Alexander Fullerton Books in Order

Based on Fullerton's own wartime service, this follows the crew of HMS Seahound through patrols, special operations, minefields, and depth-charge attacks in the Far East. It is a close, authentic portrait of submarine life under relentless strain.

The past refuses to stay buried in this early Fullerton thriller, where hidden history drives present danger. Guilt, memory, and old loyalties keep tightening the screws until someone has to face what was left behind.

This early thriller revolves around pursuit, entanglement, and a danger that tightens by degrees. Fullerton keeps the pace brisk as choices narrow and the trap begins to close.

Sir Richard Grenville and the Revenge face overwhelming Spanish force in a battle that lasts fifteen brutal hours. Fullerton turns the famous fight into a taut story of pride, endurance, and hopeless odds.

When a circus lion escapes, a young boy becomes its unexpected protector. What starts as a bold adventure turns into a story about loyalty, fear, and trying to save something wild from the adults closing in.

Set inside the world of books and business, this novel follows ambition, reputation, and quiet backroom combat. Fullerton treats publishing as its own battlefield, where success depends on timing, nerve, and judgment.

Power at the top comes with pressure from every side in this business-set drama. Fullerton looks past the title to the personal compromises, rivalries, and hard calls that leadership demands.

This domestic drama turns attraction and jealousy into a slow-burning trap. Fullerton follows tangled marriages and bad decisions to show how private betrayals can spread outward.

A struggling London department store faces falling profits, takeover pressure, and family politics at the top. John Conant is brought in to save the business, only to find that the hardest problem is the man who built it.

This early Fullerton novel follows a tough survivor nicknamed Old Moke through danger that leaves little room for self-deception. It is compact, unsentimental, and driven by character under pressure.

James Allan is a piper, charmer, and born troublemaker whose gifts with music and women carry him from one scrape to the next. The novel follows his restless appetites and the chaos they leave behind.

Captain Christiannsen dislikes having women aboard, but Mary Lou Smith proves how wrong he is. When a ship is torpedoed and survivors are attacked, her nerve and quick thinking become a matter of life and death.

Carrying military information that could save 30,000 lives, John Farjeon must force his way through the Malayan jungle. The mission is urgent, the terrain unforgiving, and time is the enemy at every step.

Escape is the driving force here, but not everyone wants freedom for the same reason. Fullerton turns the urge to break away into a tense story of pressure, deception, and consequences.

At Jutland in 1916, young Nick Everard faces his first great test as the Royal Navy meets the German High Sea Fleet. The battle is vast, but Fullerton keeps it personal through fear, duty, and split-second decisions.

After hard winter patrols in the Dover Strait, Nick Everard is pulled into the planning for the Zeebrugge Raid. The assault lasts only an hour, but Fullerton makes that hour feel enormous.

Ted Carpenter follows rumors of slave smuggling along the East African coast and into Central Africa. On the road he meets Jane, the former lover he never forgot, now married to a man as dangerous as the country around them.

Near the end of the First World War, Nick Everard is ordered on a near-suicidal submarine mission through the Dardanelles. The target is the German battlecruiser Goeben, and failure is almost easier to imagine than success.

During the German invasion of Norway, Nick Everard's destroyer is crippled under heavy fire and hidden in a fjord for repairs. As the war widens, father and son are drawn toward the same Arctic battle.

In May 1941, Nick Everard takes the destroyer Tuareg into waters ruled by Stuka bombers to evacuate troops, nurses, and a field hospital from Crete. The job is desperate, and miracle feels like the only plan left.

At Surabaya in 1942, Nick Everard commands the damaged cruiser Defiant in a battle he cannot win. Wounded, trapped, and responsible for a battered American destroyer as well, he has to find a way out of the Japanese net.

Paul Everard serves in the Mediterranean submarine Ultra, striking Axis shipping in a brutal undersea war. But the danger is not only his, as the wider Everard family is scattered across missions that could destroy them all.

A crisis opens the door to reinvention, but Fullerton is more interested in the price of starting again. Suspense grows from clashing loyalties, private ambition, and the stubborn weight of the past.

This early thriller is built on patience, secrecy, and the danger of moving too soon. As motives stay hidden and pressure mounts, waiting becomes as risky as action.

During the Falklands War, a small SBS team heads into the South Atlantic to sabotage Argentina's Exocet missiles. Their Anglo-Argentine guide has private motives of his own, and failure could change the whole campaign.

Former SBS captain Ollie Lyle joins a civilian expedition into Norwegian Lapland, where murder and unrest point to something larger. Soon he is facing a covert Russian operation and a fight for survival in brutal Arctic country.

