Gavin Lyall Books In Order

Honour Books In Publication Order

  1. Spy’s Honour (1993)
  2. Flight from Honour (1996)
  3. All Honourable Men (1998)
  4. Honourable Intentions (2000)

Harry Maxim Books In Publication Order

  1. The Secret Servant (1980)
  2. The Conduct of Major Maxim (1982)
  3. The Crocus List (1986)
  4. Uncle Target (1988)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Wrong Side of the Sky (1961)
  2. The Most Dangerous Game (1964)
  3. Midnight Plus One (1965)
  4. Shooting Script (1966)
  5. Venus With Pistol (1969)
  6. Blame The Dead (1973)
  7. Judas Country (1975)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Freedom’s Battle (1971)
  2. Operation Warboard (1972)
  3. Freedom’s Battle Volume Two (2011)

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Gavin Lyall Books Overview

Spy’s Honour

Trailing a notorious anarchist in Ireland, artillery Captain Matthew Ranklin teams up with scruffy but streetwise Conall O’Gilroy and encounters a web of espionage involving agents of the Kaiser, Archduke Ferdinand, and the death of a British agent.

Flight from Honour

The Italian senator thinks the fledgling British Secret Service can offer him protection from assassins, an aeroplane and the means of fuelling a strike in a Trieste shipyard. Those recruited could accidentally change history in this adventure set in the early days of modern espionage.

All Honourable Men

When a local bandit holds engineers of the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly delighted the railway is a potential threat to her interests in the Persian Gulf. However, she sends Lady Keso to sweet talk the brigand out of his plan in an empty gesture of goodwill.

Honourable Intentions

As a young naval officer, King George V kept a mistress in Portsmouth. In 1914 an American anarchist is about to be extradited, until he claims he is the King’s son and heir to the throne. Charged with the investigation, Captains Ranklin and O’Gilroy discover there is no smoke without gunfire.

Uncle Target

Televised as ‘The Secret Servant’ this thriller features Major Harry Maxim whose mission to Jordan changes from a simple demolition job to an epic run for freedom. A woman’s unofficial line of enquiry into his activities leads to the heart of the matter and a change in the direction of his fate.

Midnight Plus One

Lewis Cane fought with the French Resistance during the Second World War and gained a justified reputation as a tough and resourceful man. So it’s no great surprise when one of his ex Resistance comrades, now a successful lawyer in the early 1960s in Paris employs him to escort a businessman from Brittany to Liechtenstein for a crucial meeting. There are just two problems: the man’s associates don’t want him to get there, and the police have a warrant out for the man’s arrest on a charge of rape. For Cane, it becomes a desperate race across France, fighting against resourceful and ruthless adversaries and avoiding the forces of law and order every step of the way…

Shooting Script

Carr is flying a film company’s plane around the Caribbean. The plane is an old war time bomber, and Carr’s job soon proves to be less peaceful than he expected. Gavin Lyall is an ex RAF bomber, has spent four years writing for ‘The Sunday Times’ and wrote his first thriller in 1961.

Venus With Pistol

This is a detective story written by the author of ‘Blame the Dead’, ‘Shooting Script’, ‘Uncle Target’ and ‘Judas Country’.

Freedom’s Battle

The second volume of the classic Freedom’s Battle trilogy provides intensely vivid accounts of the war in the air. From the brilliant summer nonchalance of 1940 to the grim, anonymous exhaustion of the bomber crews delivering the infernos of Hamburg and Dresden, all the great dramas of the air war are here, described by the men of the British and Commonwealth Air Forces who did the fighting. We accompany them in the desperate days of the fall of France; during the Battle of Britain; throughout the agony of Bomber Command; over the high seas; to Malta; the desert battles; and in the struggle with Japan.

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