James Ward

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 2010
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Bob Steck: Adventures of a Spymaster

1 - Eagle in the Storm (Mar-2012)
2 - Eve of Destruction - Operation Able Archer (Oct-2013)
3 - Weapons of the Prophets (Mar-2011)
4 - The Hand of the Prophet (Feb-2011)
5 - Bad Dogs, Running (Mar-2011)
6 - The Damascus Factor (Jun-2015)

John Mordred

1 - The Eastern Ukraine Question (Jan-2015)
2 - The Social Magus (Apr-2015)
3 - Encounter with ISIS (May-2015)
4 - World War O (Jul-2018)
5 - The New Europeans (Jul-2018)
6 - Libya Story (Jul-2018)
7 - Little War in London (Jul-2018)
8 - The Square Mile Murder (Jul-2018)
9 - The Ultimate Londoner (Aug-2018)
10 - Death in a Half Foreign Country (Dec-2018)
11 - The BBC Hunters (Nov-2019)
12 - The Seductive Scent of Empire (Mar-2020)
13 - Humankind 2.0 (Sep-2020)
14 - Ruby Parker's Last Orders (Nov-2020)

Tales of MI7

1 - The Kramski Case (Jan-2014)
2 - The Girl from Kandahar (Jan-2014)
3 - The Vengeance of San Gennaro (Jan-2014)
4 - The Eastern Ukraine Question (Jan-2015)
5 - The Social Magus (Apr-2015)
6 - Encounter with ISIS (May-2015)
7 - World War O (Jul-2018)
8 - The New Europeans (Jul-2018)
9 - Libya Story (Jul-2018)
10 - Little War in London (Jul-2018)
11 - The Square Mile Murder (Jul-2018)
12 - The Ultimate Londoner (Aug-2018)
13 - Death in a Half Foreign Country (Dec-2018)
14 - The BBC Hunters (Nov-2019)
15 - The Seductive Scent of Empire (Mar-2020)
16 - Humankind 2.0 (Sep-2020)
17 - Ruby Parker's Last Orders (Nov-2020)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • Wealth Virtues

  • The Hand of the Prophet

    Bob Steck: Adventures of a Spymaster - 4

    A mysterious cast figure, The Hand of Mohammed is stolen from a U.S. Military warehouse. An FBI agent is murdered during the heist.Bob Steck and the Jump Team, a joint CIA/FBI anti-terrorist group, chase the thieves who try to sell The Hand to terror...

  • Bad Dogs, Running

    Bob Steck: Adventures of a Spymaster - 5

    An assassination in Hong Kong sends CIA's Bob Steck on a search for the killer. He uncovers a scam selling fake IED detectors to Iraq and other countries, aided by a rogue agent. Thousands of people are dying because of the scam. He solves the case i...

  • Weapons of the Prophets

    Bob Steck: Adventures of a Spymaster - 3

    A western educated,savvy leader takes power in Palestine. He attacks Israel, vies for statehood. Mossad targets him. CIA's Bob Steck sees Israel at the brink of ruin. He must stop the madness before Israel does the unthinkable. Story is set against t...

  • Dark Outpost

  • Eagle in the Storm

    Bob Steck: Adventures of a Spymaster - 1

    Its 1971. Greenhorn agent Bob Steck arrives at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on his first assignment to learn his new Boss has just been murdered. His heart stops when he finds himself appointed as the new CIA bureau chief. He perceives the coming Islam...

  • The Bright Fish

    Something's not right aboard the cruise ship Aurora. Yet that's probably what you would think when you're with the girl you love and everyone else is about fifty years your senior. You're three thousand miles from home, young, and high on emotion. Ma...

  • Safe to Say

    Packed with humor and insight, Safe to Say explores the gut wrenching absurdities of life in corporate America. Set in the 1980’s amidst the decline of an iconic company, the story centers on the eventful careers of two characters -- Harmon Wolco...

  • Rapids

    Tony is a soul weary man, who has spent many years as a teacher immersed in Aboriginal culture, and Laura is a renowned artist seeking serenity and simplicity. Can these two people with different cultural landscapes find love? Will the beauty of this...



  • Luffing

    This novel looks at why men can suddenly lose it in their middle years and run amok. Why they start acting like wild teenage boys again. And why some men do things none of their family would ever believe them capable of. This is a rough, gutsy hilari...

  • Napaltjarri Wrong Skin

    A tattered few of Australia's semi-traditional indigenous people, the Aborigines, live in an "archipelago"of filthy, stinking desert and remote communities cut off from mainstream Australia. Napaltjarri tells the story of a middle-aged white man and ...

