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Philip McCutchan
Full Series List in Order
Commander Edmonde Shawe
1 - Gibraltar Road (1960)2 - Redcap (1961)
3 - Bluebolt One (1962)
4 - Man from Moscow (1963)
5 - Warmaster (1963)
6 - Moscow Coach (1964)
7 - The Dead Line (1966)
8 - Skyprobe (1966)
9 - The Screaming Dead Balloons (1968)
10 - The Bright Red Businessmen (1969)
11 - The All-Purpose Bodies (1969)
12 - Hartinger's Mouse (1970)
13 - This Drakotny (1971)
14 - Sunstrike (1973)
15 - Corpse (1980)
16 - Werewolf (1982)
17 - Rollerball (1983)
18 - Greenfly (1987)
19 - The Boy Who Liked Monsters (1989)
20 - The Spatchcock Plan (1990)
21 - Polecat Brennan (Jun-1994)
22 - Burn-Out (1995)
Commodore John Mason Kemp
1 - The Convoy Commodore (Feb-1987)2 - Convoy North (Jan-1988)
3 - Convoy South (Jan-1988)
4 - Convoy East (Aug-1989)
5 - Convoy of Fear (Dec-1990)
6 - Convoy Homeward (Sep-1992)
Lieutenant Cameron
1 - Cameron, Ordinary Seaman (1980)2 - Cameron Comes Through (1980)
3 - Cameron of the Castle Bay (1981)
4 - Lieutenant Cameron RNVR (1981)
5 - Cameron in the Gap (1982)
6 - Cameron's Convoy (1982)
7 - Orders for Cameron (Aug-1983)
8 - Cameron in Command (Mar-1984)
9 - Cameron and the Kaiserhof (Oct-1984)
10 - Cameron's Raid (Apr-1985)
11 - Cameron's Chase (Aug-1986)
12 - Cameron's Troop Lift (Aug-1987)
13 - Cameron's Commitment (Mar-1989)
14 - Cameron's Crossing (Oct-1993)
Lieutenant Halfhyde
1 - Halfhyde at the Bight of Benin // Beware The Bight Of Benin (1974)2 - Halfhyde's Island (Mar-1976)
3 - Halfhyde and the Guns of Arrest (Dec-1976)
4 - Halfhyde to the Narrows (1977)
5 - Halfhyde for the Queen (1978)
6 - Halfhyde Ordered South (Jan-1980)
7 - Halfhyde And The Flag Captain (1980)
8 - Halfhyde on the Yangtze (1981)
9 - Halfhyde On Zanatu (Jan-1982)
10 - Halfhyde Outward Bound (Jun-1984)
11 - The Halfhyde Line (Feb-1985)
12 - Halfhyde and the Chain Gangs (Jan-1986)
13 - Halfhyde Goes to War (May-1987)
14 - Halfhyde on the Amazon (Jan-1988)
15 - Halfhyde and the Admiral (May-1990)
16 - Halfhyde and the Fleet Review (Jan-1992)
Simon Shard
1 - Call for Simon Shard (1973)2 - A Very Big Bang (1975)
3 - Blood Run East (1976)
4 - The Eros Affair (1977)
5 - Blackmail North (1978)
6 - Shard Calls the Tune (1981)
7 - The Hoof (1983)
8 - Shard at Bay (Jun-1985)
9 - The Executioners (Dec-1986)
10 - The Logan File (Oct-1996)
11 - The Abbot of Stockbridge (Jul-1992)
A Tom Chatto Naval Adventure
1 - Tom Chatto: Apprentice // Apprentice To The Sea (Feb-1995)2 - Tom Chatto, Second Mate (Aug-1996)
3 - The New Lieutenant // Tom Chatto, RNR (Jul-1997)
Book List in Order: 78 titles
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Gibraltar Road
- 1960
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A phone rings in a London flat. A little later an Admiralty physicist disappears from Gibraltar, and a body is found washed up against its shores…Deep below Gibraltar’s Rock, a secret, auto-powered nuclear fuel-production unit throbs and hums as ...
