William H Hallahan Books in Order

As demolition threatens his Brooklyn home, Peter Richardson senses a deadly presence. Meanwhile, an English solicitor traces the descendants of an eighteenth-century wine merchant, uncovering a family history connected to Richardson's growing terror.

A wealthy collector hires struggling designer Edgar Ross to manufacture a rare Victorian book that never existed. Reproducing period paper, ink, and typography becomes a dangerous undertaking as Ross's gambling debts draw the mob into the deception.

Disgraced CIA operative Charlie Brewer and immigration agent Ben Leary independently pursue a kidnapped Russian poet. Neither knows the other's role as their searches converge around a defecting Soviet spy and a dangerous international bargain.

A father searching for his runaway teenage daughter discovers a fanatical monk's power over young minds. Recovering her requires a confrontation that reaches beyond ordinary physical reality into a terrifying battle of wills.

An arms newsletter editor dies in the Paris Metro after mentioning a mysterious Doomsday Book. Charlie Brewer and arms trader Colin Thomas investigate a conspiracy involving a German intelligence chief and his formidable daughter.

Three ordinary men lose the fourth member of their poker group to murder. Their decision to avenge their friend takes them into unfamiliar danger, testing how far loyalty can carry people unprepared for violence.

Brother Timothy and his hawk search for Brendan Davitt, whose unusual spiritual power could forgive the monk's sins and threaten Hell itself. Brendan's increasingly urgent visions warn that his apparent blessing may bring terrible danger.

Charlie Brewer is framed over an illegal arms deal, then survives an assassination attempt after his release. He becomes a pawn in a contest between the United States and Iran over valuable military hardware.

Charlie Brewer receives an assignment to identify a Soviet superspy operating as a wealthy Swiss businessman. From a fortified castle, the elusive target funnels American technological secrets to Moscow while frustrating the CIA's attempts to expose him.

Hallahan traces American infantry weapons from colonial arsenals to the Vietnam War, examining the institutions responsible for supplying them. He argues that bureaucratic resistance, political decisions, and repeated procurement failures left soldiers with inadequate or defective arms.

An hour-by-hour account follows the fighting at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Letters, diaries, and memoirs show how participants experienced the day and how news spread through the colonies and across the Atlantic.

Hallahan examines the campaigns and decisions leading to Yorktown, tracing American weakness, French support, and Cornwallis's defeat. Contemporary letters and diaries illuminate the military struggle and reactions to its outcome in America, Britain, and France.