Phil Ward Books in Order

As German forces advance through France in 1940, American cavalry officer John Randal volunteers to help the British resist. His unconventional raiders launch dangerous missions behind enemy lines while he grows close to the widowed Lady Jane Seaborn.

John Randal leads a raid against interned enemy ships supporting German intelligence off Africa. Entering neutral territory risks a diplomatic crisis as his commandos attempt to protect British convoys.

Major John Randal parachutes into Abyssinia to build a guerrilla army behind enemy lines. His mission supports an approaching British invasion by disrupting enemy forces before the wider campaign begins.

John Randal organizes guerrillas deep inside Italian East Africa as Allied forces invade. An enemy spy threatens their surprise, making disruption of Italian communications essential to the campaign.

Commanding five guerrilla battalions in Abyssinia, John Randal targets Italian roads and railways. His irregular forces must prevent enemy reinforcements from moving freely during an Allied invasion.

John Randal arrives at RAF Habbaniya for a pilot’s graduation ceremony just as Iraqi rebels besiege the base. Stranded with intelligence colleagues and an unlikely group of defenders, he must help resist an attack against the isolated installation.

After the fighting in Iraq, John Randal reorganizes his raiders for operations against Rommel’s supply route. Desert gun jeeps and seaborne attacks target the Afrika Korps’ exposed coastal communications.

John Randal prepares his force to strike Rommel’s coastal supply road from the desert and the Mediterranean. New American volunteers arrive as the unit reorganizes, but preparations are complicated by orders alerting them for the invasion of Persia.

Operating from a hidden desert oasis, John Randal raids Axis supply routes and airfields. Capturing German code materials and rescuing prisoners bring further demands upon his command.

As Raiding Forces expands into a joint American and British unit, John Randal confronts German intelligence successes. Lady Jane falls under suspicion while his men pursue a radio-intercept commander.

Exhausted by Operation Crusader, Colonel John Randal's raiders absorb newly trained American troops while facing another critical mission. Killing the commander of Rommel's signals intelligence unit could end an Axis advantage built on intercepted British communications.

Raiding Forces must disrupt the illicit diamond trade supplying Germany's war industry through neutral Switzerland. Colonel John Randal also leads combat operations at Dieppe and during Operation Torch, extending the unit's work from sabotage to airborne and river assaults.

Colonel John Randal's raiders seize an Italian-held island near Turkey as a base for attacks across the Aegean. Reorganized for small-boat operations, they face a secret assignment from Ian Fleming while danger reaches Lady Jane Seaborn.

Raiding Forces trades desert jeeps for small boats as the Aegean campaign intensifies. With new special-operations units joining its ranks, it must sustain missions in Africa and Italy while German commandos strike its own island base.

After a scattered parachute drop in Italy, Colonel John Randal's men fight their way back toward Salerno. News of a raid on their island base and an invasion of Leros forces urgent rescue decisions beyond his orders.

The fall of Leros leaves Castelrozzo as the last Allied island base in the region. Despite German air superiority and shattered British units, Colonel John Randal sees an opening for his reinforced Raiding Forces to resume offensive operations.

Summoned to London for a meeting with Britain's chief of deception, Colonel John Randal prepares to leave the Aegean. A downed reconnaissance pilot interrupts those plans, sending Raiding Forces on a rescue mission with presidential connections.

In late 1943 London, Colonel John Randal and Lady Jane enter the world of double agents and invasion deception. Raiding Forces must stage attacks around Calais to help convince Germany that the coming Allied landings will occur there.

As London prepares for renewed bombing, Colonel John Randal reorganizes his raiders and Lady Jane strengthens their hotel refuge. A suspicious German officer and evidence left on an invasion beach threaten the deception protecting D-Day.