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MI6

Watch the First Redband Trailer for Atomic Blonde

By Crime HQ

May 22, 2017

Charlize Theron reprises her role as a British spy (Mr. F) in Atomic Blonde, a “breakneck action-thriller that follows MI6’s most lethal assassin through a ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors.” As Agent Lorraine Broughton, Theron proves she can be badass while still looking good, and the…

The ZINNG: The Scents of Outlaws and Spies

By Crime HQ

August 31, 2015

Hiding in plain sight! Espionage author Frederick Forsyth reveals his 20 years of spying for MI6 in his upcoming autobiography. Read more in the Telegraph: “It is 55, 60 years later. There have been memoirs written, highly secret minutes have been published. There's no East Germany, no Stasi, no KGB, no Soviet Union, so where's…

Fresh Meat: Assassins by Mukul Deva

By Dirk Robertson

July 13, 2015

Assassins by Mukul Deva is an international thriller that jumps between London and India and follows Ravinder Singh Gill as he tries to stop a high-profile double assassination (available July 14, 2015). The Sisters of Benazir are out for revenge. The London based political activists want payback for the murder of the politician Benazir Basheer.…

Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Nessa Stein in The Honourable Woman, a miniseries spy thriller

The Honourable Woman: Trapped Inside the Feedback Loop

By Lance Charnes

September 8, 2014

Like the Cold War, the endless Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the dramatist’s gift that keeps on giving. Nowhere else can an author, screenwriter or filmmaker find such a stew of moral ambiguity, seething hatreds, political misbehavior, skullduggery, conflicting loyalties, and flat-out bad behavior in which to marinate his or her stories. It’s nearly impossible to overcook…

Weapon of Vengeance: A New Excerpt

By Mukul Deva

June 19, 2014

Weapon of Vengeance by Mukul Deva is an internation thriller set in India where a father, after years of not seeing his daughter, begins to suspect she's the terrorist he's been hunting (available June 24, 2014). Ruby Gill is a rogue MI6 agent, the daughter of an Indian father and Palestinian mother. Her mission is to destroy a…

MI6 Agent Whose Body Was Locked Inside Sports Tote Died “Accidentally”

By Crime HQ

January 27, 2014

An MI6 codebreaker on temporary reassignment was found dead in August, 2010, padlocked in a red sports bag in an empty bathtub in his Pimlico home, and after three years of investigation, the Met's ruling is that the 31 year-old died from his own hand accidentally, though none of Gareth Williams' “DNA was found on…

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