Stamboul Train

Author: Graham Greene
Synopsis: Published in 1932, this spy thriller unfolds aboard the Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. Weaving a web of subterfuge, murder and politics along the way, it focuses upon the disturbing relationship between Myatt, the pragmatic Jew, and chorus girl, Coral Musker.
Comments: a masterpiece!

"The Third Man" and "The Fallen Idol"

Author: Graham Greene
Synopsis: "The Third Man" is a recreation of post-war Vienna, a city of desolate poverty occupied by four powers. "The Fallen Idol" is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play.
Comments: Great read.

Enigma: The Battle for the Code

Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Synopsis: Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in the exploits of spies, naval officers and ordinary British seamen who risked, and in some cases lost, their lives snatching the vital Enigma codebooks from under the noses of Nazi officials and from sinking German ships and submarines. This book tells the whole Enigma story: its original invention and use by German forces and how it was the Poles who first cracked - and passed on to the British - the key to the German airforce Enigma. The more complicated German Navy Enigma appeared to them to be unbreakable.
Comments: Amazing book about amazing recent history!