Noel Hynd Books in Order

After surviving torture as a prisoner in Vietnam, Richard Silva comes home obsessed with finding the man who broke him. His hunt takes him through political shadows and criminal underworlds toward a reckoning that is as much about identity as payback.

When Leslie McAdam asks attorney Thomas Daniels to uncover the truth about the man she knew as her father, the search opens a buried World War Two secret. Financial power, intelligence services, and old violence make the inquiry increasingly dangerous.

This Cold War thriller moves through London, Paris, and the murky spaces between journalism and espionage. Hynd fills it with deception, shifting loyalties, and the sense that public stories are often cover for something darker.

Co-written with William Fox, this nonfiction book mixes street-level police work with a more personal story about a troubled young boy and the cop who tries to help him. It is humane, fast-moving, and grounded in city reality.

In 1939, FBI agent Bill Cochrane hunts a Nazi operative whose plans reach toward Franklin Roosevelt himself. It is a brisk blend of espionage, looming war, and romance, with Berlin and America both feeling close to the edge.

A standalone suspense novel built around the mysteries surrounding Marion and the secrets hidden behind its symbolic seven gates. Hynd leans on atmosphere, threat, and the sense that someone is steering events toward disaster.

This big history of the New York Giants and the Polo Grounds tells the story of a franchise, a ballpark, and a city changing together. Hynd writes it with affection, strong anecdotal detail, and a fan's feel for baseball's vanished worlds.

Built around Cold War intrigue and real historical tensions, this thriller follows British intelligence during the Soviet leaders' visit to England. The mystery around diver Lionel Crabb and the politics of East-West theater drive the plot.

In 1950, FBI agent Thomas Buchanan is assigned to a case tied to the father of the woman who once broke his heart. The investigation opens into Soviet espionage, agency rivalries, and a search for a secret important enough to change the decade.

Investigative reporter Paul Townsend starts digging into the polished public image of Senator John Lord and finds something uglier beneath it. Hynd turns campaign politics into a suspense story about power, image, and buried secrets.

Actress Annette Carlson buys an old Nantucket house hoping for peace and finds a malevolent haunting instead. As the threat spreads beyond the house itself, the island setting gives this ghost story an especially strong sense of dread.

A retiring detective investigates the body of a woman found in an isolated cabin, only to discover eerie links to an executed killer. The result is part police procedural, part ghost story, with guilt and unfinished justice driving both halves.

After an attempt on Rebecca Moore's life, her family moves to Los Angeles and into a house beside an old cemetery. Then the children vanish, a ghost named Ronny enters the story, and Detective Ed Van Allen has to consider the impossible.

Hynd traces the romance between pitcher Rube Marquard and entertainer Blossom Seeley, two celebrities from very different worlds. It is part sports history, part show-business portrait, and part love story shaped by early twentieth-century fame.

This standalone supernatural thriller deals in restless spirits, old grievances, and the way the past can break back into ordinary life. It is a moody Noel Hynd ghost story built on dread rather than cheap shock.

Concert pianist Rolf Geiger is preparing for a major world tour when the spirit of his dead teacher refuses to let him go. Hynd turns ambition, ego, and musical obsession into a ghost story about possession and control.

A brutal murder in a small Connecticut town draws newspaper editor Ellen Wilder and detective Michael Chandler into a case that refuses to stay rational. As the eerie Franny Corbett returns, the town slides toward fear, violence, and the supernatural.

Secret Service agent Laura Chapman learns that a plot to kill the president may be coming from inside the protection detail itself. With time running out, she has to uncover the traitor before suspicion, politics, and panic destroy her first.

While attached to a presidential trip to Ukraine, Alex LaDuca is told to keep watch on gangster Yuri Federov. An assassination attempt, a murder in Paris, and violence in South America soon reveal a conspiracy far larger than her original assignment.

