The Sandbaggers

Why is MI5 investigating the wife of the CIA chief of station, London? Before Burnside has the answer, the Sandbaggers is involved in a complex cat-and-mouse hunt around London.

Director of Intelligence Edward Tyler flies to Malta for a much-needed rest. Among the crowd of carefree holidaymakers, two people are waiting for him. Not even Neil Burnside himself can prevent a tragic ending.

Burnside is forced to go on holiday, leaving Caine in charge, and the CIA takes advantage. Meanwhile, an approach is made to Burnside that could have sinister motives.

Burnside becomes involved in a devious double game with his own superiors and sends Wallace to Europe on the most dangerous kind of mission there is: the unofficial kind.

Businessman and scientist Robert Banks was one of the best sources the Joint Intelligence Bureau had anywhere in the world - and irreplaceable. Was his death an accident?

The service is Burnside's life, and now he finds himself fighting for that very existence. Suddenly everyone seems to be out to bring him down.

At the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Malta, a dangerous game of bluff begins when a Russian makes contact with Willie Caine - and then a man disappears.