  • Pungalungu Goes to Town

    Bertie was a big “hairy man” from the Angali Mountains to the south of Papunya. His mob had been called Yipandipandi since the Dreaming. But now the local blackfellas, that “Honey Ant mob,” called him Pungalungu. His “hairy” mob was sort ...

  • Eve of Destruction - Operation Able Archer

    Bob Steck: Adventures of a Spymaster - 2

    1983 is a time of heady confidence in Washington but a time of creeping paranoia in the Kremlin. Unwittingly, Ronald Reagan's bravado and Yuri Andropov's delusions combine to bring the world to the brink of nuclear war; closer to destruction than eve...

  • The Girl from Kandahar

    Tales of MI7 - 2

    In Afghanistan, British secret servicewoman Marcie Brown, posing as the third wife of one of ISAF's most trusted operatives, is killed in a drone strike. Or at least, that's what the official report states. Deep inside enemy territory, what remains o...

  • The Kramski Case

    Tales of MI7 - 1

    When someone starts assassinating paparazzi in three countries, MI7 sits up. Apparently, the killer is none other than Dmitri Vassyli Kramski, retired SVR field-operative and former Kremlin protégé. True, the Cold War is long finished, bu...

  • The Vengeance of San Gennaro

    Tales of MI7 - 3

    By universal consensus, there's only one exhibition worth seeing at this year's Venice Biennale. Giuditta Cancellieri's Il Timore di Dio, six paintings of something as yet undisclosed. Don't bother buying tickets, though. A court order means no one's...

  • The Eastern Ukraine Question

    John Mordred - 1
    Tales of MI7 - 4

    A cabal of Russian oligarchs instigates unrest in the far east of Russia as the first stage of an attempt to unseat Vladimir Putin. Britain offers covert support in the form of five MI7 agents. The disturbances mirror those in Eastern Ukraine and, if...

  • The Social Magus

    John Mordred - 2
    Tales of MI7 - 5

    Everyone knows UK general elections aren't what they used to be. British politics, Westminster in particular, is mired in an integrity crisis. Expenses scandals, cash for questions, a tainted honours system and other wrong-turns have created a deeply...

  • Encounter with ISIS

    John Mordred - 3
    Tales of MI7 - 6

    When the fourteen year-old daughter of a British government minister leaves the country to join ISIS, MI7 despatches a cohort of agents to Turkey to intercept her en route. However, maybe not everything is as it seems. How to explain, for example, he...



  • The Damascus Factor

    Bob Steck: Adventures of a Spymaster - 6

    A world famous Iranian physicist turned jihadi plots an attack on the world’s satellite communications. Her plan will tear down the world’s economy, killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process. Bob Steck and a newly formed clandestine ...

  • Every Commandment But the Fifth

    Stewart is a world-class worrier who forsakes his wife and career for a simpler existence. He falls further and further down the rungs of life, until he ends up in a tent city run by a vengeful psychopath called Scrap-Iron who prides himself on being...

  • Adolphe Renouard, or, Peasant life and political clubs in France

    Adolphe Renouard, or Peasant Life and Political Clubs in France by James Ward. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1852 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes....

  • The Blue Sea Monster Terrorizing Palm Beach Norma Fleagane, James Fleagane Blake

    The Blue Sea Monster is an ugly, scary monster who roamed the beaches of Palm Beach, capturing little children at dusk. Blake's grandfather suspected the children were taken to a deserted island in the Bahamas, and he was determined to find those chi...

  • Libya Story

    John Mordred - 6
    Tales of MI7 - 9

    Out of the blue, your sister gets kidnapped in one of the world's worst war-zones. As a top British intelligence officer, everyone agrees you're the ideal person to mount a rescue, only protocol forbids it. So you resign. Your name is John Mordred, t...

  • Little War in London

    John Mordred - 7
    Tales of MI7 - 10

    After an acrimonious US election whose outcome Moscow may or may not have influenced, can it really be that a few maverick intelligence agents from Russia and the United States are fighting a discreet battle-to-the-death on some of London's back stre...

  • The New Europeans

    John Mordred - 5
    Tales of MI7 - 8

    London, 2016, and the lead-up to the EU referendum. The liberal consensus in Europe is breaking down and no one knows exactly what will replace it. As always, there are those with an eye on the main chance.In the course of investigating the disappear...

