British Literature: Action/Adventure

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is tapped by Edward Lane, head of a highly-illegal soldiers-for-hire operation, to find his wife and stepchild who have been snatched by a brutal kidnapper, but the more involved Reacher becomes in the mission, the more he comes to doubt himself and the man who has employed him.

Jack Reacher proves the truth of the old adage about the dangers of a man with nothing to lose when he walks the twelve miles between the towns of Hope and Despair looking for a cup of coffee only to encounter hostility, a vagrancy charge, and an order to move on.

Ex-army cop Jack Reacher is called upon by Jack Barr, an ex-military specialist arrested for the gunning down five innocent people from thirty yards away, but Barr's claims's of innocence reveal a complex and difficult case.

His journey back to Spain interrupted by shipwreck, loss of memory, and a stay in a forbidding French monastery, twelve-year-old Felix finally continues his journey in the company of a mysterious boy that he had rescued from hanging.

Eliza Williams--having been placed in the care of a foster mother by her guardian, Colonel Brandon, because she was an illegitimate child--embarks on a journey to learn the secret of her parentage and meets a variety of individuals, such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, along the way.

In 1821, an orphaned twelve-year-old boy runs away from his unhappy home in Spain to England where he tries to find his father's family.

Artemis Fowl, having reverted to his criminal ways, travels to Berlin to steal a famous painting from a German bank, not realizing his old rival, Opal Koboi, has been waiting for a chance to destroy him.

Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.

Twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.

Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.

When an army of fairy space probes programmed to destroy Atlantis return to Earth, Artemis Fowl attempts to stop the destruction of the city while dealing with his delusional and obsessive-compulsive disorders.

Teenager Artemis Fowl solves a temporal equation that helps him and Captain Holly Short track fairy demons who are appearing from another dimension, but there is another person who has figured out the formula and abducts one of the beings.

Artemis's fairy friends help him travel back in time to find a cure for his mother's rare disease which can only be cured by the brain fluid of now-extinct African lemurs, and is shocked to discover that his younger self was responsible for bringing about the animal's extinction.

Young criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl goes up against his arch rival Opal Koboi one more time after Opal reanimates dead fairies, who were buried in the grounds of Fowl Manor, and the spirits possess his little brother.

In Victorian London, Albert Garrick, an assassin-for-hire, and his reluctant young apprentice, Riley, are transported via wormhole to modern London, where Riley teams up with a young FBI agent to stop Garrick from returning to his own time and using his newly acquired scientific knowledge and power to change the world forever.

Jon Shannow struggles to defeat the mysterious Deacon and his evil crusade before their evil, violent actions lead to the end of the world.

Young Thuro turns to the mountain warrior Culain for help when he is chosen to travel to the land of the Mist and retrieve the Sword of Power that can defeat the armies of the ruthless Witch Queen.

Druss, Captain of the Ax, has given up the warrior life and retired to his mountain lair to wait for death, but he is called out of his self-imposed exile to fight one last battle when the Nadir hordes launch an assault against the six-walled fortress, Dros Delnach, the only thing protecting the Drenai people.

Waylander the Slayer, once a champion of the Drenai, now finds himself hunted by his own people, and his situation worsens when he is separated from his daughter, the beautiful and deadly Battle Queen of Kar-Barzac, who also has a price on her head.

George Smiley investigates the mysterious death of Samuel Fennan after questioning the man about allegations that he was a spy, and is led into to a confrontation with East German intelligence.

Fred Leiser, former British spy, is called back into service to uncover facts regarding Soviet missiles in Germany and becomes involved in the world of international espionage.

Bruno Salvador, the orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese woman, is inspired by his mentor at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages, and becomes a British agent with conflicting loyalties.

In Hamburg, Annabel, a civil rights lawyer, works to prevent Issa, a Muslim who is in Germany for mysterious purposes, from being deported, but in doing so she risks her own career and personal safety, and when Tommy Brue, a sixty-year-old British private banker, gets involved, German Intelligence takes an active interest.

Newspaper editor Miss Ailsa Brimley calls upon her old friend British secret service agent George Smiley for help when she receives a letter from the wife of a school master who believes her husband is trying to kill her.

In a new world of espionage the old rivalries of great nations have been supplanted by the ravages of individual greed.

Veteran spy Alec Leamas, hoping to "come in from the cold" to retirement, is given one last bone-chilling assignment in which he is required to pretend defection and provide the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.

James Bond is recalled from sabbatical in Rome in the late 1960s after the brutal murder of an Algerian drug runner throws suspicion on the activities of Dr. Julius Gorner, a pharmaceutical magnate whose intense interest in opiate derivatives is setting off alarms in Britain and around the world.

Teenage James Bond is on the case when a professor is kidnapped in a north London cemetery, and an encoded letter arrives which, once deciphered, leaves James with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar and save the world.

