James Barrington Books in Order

Unusual activity at Algerian air bases raises fears of a new regional war and a hidden weapon. Paul Richter is sent in as a deniable asset, uncovering a connection to Cold War aviation and a much wider threat.

Written with Commander Adrian Orchard, this nonfiction account follows 800 Naval Air Squadron in Afghanistan. Harrier crews are on constant alert to provide close air support as British troops face intense fighting on the ground.

When an Englishwoman is found dead near Rome, her grieving husband turns to his friend, detective sergeant Chris Bronson. An inscription above the fireplace, translating as "Here Lie the Liars", pulls Bronson and his ex wife into a chase across Europe toward the origins of Christianity.

A routine arrest near Geneva ends in a deadly shootout, leaving Paul Richter wanted for murder. While he searches for the truth, clues from Britain and Germany reveal a plan to devastate the City of London.

After a British couple unearths a clay tablet in Morocco and then die in a suspicious crash, the artefact vanishes. Chris Bronson follows a trail from crowded souks to the caves of Qumran and a desert fortress, racing extremists to decode a two thousand year old secret.

Paul Richter is sent to Dubai to investigate an Englishman who seems able to predict terrorist attacks. The easy assignment turns into a trail through Bahrain, Cairo and a plot with catastrophic consequences.

Museum conservator Angela Lewis discovers a sealed parchment in a crumbling English mansion, a text that seems to tell the life of Jesus from outside the New Testament. With Chris Bronson, she follows its encoded clues into harsh country where others will kill to keep the secret buried.

Unemployed former naval aviator Paul Richter becomes bait in an operation to expose a traitor in British intelligence. When a Russian officer flees with vital evidence, Richter is pursued by both his own side and Russian assassins.

Eddie Dawson and Major Sykes witness German gliders attack Belgium's Eben Emael fortress in 1940. After seeing a new demolition charge breach heavy armor, they must steal its secret and fight their way toward Dunkirk.

A macabre burial in eighteenth century Bohemia echoes into present day Venice, where Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis find a violated tomb and a coded diary. As ritual murders of young women begin and Angela vanishes, Bronson hunts a sinister scroll on the Island of the Dead.

In 1936 Hitler vows to find a weapon that will wipe out so called inferior races. Decades later, Chris Bronson infiltrates anarchists bent on disrupting the London Olympics and uncovers a buried Nazi project and a revenge plot that could destroy a modern city.

As the Whitechapel murders begin in 1888, Police Commissioner Charles Warren hides an ancient relic brought from Jerusalem. Its dangerous secret may explain the killer's motives, placing more women in the path of Jack the Ripper.

In April 1912, British agent Alex Tremayne and American operative Maria Weston board the Titanic posing as a married couple. Their mission is to stop conspirators planning an American-German alliance against Britain before the ship reaches New York.

Seconded to the FBI, British policeman Steven Hunter is handed a bizarre murder case, a corpse discovered with a human thigh bone driven through its skull. His investigation uncovers a trail leading toward high office, where powerful figures will do anything to bury the truth.

When a mysterious artefact surfaces in a Cairo market and the seller is tortured to death, historian Angela Lewis is pulled into the case. She and her ex husband Chris Bronson follow its trail to Spain, uncovering a secret that could rewrite Christian history.

When mutilated cattle start turning up on the New Mexico prairie, British detective Steven Hunter is loaned to the FBI. As eviscerated human bodies follow and unmarked black helicopters haunt the skies, Hunter has to untangle a web of secrecy before the killer claims another victim.

In a quiet seaside town, bookseller Robin Jessop buys what looks like a medieval volume and finds a concealed safe inside. The coded parchment it hides pulls her and encryption expert David Mallory into a seven hundred year old Templar conspiracy and a hunt for a treasure others will kill to control.

An illustrated mini anthology of three darkly playful tales, mixing offbeat horror and humor with underground style artwork. Short enough to read in a sitting, it showcases James Becker and collaborators experimenting outside his usual thriller territory.