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Bluebolt One
- 1962
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On a dreary London evening, Commander Esmonde Shaw leaves his pile of paperwork in the Admiralty and heads home to Barons Court. Yet what should have been a routine evening is disturbed by the discovery of a body underground ... a gruesome murder whi...
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Man from Moscow
- 1963
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The latest cloak-and-dagger adventure with Commander Shaw as he takes an unofficial visit behind the Iron Curtain.When British agent Esmonde Shaw learns that a group of Russian extremists are planning a coup d’état against the Russian government, ...
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Moscow Coach
- 1964
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‘Your orders are to kill Conroy … We shall approve any method you like to use.’This is the ultimatum that sends Commander Esmonde Shaw, dynamic agent of British Defence Intelligence, to join a Moscow-bound coach tour in West Berlin. Somewhere a...
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The Dead Line
- 1966
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When Commander Shaw is called to the Defence Ministry in London the new and difficult assignment that is given to him is beyond even his expectations. Several prominent people have disappeared, and corpses have been smuggled out of the country for an...
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The Screaming Dead Balloons
- 1968
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Commander Shaw harbours self-blame for the death of three astronauts in Skyprobe. Now, in The Screaming Dead Balloons, we see him resign and accept an offer to work for 6D2 " an independent undercover organization specializing in dangerous fact-fin...
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The All-Purpose Bodies
- 1969
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With echoes of Ian Fleming, Philip McCutchan’s fast-paced thriller will have you gripped until the very last page.London is becoming concerned. Inundated with reports of prominent figures disappearing all over the globe, the only link 6D2 can find ...
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The Bright Red Businessmen
- 1969
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The rainwater had developed a curious consistency; instead of running away it seemed to cling to whatever it touched. Then a man died and his corpse was found in what appeared to be a plastic coating. His discoverer was Commander Shaw, late of Naval ...
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Hartinger's Mouse
- 1970
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One day, residents of the British Isles wake up to find that a curious yellow-brown dust settled around them.Within days, it becomes apparent that those who touched the dust are showing bizarre symptoms. Symptoms that leave scientists and doctors baf...
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Negative Man
- 1971
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John Cane, having resigned his commission in the Royal Artillery, is hired for temporary security work. He is asked to investigate a blackmail case involving photographs of a government minister that could be very dangerous. Together with Special Bra...
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This Drakotny
- 1971
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6D2, an independent undercover British organization specializing in dangerous fact-finding assignments, discovers that the acting Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia is to be assassinated. Knowing that the death of Drakotny will only lead to the tanks t...
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Call for Simon Shard
- 1973
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Out in the open, they find a body…Three men, old comrades of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, Cornwall’s own regiment, now merged anonymously, unterritorially, into The Light Infantry, made their way across open country. From the former r...
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Halfhyde at the Bight of Benin // Beware The Bight Of Benin
- 1974
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In this time when Her Majesty's ships plough the waves with steam instead of sails, the outspoken Lt. St. Vincent Halfhyde has been censured once already for challenging his superiors. But the Royal Navy needs fearless, danger-loving, and eminently c...
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A Very Big Bang
- 1975
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The London underground system was a hive of activity at all times. So, when Tom Casey informs Superintendent Simon Shard that four men are planning on blowing up large sections of the underground, Shard has ten days to foil the attempt. Should he ask...
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Blood Run East
- 1976
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Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Shard is called upon to do a ‘blood run’.Katie Farrell is wanted in London, Belfast and Dublin for having murdered six people and her involvement in many indiscriminate explosions. Shard is lumbered with the j...
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Halfhyde's Island
- Mar-1976
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Royal Navy Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde is assigned as second-in-command of the heavy cruiser Viceroy and ordered to a volcanic island that has recently surfaced in the north Pacific. The Admiralty hopes to claim the island for the Crown and estab...
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Halfhyde and the Guns of Arrest
- Dec-1976
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Royal Navy Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde is once again dispatched to Africa. This time, his mission is to help capture a British traitor who carries secret blueprints of British warships. Assisted by a Scotland Yard detective and a handful of sailo...
