"That delay in the delivery of the message from Málaga could have been absolutely disastrous. As it was, there had been irreparable loss: an agent dead." Under the Mediterranean sun, a drama begins in a cafe in Málaga. For Ian Ferrier, an employee of the United States Space Agency on holiday to visit his old friend Jeff Reid, it means the startling discovery that Reid is not just a wine exporter, but rather engaged in smuggling communist defectors to the West. Events take a turn for the worse when Ferrier, a stranger to the deadly world of espionage, must take sole charge of a high-ranking KGB agent. Alone in an frighteningly alien landscape, he can afford no mistakes when choosing whom to trust...

Crime Thriller set in Spain In this first book of the Andalusian Mystery Series, four teenagers are brutally interfered with by the headmaster of their Marbella college. They can’t tell anyone, because the abuser threatens to reveal their own dark family secrets. When the grounds are sold, the head steals the proceeds and disappears. They pledge to track him down and deliver justice. Their justice. For thirty years, their target eludes them but then one of the now adult four inadvertently nearly catches him. Knowing he is still alive reinvigorates their thirst for retribution, at any price. When pretty youngsters start vanishing, the wily veteran Detective Inspector, Leon Prado, initially assumes that the booming sex-tourism industry on the Costa del Sol needs more tasty morsels for their private clubs. The truth was far worse than a nightmare.

A collection of essays that offer a methodological framework for the history of reading. Focusing on a specific historical moment, it gathers statistics about such issues as literacy rates, library subscriptions, publication and sales figures, and print runs to answer questions about what was being read and by whom in a particular place and time.