  • The Square Mile Murder

    John Mordred - 8
    Tales of MI7 - 11

    After a chance skirmish with an armed killer in central London, agent John Mordred ends up in hospital, condition critical. Six weeks and a full recovery later, he's persuaded it's purely a police matter, one he should forget about. But nothing in M...

  • World War O

    John Mordred - 4
    Tales of MI7 - 7

    World War Offshore - no one knows how it started, or who's behind it, but one thing's for certain: it's the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration the world has ever seen. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators, spread across six continents, deman...

  • The Ultimate Londoner

    John Mordred - 9
    Tales of MI7 - 12

    Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today. – Publisher's Daily. Agent John Mordred gets a nasty shock when he finds himself touted in the press as one of ten potential Ultimate Londoner...



  • Death in a Half Foreign Country

    John Mordred - 10
    Tales of MI7 - 13

    Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today. – Publisher's Daily.John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget. – The Booklife Revie...

  • No Third Chance

  • The BBC Hunters

    John Mordred - 11
    Tales of MI7 - 14

    2019. Russia's Web Brigades have created a divided West, but both the European and the American intelligence services are getting wise to their tactics. When Stanislav Kuznetsov, the FSB's Director of Overseas Strategic Affairs, entrusts a group of y...

  • The Seductive Scent of Empire

    John Mordred - 12
    Tales of MI7 - 15

    When Ruby Parker, Head of MI7's Red Department, is hospitalised by a burglar, all is not as it seems. Her removal coincides with a series of catastrophes for British spies in hostile territories abroad, and some very shifty behaviour by the new Actin...

  • Hannah and Soraya's Fully Magic Generation-Y *Snowflake* Road Trip across America

    Undeniably entertaining – Kirkus Reviews Hannah's humor is a constant: in a sharp, incisive voice, she takes in all of the eccentricities of Britain and the US. – Foreword Clarion Reviews The author's careful examination of the ...

  • Humankind 2.0

    John Mordred - 13
    Tales of MI7 - 16

    Readers will find John Mordred to be one of the most appealing characters in fiction today. – Publisher's Daily.John Mordred comes alive on the page and is a character readers will not soon forget. – The Booklife Revie...

  • Wrongful Murder

    “Wrongful Murder” is set in the snowy wastes of upstate New York’s Adirondacks. Lieutenant Thomas Shard, head of the Mohawk Country Sheriff’s Department’s criminal section, is an ex state trooper who returned to his home...

  • Suspicion of Murder

    Suspicion of murder, is set in the snowy wastes of upstate New York's Adirondacks. Lt. Thomas Shard, head of Mohawk County Sheriff Department's criminal section, is an ex-state trooper who has returned to his hometown of Leyden, a classic small upsta...

  • Death in the Garage

    Leyden's richest man, biggest employer, largest philanthropist, and the sheriff's most important reelection campaign contributor, Stephen Harkness, is found dead in a remote, snow covered garage. Lt. Thomas Shard quickly discovers almost everyone in ...

  • Ruby Parker's Last Orders

    John Mordred - 14
    Tales of MI7 - 17

    Ruby's Parker's retirement hangs like a dark cloud over MI7. She herself has only a vague idea what the future might hold - both personally, and in terms of national security. But for many of her team, she's irreplaceable. To cap it all, there's a ma...



  • The House of Charles Swinter

    Charles Swinter is eighty. When his estranged wife dies, he decides to go to Thailand and find a bride. He's not ready to die yet. Not by any means. Edward Grant, his best friend, is young enough to be his grandson. When the old man goes missing, Edw...

  • Wadhurst Ghost Stories

    Please note: this is a work of fiction NOT a compendium of local folklore.Could there really be a gargantuan snake, sleeping the sleep of the ages, somewhere beneath a hillock, just outside Wadhurst? And are there other, equally strange, beings '...

  • Tunbridge Wells Ghost Stories

    NB. This is a work of fiction, not a compendium of local folklore.During an evening stroll on Tunbridge Wells Common, two old friends find a mysterious figurine. Which is when their troubles begin. Bad dreams, disappearances, sightings of things that...

  • Carl McTater

    Join Carl McTater and his sister Ellamina as they embark on an epic journey to find and protect a rare and elusive creature: Bigfoot. After capturing footage of the creature outside his camper, Carl becomes obsessed with finding and documenting B...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James Ward has published 43 books.

James Ward does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Carl McTater, was published in April 2023.

The first book by James Ward, Wealth Virtues, was published in August 2010.

Yes. James Ward has 3 series.
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