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Halfhyde to the Narrows
- 1977
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Lieutenant Halfhyde is assigned to rescue a British merchant ship from the Russians. Once there, he faces a dilemma: obey the questionable orders of his superior officer or follow his own inclinations and take the consequences....
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Halfhyde for the Queen
- 1978
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In Andalusia, Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde is sent by the unpredictable Captain Watkiss on a secret mission ashore: to aid the Queen's Messenger, who is being pursued by nefarious Spanish agents. But when Halfhyde discovers a plot to kill Queen Vi...
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Blackmail North
- 1978
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Hedge has another assignment for Detective Inspector Simon Shard…Mackenzie Edinburgh Castle Mackintosh from Freetown in Sierra Leone, an oil geologist and a valuable one, has been released from a Libyan prison and is back in the UK, hoping to reuni...
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Halfhyde Ordered South
- Jan-1980
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The old iron-clad Meridian steams south on her last journey under the British flag, on route to her new home in the Chilean Navy. Using the transfer of the ship as cover, Halfhyde and Watkiss are on a covert operation to protect British interests in ...
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Halfhyde And The Flag Captain
- 1980
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Sir Russell Savory - whom Halfhyde captured after Savory tried to sell naval secrets to the Germans - is in irons and homeward bound aboard the flagship Halcyon. When the Uruguayans have a revolution, throwing the British ambassador into jail they ar...
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Cameron Comes Through
- 1980
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Fans of McCutchan's hero Donald Cameron will be diverted by this flashback to his first adventure as an officer. A brand-new sub-lieutenant on the destroyer Wharfedale, Cameron (Cameron's Raid is part of the Allied effort to supply besieged Malta in ...
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Halfhyde on the Yangtze
- 1981
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Far up the Yangtze River, the European presence in Chungking is threatened with rebellion and massacre by the Chinese. With the Russians and Germans poised to take advantage of lapsing British treaties, tactful intervention in rescuing the terrified ...
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Lieutenant Cameron RNVR
- 1981
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When his antiquated ship is destroyed in a vicious battle with a German heavy cruiser, Lieutenant Cameron is the only officer left to command the lifeboats and guide the survivors, thousands of miles from land, to safety....
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Shard Calls the Tune
- 1981
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When Hedge is presented with a covert message informing him that Kolotechin, the head of the Russian security police, the KGB, is about to defect, Hedge is sceptical. Kolotechin wouldn’t defect … or would he?And matters take a different turn when...
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Halfhyde On Zanatu
- Jan-1982
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All is not well on Zanatu: the idyllic Polynesian island is in rebellion, and the British Navy sends Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde to find out why. Halfhyde steams to investigate, braving typhoons and coral reefs along the way. But things go from b...
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Cameron in the Gap
- 1982
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Lieutenant Donald Cameron thought himself inured to the rigours of the wartime navy until he joined the destroyer Burnside, on one of the most important convoys of 1942, bound for the beseiged island of Malta....
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Cameron's Convoy
- 1982
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The Royal Navy frigate Sprinter barely reaches Archangel with a British cabinet member and a high ranking Soviet officer aboard, and Captain Cameron and his crew are only at the beginning of a dangerous journey....
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Halfhyde Outward Bound
- Jun-1984
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The daring Lieutenant Halfhyde sets sail with an unsavory crew of criminals aboard a merchant vessel bound for Sydney, Australia, and finds himself caught up in a dangerous sea chase with his nemesis, Vice Admiral Paulus von Merkatz...
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The Halfhyde Line
- Feb-1985
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St. Vincent Halfhyde, now out of Queen Victoria's navy, and attempting to earn his living in the merchant service as master and owner of the elderly steamship Taronga Park, is on passage from Sydney, Australia, to Queenstown in the south of Ireland. ...
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Shard at Bay
- Jun-1985
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Britain is on the brink...Detective Chief Superintendent Shard on secondment from the Yard to the Foreign Office, but Hedge was called out to do field work, something he hated more than anything. Shard was somewhere in Wales liaising with Cardiff pol...
