Maxima Library

For the first time ever, legendary editor Otto Penzler has handpicked some of the most respected and bestselling thriller writers working today for a riveting collection of spy fiction. From first to last, this stellar collection signals mission accomplished.

Including:

* Lee Child with an incredible look at the formation of a special ops cell.

* James Grady writing about an Arab undercover FBI agent with an active cell.

* Joseph Finder riffing on a Boston architect who's convinced his Persian neighbors are up to no good.

* John Lawton concocting a Len Deighton-esque story about British intelligence.

* Stephen Hunter thrilling us with a tale about a WWII brigade.

Full list of Contributors:

James Grady, Charles McCarry, Lee Child, Joseph Finder, John Lawton, John Weisman, Stephen Hunter, Gayle Lynds, David Morrell, Andrew Klavan, Robert Wilson, Dan Fesperman, Stella Rimington, Olen Steinhauer

Vivo o muerto, el enemigo había llegado a la costa de Guantánamo y eso era motivo de alarma en La Habana. El cadáver de un soldado norteamericano alcanza la orilla al otro lado de la Base Naval entre las iguanas y los guardias fronterizos cubanos. ¿Qué está sucediendo en el Gitmo, el nombre preferido del Pentágono para denominar a la reconvertida cárcel de alta seguridad para los detenidos en la guerra mundial contra el terrorismo? ¿Quién está matando a soldados norteamericanos? Revere Falk, un arabista y agente del FBI destinado en Guantánamo para interrogar a los detenidos, se tendrá que hacer cargo de la investigación. Nada será igual desde aquel día, el mismo en el que ha logrado que su nuevo detenido, un yihadista yemení de 19 años, Adnan Al-Hamdi, confiese por fin el nombre de su protegido: Hussey. Pero Falk intuye que debe callarse. En los 116 kilómetros cuadrados de la base de Guantánamo no hay secretos. Y Falk podrá comprobar que el espionaje no sólo es cubano, sino que CIA, FBI y el propio Ejército norteamericano compiten por el control de la información. Y él deberá tener especial cuidado: tiene un vínculo común con el lugar, un vínculo con una historia extraña e inquietante que creía completamente olvidado. ¿Pero lo conoce alguien más?

The author of The Arms Maker of Berlin and The Prisoner of Guantánamo ('Worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carré and Ken Follett' – USA Today) gives us a new thriller as dazzling as its setting.

Corporate auditor Sam Keller, careful to a fault, has decided to live it up for a change. And what better spot for business-class hedonism than the boomtown of Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slopes of a shopping mall.

But when a colleague is murdered during a night on the town, Sam soon finds himself waist-deep in a bewildering, lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, and crooked cops.

Offering a chancy way out is Anwar Sharaf, the unlikeliest of detectives. A former pearl diver and gold smuggler with an undignified demeanor, Sharaf is sometimes as baffled as Sam by the changes to his homeland. But he knows where the levers of power reside. And as the unlikely duo work their way toward the heart of the case, each man must confront the darkest forces threatening Dubai from within.

A stunning portrait of a world where the old and new continually collide, and Dan Fesperman's most suspenseful novel yet.

From the widely acclaimed author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo and The Double Game, an electrifying, timely, psychologically gripping descent into the hidden, expanding world of drone warfare.

Not very long ago, Darwin Cole was an F-16 fighter pilot. He was a family man. He was on top of the world. Now? He’s a washout drunk with a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, living alone in the Nevada desert and haunted by an image beamed from one of his last missions as a “pilot” of a Predator drone—a harrowing shot of an Afghan child running for her life.

When Cole is approached by three journalists trying to uncover the identity of the possibly rogue intelligence operative who called the shots in Cole’s ill-fated mission, Cole reluctantly agrees to team up with them.

But in our surveillance culture, even the well intentioned are liable to find themselves under scrutiny, running for their lives, especially when the trail they’re following leads to the very heart of that culture—in intelligence, in the military, and among the unchecked private contractors who stand to profit richly from the advancing technology… not merely for use “over there,” but for right here, right now.