Young James Bond, a student at the Eton boarding school in the 1930s, travels to his aunt's Scotland estate for the Easter holidays where he becomes caught up in investigating the disappearance of a local boy, a crime allegedly linked to a madman with a plot for global domination.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was an English novelist and playwright. Maugham was famous as a dramatist before he was known for his novels and short stories. His clarity of style, the perfection of his form, and the subtlety of his thought, thinly veiled by a worldly cynicism made him an international figure. Among his novels are Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, and The Razor’s Edge.

Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.

A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the north.

Hap Thompson, a receiver for REMtemp, is offered a side job temporarily taking on the memories of clients who have something to forget--allowing them to do such things as have affairs or pass lie detector tests--but he runs into trouble when a young woman who has committed murder leaves Hap the memory of the crime and refuses to take it back.

A search for the elusive Yeti in the faraway Himalayas leads Christie and his stepbrother Danny to question their own humanity.

Thirteen-year-old James Bond, an Eton student and member of the Danger Society, travels to his cousin's home on the Italian island of Sardinia where he becomes involved in trying to unravel the mystery behind an ancient Roman society and an art heist that have left a young girl's life hanging in the balance.

British secret agent James Bond embarks on a mission to ruin a Russian operative, le Chiffre, at the Baccarat table, so that his Soviet spymasters will kill him, and Bond will succeed with a little luck at the tables and the help of a beautiful woman.

Bond uses a beautiful nemesis in order to infiltrate a diamond-smuggling business that stretches from Africa via London to America, but once inside the states, he becomes the hunted instead of the hunter.

A routine mission pits James Bond against the evil Dr. No, a ruthless and power-mad genius.

Agent 007, otherwise known as James Bond, sets out to battle the agents of S.M.E.R.S.H., the Soviet organization of torture, vengeance, interrogation and death.

A series of gold thefts puts Bond on the trail of businessman Auric Goldfinger, his chauffeur/assassin Oddjob, and the beautiful Pussy Galore.

Secret agent James Bond, kidnapped and brainwashed by the KGB, faces off against assassin Francisco Scaramanga.

Secret agent James Bond is sent to investigate when M, his bureau chief, discovers that Sir Hugo Drax, a national hero in Britain who is donating millions of his own money to fund the Moonraker national defense system, cheats at cards--making him suspect in M's mind for other dirty dealings.

Agent 007 encounters a damsel in distress at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court in the Adirondacks and saves her from a pair of gangsters.

A collection of ten short stories by Ian Fleming that recount the adventures of British secret agent 007 James Bond.

Presents five short stories that find James Bond facing all sorts of danger from which he escapes through fast thinking and keen wit.

Bond must steal vital information from Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE, in order to keep Blofeld from continuing his research that could ultimately threaten the safety of the world

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad, but the terror of the Mediterranean becomes Europe's most wanted man, forced to fight alone for England--and liberty.

Captain Hornblower has been ordered to find a water route across the Central American isthmus and destroy a fifty-gun Spanish ship, but Hornblower finds himself distracted by his newest passenger, the beautiful Lady Barbara Wellesley.

Relates Horatio's adventures as a Lieutenant until his promotion to Commander during the early years of the Napoleonic Wars.

After only one night with his bride, Hornblower, as commander of the frigate Hotspur, sails for duty off the French Coast to keep Napoleon from invading England.

The jackal is an Englishman who is a killer at the top of his profession, a man unknown to any secret service in the world, and an assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.

The rescue of an unconscious man from a skiff in the Black Sea is the first in a chain of events that brings the world to the brink of nuclear war.

Major Mike Martin of Britain's elite Special Air Service Regiment is sent into Iraq to reestablish contact with Jericho and to find the location of Saddam Hussein's secret weapon.

Agent John Preston works to prevent an "accident" contrived by an Iron Curtain intelligence service.

In the summer of 1999 Igor Komarov is being hailed as the one man who can pull Russia back from the threshold of anarchy, but operatives in London and Washington know Komarov's motives for wanting to be leader of his country are far from pure, and send ex-CIA agent Jason Monk to stop him.

When an elderly German Jew kills himself, the German government learns about a Mafia-like organization that is determined to overthrow the German government and carry out Hitler's final plan.

Presents the third volume in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, in which brilliant and brave philologist Dr. Elwin Ranson amasses forces to fight against a sinister technocratic organization, secretly controlled by humanity's mortal enemies, that is plotting to "recondition" society.

A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.

Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden Lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.

When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.

Presents the first volume in Lewis's Space Trilogy, originally published in 1943, in which Dr. Ransom, kidnapped by a megalomaniacal physicist and his assistant, and taken to the red planet of Malacandra as a human sacrifice, escapes and sets out on an adventure in a land very different from Earth.

Dr. Ranson faces evil when the planet Perelandra is invaded by a dark force who strives to create a new world order.

Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia from evil.

Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.

Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia, where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism. Sequel to "Prince Caspian."

James becomes a part of the highly secretive organization, CHERUB, a group of teens whose mission is to spy on terrorists and international drug dealers, hack into computers, and download crucial information for the government.

