Andrew Turpin Books in Order
Browse Andrew Turpin books in order, with book lists, short summaries of the Joe Johnson and Jayne Robinson thrillers, plus simple advice on where to start.
Last updated: December 23, 2025
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Publication Order
12 books
The Queen's Pawn
by Andrew Turpin
2023
When a Russian oligarch willing to defect is murdered mid chess game in London, Jayne Robinson is sent to Moscow to salvage whatever secrets he meant to pass on. As Russia moves against Ukraine and a US presidency wobbles, she must navigate shifting loyalties and decide who, if anyone, she can trust.
The Dam Keeper
by Andrew Turpin
2023
A young US Army engineer working on hydroelectric dams along the Danube vanishes after being lured into a Kremlin honeytrap, just as a Russian mole in Ukraine is killed for passing secrets to the CIA. Jayne Robinson uncovers a plot to destroy a major dam and unleash a catastrophic flood ahead of a presidential visit to Kyiv, forcing her into a race downriver and a dangerous game with a reluctant source inside the Russian president's inner circle.
The Confessor
by Andrew Turpin
2022
Four American cardinals are murdered on their way to a secret meeting at the White House, carrying a warning that never reaches the president. Sent by the CIA and quietly encouraged by the pope, Jayne Robinson follows clues from Washington and the Vatican to Ramallah, racing to learn who ordered the killings before she is silenced herself.
The Kremlin's Vote
by Andrew Turpin
2021
After two senior US officials are gunned down outside an English pub, evidence points toward a Moscow plot to sway the next American election. Former MI6 officer Jayne Robinson goes undercover to handle a Kremlin source, but on Russian soil she discovers a maze of lies that could reach the White House.
The Dark Shah
by Andrew Turpin
2021
A drone strike on the US Secretary of State near Tel Aviv and the shooting of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Vienna suggest someone is trying to light a new fuse. Sent by the CIA, Jayne Robinson must work uneasily with Mossad while a past bombing that killed her father turns the case into a personal reckoning.
The Nazi's Son
by Andrew Turpin
2019
When a Russian defector arrives in Berlin claiming to know the truth about a Cold War nightclub bombing and a mole leaking Western secrets, Joe Johnson expects a straightforward debrief. Instead he is hunted across northern Europe by oligarch Yuri Severinov, blocked by ex KGB and Stasi chiefs, and forced to team up again with Jayne Robinson to expose a decades old conspiracy before more lives are lost.
The Black Sea
by Andrew Turpin
2019
After Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Ukraine, Joe Johnson goes undercover for the CIA around Russia's Black Sea coast to cut through the blame and disinformation. Working with Jayne Robinson, he follows a trail from Moscow to Washington that exposes a new style of Russian infiltration and brings him face to face with a longtime enemy.
The Afghan
by Andrew Turpin
2019
Set in 1988, this prequel sends young CIA officer Joe Johnson into the mountains of Afghanistan to capture a Soviet helicopter and win over mujahideen fighters. When the mission goes wrong, he suspects a traitor inside his own side and, with help from MI6 colleague Jayne Robinson, must survive a deadly contest with both KGB rivals and vengeful local fighters.
Stalin's Final Sting
by Andrew Turpin
2019
Years after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Joe Johnson is drawn into an inquiry that links a brutal Russian oligarch, missing CIA supplied Stinger missiles, and an Afghan fighter still hungry for revenge. Following a trail from New York and Washington to Moscow and the Hindu Kush, Johnson and Jayne Robinson must confront old Cold War operations and a crooked former CIA boss before the past explodes into the present.
The Old Bridge
by Andrew Turpin
2018
Investigating a war crimes case tied to the Bosnian conflict, Joe Johnson and Jayne Robinson search for a vanished army officer who once carried a secret dossier out of the Balkans. From the ruins of Mostar's famous bridge to Dubrovnik, New York, and London, they uncover links between atrocities in the 1990s, corruption inside the CIA, and power struggles reaching toward the White House.
Bandit Country
by Andrew Turpin
2018
In Northern Ireland, a sniper starts killing high profile figures just as the US president is due for a G8 summit. Joe Johnson and Jayne Robinson dig into decades old files on the Troubles, uncovering dangerous ties between terrorists, security forces, and American fundraising networks before the next shot can ignite a political crisis.
The Last Nazi
by Andrew Turpin
2017
When evidence of a hidden Nazi train resurfaces, war crimes investigator and former CIA officer Joe Johnson is asked to look into a suspicious link between its contents and the campaign financing of a rising US presidential hopeful. His search for the truth leads from London to Eastern Europe and across the Atlantic, forcing him to confront an SS killer he once failed to catch and the buried history of his own family.
Where should I start?
If you want the main Joe Johnson arc: The Last Nazi → The Old Bridge → Bandit Country.
If you prefer chronological order: The Afghan → The Last Nazi → The Old Bridge.
If you like female led spy thrillers: The Kremlin's Vote → The Dark Shah → The Confessor.
If you want the latest high stakes stories: The Queen's Pawn → The Dam Keeper.
Author bio
Andrew Turpin is a British thriller writer who turns his long-standing fascination with history, politics, and current affairs into modern spy stories grounded in real events.
He grew up in Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he devoured adventure and spy novels while studying the headlines and world news. At Loughborough University he chose history, a subject that let him dig into the conflicts and political decisions that would later fuel his fiction.
After graduating he became a business and financial journalist, eventually working on national newspapers in the UK and covering corporate deals, markets, and energy policy. Those years taught him how to sift evidence, chase down a story, and explain complex issues in clear, tight prose.
After about fourteen years in newsrooms he moved into corporate and financial communications, working with major energy companies on media relations and strategy. When his last corporate role disappeared in a reorganization, he finally gave himself permission to treat fiction as his main job rather than a spare time ambition.
In 2017 he published The Last Nazi, the first novel in his Joe Johnson spy thriller series. The books follow a former US government Nazi hunter and CIA officer who now tracks war crimes that still echo in modern politics. In later installments like The Old Bridge, Bandit Country, Stalin's Final Sting, The Nazi's Son, and The Black Sea, Johnson moves from Bosnia to Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, Russia, and Washington, DC, uncovering how old atrocities shape present day power struggles. The Last Nazi reached the top ten in UK ebook charts and the top forty in the US, and the series has earned well over a thousand five star ratings from readers.
Alongside Joe Johnson, Turpin created former MI6 officer Jayne Robinson, who first appears as Johnson's colleague and then steps forward as the lead in her own novels. The Jayne Robinson books, beginning with The Kremlin's Vote and continuing through The Dark Shah, The Confessor, The Queen's Pawn, and The Dam Keeper, push her into the heart of election interference, Middle Eastern tensions, Vatican intrigue, and Russia's wars in and around Ukraine.
Across both series he is drawn to the way long buried decisions and grudges refuse to stay in the past. His plots are built around real wars, attacks, and unsolved mysteries, from Nazi crimes during the Second World War to the Balkan conflicts, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Cold War terror attacks, and modern cyber and information warfare. He spends months on research for each book so that the settings, from Kabul to Kyiv to the Black Sea coast, feel textured and plausible even when the conspiracy at the center is fictional.
Turpin publishes through his own imprint, The Write Direction Publishing, and lives with his family in the historic city of St Albans, north of London. When he is not drafting or revising, he reads other thriller writers, plays and follows cricket, travels when he can, walks the family dog, and keeps fit with running or sessions at the gym. Much of his thinking time, he likes to say, is powered by strong coffee and long walks while he works out what trouble to throw at his characters next.
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