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Johnny Fedora Books in Order

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Explore Johnny Fedora by Desmond Cory in order, with short summaries and a guide to the books to help you choose where to start reading.

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Johnny Fedora books in publication order

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1

Secret Ministry

by Desmond Cory

1951

In postwar London, Johnny Fedora investigates a network of surviving Nazi operatives carrying out political assassinations. Dismantling the organization requires navigating concealed loyalties and a revenge conspiracy capable of disturbing Europe's fragile new order at the beginning of the Cold War.

2

This Traitor Death

by Desmond Cory

1952

British intelligence believes a ruthless former Nazi spy known as the Nightingale is using unrecovered German gold to revive the defeated movement. Given a new identity and a dangerous assignment, Johnny Fedora must penetrate her plans and succeed where earlier attempts to stop her have failed.

3

Dead Man Falling

by Desmond Cory

1953

A murder and stolen diamonds in Geneva draw Johnny Fedora into an espionage investigation in postwar Europe. As he uncovers links between the treasure and a series of deaths, the agent becomes a target himself, forcing a desperate escape onto a treacherous mountain.

4

Intrigue

by Desmond Cory

1954

In Trieste in 1952, Johnny Fedora has one week to stop a political conspirator from bringing the city under Communist control. A dying man's message, a hidden photograph, and a coded connection among three women provide clues in a manhunt where every discovery brings fresh danger.

5

Height of Day

by Desmond Cory

1955

Johnny Fedora follows an archaeological expedition into Central Africa to recover an object wanted by both Nazi remnants and British intelligence. As members of the party are murdered, he must uncover the expedition's real purpose and the dangers hidden in the jungle before becoming its next victim.

6

High Requiem

by Desmond Cory

1955

Sabotage threatens a secret British nuclear experiment at a remote desert air base, leaving men dead and the project increasingly vulnerable. Johnny Fedora offers himself as bait for an elusive killer, attempting to uncover the infiltrator amid shifting loyalties and an approaching deadline.

7

Johnny Goes North

by Desmond Cory

1956

British intelligence sends Johnny Fedora to locate the fortune concealed by a wealthy wartime double agent now believed dead. The search draws him into a dangerous struggle over hidden gold and a Nazi spymaster's legacy, with the dead man's widow adding another uncertain element.

8

Johnny Goes East

by Desmond Cory

1957

A dying British pilot brings news of fighting in Tibet and two missing companions who survived a mountain air crash. The report sends Johnny Fedora toward a perilous mission in an unfamiliar country, where political conflict and the missing survivors' fate remain closely entangled.

9

Johnny Goes West

by Desmond Cory

1958

A mutilated body in the Venezuelan jungle proves important to British intelligence because the dead man held knowledge of a devastating weapon. Johnny Fedora investigates amid criminal power and uncertain allies, trying to recover information others are determined to control or keep buried.

10

Johnny Goes South

by Desmond Cory

1959

An assignment in Argentina requires Johnny Fedora to obtain the truth from a killer whose knowledge points toward an audacious political power grab. Extracting that information draws the British agent into a particularly dangerous predicament, testing his judgment and ability to escape an expanding conspiracy.

11

The Head

by Desmond Cory

1960

A sculptor recruits an unlikely group to carry a monumental head up a snowy Spanish mountain to its intended resting place. Johnny Fedora joins the expedition almost casually, only to discover that the difficult ascent involves more than artistic ambition when death follows the party uphill.

12

Undertow

by Desmond Cory

1962

An escaped killer becomes a tool in a Soviet intelligence operation on the Spanish coast. Johnny Fedora is drawn into the resulting web of competing agendas, where unexplained violence and a secret beneath the sea threaten everyone involved.

13

Hammerhead

by Desmond Cory

1963

British agent Johnny Fedora faces Soviet operative Feramontov in a Madrid crowded with spies and conspirators. With a plan for nuclear destruction nearing completion, Fedora must trap his ruthless opponent before the city is destroyed.

14

Feramontov

by Desmond Cory

1966

Sent to Madrid to resolve an intelligence crisis, Johnny Fedora encounters his old enemy Feramontov and a network of questionable allies. A fellow agent's divided loyalties and a wealthy criminal's schemes complicate an already dangerous assignment.

15

Timelock

by Desmond Cory

1967

Johnny Fedora wakes in a Spanish hospital with missing memories and an unfamiliar identity. Trying to piece together his recent past, he becomes caught between intelligence operatives and his Russian enemy Feramontov, whose plans threaten far more than Fedora’s recovery.

16

Sunburst

by Desmond Cory

1971

Johnny Fedora must stop Soviet spymaster Feramontov from unleashing a stolen American weapon in southern Spain. With the device completed by Soviet experts and countless lives threatened, Fedora faces a deadly confrontation with an enemy who has planned mass destruction.

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