Max Hennessy

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1977
  • Latest Book:
    May 2022
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Full Series List in Order

The Boer War Duology

1 - The Fleeing Tiger (Jan-2022)
2 - Sunset at Sheba (Jan-2022)

The By Air, By Land, By Sea Collection

1 - The Lonely Voyage (Jul-2021)
2 - Light Cavalry Action (Jul-2021)
3 - The Thirty Days' War (Jul-2021)

A Flying Ace Thriller

1 - The Mustering of the Hawks (Sep-2019)
2 - The Mercenaries (Sep-2019)
3 - The Courtney Entry (Sep-2019)

Goff Family

1 - Soldier of the Queen (Nov-2019)
2 - The Blunted Lance (Sep-2001)
3 - The Iron Stallions (Aug-1982)
4 - Soldiers Of The Queen (Oct-2011)

Kelly Maguire

1 - The Lion at Sea (Dec-1977)
2 - The Dangerous Years (1979)
3 - Back to Battle (Jan-1980)

Martin Falconer

1 - The Fledglings (Jul-2020)
2 - The Professionals (Jul-2020)
3 - The Victors (Jul-2020)
4 - The Interceptors (Jul-2020)
5 - The Revolutionaries (Jul-2020)

RAF Trilogy

1 - The Bright Blue Sky (Mar-1983)
2 - Challenging Heights (Sep-1983)
3 - Once More the Hawks (Mar-1984)

Shadows of War

1 - The Old Trade of Killing (May-2022)
2 - A Funny Place to Hold a War (May-2022)
3 - Flawed Banner (May-2022)

The WWII Collection

1 - Take or Destroy (Feb-2020)
2 - Army of Shadows (Feb-2020)
3 - The Fox from His Lair (Feb-2020)
4 - Swordpoint (Feb-2020)

The WWII Italian Collection

1 - Harkaway's Sixth Column (Aug-2020)
2 - Up For Grabs (Aug-2020)
3 - Picture of Defeat (Aug-2020)

A WWII Naval Thriller

1 - The Sea Shall Not Have Them (Jul-2019)
2 - Ride Out the Storm (Jul-2019)
3 - Cotton's War (Jul-2019)
4 - North Strike (Jul-2019)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • The Lion at Sea

    Kelly Maguire - 1

    A young recruit; a legendary battle; a cataclysmic war; a baptism by fire... Confident and strong willed, Kelly Maguire knew from a young age that he could accomplish great things. A constant and abiding love of the ocean would prove to be ...

  • The Dangerous Years

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    Kelly Maguire - 2

    Battle is joined...Hero of Jutland in World War I, Kelly Maguire progresses rapidly through Navy ranks during the dangerous post-War years.Amidst the Russian Civil War, British forces must rescue thousands of terrified White Army men from rampaging C...

  • Back to Battle

    Kelly Maguire - 3

    The crescendo of war, a crushing blow, a path to redemption...Peacetime political machinations threaten Kelly Maguire's ambitions to be a Captain. But then war breaks out, and the world needs men who are willing to risk everything.As World War II exp...

  • The Iron Stallions

    Goff Family - 3

      The final tale of a fighting family, in the greatest conflict of all time -- World War II -- from the author of Soldier of the Queen and Blunted Lance.   In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ...

  • The Bright Blue Sky

    RAF Trilogy - 1

    One day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born...Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with flying.He was to spend the next four years ...

  • Challenging Heights

    RAF Trilogy - 2

    A new enemy, a savage battlefield, a devastating loss...Dicken Quinney proved himself as a brilliant and heroic pilot in World War One, saving the lives of his fellow RAF servicemen, and winning a slew of medals. It is now the near aftermath of the G...

  • Once More the Hawks

    RAF Trilogy - 3

    One last mission, a disastrous result, an impossible escape...Last in the RAF Trilogy, this story charts the final days of service of world-class British fighter pilot Dicken Quinney, in his most dangerous adventure yet. It is the summer of 1939, and...

  • The Crimson Wind

    Newspaperman Harley Marquis is sent to cover the impending revolution in Mexico in 1911, falls in love with the unpredictable Angelica Ojarra, and is swept up in the turmoil following the overthrow of Profirio Diaz...

