Helen MacInnes Books in Order

On the eve of war, Oxford academics Richard and Frances Myles are asked to use their summer trip as cover to locate a missing British agent. Their innocent holiday quickly becomes a tense chase through a Europe sliding into Nazi control.

British intelligence officer Martin Hearne parachutes into occupied Brittany and takes the identity of a Breton farmer. Living under constant suspicion, he must gather invasion intelligence while trying not to lose himself inside his disguise.

Sheila Matthews arrives in Poland for an innocent visit just as the German invasion begins. Trapped behind enemy lines, she is drawn into the underground and must play a deadly double game to survive and fight back.

British soldier Peter Lennox escapes an Italian prison camp after the 1943 surrender and is sent into the mountains of the South Tyrol. There he joins resistance fighters in a dangerous struggle to help open the way for the Allies.

David, a poor student, falls in love with Penny, an attractive young woman from a much grander world. Family pressure and social expectations push against them, and both must decide how much they are willing to risk for love.

Sophisticated Sarah Bly and Wyoming rancher Jim Brent could hardly be more different. A wrong turn on a lonely road brings them together at a mountain ranch, where the wide-open West begins to change both of their lives.

Back in New York after wartime work in Berlin, Paul Haydn hopes for an ordinary life. Instead he finds propaganda, political extremism, and attacks on the woman he once loved, in a story about the war's shadow at home.

In Washington, Sylvia Pleydell's polished marriage is shaken by the return of Jan Brovic, the Czech official she once loved in wartime. As East and West harden into enemies, old passion and political suspicion become impossible to separate.

Ready to leave the army behind, William Denning finds himself caught up in a huge diamond haul in a Swiss village. The theft is only the surface of a wider espionage plot with dangerous enemies on both sides of the Iron Curtain.

A phone call sends young playwright Bill Lammiter after a former girlfriend to Rome, where he rescues a frightened Italian girl from a beating. Kidnapping, blackmail, and Cold War maneuvering pull him into a chase across Italy.

Architect Ken Strang expects a routine magazine assignment sketching Greek ruins. Instead, from the moment he sails for Europe, he is used as a pawn in international intrigue, with danger closing in on him and photographer Cecilia.

Bill Fenner goes to Venice for what should be a simple errand and finds himself in the middle of a deadly political plot. Bombings, shifting loyalties, and a woman tied to his past turn the city into a trap.

In Paris, historian John Craig meets a Holocaust survivor who believes he has seen the Nazi torturer who destroyed his life. After the man is killed, Craig follows the trail from France to Mykonos in search of a dangerous ghost.

A visit to Salzburg to trace a missing colleague draws Bill Mathison into a hunt for a chest hidden since the fall of Nazi Germany. Soon he is surrounded by spies, lies, and rival forces all chasing the same buried secret.

On holiday in Spain, Ian Ferrier discovers his old friend is secretly helping communist defectors reach safety. When a KGB defector falls into his care, Ferrier must cross a hostile landscape where one mistake could kill them both.

After defecting to the West, Irina Kusak thinks she has escaped her brutal ex-husband in the Czechoslovak secret police. But her flight is bait in a larger trap, and David Mennery must help keep her alive.

A stolen NATO memo exposes a CIA operative and sets off a frantic search for a Russian mole in Washington. As British agent Tony Lawton closes in, journalist Tom Kelso and his wife are pulled into the fallout.

Art expert Colin Grant flies to Vienna to bid on a smuggled Old Master for a secretive client. Instead he stumbles into a plot to bankroll international terrorism, with spies, double-crosses, and murder closing in around him.

Nina O'Connell's carefree round-the-world trip changes when she runs into Robert Renwick in Amsterdam. He is hunting terrorists, and Nina is suddenly trapped in a chase that runs from Europe to India and the highest levels of Washington.

Bob Renwick learns his name is on a hit list drawn up by an arms network that trains terrorists and kills anyone in its way. To survive, he must follow the trail from Europe to East Africa and strike before his enemies do.

Journalist Karen Cornell goes to Prague expecting an interview and ends up carrying secret papers for a would-be defector. Back in Washington, a hunt for a CIA mole turns her errand into a deadly game of blackmail and betrayal.

MacInnes turns the return of Ulysses into a witty stage comedy. Back in Ithaca at last, he finds Penelope unimpressed, Homer meddling, and the old legend cheerfully pulled apart from the inside.