Charlie Muffin Books in Order

Veteran British spy Charlie Muffin has survived decades of dangerous work in Berlin. His new, class-conscious superiors consider him expendable, forcing the rumpled operative to protect himself against betrayal from within his own intelligence service.

After his intelligence service tries to sacrifice him, Charlie Muffin disappears abroad with his wife. Returning secretly to England seems safe enough, but former colleagues are still determined to eliminate the embarrassing survivor of their betrayal.

In Hong Kong, fugitive spy Charlie Muffin investigates the destruction of an ocean liner in which his protector has invested millions. An apparent insurance case becomes a dangerous inquiry into arson and competing claims about responsibility.

Working for an English insurer, Charlie Muffin travels to America to protect a valuable collection of Romanov stamps. His security assignment collides with a scheme to use the collection as bait for a powerful drug criminal.

Charlie Muffin accepts a jewelry-security job in Rome while struggling with drink and evidence that he is being watched. A mole in the British embassy draws him into another collision between rival intelligence services and hidden agendas.

Imprisoned for treason, Charlie Muffin escapes alongside a convicted British traitor during a KGB operation. Continuing his secret assignment in Moscow exposes him to Soviet interrogation and a growing attraction to the woman testing his loyalty.

Charlie Muffin goes to Tokyo to help arrange a KGB assassin's defection to America. The Russian insists that his wife receive separate protection in Britain, leaving Charlie to navigate an operation built around distrust and divided loyalties.

A defecting KGB cipher specialist brings valuable secrets and a warning of a planned assassination. With the intended victim, location, and timing uncertain, Charlie Muffin must decipher the threat before the killers carry out their mission.

A scheme involving stolen American defense secrets draws Charlie Muffin into conflict with his scheming superior and Soviet intelligence. The arrival of his former Russian lover adds a personal vulnerability to an operation designed to compromise him.

Relegated to training recruits after the Cold War, Charlie Muffin faces a crisis when his first apprentice is arrested in Beijing. Rescuing the inexperienced agent requires him to return to dangerous operational work against Chinese intelligence.

Stolen nuclear-weapons material places Charlie Muffin undercover in Moscow as an arms dealer. He must penetrate the post-Soviet criminal world and prevent a dangerous shipment from reaching buyers willing to exploit Russia's chaotic new opportunities.

A Siberian thaw reveals murdered men wearing Second World War Allied uniforms, prompting an international investigation. British operative Charlie Muffin encounters surveillance, obstructive colleagues, and official resistance as he uncovers a secret several governments would prefer to keep buried.

An assassination attempt against the American and Russian presidents draws Charlie Muffin into a politically explosive investigation. The captured suspect seems an easy answer, but Charlie's doubts put him at odds with fellow agents and endanger both his career and personal relationships.

A disfigured corpse discovered at Britain's Moscow embassy brings Charlie Muffin into a murder investigation obstructed by both diplomacy and intelligence politics. His hopes of seeing his secretly married Russian wife and daughter complicate a case with increasingly dangerous implications.

A desperate call exposes Charlie Muffin's secret marriage to Russian intelligence officer Natalia Fedova. Leading a mission to rescue her, he discovers that his own superiors have priorities beyond protecting his family and must outmaneuver both British and Russian agencies.

Captured during a failed escape from Russia, Charlie Muffin faces interrogators determined to extract decades of Western intelligence secrets. While resisting through deception, he tries to discover whether his wife and daughter escaped and whether anyone can help secure his freedom.