Works by
Gavin Lyall
(Aka Gavin Tudor Lyall)
(Writer)
[May 9, 1932 - January 18, 2003]

Fiction

• Judas Country (1975)

• Blame the Dead (1973)

• Venus With Pistol (1969)

• Shooting Script (1966)

• Midnight Plus One (1965)
  Lewis Cane fought with the French Resistance during the Second World War and gained a justified reputation as a tough and resourceful man. So it's no great surprise when one of his ex-Resistance comrades, now a successful lawyer in the early 1960s in Paris employs him to escort a businessman from Brittany to Liechtenstein for a crucial meeting. There are just two problems: the man's associates don't want him to get there, and the police have a warrant out for the man's arrest on a charge of rape. For Cane, it becomes a desperate race across France, fighting against resourceful and ruthless adversaries and avoiding the forces of law and order every step of the way ...

• The Most Dangerous Game (1963)

• The Wrong Side of the Sky (1961)

Harry Maxim Series

1. The Secret Servant (1980)

2. The Conduct of Major Maxim (1982)

3. The Crocus List (1985)

4. Uncle Target (1988)
   Televised as "The Secret Servant" this thriller features Major Harry Maxim whose mission to Jordan changes from a simple demolition job to an epic run for freedom. A woman's unofficial line of enquiry into his activities leads to the heart of the matter and a change in the direction of his fate.

Honour Series

1. Spy's Honour (1993)

2. Flight from Honour (1996)

3. All Honourable Men (1997)
   When a local bandit holds engineers of the Baghdad Railway to ransom, Britain is secretly delighted - the railway is a potential threat to her interests in the Persian Gulf. However, she sends Lady Keso to sweet talk the brigand out of his plan in an empty gesture of goodwill.

4. Honourable Intentions (1999)
   As a young naval officer, King George V kept a mistress in Portsmouth. In 1914 an American anarchist is about to be extradited, until he claims he is the King's son - and heir to the throne. Charged with the investigation, Captains Ranklin and O'Gilroy discover there is no smoke without gunfire.

Non-fiction

• Operation Warboard: How to Fight World War II Battles in Miniature (1972) with Bernard Lyall

• Freedom's Battle: The War in the Air 1939-1945: An Anthology of Personal Experience (1971)