Beau Valentine Books in Order

The Beau Valentine series is a two-book cycle of large-scale spy thrillers that blend alternate history with Cold War politics. They follow an American intelligence officer whose assignments keep colliding with the hidden plans of both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

Beau Valentine is first introduced in The Berkut, a secret-history tale that begins in the ruins of Berlin. In this version of 1945, Adolf Hitler has faked his suicide and slipped out of the bunker with a hardened German commando, Colonel Günter Brumm, and a handful of loyalists.

On the other side of the war, Joseph Stalin quietly forms a small special operations team led by Vasily Petrov and orders them to bring Hitler back alive. Valentine, a roguish American agent, keeps crossing their path as German fugitives, Soviet hunters, and the last resources of the Third Reich clash across a shattered Europe.

Years later, in The Domino Conspiracy, Valentine is living in Texas when the CIA drags him out of retirement. It is 1960, Nikita Khrushchev is under pressure at home, a faction inside the Red Army is plotting, and a psychotic American operative has gone off the rails with his own ideas about regime change.

As the Bay of Pigs invasion is planned and a high-stakes summit in Vienna approaches, American and Soviet teams are forced into an uneasy cooperation. Valentine and his new partner, Sylvia Charles, chase assassins and missing operatives through Europe, trying to head off a chain of events that could topple Khrushchev and upend both superpowers.

These novels are heavy on atmosphere and detail: long chases by train and on foot, cramped safe houses, backroom deals, and morally tangled decisions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Read The Berkut first and The Domino Conspiracy second to see how the shared cast evolves, or dive into either as a stand-alone epic.