  • The Blunted Lance

    Goff Family - 2

      The birth of a new kind of combat rocks a family who have made duty and honor their creed in this rousing saga from the author of Soldier of the Queen.   The Regiment -- the 19th Lancers -- mattered to the Goffs, generation after generat...



  • Soldiers Of The Queen

    Goff Family - 4

    Charting the heroism of a young and talented cavalry officer, Colby Goff, this story takes the reader from Balaclava to the Zulu War. Colby progresses from a raw, wilful soldier to a laudable officer, fighting from continent to continent, engaging in...

  • Cotton's War

    A WWII Naval Thriller - 3

      One man stands in the way of an army in this relentless wartime thriller from “a master of the gripping adventure yarn” (The Daily Telegraph).   Storming their way through Europe, the Nazis forces have made their way east to the Medi...

  • North Strike

    A WWII Naval Thriller - 4

      A searing tale of combat and espionage at the edge of the world from the author who “writes about war as few men can” (Daily Mail).   Magnusson had expected to go to war -- though not as a spy, and certainly not in a windjammer. But i...

  • Ride Out the Storm

    A WWII Naval Thriller - 2

      A gripping historical thriller set during the nine days which decided World War II -- the Battle of Dunkirk -- from the author of The Sea Shall Not Have Them.   26 May, 1940: The allies, faced with a shameful defeat, are trapped between t...

  • The Sea Shall Not Have Them

    A WWII Naval Thriller - 1

    The “supremely well told” classic war novel of espionage in the most extreme of situations -- from the acclaimed author of Ride Out the Storm (Evening Standard).   An essential flight from France crash lands in the North Sea, leaving the fou...

  • The Courtney Entry

    A Flying Ace Thriller - 3

      A World War I flying ace races for glory -- and for his life -- against Charles Lindbergh in this unputdownable thriller from the author of The Mercenaries.   A huge cash prize awaits anyone who can make the perilous transatlantic flight ...

  • The Mercenaries

    A Flying Ace Thriller - 2

      A new conflict looms at the very edge of the world for a WWI flying ace in this high-octane thriller from the author of The Mustering of the Hawks.   For Ira Penaluna, peace brings frustration and disillusionment. Desperate to continue fl...

  • The Mustering of the Hawks

    A Flying Ace Thriller - 1

      In the skies over France, only the hawks survived. First in the World War I historical thriller series from the author of The Mercenaries.   1917. The average life-expectancy of an RAF pilot on the Western Front is three weeks. Inexperie...

  • Soldier of the Queen

    Goff Family - 1

      The first volume in an epic trilogy spanning four generations of a great soldiering family from the author of Blunted Lance and The Iron Stallions.   Colby Goff had been born to the cavalry -- it was in his blood and in his bones. He woul...

  • Army of Shadows

    The WWII Collection - 2

      Getting shot down is just the beginning in this epic story of survival and resistance in a country crawling with Nazi soldiers during the Second World War.   They fought without glory -- and without mercy.   France, Winter 1944: The ...



  • The Fox from His Lair

    The WWII Collection - 3

      Two Allied officers hunt down a German agent who’s stolen top-secret plans that could change the course of World War II in this spy thriller. Throughout the summer of 1944, southern England was transformed into one huge armed camp as the All...

  • Swordpoint

    The WWII Collection - 4

      An ambitious plan, a looming fortress, and one ferocious battle that could turn the tides of World War II, from the author of Army of Shadows.   Famous for its ancient hilltop monastery, Monte Cassino achieved a new and grimmer renown in ...

  • Take or Destroy

    The WWII Collection - 1

      The fate of a continent rests on one devastating battle -- and the daring of the special forces soldiers on its front lines.   The Eighth Army, gathering its strength in the Nile delta, was preparing for a major assault against the combi...

  • The Fledglings

    Martin Falconer - 1

    Man against man. Face to face. One machine against another.It was shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Martin Falconer and his friend, Frank, were anxious to ‘get into the scrap’ as soon as possible, their youth blinding them to the...

  • The Interceptors

    Martin Falconer - 4

    The First World War is over. But Martin Falconer’s story is only just beginning.1919. Martin Falconer, a veteran airman while still in his teens and now adjusting to peacetime, is asked to go to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks. His answer? ‘Try an...

