Christopher Nicole was born in Georgetown, Guyana, 7 December 1930, of Scottish parents. He worked in the West Indies for Royal Bank of Canada for ten years. His first book was published in 1957, his first novel in 1958, and his first bestseller in 1961. He has published over 200 books, mostly novels, using several pseudonyms, and has been translated into twenty-five languages. He has two sons and three daughters, and is now living in Guernsey.
As the Indian Mutiny takes hold, one woman will establish her place in history for ever . . .
India, 1857. Aged just twenty-one, Lakshmi Bai, otherwise known as Manu, the widowed and recently deposed Rani of Jhansi, finds herself embroiled in the developing Indian Mutiny. Torn between leading Jhansi into battle or following the advice of her close friend and confidante, Emma Hammond, a tragic succession of events is triggered as the Mutiny comes to a head and Manu faces her destiny: one which will see her crowned as India's queen of glory.
The story of one Englishwoman's remarkable relationship with an Indian princess at the height of the British Empire
India, 1849. When Emma Hammond is left penniless in India after her husband is murdered by thieves, little does she know that she will soon be residing in one of the richest palaces in the country. Just six years earlier, back in England, Emma was implicated in the death of a housekeeper and sentenced to ten years exile in India. Now, unable to return home, she sits before Manikarnika, known to her intimates as Manu, who has promised her vast wealth - if she can teach the wild young girl how to behave like a princess . . .
The thrilling sequel to Angel of Doom - Germany, 1945
The Third Reich has collapsed and MI6 are retiring beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach, aka the Countess von Widerstand. But Anna is still wanted by the Russians for an attempt on the life of Stalin, and when they trace her to her Scottish refuge where she’s under the care of her MI6 handler and lover Clive Bartley, Anna escapes the only way she knows how: she shoots her way out . . .
When Germany invades Austria, all anti-Nazis are imprisoned, including liberal editor Johann Fehrbach and his family. But his eldest daughter Annaliese is a prize for the Gestapo: beautiful, an athlete, an IQ of 173, head girl of her convent and fluent in English. Annaliese is taken off to an SS training camp and given a terrifying proposition: train as a German agent, or her family will suffer . . .
The romantic adventures of one of history's most infamous beauties
Nineteenth-century England. Jane Elizabeth Digby is beautiful . . . and notorious. Just twenty-three when her husband, Lord Ellenborough, divorces her for adultery in a cloud of scandal, she looks to some of the most celebrated men of Europe's aristocracy in her search of love and romance counting kings, generals, and counts amongst her conquests. But it is a journey to the Arabian desert that is to prove the turning point in her life . . .
The romantic adventures of one of history's most notorious women
Christopher Nicole brings to life the romantic adventures of Jane Elizabeth Digby. Born into one of the wealthiest families in nineteenth-century England, by the age of seventeen she was known as the Light of Dawn, such was her beauty, and she received the attentions of many a rich bachelor until she married Lord Ellenborough. But, when he proved a disappointment in the bedroom, Jane began to conduct a string of scandalous affairs that would send shock waves through society . . .
1953. Anna Fehrbach, now happily married, is enjoying her Bahamian hideaway. It's been three years since the Russians last attempted to arrest her for her attempt on the life of Joseph Stalin, and she's beginning to believe that her arch-enemy, Lavrenty Beria, has abandoned the chase. But when Anna is lured into 'one last job' for the CIA, she is plunged back into the Russian orbit . . .
The end of the war has not allowed beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach to retire. Working for the SS her principal antagonist was the Soviet Union, and to Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lavrenty Beria she remains the most wanted of all war criminals. Although under the aegis of the CIA, the Russians remain on her trail and elaborate plans are being laid for her capture and execution . . .
The thrilling sequel to Angel in Jeopardy
July 1944. In the aftermath of an attempt on Hitler's life, Germany is in chaos, but once again beautiful, deadly Anna Fehrbach is on hand to help maintain the regime. But Anna is not all she seems, and in her capacity as a double agent was herself integtral to the conspiracy. As the Third Reich collapses, how will Anna secure the release of her family, held by the Nazis to guarantee her loyalty?
The thrilling sequel to Angel of Vengeance
In 1943 Nazi Germany's defences are crumbling, and Heinrich Himmler is taking steps to ensure his survival. He employs beautiful but deadly Anna Fehrbach to courier large sums of money across the border into Switzerland. What Himmler does not know is that Anna has for four years been a double agent, working for the British SIS and the American OSS in her determination to bring the Nazis down . .
Anna Fehrbach is an MI6 operative in the heart of the Nazi establishment who has just found out about the Final Solution, but convincing her British employers proves next to impossible. Meanwhile, she must organize the assassination of Hitler's probable successor, who also happens to be Anna's lover. But will Anna's nerve of steel hold out as those around her fall to pieces? . . .
Anna Fehrback is not yet twenty-one, the picture of innocent beauty, and a deadly assassin with seven kills to her name. Recruited by the Nazis under threats of reprisals against her family, she has served as a double agent in the war, secretly spying for the British. Now, as France falls to Germany, she faces a new mission: go to Russia and assassinate Stalin . . .
