Francis Clifford Books in Order

In Japanese-occupied Burma, Captain John Strachan's small team is sent to destroy a vital bridge but becomes stranded near a mission village. As danger closes in, he clashes with a priest and nun whose ideas of faith and sacrifice challenge his own.

An early Francis Clifford mystery, The Trembling Earth brings his taste for danger, moral pressure, and uneasy suspense to a compact standalone story. It offers a brisk entry point for readers exploring his fiction before the later espionage novels.

A passenger plane crashes in the Arizona desert, leaving a small group of survivors with little hope of rescue. A would-be priest, a teenage boy, a prisoner, the police officer guarding him, and others must confront the past while fighting to live.

Deep in the Burmese jungle, Captain Tony Gilling must hold back the advancing Japanese army with an exhausted company. Outnumbered and shaken by combat, he struggles to command his men while his experienced Karen second-in-command doubts his resolve.

After a coup in a small South American country, English plantation manager Tom Jordan finds the deposed president wounded and on the run. Hiding him begins as an instinctive kindness, but soon places Tom, his wife, and their future at risk.

English writer Stephen Tyler is trying to work in a quiet Spanish town near Barcelona when he becomes involved with a visiting German couple. After the husband's body is found, old Civil War scars and growing suspicion turn attraction into danger.

On Galilea, a Spanish island off the African coast, an uneasy group gathers in a small village. An ill Englishman, a refugee, an assassin, and others bring old wounds and dangerous motives to an isolated place where identity is hard to escape.

Photographer Harry Brennan captures evidence of a plane crash near La Paz, then finds powerful people determined to erase what he saw. With his negatives sought by every side, he is drawn into a fast-moving political chase across a dangerous country.

Desperate for a new life, London bank teller Tony Pascoe steals money and flees to a Spanish coastal village. An earthquake destroys his escape plan, and rescuing an American woman makes him a public hero just when he needs to disappear.

Widowed businessman and former wartime agent Sam Laker agrees to a supposedly simple favor during a trade trip to Leipzig with his son. East German intelligence turns the errand into blackmail, forcing him toward an assassination he cannot accept.

David Lancaster works in a London weapons department where secret rocket information appears to be reaching the Soviet bloc. As investigators hunt for the leak, suspicion spreads through the office and Lancaster's own secrets make the danger painfully personal.

On holiday in Sicily, demolition expert Neal Forrester and a grieving Norwegian woman are kidnapped by criminals with a prison-break plan. When the gang learns Neal's trade, their mistake becomes a dangerous opportunity that neither captive can easily escape.

Father Richard Lawrence risks everything to fly food and medical supplies into war-torn Biafra. Back in London, his brother Howard tries to protect him, only to become caught in a web of ideological conflict, espionage, and murder.

During the Irish conflict of the early 1920s, three guerrillas hide in the wreckage of a ruined town while British forces close in. Hunger, fear, loyalty, and impossible choices test their fragile bond as escape becomes less likely.

In Guatemala's volcanic highlands, British journalist Lorrimer searches for a former SS officer living under a new name. When bandits and exposure threaten them both, the hunter must decide whether hatred, pity, or survival will guide him.

A sniper opens fire from a London hotel opposite the American Embassy, then takes a couple hostage and demands to see the ambassador. Police and security services must identify the gunman and stop the siege before more lives are lost.

A wave of bombings puts Britain on edge, and intelligence officer Duncan Howard races to trace the source of a new radio-controlled explosive. His pursuit leads to an arms smuggler, and the case begins to consume his private life as well as his work.

In this nonfiction account, Captain Arthur Thompson leads the remnants of his Karen company through nearly a thousand miles of Japanese-occupied Burma in 1942. Monsoon, illness, hunger, and exhaustion turn escape into a test of leadership and mutual trust.

This posthumous collection gathers Francis Clifford's short fiction from different periods of his career. The stories range across settings including Burma, using compact suspense plots to explore moral choices, fear, and the consequences of violence.