Frederick Forsyth Books in Order

Forsyth’s first book is an on-the-ground account of the Nigerian Civil War from the Biafran side. He traces the politics, sieges and human cost of the conflict with the eye of a reporter who witnessed it himself.

After a secret right-wing group hires a nameless English assassin to kill President Charles de Gaulle, French detective Claude Lebel races to unmask the "Jackal" before he can strike. A meticulous cat-and-mouse political thriller.

In 1963 Hamburg, young reporter Peter Miller stumbles on a Holocaust survivor’s diary naming a brutal SS commandant. His search for justice pulls him into ODESSA, a secret organisation shielding Nazi war criminals with powerful friends.

A mining tycoon hires veteran mercenary "Cat" Shannon to overthrow a dictator in a small, mineral-rich African state. Shannon gathers a team, arms a covert invasion and must decide whose interests this bloody coup will really serve.

On Christmas Eve 1957, a young RAF Vampire pilot suffers total radio and instrument failure over the North Sea. Lost in fog and running out of fuel, he’s guided home by a mysterious "shepherd" whose identity defies explanation.

Set in the early 1980s, a disastrous Soviet grain harvest, a hijacked airliner and an oil tanker wired to explode push East and West toward war. Western intelligence races to prevent catastrophe when every option looks like the wrong one.

This collection gathers ten twist-driven crime stories, from Irish hijackers and vengeful lovers to blackmailers who misjudge their victims. Each tale showcases Forsyth’s tight plotting, sharp detail and a final sting in the tail.

On holiday in Mauritius, a timid, middle-aged banker sneaks away from his domineering wife to try big-game fishing. His gruelling battle with a legendary marlin, "the Emperor", forces him to rethink his timid life and loveless marriage.

A renegade Soviet faction plots to assemble and detonate a suitcase nuclear bomb in Britain, triggering political chaos and a pro-Moscow government. MI5 officer John Preston uncovers fragments of the plan and must stop "Aurora" in time.

When the U.S. president’s son is kidnapped during tense arms-reduction talks, legendary hostage negotiator Quinn is called in. What begins as a delicate ransom case spirals into a conspiracy aimed at destroying the president and the peace deal.

A non-fiction portrait of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, leader of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War. Drawing on personal friendship and reportage, Forsyth traces Ojukwu’s upbringing, wartime leadership and controversial legacy in Nigerian politics.

An aviation-themed anthology selected and introduced by Forsyth, gathering classic short stories about flight from a range of writers. Wartime dramas, mysteries and speculative adventures in the air celebrate the risks and romance of flying.

Facing forced retirement, maverick British spymaster Sam McCready must justify his career at a closed-door hearing. Four long, self-contained cases—from Cold War defections to Caribbean intrigue—reveal how his unorthodox methods repeatedly saved lives.

During the first Gulf War, SAS officer Mike Martin goes undercover in Iraq to hunt for a rumoured super-weapon. His mission uncovers a hidden nuclear programme and a giant "supergun" poised to devastate coalition forces if not destroyed.

In crisis-ridden post-Soviet Russia, ultra-nationalist Igor Komarov seems certain to win the presidency—until his secret "Black Manifesto" surfaces. Western spymaster Sir Nigel Irvine recruits ex-CIA man Jason Monk to derail Komarov’s rise and prevent a new tyranny.

A continuation of the Phantom of the Opera story, this novel imagines Erik alive and wealthy on New York’s Coney Island. Years later, fate draws Christine and their musically gifted son into his extravagant, haunted new world.

On a routine overnight flight from Bangkok to London, customs investigator Bill Butler and his "Knock" team race to outwit sophisticated drug smugglers. A tip-off, uneasy passengers and shifting suspicions build to a clever airborne twist.

An American couple in Siena, heading to watch the Palio horse race, are diverted into a quiet courtyard and hear a haunting tale from a stranger. His story of a persecuted nun and a wartime retreat hints at a modern-day miracle.

A frontier scout in the American West defies his own army to save a young Cheyenne woman from massacre. Their doomed love story echoes across decades, ending in a present-day manhunt through the wild landscapes of Montana.

A junior appraiser in a prestigious auction house spots an overlooked Old Master, only to see his arrogant boss steal the credit. Teaming up with the painting’s owner, he engineers an intricate art-world scam to turn the tables.

By day Calvin Dexter is a small-town lawyer; in secret he’s the "Avenger", a specialist in kidnapping fugitives and delivering them to justice. Hired to hunt a Balkan war criminal, he collides with a covert CIA operation that needs the killer alive.

In a condemned British slum, a silent old man refuses to leave the house he’s lived in since his wife vanished fifteen years earlier. When builders find a mummified body in his chimney, the case seems open-and-shut—until it isn’t.

Western intelligence learns of a mysterious al-Qaeda operation codenamed "al-Isra". To uncover it, ex-SAS officer Mike Martin assumes the identity of a captured Taliban commander and infiltrates the terror network, edging toward a plot involving a hijacked cargo ship.

Shocked by the toll of cocaine on their societies, a U.S. president and British prime minister secretly unleash ex-CIA hardliner Paul Devereaux, "the Cobra". Given unlimited resources, he wages a covert war aimed at dismantling the global cocaine trade.

A charismatic online preacher inspires lone-wolf assassins to murder Western officials. Placed at the top of America’s clandestine "Kill List", he becomes the target of a Marine veteran known as the Tracker, aided by a brilliant young hacker.

Forsyth’s memoir tells his story in sharp vignettes, from RAF training and near-fatal accidents to Reuters assignments in Paris, East Berlin and Biafra. He shows how those experiences, and occasional work for intelligence, fed directly into his thrillers.

British intelligence quietly recruits Luke Jennings, a teenage hacker with extraordinary skills and little sense of danger. Guided by veteran spymaster Adrian Weston, Luke becomes a secret weapon against hostile states’ nuclear and cyber programmes—if enemies don’t find him first.

This collection brings together five longer crime and suspense stories, including "The Veteran", "Whispering Wind", "The Art of the Matter", "The Citizen" and "The Miracle", each built around moral ambiguity, unlikely heroes and a final, unsettling reversal.

Set in 2025, this sequel to The Odessa File follows journalist-podcaster Georg Miller as he links a series of brutal attacks to a revived ODESSA network. His investigation uncovers a far-right conspiracy stretching from rural Bavaria to the U.S. Capitol.