An African prince is assassinated outside a London restaurant, and one of his bodyguards is abducted. Paul Richter takes the case, only to end up wounded and hunted through the English countryside by killers with their own agenda.

As Robin Jessop and David Mallory decode fragments of Templar lore, they realise the legendary treasure may be an archive, not a hoard of gold. Records of land, titles and secret deals could be worth more than money, and ruthless modern heirs will kill to keep that information hidden.

A compact collection of three fantasy stories by James Becker and Allie Marchase, each paired with bold black and white art. Expect strange magic, otherworldly creatures and a quick hit of imaginative escapism.

This tongue in cheek horror adventure follows a group of artists and writers battling an army of toxic, acid spewing mutants on Halloween night. Told from several viewpoints, it blends splattery action, in jokes and a hint of apocalyptic mystery.

A series of seemingly random shootings in the United States pulls Paul Richter into a wider and deadlier operation. As the connections emerge, he faces a crisis built to trigger violence, panic and a disastrous political outcome.

This short standalone story from James Becker offers a quick, self contained dose of his suspenseful storytelling, distilling danger, hard choices and consequence into a brief read that can be finished in a single sitting.

Antiquarian bookseller Robin Jessop and code expert David Mallory have barely survived a Templar cult when fresh clues send them across Europe. Inside secret archives they find an ancient Templar passport and evidence of a mission to move a priceless relic, drawing them toward a revelation that could upend centuries of belief.

Chris Bronson flies to an archaeological dig in the Iraqi desert expecting a break with his old friend Angela Lewis, and instead finds a massacre and a defaced discovery. Their only clue, a damaged inscription, sends them racing across continents toward a lethal Templar secret.

Royal Engineers explosives expert Eddie Dawson is sent to France at the start of the Second World War. A mine-clearing task leaves him and another sapper stranded behind enemy lines, with danger waiting in every direction.

In spring 1982, a young naval officer aboard HMS Illustrious begins a diary as Britain prepares for the Falklands conflict. Barrington records the anxiety, preparation and daily reality of sailing toward his first war.

This biography follows John Browning, the American firearms designer whose inventions shaped guns used around the world. James Barrington traces Browning's working life, technical ideas and the long reach of his designs.

During the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, explosives expert Eddie Dawson is pulled from his unit for a dangerous mission. German forces want Dutch oil reserves, and Dawson must destroy them before the enemy can use them.

A body on the Arctic island of Svalbard draws Paul Richter into a secret-services investigation. The trail points to a devastating Russian offensive capability, sending him from the frozen north to the Azores in a race for global survival.

A Cambridge weapons scientist dies, a Porton Down researcher vanishes, and Paul Richter finds signs that old weapons research is being revived. His search runs from Amsterdam to the Red Sea as blackmail and a biological threat close in.

After the Falklands War ends, James Barrington continues his diary of life aboard HMS Illustrious. This firsthand account follows the routines, pressures and unexpected moments of a young Royal Navy officer serving on an aircraft carrier.

Cybersecurity specialist Ben Morgan joins an off-the-books unit after a new operation takes shape in London. With a criminal network and shadowy agents behind it, he must stop a cyberterrorist attack before it spreads beyond anyone's control.

Natasha Black investigates a sealed room beneath GCHQ in Cheltenham and finds a trail leading back to Berlin in 1945. Her questions trigger a lethal pursuit, forcing her to uncover an old evil before it resurfaces.

Cyberattacks strike America and Britain while a chemical killer targets SAS soldiers in London. Cybersecurity specialist Ben Morgan follows the links to Washington, D.C., where a terrorist deadline threatens an attack capable of crippling the West.

A deadly new pathogen appears to have been manufactured with nanotechnology rather than nature. Natasha Black races to identify the people behind it before an invisible killer becomes a disaster on an unimaginable scale.

Four illustrated fantasy shorts take readers from a deadly Mexican island inheritance to teen wizards defending their town, vengeful undead justice and a post apocalyptic quest along the Gulf Coast. It is a fast moving mix of magic, monsters and adventure.