Untold Story of Foreign Interference in Australia Series
Espionage - ASIO - Crime - MI6 - History - CIA - Russia - StB - China - KGB - Czech Republic - Ananda Marga
FEATURED - Dark Chicanery
It’s the turn of the 21st Century. Vladimir Putin’s overseas intelligence network, the Russian SVR, is flexing its muscles. Its operatives descend on the remote Christmas Island off the northern coast of Western Australia (WA), so ASIO despatches Michael Millstone to keep an eye on things. Realising he is out of his depth, Millstone joins forces with CIA and federal police operatives to solve the mystery of who is deceiving who.
Book 3 - The Scorpion and the Lotus
Following Attorney-General Murphy’s raid on ASIO in 1973, ASIO analyst, Zander Ryan, investigates a conspiracy to bring ASIO to its knees. Later his focus switches to the 1978 bombing of Sydney’s Hilton Hotel and a spiritualist sect - Ananda Marga.
Book 4 - The Penumbra Dwellers
In the 1970s, the KGB uses Czechoslovak intelligence operatives to do its intelligence dirty work. ASIO teams led by Oscar Riddell in Sydney, and Rufus Delaney in Canberra, unravel these joint operations but in so doing risk unravelling themselves.
Book 5 - Daedalian Down Under
The 1980s are the KGB’s glory years in Australia and they begin amassing a growing stable of political, bureaucratic and intelligence assets -- especially in Canberra, as ASIO struggles to contain them.
Enter new ASIO boss, Harvey Barnett.
Book 6 - A Narcissist Unleashed
Set in Sydney, Russia and the USA in the 1990s, Vladimir Putin (and his Russian intelligence network) has ASIO exactly where he wants it. Can Putin’s nemesis, ‘Gunter’, ASIO operative Victor Carter and Victor’s ailing mother, Kathryn, stop him?
Book 7 - Millstone
Michael Millstone, retired from ASIO counter-intelligence is determined to write about his experiences. But only one publisher seems interested. As the business association develops, he finds himself drawn back into active service with ASIO -- and he and his wife are held to ransom by a People’s Republic of China (PRC) intelligence network involved in activities ranging from cyber hacking to attempted assassination.
Welcome to the Series
Harry P. Russell is a former, long-serving, Australian Intelligence, and law enforcement operative with a keen interest in Australian history. He has worked as a print journalist, writer and editor of an Australian industry magazine and in the 1990s created an ABC television espionage program called, ‘Secrets’.
These books are part of his insightful series, 'The Untold Story of Foreign interference in Australia'