must work against his own instincts to save a world on the verge of disaster. From behind the Iron Curtain, in a city where he has no place to hide, he must trust a woman who cannot be trusted and rescue a man he would rather kill to complete a mission that will affect relations between the United States and the Soviet Union forever. But the stakes are higher than Quiller realizes as he faces a threat more treacherous than he imagines.

Quiller’s Run

After quitting the Bureau and undertaking a dangerous freelance mission, Quiller heads for a lethal showdown with Mariko, a delicate Cambodian beauty who possesses a deadly embrace.

Quiller Bamboo

Encouraged by the West to spearhead a pro democracy movement, an outspoken refugee from the Tiananmen Square massacre finds help with his efforts in Quiller, a Western agent ordered to lead the rebel to safety. NYT. PW. K.

Quiller Solitaire

Never have Quiller’s survival skills been so crucial as in the eerily prophetic mission code named Solitaire. When the body of the agent he was supposed to protect is discovered in the burnt wreck of a car, Quiller must unveil the truth behind rumors of a bomb threat somewhere in Europe. Posing as an international arms dealer, he infiltrates Nemesis, a group of deeply religious Euroterrorist fanatics who follow a psychopathic and extremely intelligent leader. Quiller s final meeting with Nemesis transpires on Pan Am Flight 907, which carries twenty thousand pounds of explosives and forty cylinders of nerve gas and has disappeared from the radar screens. Quiller alone must stop the plane and its suicidal terrorist crew from reaching their unknown destination.

Quiller Meridian

Following the trail of a missing Russian spy, Quiller travels into the heart of post Cold War Russia, seeking allies among his former adversaries, in order to solve the violent death of a British agent. NYT. PW.

Quiller Salamander

In this 18th adventure in Adam Hall’s epic series, Quiller is sent to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where chaos abounds as the deadline for the United Nations supervised elections approaches. There is fear that Pol Pot, creator of the infamous ‘killing fields,’ will fight to return the murderous Communist party, known as the Khmer Rouge, to power. Quiller’s only ally is Gabrielle Bouchard, a photojournalist who is waging her own personal war against the Khmer Rouge. Though Pol Pot is deathly ill, Quiller learns that he has carefully chosen a successor who plans to direct the next Cambodian bloodbath. Quiller’s mission, code named ‘Salamander,’ leads him deep into the perilous jungles of Phnom Penh, where he must protect not only his own life but also the future of Cambodia.

Quiller Balalaika

It’s Quiller s most dangerous mission yet, and is also his last for the British intelligence agency so secret that it has no name. No matter that its orders originate at the Prime Minister level; if detected, it would be denied at that and every other level of the government. Quiller s orders this time take the pseudonymous operative to post Cold War Russia to infiltrate the powerful and omnipresent mafiya that controls every sector and ruble of the country s fragile economy. More ruthless than the Sicilian brotherhood and as conscienceless as the Colombian drug cartels, the mafiya owns top politicians, judges, generals, bankers, and the police. Those it doesn t own it can buy, and those it doesn t choose to buy, it eliminates. Chief among the lawless mafiya lords stands a criminally brilliant British national, whom the agency wants taken out of play. Quiller learns that the one man who can help him achieve his goal is impounded in Gulank, the most infamous of all the gulags. Quiller must sneak his way into Gulank, and from a gulag that no prisoner has ever escaped, rescue the only person who can save his last, internationally vital mission.