Michael Jayston

Ted Mundy, the son of a British soldier, first met Sasha, the refugee son of an East German pastor, when they were students in Berlin. Their paths crossed as espionage operatives in the Cold War era, and they finally meet again in today's world of terrorism. X rated, contains offensive language and graphic violence.

Disenchanted with his job in the force, Commander Adam Dalgliesh accepts an invitation to visit a friend, a chaplain at a private nursing home, only to discover that his host has died suddenly.  Book 5 of series.

Tessa Quayle, the young and beautiful wife of a career diplomat has been murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana and her African friend and co-worker has disappeared. Her husband is determined to find out why Tessa was Killed and who the murderers are.

The scientists who work at Hoggatt's laboratory are experts in violent death. Now the brutal murder of one of their own brings Adam Dalgliesh hurrying from Scotland Yard to the bleak fens of East Anglia, where a murderer is waiting to strike again.  Book 6 of series.

These stories cover 23 centuries of warfare, from Hannibal’s march on Rome on to the American Civil War, to the skies of France in World War Two and to the battlefields of Vietnam.

Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard is taking respite from publicity in a converted windmill on the Norfolk coast where he is tying up his aunt’s estate. But he cannot easily escape murder - a psychopathic strangler known as the Whistler is terrorizing the Norfolk countryside.  Book 9 of series.

A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America's most exclusive holiday retreat. But it's no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Robert McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw in an extraordinary plot that will shake the very foundations of international security. For McAra was a man who knew too much.

As ghostwriter to one of the most controversial men on the planet - Britain's former prime minister, holed up in a remote ocean-front house to finish his memoirs - he stumbled across secrets which cost him his life. When a new ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project it could be the opportunity of a lifetime. Or the start of a deadly assignment propelled by deception and intrigue - from which there will be no escape . . .

February 1818 and Adam Bolitho longs for marriage but knows he is lucky to be offered H.M.S. Onward, whose first mission is to be a diplomatic one. However, under the African sun, Bolitho becomes aware of envy and ambition among his officers.  Book 29 of series.

In 1782, His Britannic Majesty's frigate Phalarope sailed to assist squadrons in the Caribbean. This should have been the perfect ship for new captain, Richard Bolitho, but he soon discovers it is a deeply unhappy ship, with deckhands driven to near mutiny.   Book 5 of series.

An island off the coast of Cornwall, which has become a retreat for high-powered executives, is the setting for a grotesque murder. Dalgliesh is requested to solve the crime with the utmost discretion.  Book 13 of series.

It’s 1772 in Portsmouth and 16-year-old Richard Bolitho waits to join the Gorgon, ordered to sail to the west coast of Africa and to destroy those who challenge the King's navy. For Bolitho, and many of the crew, it is a severe initiation into life at sea.  Book 1 of series.

When Rhoda Gradwyn booked into a private clinic in Dorset, she had every prospect of a successful operation, but she was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team, called in to investigate her death, and later a second murder, are confronted with problems even more complicated than the question of innocence or guilt.  Book 14 of series.

The Cold War is over and Ned has been demoted to the training academy. He asks his old mentor, George Smiley, to address his passing-out class. There are no laundered reminiscences; Smiley speaks the truth - perhaps the last the students will ever hear. As they listen, Ned recalls his own painful triumphs and inglorious failures, in a career that took him from the Western Isles of Scotland to Hamburg and from Israel to Cambodia. He asks himself: Did it do any good? What did it do to me? And what will happen to us now? In this final Smiley novel, the great spy gives his own humane and unexpected answers.

Book 8 in the George Smiley series.

In March 1814 Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England where news of Napoleon's defeat and abdication shocks the navy and nation. Bolitho is sent to Malta, an area where he has already seen glory and tragedy.  Book 25 of series.

The bodies were discovered at 8.45 on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton, a 65 year old spinster of the parish and Darren Wilkes, a 10 year old waif of no particular parish, her unlikely companion. Adam Dalgliesh finds himself confronted with the most confused and convoluted case of his career.  Book 7 of series.

In this sequel to ‘World’s End’ (7833) Donald Wheal and his family find themselves homeless after an air raid in 1944. After the war his adolescence was spent in an anonymous London suburb. He subsequently travelled around Britain and war-ravaged France, ending up in National Service in Germany and Italy.

A memoir of the author’s childhood growing up in World’s End, Chelsea during WWII. Donald’s family lived a life of stark poverty in contrast to their privileged neighbours a stone’s throw away. At the age of nine Donald’s world changed dramatically as war was declared.