Murdoch Mackinder Trilogy Books in Order

Young Murdoch Mackinder joins his family's regiment as the Boer War approaches. Combat reveals the limits of traditional British tactics, while his military career forces him to confront responsibilities extending beyond battlefield courage and inherited expectations.

Beginning in France in 1914, Murdoch Mackinder prepares to lead his regiment into war. His military career advances, but an old relationship and a former friend turned enemy draw his family into conflicts that complicate his service.

In 1940, Murdoch Mackinder runs an intelligence department sending saboteurs into occupied Europe. Reluctant to dispatch others to probable death, he takes a Balkan mission himself, while his son Fergus fights with the Desert Rats and faces romantic rivalry.