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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1973
  • Latest Book:
    July 2017
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Full Series List in Order

Fox

1 - The Press Gang (1973)
2 - Prize Money (1973)
3 - Savage Siege (Jul-1973)
4 - Treasure Map (Jan-1974)
5 - Sailor's Blood (1974)
6 - Sea of Gold (1974)
7 - Court Martial (Dec-1974)
8 - Battle Smoke (Mar-1975)
9 - Cut and Thrust (Jul-1975)
10 - Boarders Away (Oct-1975)

Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Press Gang

    Fox - 1

    FOX AT BAY George Abercrombie Fox as born in London on a rainy day in 1765. He was only ten when he joined the Royal Navy as a “powder monkey” and tasted the irresistible lure of the sea. By eighteen he was a lieutenant with a reputation for h...

  • Prize Money

    Fox - 2

    FOX AT WAR George Abercrombie Fox was a penniless and friendless lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1798. His only real hope of advancement was through battle and the opportunity to seize his share of prize money. Without promotion in rank for mor...

  • Savage Siege

    Fox - 3

    FOX UNDER FIRE The siege of Acre was a savage and desperate action where the British and the Turks fought together against the dreaded Napoleon. It was Napoleon's first setback -- the defeat that cost him all chance of spreading his Empire to the E...

  • Treasure Map

    Fox - 4

    BAYONETS FLASHED Then his men were up with him, whooping and roaring in like devils. He saw Halliwell wield a tomahawk and sink its blade into the skull of a black-moustached soldier. Joachim smashed his cutlass down and withdrew the reeking blade....

  • Sailor's Blood

    Fox - 5

    FOX AT SEA George Abercrombie Fox decided, no particularly rationally and not at all calmly, that he would first shoot the Master-at-Arms and cut off his head and boil it, would string up the cook and all the bosun’s mates he could lay hands on,...

  • Sea of Gold

    Fox - 6

    HONOR OF GOLD? His dreams are shattered, his vain hopes for a high post to the British navy fading. He has long since surpassed all expectations for a lowly Thames marshboy, and further promotion is next to impossible -- despite his spectacular ac...

  • Court Martial

    Fox - 7

    FOX ON TRIAL The damned blackguards had smashed up Crown property, ripped the topmasts out of a spanking fine frigate, just so they could turn her around and head back to give evidence at Fox's trial. He'd wondered they'd stopped at a pair of topma...

  • Battle Smoke

    Fox - 8

    ONLY THE RUTHLESS SURVIVE Years on the high seas had taught George Abercrombie Fox that running a ship and winning battles with it were only for the brave and the brash ... for the men who would die rather than surrender to the sea or the enemy. No...

  • Cut and Thrust

    Fox - 9

    FOX'S BITTER VICTORY As usual, Fox was on his own. Now he was Commander of His Britannic Majesty's Sloop, Minion. He had commanded before, but now he was a real captain. Short-handed and unseaworthy though his brig might be, Minion was his. His. And...



  • Boarders Away

    Fox - 10

    COMMANDER FOX A Commander at last, George Abercrombie Fox knew that life in the King's Navy would still be hard. There was no action to be had and the year was quickly slipping away. Fox became so disenchanted with his lot that all the diabolical st...

  • Powder Monkey

    (aka SAILOR'S BLOOD)George Abercrombie Fox decided, not particularly rationally and not at all calmly, that he would first shoot the Master-at-Arms and cut off his head and boil it, would string up the cook and all the bosun's mates he could lay hand...

  • Blood for Breakfast

    (also titled SEA OF GOLD)His dreams are shattered, his vain hopes for a high post in the British navy fading. He has long since surpassed all expectations for a lowly Thames marshboy, and further promotion is next to impossible -- despite his spect...

  • Siege

    (also titled SAVAGE SIEGE)FOX UNDER FIREThe siege of Acre was a savage and desperate action where the British and the Turks fought together against the dreaded Napoleon. It was Napoleon's first setback -- the defeat that cost him all chance of sprea...

  • Treasure

    (also titled TREASURE MAP)The lure of gold has often brought men to the very brink of total disaster. Lieutenant George Abercrombie Fox was no exception.It began well with a sharp action and a prize taken. Then things began to go wrong. A lee shore a...

  • Blood Beach

    The wily George Abercrombie Fox somehow survives the burning fireship he has steered into a French harbour, thereby saving Cloughton's expedition from disaster. But back in England Fox find it is not courage that brings a command and a ship in the Ki...

  • Close Quarters

    George Abercrombie Fox is in command of Alkon, a lightly armed Navy transport carrying wounded from the battle in Egypt back to England. The Alkon has an encounter with Spanish gunboats before Gibraltar. Outgunned and outmanned, only Fox's tactical g...

  • The Fireship

    FIRE AND FURYHe guessed that the mission wasn’t going to be particularly adventurous or suited to his style of command. But when he saw the ship he’d been given, the Nuthatch, he knew. It was a sorry bucket of boards and canvas.But no matter, it ...

  • Sea Flame

    Fox and his fearsome crew make the sands of the Egyptian desert sodden red with French blood as they open the door to Cairo for the English army.But their prize is a troublesome band of French prisoners, led by the vile Colonel Pithiviers, whose hatr...

  • Operation Exocet

    Action in the South Atlantic!

    They were the Special Strike Force: a handpicked group of fighting men, trained in every skill of modern combat. Skills they would need in the coming operation.

    As the war in the Falkland Islands rages, the Spec...



  • Raider's Dawn

    In a tough army they were the toughest: a hand-picked group of warriors trained to operate anytime, anywhere -- and against anyone.Already they have seen action on the Argentine mainland itself. Now, exhausted from their hazardous mission, the Stri...

  • Red Alert

    DEADLINE -- LANDFALL!They were there at the beginning: they're gain be there at the end...The Special Strike Force: a hand-picked group of fighting men, trained in the hardest of hard schools to fight any enemy, any place, any time.Already they hav...

  • Recce Patrol

    It was a piece of cake ... like hell it was!It was supposed to be a routine recce patrol. West Falkland was deserted; the Task Force needed intelligence to assess the beaches as landing sites. So, while their comrades slugged it out at the other end ...

  • 'Ware Mines!

    They were the toughest unit in a tough army: men specially selected for their ability to withstand the worst conditions, hardened professionals trained to the highest standard of modern warfare.They had already seen action on the Falklands. Now they ...

  • Covert Op

    Special Strike Force is in action again -- a hand-picked nucleus of fighting men trained in all the skills of modern combat.Their mission is to search and destroy. The SSF must divert Argentine troops with every kind of mayhem and destruction maski...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adam Hardy has published 24 books.

Adam Hardy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Covert Op, was published in July 2017.

The first book by Adam Hardy, The Press Gang, was published in January 1973.

Yes. Adam Hardy has 1 series.
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