Douglas Jackson Books in Order

Rufus is a gifted young slave and animal trainer whose talent brings him to the attention of the most dangerous man in Rome. As keeper of Caligula's elephant, he is dragged into palace intrigue, friendship, and a conspiracy that could kill him.

In AD 43, Rufus marches with the emperor's elephant as Claudius launches the invasion of Britain. Between battlefield spectacle, imperial ambition, and fierce resistance from Caratacus, survival means staying useful in a war far larger than himself.

As Boudicca's revolt begins to tear Roman Britain apart, tribune Gaius Valerius Verrens must lead a desperate defence against overwhelming odds. It is a brutal test of courage, loyalty, and whether Rome can still hold the province.

Scarred by the British campaign, Valerius returns to a Rome made ugly by Nero's paranoia. Sent to hunt the followers of Christus and seize their leader Petrus, he soon learns that success may cost as much as failure.

After learning his grandfather hid a strange piece of Nazi symbolism in an old journal, Jamie Saintclair is launched into a chase across Europe. The trail leads deep into Himmler's obsessions and a wartime secret people are still willing to kill for.

Ordered east to kill the general he most admires, Valerius arrives in Antioch to find a bigger danger gathering beyond Rome's frontier. As the Parthian king marches to war, duty, admiration, and survival pull him in opposite directions.

Two modern murders, a vanished wartime object, and an older legend draw Jamie Saintclair into a case tied to ancient Egypt. What starts as research turns into a dangerous chase through greed, obsession, and the promise of eternal life.

Nero is dying and Rome is sliding into the Year of the Four Emperors when Valerius is sent into the storm. Between massacres, marching armies, and an enemy on his trail, he must try to stop civil war from swallowing the empire.

A dead veteran's will and a strange codex send Jamie Saintclair after the legend of Excalibur. The hunt pulls him from Germany into Poland, with assassins, wartime secrets, and Hitler's Wolf's Lair waiting at the end of the trail.

In the chaos of AD 69, Valerius is condemned as a coward, spared only if he changes sides. Sent to persuade his friend Vitellius to stand down, he must cross a civil war where loyalty, politics, and sheer survival are all at odds.

Asked to trace a missing wartime artifact, art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair follows a trail from Berlin to Tokyo and into the Pacific war's long shadow. The deeper he digs, the clearer it becomes that the lost object still has lethal power.

Falklands veteran Glen Savage makes a living from an unsettling gift, using psychic flashes to help when other leads fail. When a missing girl and a murdered boy in the Borders turn out to be linked, he is pulled into a race against a killer who seems to know him too well.

Disgraced and banished, Valerius heads east to the Roman siege of Jerusalem, hoping service under Titus will win back his honour. Instead he finds a brutal campaign, shifting loyalties, and a web of intrigue that makes survival uncertain.

Valerius is drawn back to Britannia as Agricola prepares to move north and trouble spreads across the province. A massacre, Druid resistance, and Domitian's malice leave him fighting for Rome while putting his own family at terrible risk.

Newly married and hoping for peace, Valerius is sent to remote Asturica Augusta to investigate raids on Rome's gold convoys. What begins as a hunt for a bandit called the Ghost opens into treachery, rebellion, and a conspiracy close to home.

Back in Britannia, Valerius takes command of the ill-starred Ninth Legion during Agricola's northern campaign. Battlefield glory is within reach, but politics in Rome, and Domitian's hatred, threaten to destroy everything he has rebuilt.

In this short Roman tale, Pliny the Elder faces the eruption of Vesuvius at close range. Duty, curiosity, and the need to act collide as disaster rolls in from the mountain.

Occupied Warsaw is already a city of fear when a mutilated German victim forces investigator Jan Kalisz onto the trail of a serial killer called the Artist. The case is deadly enough, but Jan is also hiding a second life as a Resistance agent.

Psychic investigator Glen Savage returns for another dark Scottish case, where old loyalties, hidden histories, and fresh violence close in fast. His unsettling gift may be the only way to reach the truth before more people die.

AD 400, and Roman Britain is cracking apart. As cavalry commander Marcus Flavius Victor rides Hadrian's Wall on a mission that looks far from routine, rivals, Picts, and uneasy garrisons begin to wonder whether he is plotting a grab for power or trying to save the province.

With Britannia breaking apart, Marcus Flavius Victor leaves the island with a small band of loyal followers and heads into a far harsher world. Pirate seas, barbarian kingdoms, and a secret that could change the empire's fate make every mile dangerous.

When Polish SOE agent Krystina Kowolska is found dead in wartime Scotland, Jan Kalisz is flown from occupied Warsaw to investigate. The case is steeped in secrets, and the wrong answer could damage the fragile alliance between Britain and Poland.

In June 1944, the killing of a Wehrmacht war crimes investigator looks like a simple resistance ambush, but Jan Kalisz doubts it. His search leads from occupied Poland to Berlin and Auschwitz-Birkenau, then back to a Warsaw ready to explode.