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  • Bibliography:
    10 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2006
  • Latest Book:
    August 2017
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About the Author

James McGee (whose real name is Glen Moy) was born into an army family in 1950. He was educated in Gibralter, Germany and Belfast, giving him a love of travel, which is evident in his meticulous, vivid portaits of diverse people and places. His varied career has included banking, bookselling, thirteen years in the airline business, and book reviewing for several radio programmes for the BBC, Liberty radio and Talk Radio.

Full Series List in Order

Matthew Hawkwood

1 - Ratcatcher aka Hawkwood (Feb-2006)
1 - Hawkwood aka Ratcatcher - Reissue Retitled (May-2012)
2 - Resurrectionist (Feb-2007)
3 - Rapscallion (Jun-2008)
4 - Rebellion (Feb-2011)
5 - The Blooding (Jul-2015)
6 - The Reckoning (Aug-2017)

Book List in Order: 10 titles



  • James McGee’s historical crime thriller introduces a Regency-era James Bond who uncovers a sinister Napoleonic plot against Britain.The year is 1811, and Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood is ordered by Chief Magistrate James Read to investigate th...



  • Hawkwood is back in the second adventure in the rollicking historical series featuring the enigmatic Bow Street Runner.Death can be a lucrative business. But it’s the corpses the body-snatchers leave behind, horribly mutilated and nailed to a tree,...



  • For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse than the gallows: the hulks. Former man-o-wars, now converted to prison ships, their fearsome reputation guarantees a sentence served in dreadful conditions. Few survive. Escape, it’s said,...



  • October 1812: Britain and France are still at war. France is engaged on two battle fronts - Spain and Russia - and her civilians are growing weary of the fight. Rebellion is brewing. Since Napoleon Bonaparte appointed himself as First Consul, there h...



  • Now in paperback, the debut thriller in the investigator Matthew Hawkwood series, hunter of thieves, spies, and murderers in the streets of Regency London. The year is 1811, and Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood is ordered by Chief Magistrate Jam...



  • Cynical and world-weary, Crow’s a pilot and a drifter. His skills honed flying helicopter gunships, he now earns a precarious living, ferrying relief supplies to refugee camps along Pakistan’s north-west frontier. Until the arrival of a local res...



  • Supported by his death squads, President Solomon Mabato rules his East African fiefdom with ruthless efficiency. Thousands have died since he seized power in a brutal military coup. When David Holt, a British university lecturer, is arrested and held...



  • May 1945. As the Russians tighten their stranglehold on Berlin, Doenitz's last surviving U-boat takes on board a top secret cargo, slips its moorings and heads for the deep waters of the North Atlantic. Destination: South America. Five decades later,...



  • Hawkwood finds himself behind enemy lines in America during the war of 1812―for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Patrick O'Brien 1812: Matthew Hawkwood, soldier turned spy, is stranded behind enemy lines, in America, a country at war ...






  • Home from the war in America, Matthew Hawkwood's return to Bow Street is marked by a summons to a burying ground and the naked corpse of a young woman; murdered, her hands and legs bound, cast into an open grave in an attempt to conceal the body ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James McGee has published 10 books.

James McGee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Reckoning, was published in August 2017.

The first book by James McGee, Ratcatcher aka Hawkwood, was published in February 2006.

Yes. James McGee has 1 series.