John Harris

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  • Bibliography:
    48 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1977
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Book List in Order: 48 titles

  • Road to the Coast

    It’s South America and a fugitive Englishman is caught in a military revolt against a tyrant. Harry Ash is a wanted man, fleeing the police and revolutionaries. After being bombed, he meets a beautiful woman, Grace Rodrigo, and steals a car to take...

  • Without a Trace

  • Blunted Lance

  • Live Free or Die!

    Charles Walter Scully, cut off from his unit and running on empty, is trapped. It's 1944 and though the Allied invasion of France has finally begun, for Scully the war isn't going well. That is, until he meets a French boy trying to get home to Paris...

  • A Funny Place to Hold a War

    Ginger Donnelly is on the trail of Nazi saboteurs in Sierra Leone. Whilst taking a midnight paddle with a willing woman in a canoe cajoled from a local fisherman, Donnelly sees an enormous seaplane thunder across the sky only to crash in a ball of br...

  • Harkaway's Sixth Column

    An explosive action-packed war drama: four British soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in British Somaliland and when they decide to utilise a secret arms dump in the Bur Yi hills and fight a rearguard action, an unlikely alliance is sought betwe...

  • China Seas

    In this action-packed adventure, Willie Sarth becomes a survivor. Forced to fight pirates on the East China Seas, wrestle for his life on the South China Seas and cross the Sea of Japan ravaged by typhus, Sarth is determined to come out alive. Dealin...

  • Picture of Defeat

    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. But under the orders of Field Security, Tom Pugh must save the paintings of Detto Ban...

  • Swordpoint

    It is 1944 and Monte Cassino has become a Nazi stronghold against the Allied advance through Italy. But Cassino must be taken, and the flamboyantly ambitious Brigadier Heathfield has a plan. This is a gripping, intoxicating story about the men of t...



  • Quick Boat Men

    Edward Dante Bourdillon is a man whose fate is linked to the oceans. His parents perished on the waves and, brought up by his uncle who owns a boatyard, Edward leads a life in love with the sea. That is, until he sinks his uncle’s yacht. Soon our h...

  • No Voice from the Hall

  • Adventure's End

    It's South America and a fugitive Englishman is caught in a military revolt against a tyrant. Harry Ash is a wanted man, fleeing the police and revolutionaries. After being bombed, he meets a beautiful woman, Grace Rodrigo, and steals a car to take h...

  • Army of Shadows

    It is the winter of 1944. France is under the iron fist of the Nazis. But liberation is just around the corner and a crew from a Lancaster bomber is part of the fight for Freedom. As they fly towards their European target, a Messerschmitt blazes thro...

  • The Claws of Mercy

    In Sierra Leone, a remote bush community crackles with racial tensions. Few white people live amongst the natives of Freetown and Authority seems distant. Everyday life in Freetown revolves around an opencast iron mine, and the man in charge dictates...

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh

    The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written chronicle in the world, composed two to three thousand years before Christ. It tells events in the life of a king in an ancient Sumerian city of Mesopotamia.In the tradition of the Greek Iliad or the medie...

  • Flawed Banner

    As the Nazi hordes of Germany overrun France, devouring the free world with fascist fervour, a young intelligence officer, James Woodyatt, is shipped across the Channel to find a First World War hero…an old man who may have been a spy…who may be ...

  • The Fox from His Lair

    A brilliant German agent lies in wait for the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France. While the Allies prepare a vast armed camp, no one is aware of the enemy within, and when a sudden, deadly E-boat attacks, the Fox strikes, stealing secret invasio...

  • Getaway

    An Italian fisherman and his wife, Rosa, live in Sydney. Hard times are ahead. Their mortgaged boat may be lost and with it, their livelihood. But Rosa has a plan to reach the coast of America from the islands of the Pacific, sailing on a beleaguered...

  • Kind of Courage

    At the heart of this story of courage and might, is Major Billy Pentecost, commander of a remote desert outpost near Hahdhdhah, deep among the bleak hills of Khalit. His orders are to prepare to move out along with a handful of British soldiers. Impa...



  • North Strike

    It is 1939. The Royal Navy urgently needs information about German raiders. There is only one place to get it…the port of Narvik and only one man capable â€" Magnusson. A story of the daring, outrageous exploits of a spy rescuing British prisoners ...

  • The Old Trade of Killing

    Harris’ exciting adventure is set against the backdrop of the Western Desert and scene of the Eighth Army battles. The men who fought together in the Second World War return twenty years later in search of treasure. But twenty years can change a ma...

  • Ride Out the Storm

    The Allies, faced with a shameful defeat, are trapped between the onslaught of the mighty German army and the tumult of the ocean waves. Those that do not die face capture and surrender to the Nazis. But only nine days later more than a quarter of a ...

  • The Sleeping Mountain

    The sleepy red-roofed Italian island of Anapoli, its lazy, leaning buildings pushed against the jagged harbour, dreams on peaceably by the sea. It is here that Tom Patch, an easy-going British artist, finds himself, discarding his mistress and in lov...

  • Smiling Willie and the Tiger

    The 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 cools off. But the army choose an officer to help track them do...

  • So Far from God

    With Europe on the brink of the First World War, Pierce Slattery, a renegade cavalry officer with the British Army, brings an astonishing insight and masterful fighting abilities to the aid of a revolution, led by Pancho Villa. Their army of ill-trai...

  • The Spring of Malice

    An assassination attempt of a top American general, a pointed gun and an unpulled trigger cause uproar in Paris. The Spring of Malice tells a story of political intrigue and intent. John Harris digs the depths of an assassin's mind and discovers a ho...

