David Black

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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1981
  • Latest Book:
    May 2021
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Full Series List in Order

The Chronicles of Sir Richard Starkey

1 - Siege of Faith (Nov-2011)
2 - Inca Sun (Aug-2013)

A Harry Gilmour Novel

1 - Gone to Sea in a Bucket (Nov-2015)
2 - The Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin (May-2016)
3 - Turn Left for Gibraltar (Apr-2017)
4 - The Bonny Boy (Jan-2019)
5 - See You at the Bar (Sep-2019)
6 - Never Too Old for a Pierhead Jump (May-2020)

Shadow Squadron

1 - The Great Satan (Feb-2011)
2 - Dark Empire (Oct-2012)
3 - The Devil's Web (Jun-2014)

Book List in Order: 29 titles

  • The King of Fifth Avenue

  • Like Father

  • Murder at the Met

  • Peep Show

    Leo and Meg, counterculturists of the 1960s now a childless New York couple in their late thirties, meet Rebecca, a sixteen-year-old who pulls them into her nocturnal world of drugs, sexual menages, and after-hours punk clubs...

  • An Impossible Life : A Bobeh Myseh : A Novel

  • The Extinction Event

    After Jack Slidell's discovery of his law partner's death in an apparent drug/sex killing, he and the beautiful Caroline Wonder are suddenly hurled into a race for their lives, a hair-raising odyssey filled with outrageous characters and violent susp...

  • Miracle

    Martin Foley is the most cynical cop in New York and is investigating a murder in an East Harlem social club. When he arrives, he finds no shooter, no victim. However, there are blood stains on the floor and 30 witnesses, who all agree on what happen...

  • The Great Satan

    Shadow Squadron - 1

    The first of his compelling new Shadow Squadron series, best selling author David Black has produced his own fictional nightmare scenario: What if the Iraqi weapons that were said to be dismantled in the late 1990s included the ultimate WMD? And what...

  • Playing for England

    When David Black takes a slug in the eye, it seems his military career is over, or is it? He begins to rebuild his shattered life by taking a most extreme road to salvation...British army SAS selection. With a 90%+ failure rate, has David set the bar...



  • Siege of Faith

    The Chronicles of Sir Richard Starkey - 1

    Far to the East across the sparkling waters of the great Mediterranean Sea, the formidable Turkish Ottoman Empire was secretly planning to add to centuries of expansion. Soon, they would begin the invasion and conquest of Christian Europe.But first, ...

  • Eagles of the Damned

    It was autumn in the year AD 9. The summer campaigning season was over. Centurion Rufus and his battle-hardened century were part of three mighty Roman Legions returning to the safety of their winter quarters beside the River Rhine. Like their comman...

  • Dark Empire

    Shadow Squadron - 2

    Sgt. Pat Farrell and his men are back in action, in DARK EMPIRE, The Great Satan's thrilling sequel (Shadow Squadron #2). Pat and his reserve SAS troop are on a training mission in Kenya, when they are suddenly ordered into the heart of Africa, on wh...

  • Inca Sun

    The Chronicles of Sir Richard Starkey - 2

    From his glittering palace in Madrid, devout King Phillip II of Spain has begun planning a great Armada, which will be built to invade his hated enemy, Protestant England. He plans to fund his great enterprise using the riches torn from the dank and ...

  • The January Stop

    In an age when the legalities around the education system are terrifying and stultifying, a young Christian public school teacher, Fenton Seabright, and his student, Tracy Strauss, struggle to understand one another. When Vivian Strauss, the accompli...

  • The Cold Light of Dawn

    In 1916, the war on the Western Front was locked in stalemate. British soldiers, covered in blood-sucking lice, battled with their hated German foe in a sea of mud-filled shell craters and from shattered, rat-infested trenches. Causality figures, alr...

  • The Devil's Web

    Shadow Squadron - 3

    Al-Qaeda has taken a series of hammer blows since 9/11. Terror plots unravelled, millions of dollars in illegal funds confiscated and many high-ranking commanders arrested or killed by the West’s security forces. Hidden high in the mountainous badl...

  • Playing Saint Ditch

    Small-town store owner Ditch McClintoc inherits an outrageous fortune of dubious origins and goes on an escapade of excesses to exact a personal vendetta against many detractors by way of living out fantasies. Ditch hires well-known television actor ...

  • Fast Shuffle

    An old-school PI living in Springdale, Massachusetts is plunged into modern danger and conspiracy in Fast Shuffle, a gripping mystery from TV screenwriter and producer David Black. Harry has always looked on the bright side of things―until one d...

  • Gone to Sea in a Bucket

    A Harry Gilmour Novel - 1

    Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn’t it. Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour’s first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. F...



  • The Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin

    A Harry Gilmour Novel - 2

    Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare. When he is appointed as Br...

  • Before the Reign Falls

    During the renovation of a decrepit old barn by several friends, the chance finding of various old manuscripts lodged between some wall cavities reveals clues to a mystery that goes back over four and a half centuries to the time of Queen Mary I, Que...

  • Turn Left for Gibraltar

    A Harry Gilmour Novel - 3

    As 1941 draws to a close, brave young men are fighting for freedom in countries across the globe. But for Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour, washed up in neutral Spain alongside ‘interned belligerents’ from both sides of the war, hostilities have come...

  • Thiefs Vow

    Legends tell of an ancient war when the dark God Shugra battled his brothers and sisters seeking to bring them under his dominion. After a long and bloody battle his evil was sealed but only at the cost of the remaining gods freedoms.As an orphan ini...

  • Image If

    We see Monica and Sarah laughing. After purchasing a house that needs tender loving care, a successful songwriter and band leader named Miles is puzzled. Why did he purchase the run-down house when he already had a nice condo? At night, he just ca...

  • The Bonny Boy

    A Harry Gilmour Novel - 4

    A wartime sub prowls the Med...but who is the enemy?It is 1942. Lt Harry Gilmour has already made a name for himself in the Royal Navy submarine service. He has risked his life to save a fellow seaman after his first boat, HMS Pelorus is rammed and s...

  • The Cougar and The Fox

    This story, The Cougar and The Fox, is a story about friendship and how it doesn't matter about our differences. Any one can become friends. I write these stories for my grandchildren. My granddaughter Kimberly read this story twice. She is eleven an...

  • See You at the Bar

    A Harry Gilmour Novel - 5

    The Mediterranean, early 1940s.Lieutenant Harry Gilmour, captain of the S-Class submarine HMS Scourge, has been tasked with patrolling the Mediterranean and supporting operations for the Allied forces. Someone, however, is on his tail: Captain Ch...

  • Never Too Old for a Pierhead Jump

    A Harry Gilmour Novel - 6

    The year is 1944, and Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is recovering in Beirut from an ill-fated British campaign to seize the Greek Islands.After four years at sea, he is expecting a shore job as his next appointment. Instead, a flash signal from C-in-C Med...

  • By My Sword Alone

    The Battle of Glenshiel, 1719. Thirteen-year-old James Lindsay watches the action unfold as the Jacobite forces supported by his family are defeated. For the rebels, it is the beginning of the end. But for James, forever marked by the battle, it is t...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Black has published 29 books.

David Black does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, By My Sword Alone, was published in May 2021.

The first book by David Black, The King of Fifth Avenue, was published in January 1981.

Yes. David Black has 3 series.
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