Ted Bell Books in Order

In 1939, twelve-year-old Nick McIver lives on a tiny Channel Island as war closes in. When he discovers a time machine and an evil pirate starts kidnapping children, Nick is swept into a daring adventure across centuries.

After witnessing his parents' murder as a child, Lord Alex Hawke returns to the Caribbean on a covert hunt for a missing stealth submarine armed with nuclear warheads. The mission forces him to confront old pirates, buried secrets, and his own family history.

A string of brutal attacks on American diplomats points to a shadowy killer known as the Dog. Alex Hawke and former Navy SEAL Stokely Jones race from London to the Keys and beyond to stop a plot aimed at crippling America.

An American spy is being tortured aboard a ship off France, while a Bonaparte heir forges a dangerous alliance with China. Hawke is thrown into a globe-spanning mission to stop a nightmare coalition before it sparks catastrophe.

After his research vessel is destroyed in the Amazon, Hawke is captured and dragged into a brutal jungle war. Once he escapes, he learns Hezbollah fighters are preparing a devastating strike against America, and only he knows where to hit back.

Russia is turning aggressive under a mysterious new strongman, and a sadistic killer is sending bloody warnings on American soil. Hawke is pushed into a showdown with a revived imperial threat before the crisis tips into open war.

With Nazis threatening his island home, Nick McIver takes to the skies in a hidden World War I plane. Then Captain Billy Blood kidnaps his sister and drags Nick into 1781 Jamaica, where two wars may hinge on his courage.

Still reeling from personal loss, Alex Hawke is summoned back into action when someone targets the British royal family. The threat reaches back to Lord Mountbatten's assassination, and Hawke must face terrorists, old enemies, and unfinished history.

Detective Jack Meigs heads to Key West for what should be a forced vacation, not a case. When a cruise passenger goes missing, the island getaway turns into a compact, clever mystery.

On a covert mission in an F-16, Hawke slips into hostile airspace to meet a secret contact and prevent a wider war. When enemy radar locks on, the job turns into a split-second fight to improvise and survive.

Bizarre disasters, a vanished AI expert, and signs of invisible cyber sabotage leave governments scrambling. Hawke and Ambrose Congreve chase a mastermind whose weapon may be able to hijack machines, war plans, and the balance of global power.

When a former CIA director dies off Maine and another intelligence veteran turns up dead in Paris, Hawke senses a pattern. The trail leads to rogue operative Spider Payne, who wants revenge and has marked Hawke as his next target.

With China and North Korea driving the world toward the brink, Hawke is sent to stop a deadly new undersea weapons system. A kidnapped American weapons designer and a vicious murder at Cambridge only deepen the crisis.

Vladimir Putin is ready to redraw Europe by force, backed by a terrifying new weapon and a willingness to spill civilian blood. Hawke becomes Britain's best hope of stopping a crisis that could drag NATO into a far larger war.

Two powerful Swiss bankers die under strange circumstances, and MI6 fears the British crown's hidden fortunes are at risk. Hawke heads into the Alps to uncover a conspiracy that leads to a fortress called White Death.

In this historical Hawke short, a newspaperman travels to the Channel Islands in 1880 to learn how pirate captain Billy Blood finally fell. The story reaches back to young Alex Hawke's dramatic rescue from Blood's ship.

A Christmas ski trip turns into a nightmare when Hawke's young son vanishes during a mountain rescue in Switzerland. As he hunts the kidnappers, he collides with Vladimir Putin's own desperate scheme for power and invasion.

While recovering in the Bahamas, Hawke is asked by the Queen to find her missing grandson. The search leads to the Dragonfire nightclub, a powerful family with old secrets, and a plot reaching back to World War II.

Hawke plans a round-the-world sailing trip to spend time with his son, but MI6 has other ideas. Soon he is chasing a broad anti-Western conspiracy from Cuba to the Amazon, fighting on sea and land to stop an attack on democracies.

Days before a divisive vote that could shake the United Kingdom, King Charles disappears from Balmoral. Hawke is called in to find the missing monarch fast, before secrecy collapses and Britain tips into chaos.