  • Sunset at Sheba

    An evocative and moving novel set in the landscape of South Africa, 1914, where a story of courage and bloodlust unravels ‘between the mimosa shrubs and the thin pepper trees’; this is a story which began with fervent patriotism and ended in more...

  • Take or Destroy

    Lieutenant-Colonel George Hockold must destroy Rommel's vast fuel reserves stored at the port of Qaba if the Eighth Army is to succeed in the Alamein offensive. Time is desperately running out, resources are scant and the commando unit Hockold must l...

  • The Thirty Days War

    Kubaiyah, a 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 her allies, Kubaiyah could be lost. Only the eccentric and gifted fl...



  • The Unforgiving Wind

    Charting the disastrous expedition of Commander Adams, this novel follows the misfortunes of his men across the Arctic. Whatever can go wrong does go wrong as transport, instruments, health and sanity begin to fail. Only one man can rescue them, the ...

  • Up for Grabs

    The tale of the Desert Ratbags â€" a concert group stranded behind enemy lines and using unique skills from petty theft to light entertainment in order to survive. The Ratbags outrageously involve themselves in looting, from captured weapons and vehi...

  • Vardy

    In the Paris of Napoleon III, the beautiful, impetuous Vardy Cutter falls in love with the passionate Colonel Max Cary de Lily, a soldier of fortune and of France. When the Franco-Prussian war begins, Vardy must be rescued from the siege of Paris. Bu...

  • The Sea Shall Not Have Them

    This is John Harris’ classic war novel of espionage in the most extreme of situations. An essential flight from France leaves the crew of RAF Hudson missing, and somewhere in the North Sea four men cling to a dinghy, praying for rescue before expos...

  • Greece! Rome! Monsters!

    Everybody's heard of a centaur, but not everyone has seen a blue centaur dressed to head out to a disco! He's one of the updated mythological creatures who populate Greece! Rome! Monsters!. This book presents twenty creepy creatures--from harpies to ...

  • Strong Stuff

    Herakles was one of the greatest of all Greek heroes, and his exploits have been celebrated in paintings, songs, poetry, and sculpture for thousands of years. Now it's time for him to have his own children's book, one devoted exclusively to his labor...

  • Pop-Up Aesop

    Aesops timeless tales come to life in this bright and imaginative pop-up book, celebrating five wise and whimsical lessons, including The Tortoise and the Hare and The Little Bold Crab. Children will also enjoy creating their own fable on the last pa...

  • Jody

    This is a fascinating, compelling story about brutal warfare, a devastating betrayal and a secret affair.Jody Williams joined the Marine Corps an innocent youth because he was homeless, and he became a true hero in every sense of the word, but, twist...

  • Sacred Hollow

    Not too long ago people once lived in the mountains and forests of what is now known as the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia just 90 minutes from the nation s capitol. Recently, some hikers have entered the park only to completely vanish. No trac...

  • My Monster Notebook

    In 2005, the Getty published Greece! Rome! Monsters!, a handy guide to the best-known monsters from Greek and Roman mythology. Now comes My Monster Notebook, which presents yet more of these creepy cr...



  • The Mercenaries

    Ira Penaluna, First World War pilot, sees his airline go bankrupt in Africa and grabs at the chance to instruct pilots in China. But Ira hasn’t reckoned on the beat-up, burnt-out wrecks he is expected to teach his students in, or on the fact that h...

  • The Lonely Voyage

    The Lonely Voyage is John Harris’ first novel - a graphic, moving tale of the sea. It charts the story of one boy, Jess Ferigo, who winds up on a charge of poaching along with Pat Fee and Old Boxer, the men who sail with him on his journey into man...

  • Covenant with Death

    A classic novel of World War I, and among the most searched for out-of-print books in the U.S. They joined for their country. They fought for each other. When war breaks out in 1914, Mark Fenner and his friends immediately flock to Kitchener's cal...

  • Memoirs of the AntiChrist

    This Fictitious story highlights the power that just one solitary man's words can hold, and what he can achieve, by just simply telling the truth; Revelations that could rock the very foundations of the world we live in to its core, if known. Hidden ...

  • Seth Valentine

    Greg works for one of the largest publishing companies in the world. Seth is a young rock star, living life to the fullest. The two men could not be more different. They’re also neighbors. When Greg moves in, Seth’s constant parties is a source o...

  • I'm Straight, Right?

    Can a best friend become a lover without throwing away years of friendship? Sometimes, all love needs is a little courage.Sloane: I know I can be a grumpy bastard, and I'm not the easiest man to deal with, but you'd think my best friend would tru...

  • Corporal Cotton's Little War

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    Storming through Europe, the Nazis are sure to conquer Greece but for one man, Michael Anthony Cotton, a heroic marine who smuggles weapons of war and money to the Greek Resistance. Born Mihale Andoni Cotonou, Cotton gets mixed up in a lethal mission...

  • Inferences From Haunted Houses And Haunted Men

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    Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collecti...

  • A One Night Stand

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    Justin Atkinson thought that he had everything figured out. Great job. Great relationship. On the road to a promotion. But when his long-term boyfriend suddenly leaves him, his world begins to spiral. What's a successful businessman to do in this...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Harris has published 48 books.

John Harris does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, I'm Straight, Right?, was published in December 2019.

The first book by John Harris, Road to the Coast, was published in March 1977.

No. John Harris does not write books in series.
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