1938. Cal Jardine has been recruited by the SIS in order to prove that Czechoslovakia is threatened with invasion. As jealousy and mutual suspicions in the secret service ranks make it hard to tell friend from foe, Jardine rediscovers old friends of dubious loyalty and makes new enemies of untested ruthlessness.

When a favour to a friend leaves Cal Jardine caught up in the Spanish Civil War, he must take a bunch of British athletes and turn them into fighters. He leads them on to fighting in the Catalan countryside acquiring friends and enemies along the way, including German communist diehard Manfred Drecker.

When a favour to a friend leaves Cal Jardine caught up in the Spanish Civil War, he must take a bunch of British athletes and turn them into fighters. He leads them on to fighting in the Catalan countryside acquiring friends and enemies along the way, including German communist diehard Manfred Drecker.

Harry is a soldier of fortune forced to flee Hamburg where he has been smuggling out Jews. On his travels he acquires more baggage than he cares for, including a beautiful but difficult American woman searching for her archaeologist mother. But, as he becomes more drawn into conflict, can Harry save those who now depend on him?

When a favour to a friend leaves Cal Jardine caught up in the Spanish Civil War, he must take a bunch of British athletes and turn them into fighters. He leads them on to fighting in the Catalan countryside acquiring friends and enemies along the way, including German communist diehard Manfred Drecker.

The true and gripping story of James Ashcroft's audacious return to war-torn Iraq to save his friend.

Samuel Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people. Called to do a hit at very short notice, he believes the target to be a high-ranking Pakistani terrorist. The job is to organise a car crash in a Paris underpass, but Carver is being set up and when he discovers the truth it puts his life in real danger.

A ghost exists beneath the cool exterior of Isobel Lambert, head of the covert mercenary organisation, The Committee. And her and and present collide when Serafin, mercenary, assassin, and the most dangerous man in the world, makes a deal.

In 'Making a Killing', Ashcroft provides a first-hand view of the secret world of private security in Iraq where ex-soldiers employed to protect US and British interests can make up to $1000 a day. But he also reveals a new kind of warfare where the rules are still being written.

Captain Patrick Duffy is a man whose loyalties are divided. His renegade father, Michael Duffy, is a soldier of fortune who is wanted by the Australian police, and his adoring, manipulative grandmother has plans for him that may change his life.

Sam Carver has a rival, a copycat assassin using his modus operandi to organize fatal 'accidents'. Hounded by suspicion, forced to clear his name, and to protect his reputation as the best in the business, Carver must go head to head with the challenger in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

'Pawn in Frankencense' is the fourth novel in the famous Lymond Chronicles, bringing 16th century history to life through the adventures of Scottish soldier of fortune, scholar and wit, Francis Crawford of Lymond.