John Masters Books in Order

Captain Rodney Savage serves in Bhowani as the unrest of 1857 gathers around him. Loyalty between British officers, Indian soldiers, and local rulers fractures into violence as rebellion sweeps through Bengal.

British officer William Savage goes undercover to investigate the Thuggee murders in 19th-century India. To stop the killers, he must learn their codes and rituals without losing himself inside the deception.

During the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Robin Savage is accused of cowardice and pulled into secret work on the frontier. Espionage, marriage, and the Great Game test his love of freedom and his sense of duty.

In 1946 and 1947, Anglo-Indian railway worker Victoria Jones is caught between communities as British rule ends. Colonel Rodney Savage, political unrest, and the coming partition make Bhowani a place where identity becomes dangerous.

Jason Savage flees 17th-century Wiltshire with a map that promises treasure on India's Coromandel Coast. His journey brings ships, court intrigue, violence, romance, and the first roots of the Savage family story.

Masters opens his autobiography with Sandhurst, the Gurkhas, and service on India's North-West Frontier before World War II. The memoir is rich in regimental detail, frontier danger, and the making of a young officer.

Peter Savage, a gifted civil servant and mountaineer, is determined to rise at almost any cost. From Cambridge to India and the high mountains, ambition drives him forward while damaging the people closest to him.

After Indian independence, Rodney Savage tries to remain in the country his family served for generations. Failure, love, and changing politics force him to ask whether he belongs to the old empire or the new India.

In late 19th-century India, a Western-educated Rajput prince begins an excavation after an ancient statue is found. Desire, archaeology, palace intrigue, and local unrest turn the discovery into a threat to his future.

The second volume of Masters' autobiography carries him through World War II and the Burma campaign. It is a frank account of Chindit operations, command pressure, jungle fighting, and the difficult road from war toward peace.

A Cape Cod town is cut off by a brutal winter storm, forcing residents into the Longships Hotel as water, power, and tempers rise. The disaster strips away manners and exposes old grudges, fear, and selfishness.

Masters gives a compact illustrated account of World War I and its aftermath. More than a battle summary, it treats the war as a turning point that reshaped politics, society, and the modern world.

The third volume of Masters' autobiography follows his move from soldiering into civilian life and writing. After the war, a failed Himalayan walking-tour venture and a new life in America push him toward becoming a novelist.

An Indian cavalry regiment is sent to Europe in World War I and forced into the mud of trench warfare. Prince Krishna Ram and his British commander clash over duty, custom, pride, and what loyalty really means.

In the fictional Southeast Asian queendom of Mingora, Brigadier David Jones faces mutiny, communist unrest, and a British withdrawal policy he believes will doom the country. His love for Princess Kumara only sharpens the crisis.

When an elderly British field marshal announces plans to write his World War II memoirs, governments and former colleagues panic. Secrets buried in the Balkans threaten reputations, alliances, and families that prefer the past to stay quiet.

The Loss of Eden trilogy opens as Britain moves from Edwardian confidence into World War I. The Rowlands, Strattons, Cates, and Gorses face class strain, family pressure, and the first brutal lessons of modern war.

The Loss of Eden saga continues through 1916 and 1917, as the Somme, Passchendaele, and conscription tear into British life. At home and at the front, every family learns that war reaches far beyond the trenches.

As 1918 grinds toward the armistice, the Cates, Rowlands, Strattons, and Gorses face the last violence of war and the troubled peace after it. Survival does not mean returning to the old world.

This illustrated volume offers a compact portrait of India through its landscapes, monuments, traditions, and daily life. It fits Masters' lifelong interest in India as a place of beauty, conflict, memory, and historical change.

Composer Rodney Bateman travels to Kashmir to gather music for a new concerto, while secretly working for Indian intelligence. Rumors of Chinese moves in the mountains pull him into a Cold War tangle of agents and divided loyalties.

Miller is a career soldier fighting his way from World War I trenches to India, Spain, and Dunkirk. Tactical nerve helps him rise, but class prejudice, love, and ambition make every victory cost more than expected.

In Franco-era Spain, American Kit Fremantle is drawn to César Aguirre, a proud Spanish bullfighter with dangerous political ties. Their romance plays out against suspicion, religion, nationalism, and tension around a U.S. air base.

Masters blends fiction and history to tell the story of Gibraltar across centuries. Through linked episodes and imagined lives, the Rock becomes a stage for conquest, trade, siege, politics, and stubborn survival.

Masters looks past the legend of Giacomo Casanova as a lover and follows him as adventurer, schemer, writer, and survivor. The result is a brisk life of an 18th-century European figure who was rarely just one thing.

A lighthearted but practical guide to freshwater fishing in India, written as a playful nod to the classic angling tradition. Masters mixes field experience, fish lore, and outdoor enthusiasm into a small book for patient readers and anglers.