When a plot to bomb the Greenwich Observatory fails, Mr. Verloc's life as a secret agent for a foreign government is exposed.

A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas

On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the

Richard Sharpe, the former private in His Majesty's army who now commands a company of riflemen, finds himself fighting his old enemies, the French, in 1811 Sharpe has been sent by Wellington on a mission to Cádiz, now the capital of Spain, to rescue the British ambassador — who happens to be Wellington's brother — from a spot of undiplomatic trouble. The city has been blockaded by the French but is supported by the British from the

At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voice mail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for the Guardian, knew it didn't add up. He began to investigate and ended up exposing a world of crime and cover-up, of fear and favor—the long shadow of Rupert