Dept 14: British Spy Espionage and crime stories

John Stone works for Dept 14 — a branch of British intelligence that doesn't officially exist. Sent to Pau, France, to recover a simple package, he expects to be home within the day. Instead, he discovers he isn't the only one hunting for the notebook — and the chase tears across France by train, and by fist, all the way to the coast at St Malo. There, his handler is waiting with worse news than the mission itself: a mole has burrowed deep into the British government, and the only way to root it out is to disappear. What John doesn't know yet is that this is only the first task in a much older pattern — one only the sharpest readers will start to recognise. Fast, twisty, old-school tradecraft: spy fiction with brains as well as muscle and no silly gadgets.

Physical Editions

Some of these stories also exist as physical objects — printed, sewn, or folded by hand, each with its own Evidence Envelope containing material referenced in the story itself. Not a puzzle, not a game — just a way for part of the fictional world to exist outside the pages.

Author's Evidence Sleeve

Printed, folded, and sewn booklet, archive-style paper sleeve

Evidence Envelope with story-specific documents, notes, or ephemera

Made to order · limited run · once the limit is reached, no more are made

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