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Halfhyde and the Chain Gangs
- Jan-1986
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Recalled to active duty and assigned to the old square-rigger "Glen Hallandale," Lieutenant St. Vincent Halfhyde is given the unwelcome task of transporting unruly, dangerous convicts to the South African wars...
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The Executioners
- Dec-1986
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With a mini-summit coming up, a trip to France is imminent. For Detective Chief Superintendent Shard and his Foreign Office boss, Hedge, this isn’t going to be a delightful trip full of gastronomic delights and the Folies Bergeres…When the captur...
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Convoy North
- Jan-1988
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The grand admiral of the high seas adventure novel is Philip McCutchan, author of nearly 100 novels. Now, leading the first trade paperback edition of any of McCutchan's work, Convoy North portrays the popular Commodore John Mason Kemp battling World...
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Convoy South
- Jan-1988
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In the dangerous and rocky seas of World War II, Commodore John Mason Kemp leads a convoy of ships as they travel from Australia to the United States. By the author of
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Halfhyde on the Amazon
- Jan-1988
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A horribly mutilated corpse is found aboard the Taronga Park, and when Detective Inspector Todhunter is embarked to sail with the ship, Halfhyde is unclear whether the policeman's investigations are confined to the murder....
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The Boy Who Liked Monsters
- 1989
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When Commander Shaw of 6D2 is called down to the Shoreham docks to investigate a body found lodged in the funnels of a Turkish merchant ship, the last thing he expects is to recognise the face. This man is not the first of a string of diplomats who ...
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Convoy East
- Aug-1989
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Charged with guiding a troop convoy through the war-torn Mediterranean, Commodore John Kemp finds his vessel under attack from German and Italian aircrafts and submarines and his ship's peace threatened by an unexpected cargo of Wrens...
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The Spatchcock Plan
- 1990
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Commander Shaw is back with another international conspiracy " and this time it’s personal. Long time partner and lover Felicity Mandrake has been mysteriously kidnapped. “Big” Max, Executive Head of 6D2 London is loath to put Shaw on the cas...
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Halfhyde and the Fleet Review
- Jan-1992
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With an extended tour, during which his bravery and seamanship were put to the test, finally behind him, the intrepid Halfhyde returns home for a review by the Queen, and is assigned to act as a buffer between Victoria and the irascible Admiral Watki...
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Polecat Brennan
- Jun-1994
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Commander Shaw was certain Polecat Brennan was dead.He’d seen Polecat Brennan’s mangled body lying on the street himself... until Max informs Shaw otherwise. The mangled body had been nothing more than a look-alike. Now, with the vicious killer a...
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Tom Chatto: Apprentice // Apprentice To The Sea
- Feb-1995
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A tough life full of incident awaits Tom Chatto when, at the age of 17, he embarks upon his first voyage as an apprentice at sea. But the glamour soon disappears when he witnesses a murder aboard ship and Tom begins to realize that there is more to s...
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The Second Mate
- Jun-1996
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Serving as second mate on the
Orvega, a British ship bound for a trip around Cape Horn, young, adventurous Irishman Tom Chatto tests his mettle, his bravery, and his skill as a seaman on the early twentieth-century seas.... -
Tom Chatto, Second Mate
- Aug-1996
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Tom Chatto is back... And the turn of the twentieth century " the era of the great steamships " signals a new dawn. Now with his Master’s Certificate in hand, Tom Chatto has set his sights on becoming second officer on the Omega, a British line...
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The Logan File
- Oct-1996
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What should have been a simple call from a friend one morning at breakfast turns Hedge’s day into a catapult of fear. Kidnapped and blackmailed before being released is something Hedge was not counting on.Under threat, the Logan file is reopened. L...
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The New Lieutenant // Tom Chatto, RNR
- Jul-1997
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The third in a series of novels about the life and times of Tom Chatto follows Chatto as he leaves the merchant marines to begin a life in the Royal Navy Reserve, where he finds himself commanding a ship that leads German U-boats to their demise....
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