Set around a Mediterranean kidnapping, this thriller mixes sea-going action with covert maneuvering and uneasy alliances. Fullerton keeps the pressure on as the rescue effort runs into danger, deception, and hard choices.

A washed-up former soldier gets one last chance when a secret SBS mission sends him into Syria. What begins as redemption quickly turns into a political minefield with the power to ignite something much larger.

After the Russian Revolution, Royal Navy officer Bob Cowan must bring out five women, including two of the Tsar's daughters, from Bolshevik territory near Astrakhan. The rescue could be a trap, and escape looks harder still.

In 1919, Russian speaker Bob Cowan is sent into the Black Sea war zone to rescue two British girls serving as nurses with the White Army. Defeat is closing in, but the mission only grows more dangerous as he pushes deeper into the snow.

In 1941 Alexandria, a British submarine commander falls for a half-Italian woman just as enemy frogmen threaten the harbor. Romance, espionage, and naval warfare collide in a city that may soon change sides.

During prewar trials for a new British submarine, observer Rufus Chalk sees small faults that may add up to catastrophe. Fullerton turns the approach to disaster into a tense, claustrophobic study of men trapped by faith in machinery.

SOE radio operator Rosie Ewing lands on the Brittany coast in 1943 and must reach occupied Rouen with forged papers, money, and a transmitter. The old network has already been destroyed, and betrayal may still be at work.

In autumn 1943, Allied torpedo boats move to intercept a heavily guarded German U-boat supply ship. Navigator Ben Quarry is distracted by Rosie and messy loyalties ashore, until battle strips everything down to survival.

In spring 1944, Rosie Ewing parachutes back into occupied Brittany carrying a radio, cash, and cyanide. With D-Day coming and a possible traitor waiting below, every contact could be the wrong one.

A lost Atlantic cargo of gold and atomic secrets draws multiple crews into a perilous race to the seabed. Getting down is only the start, because the real danger begins when it is time to come back up.

Rosie Ewing is believed dead after a Gestapo escape attempt, but she survives in hiding in Alsace. Now she wants the SOE traitor who sold agents out, and this time the mission is deeply personal.

In 1904, Michael Henderson joins the Tsar's chaotic Baltic fleet as it heads toward Tsushima. Torn from a dangerous love affair, he must survive incompetence, long-distance blundering, and one of history's great naval disasters.

After the Titanic collision, Eileen Maguire survives while her husband and child do not. Broken by grief, she fixes on White Star director Bruce Ismay and turns survival into a dark, obsessive hunt for revenge.

When two agents are arrested in Paris in 1945, Rosie Ewing is sent in alone to find the woman who may lead her to them. Resistance factions, pro-Nazi groups, and near-total uncertainty make the job brutally hard.

Nick Everard escorts a slow, vulnerable convoy in autumn 1942 with only a thin screen of protection around it. What the waiting U-boats do not know is that the convoy itself is bait in a much larger Allied plan.

Mini-submarines head for Norway on a near-impossible mission to cripple the Tirpitz and other German warships. Commander Paul Everard faces the operation itself, while his father Nick knows failure could doom the convoys behind him.

Charlie Holt is ordered to fly a newly built airship into wartime France and bring out a woman carrying intelligence that could save millions. To succeed, he must also protect her invalid mother and finish the mission after everything goes wrong.

Third mate Andy Holt is serving on the cargo ship PollyAnna as war closes over Atlantic trade routes and the Graf Spee stalks British shipping. When prisoners appear in Montevideo, Holt and his shipmates are pushed toward a desperate rescue.

As Germany sues for peace in 1918, a damaged U-boat carries Otto von Mettendorff home toward Wilhelmshaven. In London, Anne Laurie hears of his fate and remembers a prewar encounter that war has turned into tragedy.

In summer 1940, merchant officer Andy Holt sails to Cuba aboard the SS Barranquilla, knowing the real danger lies on the loaded trip home. U-boats, bad odds, and his need to reach Julia before their child is born make every mile matter.

In late 1942, Rosie Ewing joins an SOE group sent into Vichy France to pull a crucial German out of enemy hands. The mission is risky from the start, and betrayal may be waiting inside the network itself.

Lieutenant Mike Nicholson commands the submarine Ursa in the Mediterranean, hunting Axis supply ships bound for Rommel. Success brings promotion within reach, but only if he can survive combat and keep clear of trouble ashore.

An early Fullerton drama about desire, pride, and the damage possession can do. As a relationship turns into a contest of wills, private feeling becomes a dangerous kind of battlefield.

Based on the Shangani Patrol, this novel follows a doomed band of Rhodesian volunteers on their final stand. Fullerton keeps the focus on courage, confusion, and the terrible cost of fighting on when rescue will not come.