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Bob Hyslop
Full Series List in Order
Jonas Forbes Saga
1 - Stay-Alive Runs Away (Mar-2014)2 - Dare Call It Treason (Oct-2010)
3 - Scrambling South (Oct-2013)
4 - Cuban Rummy (Dec-2012)
5 - The Awkward Package (Dec-2010)
6 - Reza-Sharpe (Jun-2013)
7 - Dragon-Spit (Oct-2010)
8 - Find Bormann! (Jul-2013)
9 - Well, He Would, Wouldn't He? (Nov-2010)
10 - Lies Hunt In Packs (Aug-2013)
11 - And Death Will Have His Day (Nov-2010)
12 - Family Business (Nov-2013)
13 - Californian Nightmare (Jul-2011)
14 - HAVOK Goes To Moscow (Jun-2014)
15 - So Few Come Out (Nov-2014)
16 - Endgame At Watergate (Jan-2015)
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Dare Call It Treason
- Oct-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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1956 UK. Stalinists plot to murder the new Soviet leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev, visiting Britain. But their agent a themselves as much as their enemies.Jonas Forbes, hired to protect the visiting leaders, soon finds himself with a personal score...
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Dragon-Spit
- Oct-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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1961 UK. Mao Zedong orders Chinese Intelligence (CID) to penetrate the British Labour Party and CND to produce a split between Britain and its NATO allies. In China a Western spy reveals the plot but then goes on the run. MI5 recruits Jonas Forbes t...
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And Death Will Have His Day
- Nov-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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1965 UK An under-current of racial unrest is fanned by unknown forces. Jonas Forbes battles those threatening British society but is almost overwhelmed by his own mistakes.A thriller firmly set in 1965 and with a frenetic pace....
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Well, He Would, Wouldn't He?
- Nov-2010
- / Historical Mystery
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1963 UK. The Profumo â€" Keeler sex-and-espionage scandal crocks the Establishment. Jonas Forbes is hired to protect leading figures but stumbles on activities which could guarantee future nightmares involving zombies and sewers.A thriller, rich in ...
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The Awkward Package
- Dec-2010
- / Mystery
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1958. Europe Following revolution in Iraq a cousin of the deposed king is in danger. Jonas Forbes has the job of bringing a most uncooperative individual from Rome to London, under constant threat from the Mafia, the Unione Corse and others pursuing ...
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Californian Nightmare
- Jul-2011
- / Historical Mystery
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1968 California Rumour in London says a UK hit-man has been hired to murder a US Presidential candidate. Jonas Forbes is hired to stop the threat to Bobby Kennedy and finds it now involves a personal score..A thriller set in both London and San Fran...
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Cuban Rummy
- Dec-2012
- / Historical Mystery
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Too many cooks almost spoil the broth when hunted a sadistic serial-killer in Cuba in 1957. Jonas Forbes rubs shoulders with Batista’ Security Battalion as well as Marxists He’s helped and hindered by two senoritas and the occupants of two Embass...
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Reza-Sharpe
- Jun-2013
- / Thriller
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London 1959 The Shah of Iran is visiting Britain but somebody aims to kill him. Jonas Forbes is hired to protect him, but from whom? Religious extremists or left-wing revolutionaries or an unknown enemy? His chief Iranian contact is Reza Karimidad: h...
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Find Bormann!
- Jul-2013
- / Action Adventure
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1962 Uruguay Jonas Forbes, Mossad, Kameradenwerk and a mysterious German girl are all looking for fugitive war criminal Martin Bormann means trouble.. Add the police and the CIA and the trouble gets bigger.. A fast-paced thriller, with close attentio...
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Lies Hunt In Packs
- Aug-2013
- / Thriller
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1964 USSR Khrushchev has fallen. Somebody wants a dissident helped to escape from USSR. Jonas Forbes is sent as he's considered 'expendable' Everybody seems to be lying and complications abound with the KGB torn by inner struggles and trouble continu...
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Scrambling South
- Oct-2013
- / Thriller
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In the tensions following the 1956 Suez crisis Jonas Forbes is sent to Egypt to get a cypher-code hidden by a Mossad agent in the temple of Karnak. despite mixed support at home, he succeeds but is hunted by both the Mukhabarat and Mossad. helped by ...
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Family Business
- Nov-2013
- / Thriller
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1966 UK Criminal families hog the headlines. One gang are double-crossed by their corrupt lawyer. In the resulting violence the brother-in-law of Jonas Forbes is nearly killed. Jonas strikes back and is then hunted by both police and gangsters. The...
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Stay-Alive Runs Away
- Mar-2014
- / Historical
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1954 Kenya Jonas Forbes in the colonial police battles vs. Mau Mau.. Askari Stay-Alive Johnson witnesses a massacre but deserts rather than give evidence. Jonas has to bring him back but the tale isn’t over by a long way, especially when love and ...
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HAVOK Goes To Moscow
- Jun-2014
- / Thriller
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1967 USSR Jonas Forbes is hired to protect a guitarist in HAVOK, a rock group booked for concerts in Moscow; but Jonas is also working for MI6. Can he manage both jobs? Can he elude the KGB? As the group travel by coach across Europe he’s also th...
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So Few Come Out
- Nov-2014
- / Thriller
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The 15th outing for Jonas Forbes as an ‘enquiry agent ’finds him a married man After 14 years sorting out problems, chasing villains and upsetting certain members of the ‘good and the great’, he’s still not got rid of that restless streak. ...
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Endgame At Watergate
- Jan-2015
- / Thriller
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1973 The 16th Jonas Forbes ThrillerMarch 1973 and the Watergate Scandal is drifting over into public outcry. President Nixon struggles to avoid exposure of a decade’s misdeeds. A tension-filled Washington may not be the best place to be. An English...