Alex LaDuca heads to Egypt after reports that a mentor she believed dead may still be alive. The search pulls her into a deadly game of double-crosses where every ally feels provisional and Cairo offers no safe ground.

A stolen relic from a Madrid museum sends Alex LaDuca into a chase across Europe. Art theft, murder, betrayal, and a partner she is not sure she can trust turn a simple recovery job into something much darker.

Alexandra LaDuca slips illegally into Cuba with exile Paul Guarneri on a mission that could cost her career and her life. In Havana she faces political repression, organized crime, and a Cold War mystery that refuses to stay in the past.

This lively nonfiction book tells the story of baseball star Rube Marquard and vaudeville sensation Blossom Seeley. Hynd uses their scandalous romance to show how early twentieth-century sports and show business collided in public.

Sent to Miami to meet a Cuban defector, Alex LaDuca instead steps into a knot of cartel murders and money laundering. Hostile local cops, shaky informants, and the reach of the Dosi network make the city feel dangerous from every angle.

Alexandra LaDuca follows the next phase of the cartel trail into Panama, where money, power, and hidden loyalties are harder to track than gunmen. The case pushes her deeper into international corruption and closer to enemies who know how she works.

In 1968, obituary writer Frank Cooper and younger reporter Lauren Richie chase a dying man's confession about a vanished Soviet defector code-named Firebird. Their search opens into CIA and KGB intrigue, old murders, and the political chaos of a pivotal election year.

Hynd's expanded baseball history celebrates the New York Giants, the Polo Grounds, and the city that framed their rise and fall. It is broad in scope, rich in anecdote, and especially good on the personalities who made the place memorable.

It is early 1943, and Bill Cochrane is pulled from Army training into a far more dangerous assignment with the OSS. Sent toward Switzerland and the heart of wartime Europe, he enters a mission where love, cover stories, and survival are all under strain.

Hynd turns the Dodgers' final game in Brooklyn into a larger story about Ebbets Field, the borough around it, and the end of an era. It is baseball history told with an eye for place, memory, and the people who lived the change.

In the summer of 1958, Thomas Buchanan is pulled into a White House sensitive murder case that starts on a Manhattan sidewalk and quickly widens. Russian spies, mob figures, rival agencies, and unrest around Havana turn the investigation into a political minefield.

A darker, more compact Noel Hynd title, this book gathers unsettling pieces shaped by menace, irony, and bad decisions. It offers a change of pace from the big spy novels while keeping his taste for danger and uneasy outcomes.

Berlin is under blockade, the airlift has begun, and William Cochrane is called back into service just as the first great crisis of the Cold War erupts. Black marketeers, Soviet agents, and old enemies crowd a city where one wrong move could tip history.

This historical novel follows a young reporter at the *Boston Post* as Charles Ponzi's scheme swallows Boston in 1919 and 1920. It is a lively mix of newsroom ambition, Jazz Age energy, and one of America's most famous financial swindles.

In the early 1950s, William Cochrane returns to Berlin for a permanent intelligence posting and walks straight into the suspicious death of the man he replaced. In a city split by fear, occupation politics, and Cold War pressure, every answer leads to fresh betrayal.

In the winter of 1961 and 1962, Thomas Buchanan is tempted to leave government work behind until an old enemy reappears with a dangerous offer. The result is a Cold War thriller that threatens Buchanan, his wife Ann, and the Kennedy presidency.

William Cochrane returns to divided Berlin under academic cover just as East-West tension is hardening again. A kidnapping, covert violence, and gathering unrest draw him into one of the city's most unstable postwar moments.

This nonfiction portrait rescues catcher Otto Miller from the margins of baseball history and makes him the center of a larger Brooklyn story. Through Miller, Hynd revisits Ebbets Field, early Dodgers history, and the borough that claimed him.

The Berlin crisis deepens as Cochrane and his network are pulled into open unrest, Soviet pressure, and street-level danger. This second half turns the simmering tension of Part One into a more direct and personal showdown.