  • The Professionals

    Martin Falconer - 2

    To swing the tide of the war, he must take to the air once again.It was 1916. The First World War had still two years to run. Martin Falconer, at eighteen an experienced pilot with service in France to his credit, was kicking his heels in England, aw...

  • The Revolutionaries

    Martin Falconer - 5

    One last mission, but this time it’s personal...In the Spring of 1920 the Mexican revolution was almost over. Just across the border in Texas was Martin Falconer, barely out of his teens yet already a veteran airman.He had only just escaped from th...

  • The Victors

    Martin Falconer - 3

    Martin Falconer had one big anxiety: would they let him fly again?Grounded in England at the beginning of 1918, it was a struggle, for escaped prisoners of war weren’t generally allowed to return to the front, but Martin pestered the authorities an...

  • Harkaway's Sixth Column

    The WWII Italian Collection - 1

    One brave task force will take on an army. It is the summer of 1940 " and Italian forces have entered British Somaliland. While this invasion is in progress, a small party of British soldiers is on its way to destroy a supply dump in the desert hil...

  • Picture of Defeat

    The WWII Italian Collection - 3

    He must save the past, for the peoples’ future... It is 1943, and Naples has been looted by the Allies and Axis powers alike, its priceless art treasures coveted by some of the most corrupt criminal minds in Europe. The country swarmed with bands o...



  • Up For Grabs

    The WWII Italian Collection - 2

    A fighting team with a very special difference... In times gone by, the looting didn’t start until the foe was vanquished! But in North Africa nobody bothered to hang around for the enemy to retreat. With half of Egypt waiting open-armed for anythi...

  • Light Cavalry Action

    The By Air, By Land, By Sea Collection - 2

    A military hero? Or a traitor to his comrades and his country? A gripping thriller full of suspense and intrigue, from master author Max Hennessy.When, in 1939, a letter cast doubts on the military reputation of a man likely to become Commander-in-Ch...

  • The Lonely Voyage

    The By Air, By Land, By Sea Collection - 1

    The gripping tale of one boy’s journey into manhood… and towards war.Jess Ferigo, a young man with few prospects other than growing old in the same town he has always known, dreams of a life at sea, much to the ire of his family.Making the tough ...

  • The Thirty Days' War

    The By Air, By Land, By Sea Collection - 3

    A swarm of enemy aircraft. A hopeless task. A brilliant commander.Kubaiyah, an RAF airstrip squeezed between a razor-like ridge and a harsh desert plain, must be defended. But with the Nazis poised to conquer the Middle East and Britain stripped of h...

  • The Fleeing Tiger

    The Boer War Duology - 1

    A huge prize awaits them, but only if they can escape.The Second Boer War is finally ending, and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll so large that they have to bury it outside a Free State town until the heat c...

  • Sunset at Sheba

    The Boer War Duology - 2

    A brutal rebellion. Two clashing armies. A battle to decide their fate.South Africa, 1914. Diehard Boer generals led a new rebellion against the British-friendly governments of both Jan Smuts and Louis Botha.General Christiaan De Wet’s attempt to j...

  • Flawed Banner

    Shadows of War - 3

    A desperate hunt for a man who could turn the tide of the Second World War.As the Nazi hordes of Germany overrun France, devouring the free world with fascist fervour, the fate of the Allied resistance looks grim. But things might be about to change....

  • A Funny Place to Hold a War

    Shadows of War - 2

    A contest with the Nazis deep in the far corner of Africa.Fresh from the horrors of the Second World War, Ginger Donnelly is on the trail of Nazi saboteurs in Sierra Leone.Whilst taking a midnight paddle in a canoe cajoled from a local fisherman, Don...

  • The Old Trade of Killing

    Shadows of War - 1

    The fighting has long since ended. But the conflict is far from over…Twenty years after the Second World War, five tough veterans return to the Sahara in a desperate search for bomb-buried bullion. But twenty years can change a man.Young ideals hav...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Max Hennessy has published 38 books.

Max Hennessy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Old Trade of Killing, was published in May 2022.

The first book by Max Hennessy, The Lion at Sea, was published in December 1977.

Yes. Max Hennessy has 11 series.
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