Max Hennessy Books in Order

Martin Falconer and his friends rush toward the First World War with more excitement than sense. In the raw, dangerous early days of military flying, the sky promises freedom, and delivers fear, loss, and a very fast education.

Young pilot Ira Penaluna reaches the Western Front knowing he loves flying and little else. In a sky where friends vanish overnight, he learns that survival depends on speed, nerve, and thinking like a hunter.

Back in France during Bloody April, Martin Falconer finds the air war deadlier and more disciplined than ever. Poor machines, bad leadership, and German superiority leave him fighting for survival as much as victory.

After fighting to return to active flying, Martin Falconer rejoins the war in 1918. But victory brings no easy thrill, only exhaustion, nerves stretched thin, and hard questions about who he wants to be when the fighting stops.

Peace does not last for Martin Falconer. Drawn into the Russian Civil War, he trades one shattered battlefield for another and discovers that postwar chaos can be every bit as savage as the fighting he thought he had left behind.

As war breaks out, Kelly Maguire joins the Royal Navy dreaming of glory. Antwerp, Gallipoli, and Jutland teach him what service really costs, as battle and ambition turn an eager young sailor into a tested fighting man.

Kelly Maguire survives the First World War only to face the unstable years that follow. Russia, China, and a changing navy test his nerve, while promotion and love pull him in opposite directions.

Martin Falconer reaches the Texas-Mexico border hoping for rest and finds another crisis instead. When Charley is taken hostage, he and his friends must improvise a rescue with battered aircraft and very little official help.

Peacetime politics stall Kelly Maguire's career, then the Second World War throws him back into command. From Narvik and Dunkirk to the final push in Europe, he fights for rank, country, and the people he loves.

Born to the cavalry, Colby Goff comes of age at Balaclava and spends a lifetime chasing danger. From the Crimea to the Zulu War, this sweeping saga follows a soldier shaped by duty, battle, and the 19th Lancers.

The Goff family rides through the last great years of imperial cavalry. Campaigns in Africa and the First World War show how courage and tradition survive, even as artillery, tanks, and modern war begin to kill the old order.

Dicken Quinney's first flight becomes the start of an obsession. Through the First World War he grows from novice pilot to decorated ace, fighting over France and Italy while learning just how thin the line is between skill and death.

Josh Goff runs away to join the regiment his family has served for generations. As the cavalry becomes mechanised, he fights through the Second World War and learns what remains, and what is lost, when horses give way to steel.

Cut off during the Somaliland campaign, a handful of British soldiers refuse to disappear quietly. Under the hard-driving Corporal Harkaway, they turn an arms dump, local allies, and sheer audacity into a private war behind enemy lines.

After proving himself in the Great War, Dicken Quinney is thrown into the upheaval that follows. Flying over the Baltic against Bolshevik forces, he faces fresh danger abroad and a personal loss that threatens to break him.

With another war looming, veteran pilot Dicken Quinney is pulled back into action. Shot down over enemy territory, he must survive escape, espionage, and new missions across a rapidly widening conflict.

Sent to cover revolution in Mexico in 1911, newspaperman Harley Marquis is supposed to observe, not get swept up in events. Then politics, violence, and the unpredictable Angelica Ojarra pull him deep into the turmoil.

In North Africa, chaos feeds the Cairo black market and leaves a stranded concert party behind enemy lines. The Desert Ratbags survive with charm, theft, and improvisation, then find themselves drawn into real fighting.

In war-torn Naples, Sergeant Tom Pugh is handed an unusual mission: save a cache of priceless paintings before thieves, bandits, or retreating armies destroy them. Art, espionage, and partisan violence collide in this tense Italian campaign thriller.

This novelised account of Dunkirk follows the nine desperate days that pulled hundreds of thousands of Allied troops back across the Channel. It is a broad, urgent story of retreat, survival, and improbable rescue at sea.

After an RAF Hudson crashes into the North Sea, four survivors cling to a dinghy carrying vital secrets. As cold, exhaustion, and the enemy close in, rescue crews race against time to find them.

A courtroom battle in 1939 reopens a notorious cavalry charge from the Russian Civil War. As witnesses speak, the legend of General Henry Prideaux begins to crack, and the line between heroism and cowardice turns dangerously thin.

At a doomed RAF airstrip in the desert, Anthony Boumphrey has almost nothing he needs except nerve. With outdated aircraft and impossible odds, he leads a ragged squadron against the Luftwaffe in a fight they were never meant to win.

Tracking Nazi saboteurs in Sierra Leone, Ginger Donnelly witnesses two mysterious seaplane explosions and knows they are no accident. What starts as a strange sighting becomes a dangerous hunt at the edge of the postwar world.

With France collapsing in 1940, intelligence officer James Woodyatt is sent to find an old hero who may once have been a spy. If the man really holds Nazi secrets, the mission could change far more than one life.

As the Boer War winds down, three thieves steal an army payroll and hide it near a Free State town. Getting rich proves harder than getting away, as soldiers, distance, and bad luck close in on every side.

Twenty years after the desert war, five veterans return to the Sahara to recover buried gold. Old comradeship has curdled into greed, and the hunt quickly turns into a deadly reckoning.