James embarks on a dangerous mission for the CHERUB agency, taking down the world's most powerful drug lord, putting his own safety aside in the hopes of ridding the streets of dangerous drugs.

The teenage CHERUB agents try to break a child criminal out of a maximum security Arizona prison in order to get at his mother, a weapons dealer of legendary status who has been selling U.S. missiles to terrorists.

James embarks on a dangerous mission for the CHERUB agency, taking down the world's most powerful drug lord, putting his own safety aside in the hopes of ridding the streets of dangerous drugs.

After an airliner explodes over the Atlantic, CHERUB agents, James and Lauren, must investigate as well as deal with a distressed and violent twelve-year-old who claims his father is responsible for the explosion.

Dante Scott, still suffering from his family's murder by a biker gang, is given the opportunity to become a member of CHERUB and joins James and Lauren on a mission to infiltrate Brigands Motorcycle Club.

The commander of forty British commandos, who are being hunted by an American battalion in the desert near a military base in the Nevada, recruits ten CHERUB agents--children between age ten and seventeen who work for a branch of British intelligence--to act as spies.

Nate Starbuck, the son of an abolitionist preacher in Boston, becomes stranded in Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War and his great respect for Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer, and an urge to rebel against his father, leads him to join Faulconer's Confederate legion.

In the winter of 1777 the British Army marched triumphantly into Philadelphia the Redcoats had won the battles against the rebellious colonists and forced them to winter in the cod hills, while they danced in Philadelphia.

Presents a fictionalized account of Uhtred, the son of an English nobleman, kidnapped by a Danish chieftain, Earl Ragnar, in A.D. 866, during the Vikings wars against England.

Nate Starbuck, renegade Bostonian and now a Confederate officer, must now prove himself to his superior and lead his men in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.

Thomas of Hookton, having witnessed the massacre of the people of his coastal English village by a marauding band of French raiders on Easter morning 1343, embarks on a quest to hunt down the black-clad knight who led the attack, avenge his neighbors, and recover a holy treasure the knight stole from the church.

Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign to protect Spain against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be on the leading edge of battle, but other conflicts ensue, including the need to protect his infant daughter and her mother, and the necessity to protect himself from a fellow officer.

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe comes out of retirement to find his friend Don Blas Vivar, Captain-General of the Spanish colony of Chile.

Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is charged with leading the demoralized men of the 95th Rifles to safety through the enemy-infested mountains of Spain and discovers that turning to Spanish soldier Blas Vivar for help may be a fatal mistake.

Lured back to the army from a rural idyll, Sharpe's career culminates in the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Richard Sharpe is twice a hero in Wellington's campaign to protect Spain against Napoleon, and is looking forward to promotion and eager to be on the leading edge of battle, but other conflicts ensue, including the need to protect his infant daughter and her mother, and the necessity to protect himself from a fellow officer.

After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.

Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.

After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English school children.

After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.

After recovering from a near fatal gunshot wound, teenage spy Alex Rider embarks on a new mission to stop a group of eco-terrorists from sabotaging the launch of the first outer space hotel.

Alex Rider's desire to return to life as a normal high school student must be put aside when he is asked to face his greatest adversary yet, a con man who plans to use genetically modified wheat to release a deadly virus that will kill millions of innocent people.

Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.

Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.

Alex Rider crash lands off the coast of Australia where he is recruited by the Australian Secret Service to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia, and in the midst of his dangerous mission, Alex discovers information about his parents' murder.

After Nina Wilde, an archaeologist, makes an incredible discovery off the Indonesian coast, her ship is attacked and the artifact is stolen by members of the Covenant of Genesis, and Nina goes on a quest with her ex-SAS bodyguard, Eddie Chase, to go after the Covenant of Genesis, but this clandestine group is willing to kill in order to keep the artifact a secret.

Archaeologist Nina Wilde, convinced she has learned the location of the legendary lost city of Atlantis, enlists billionaire Kristian Frost, his daughter Kari, and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase on a mission of discovery, but there are those willing to kill to keep the secrets of Atlantis from becoming known.

Archaeology student Macy Sharif discovers that a religious cult has already raided a hidden vault beneath the Great Sphinx and have discovered a map to the lost Pyramid of Osiris, and Macy enlists the help of American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-SAS bodyguard Eddy Chase, to help her find the treasure before the cult can uncover the six thousand-year-old mystery hidden in the sands of Egypt.

Archaeologist Nina Wilde's hopes for a little rest and relaxation with her fiancé, former SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, are dashed when they are drawn into a race to find Excalibur, the legendary sword of King Arthur, before it falls into the hands of mercenaries who seek the sword's power for their own gain.

American archaeologist Nina Wilde goes in search of of the legendary remains of Hercules, and as she begins her search alongside Eddie Chase, her ex-Special Air Service bodyguard, she quickly learns that they are racing against dangerous enemies who also want to solve the mystery.