William Boyd

James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.

"The Whitbread Award-winning author of A Good Man in Africa and the Costa Award-winning Restless now gives us a sweeping new novel that unfolds across fin-de-siècle Europe as it tells a story of ineffable passions--familial, artistic, romantic--and their power to shape, and destroy, a life. Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron--"The Irish Liszt"--The pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours...

"From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and...

"When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and, from the time she picked up her first camera, one who would record her own version of events. Moving freely between London and New York, between photojournalism and fashion...

America's favorite Western hero Hopalong Cassidy, and his trusty stallion Topper, rode into hearts of millions in the 1940s as the good guys of the West. William Boyd stars as the cowboy in black. Follow Hopalong and his Bar 20 Ranch gang as they wrangle with the outlaws in 10 original classic Westerns.

Explores British soldiers' emotional experiences in the trenches before the Battle of the Somme during World War I.

A 2-part miniseries, based on the bestselling novel by William Boyd. Enter a cloak and dagger world where everyone and everything is under suspicion. Haunted by the death of her brother at the hands of fascist thugs, Russian émigré Eva Delectorskaya is recruited to be a British secret agent by the shadowy figure, Lucas Romer. After proving her merit in the field, she is sent on the most dangerous mission of her life. She must use any means necessary...

Border patrol: Hopalong and pals discover how 25 Mexicans disappeared after being hired by the Silver Bullets mine. Doomed caravan: Jane Travers (Minna Gombell), who runs Crescent City Freighting Co., fights a gang of robbers with Hopalong's help. Fool's gold: Colonel Jed Landy (Forbes Murray) visits the Bar 20 to ask Hopalong to help save his son. Forty thieves: Hopalong proves his opponent for the sheriff's race is crooked. Hidden gold: Hopalong...