Don't miss out on the headlines from Sunshine Coast. Followed categories will be added to My News. “Charlie Muffin” was brought into the UnderWater World rehabilitation unit on December 11, 2008 after ...

Brian Freemantle, who has died aged 88, was a globetrotting journalist turned prolific thriller writer, best-known as the creator of the sardonic, dishevelled spy Charlie Muffin. He began to publish ...

The talky concluding volume of Freemantle’s Red Star trilogy (after 2012’s Red Star Burning) finds MI5 operative Charlie Muffin in the custody of the FSB, the KGB’s successor, which seeks “to inflict ...

Thank goodness for Charlie Muffin. Brian Freemantle’s British spy provides a welcome relief from the all-style-and-no-substance heroes who occupy the pages of too many thrillers. Muffin, with his ...

Brain Freemantle, Author, Brian Freemantle, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-312-07625-2 Although recent events have outrun its premise, this latest espionage thriller from a master ...

Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a ...

4 Extra Debut. A Secret Service spy is wanted by his own department as well as the KGB, but he’s got a survival plan. Stars Philip Jackson. Show more Secret Service agent Charlie is a survivor. He ...