Alex Gerlis Books in Order

During the Allied push to liberate Europe, SOE agent Nathalie Mercier vanishes from the Pas de Calais, where she has been helping stage an elaborate deception around D-Day. In London, her husband Owen Quinn uncovers the truth about her role and undertakes a perilous journey through France to find her, torn between love, duty and revenge.

Focusing on Operation Fortitude and related schemes, this non-fiction account examines how the Allies built a web of double agents, fake armies and misleading signals to hide the real invasion site. It explores whether Normandy could have been won without that elaborate bluff.

This short work of history looks past the familiar D-Day story to the fierce, often desperate fighting that followed in Normandy. Drawing on research into Allied deception plans and German reactions, it asks how close the campaign came to failing and how much trickery helped secure victory.

Stopped by British intelligence at Croydon Airport on the brink of war, Henry Hunter is pushed into a life of espionage based in neutral Switzerland. From there he undertakes increasingly perilous missions into Nazi Germany, juggling false identities and competing masters against the looming reality of Hitler’s plan to attack the Soviet Union.

As the Allies close in on victory, Vienna becomes the prize in a new struggle between Britain and the Soviet Union. Major Edgar sends agents Rolf Eder and Katharina Hoch into the shattered city to find a key Austrian politician before rival spymaster Viktor Krasotkin can claim him for Moscow.

At the end of the war, die-hard Nazis hatch a plan for a future Fourth Reich on the ruins of Berlin. Decades later, a compromised British diplomat in East Berlin draws veteran spymaster Major Edgar and his old Soviet rival Viktor Krasotkin into a dangerous hunt for war criminals and double agents in a city still living with its past.

After catching a German spy on a lonely Lincolnshire beach in 1942, detective Richard Prince is recruited into British intelligence. Sent to occupied Denmark to investigate rumours of a war-changing weapon, he navigates Gestapo surveillance, shifting alliances and a mission where failure could tilt the balance of the war.

Ahead of the doomed Arnhem operation, signs suggest the Germans somehow knew the paratroopers were coming. Tasked by MI5 to investigate, Richard Prince probes leaks inside the British establishment and follows a trail of betrayals toward a spy ring that could be costing soldiers’ lives.

In neutral Turkey, vital materials are quietly feeding the Nazi war machine, and a British agent has vanished in Istanbul after a disastrous mistake. Dispatched under journalistic cover and still searching for his missing son, Richard Prince must expose secret trade deals and escape from deep behind enemy lines.

On the eve of war, spymaster Barnaby Allen assembles a covert network inside Germany, from a Berlin socialite to an American sports reporter and an SS officer’s disillusioned wife. As the Wolf Pack uncovers plans for a new fighter plane and a Japanese strike on the United States, its members must decide how much they are willing to risk for information.

In 1945, with Europe no longer at war but far from peaceful, British agent Richard Prince teams up with Danish spy Hanne Jakobsen to track a Nazi war criminal who murdered their colleagues. Their hunt exposes a secret escape route, British traitors and a final, unsettling reckoning with the war’s aftermath.

British intelligence races to smuggle scientist Roman Loszynski and his revolutionary bomb-aiming device out of the Warsaw Ghetto. Jack Miller and Sophia von Naundorf must slip back into Nazi territory, test the weapon and survive a mission that takes them deep inside the Reich.

In 1943 Lyon, a clandestine meeting meant to unite the French Resistance is smashed in a Gestapo raid led by Klaus Barbie, proving there is a traitor in their midst. British agents Jack Miller and Sophia von Naundorf are dispatched to France to unmask the informer, rescue surviving leaders and keep the movement from collapsing under fear.

In 1937, as Stalin’s purges and Nazi terror reshape Europe, young writer Charles Cooper travels the continent researching a novel and attracting the interest of rival intelligence services. Recruited into a shadowy unit hunting a Soviet mole inside British intelligence, he is forced into double-agent work where every friendship might hide a betrayal.

By 1940, the threat of invasion hangs over Britain and a group of homegrown Nazi sympathisers known as the Group is quietly preparing the ground. Charles Cooper joins the Invasion Warning Sub-Committee to dismantle the network even as his superiors intensify the search for two Soviet moles, codenamed Archie and Bertie, embedded deep within the service.