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Slow Burner
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1958
The nuclear technique, highly innovative and secret, known as Slow Burner is one of Britain's greatest feats. A relatively low-impact source of energy, it has put that nation several valuable years ahead of the competition. Now it appears that someone may have stolen the information and it falls on the Security Executive to find the truth.
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Venetian Blind
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1959
Negative Gravity is the desired goal of a concerted effort by the British government and a noted private sector corporation. The facts of a significant leak in security has Colonel Russell employing a noted lawyer as the means to determining who is betraying the country and to whom.
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The Arena
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1961
The declining bank known as Bonavias was not looking for a buy-out but out of the blue, one from an upstart competitor comes with an amount significantly over the market value. Colonel Russell gets interested when it is learned that also part of the deal is a little known research firm called Radarmic.
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The Unquiet Sleep
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1962
The drug was not illegal so there was nothing considered wrong with its possession or usage. Nevertheless, the increasingly popular relaxation pill known as Mecron was becoming the concern of the Security Executive as more and more people in positions of power were taking it and that made Charles Russell interested.
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The High Wire
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1963
It seems everyone wanted a piece of Project A. That mysteriously named experiment, currently worked on and funded by the British government is proving very expensive but with the sudden interest by the American and Soviet governments, it is proving even costlier.
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The Antagonists
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1964
The shy, unassuming scientist, a refugee from the communist nation of Yugoslavia, wanted nothing more than to continue his research in peace and quiet of Britain. Unfortunately, the Americans would like to have him and the Soviets wouldn't mind seeing him dead. Russell unenviable job was keeping him safe and alive.
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The Hard Sell
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1965
Russell was in Italy investigating sabotage at a British plant in that country only because of a favor. Industrial espionage was not something he enjoyed combating but the continued existence of a major British corporation depended on his finding out who wanted to destroy the plant and the company's reputation.
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The Powder Barrel
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1965
The tiny sheikdom had only oil going for it but there was plenty of that, certainly enough to cause trouble. Charles Russell had no interest until there was a murder and it seemed the wrong man was killed. Now the entire region is ready to blow until the Security Executive can find the right victim and catch the right killer.
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The Power House
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1966
The word came to Charles Russell from an unusual source, his nephew, that a prominent member of Parliament, noted for extreme left-wing views, was ready to defect. Charles Russell learns that gambling and extortion play a big role but who was doing the extorting?
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The Conspirators
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1967
An exploding American military plane spread its debris over the Devon countryside. It would have just been an unfortunate accident except that its cargo consisted of a hydrogen bomb. Quickly the authorities rushed to collect it and secure the area but then rumors came that there might have been a second bomb onboard.
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A Cool Day For Killing
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1968
The daughter of the Sultan of Shahbaddin, a small Malaysian kingdom, preferred her home in England. When her father is killed in a coup, she hoped the violence wouldn't touch her. Unfortunately, the tiara she possessed was desired by a great many people and suddenly she and Colonel Russell are in the thick of the rebellion.
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The Doubtful Disciple
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1969
Colonel Russell has decided that it was time for him to retire, or at least become more of an eminence grise. Richard Laver is offered the position and reluctantly accepts. His first case concerns a way for scientists to target their victims, giving germs the ability to actually distinguish nationalities. Someone was out to steal the formula.
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The Hardliners
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1970
A highly respected journalist is worried when a set of diaries written by her father over the years are stolen and publication is imminent. She asks Charles Russell to help, who learns of the worry about sensitive information in them. He must find out who has stolen them and see them returned or destroyed.
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Too Many Enemies
aka The Bitter Harvest
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1971
Brought out of retirement, Charles Russell is asked by the Prime Minister to diffuse a delicate matter. The Middle East was again heating up and an MP might hold a key to keeping the lid from blowing off. Someone, however, is trying hard to manipulate the MP and Russell must find a way to stop it.
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Notch On The Knife
aka The Old Masters
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1973
Milo was an old friend from when Charles Russell parachuted into the mountainous Balkan country Milo called home and helped fight the fascists. Now Milo was the Premier of that land trying desparately to hold the fragile union together. Russell is drawn into the fight Milo comes to visit and a bomb is left in Russell's house.
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The Scorpion's Tail
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1975
On his first real vacation, certainly his first 'package tour', to the Spanish resort, Russell was intrigued with a beautiful small island visible from the view of his room. When he decided to investigate it, however, he landed in a secret mess that would task him to the fullest to stay alive for someone was using it for more than just vacationers.
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Yesterday's Enemy
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1976
He didn't want to come out of retirement but the situation seemed dire enough when it was explained to him by an old nemesis, the head of a Soviet KGB directorate. A noted nuclear physicist with strange leanings had disappeared and suddenly the danger of a war between America and Russia seemed almost certain.
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Poison People
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1977
When an old friend of Russell, a Member of Parliament, starts to get involved in the drug trafficking business, it wasn't to help. Hating the disgusting business and blaming it for the death of his son, the MP is using his vast wealth to put a dent in the activity and asks Russell to take part. Despite his concerns, he knows he has to help.
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Visa To Limbo
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1978
As a vacationer in Israel, Russell is annoyed that that government decides that his presence is not desired any more. It was certainly due to his interest in the half-Jewish former mistress of an Arab sheik but what did he or she have to do with a plane hijacking or bombings in Tel Aviv?
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The Median Line
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1979
When he saved the life of the President of a small oil-producing country, Russell naturally thought it a singular event. Weeks later, traveling abroad on vacation to visit his former assistant, Richard Mortimer, Russell finds that the previous event was still ongoing and his help was needed to keep the Middle East from exploding yet again.
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The Money Men
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1981
An old lover from year past approaches Russell with a request for help. In seeking to sell an apartment in Italy to return to Britain, she had run afoul of con artists who cheated her of a considerable amount of money. Determined more for revenge than retrieval, she wants the scheme stopped.
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The Mischief Makers
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1982
The aged ruler of a small oil-rich country has decided the time is right to revenge an atrocity on his family decades before. The intended victim is not the man who performed the deed but the country of his birth, Great Britain. Now Russell must come out of retirement to stop a shipment of explosives destined to kill thousands. William Wilberforce Smith costars.
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The Heirloom
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1983
An old friend of Charles Russell was retiring. Wishing to return from the States to his beloved Venice, he needed the advice from Russell on a good bank to use. Russell needed something from him in return but getting it would land both in a conspiracy to take over an island and risk a Greece-Turkey war.
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The Need To Know
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1984
An aging member of French politics dies while visiting with Charles Russell. Normally this would have been seen as a heart attack but soon curiousity arises in some circles whether Russell might have helped the old man to his grave. Willy Wilberforce Smith is called to investigate.
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The Meritocrats
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1985
The weapon known as ANNE was the most powerful non-nuclear explosive device created, so powerful it could turn any tank into slag. The British government had the secret. Other governments wanted it. The biggest security risk, however, seemed to be coming from within the British government itself.
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The Vendettists
Written by William Haggard
Copyright: 1990
He started out wanting to find out who was dumping toxic waste off the coast of his seaside home, the place Russell has gone to continue his retirement. Before he knew it, the former head of the Security Executive was involved in local politics, personal squabbles, and the threat of an organized crime group.
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