Martin Falconer Thrillers

The Martin Falconer Thrillers follow a young British aviator from the first experimental years of aerial combat through the political violence that followed the First World War. Falconer flies over the Western Front, returns to battle during the Russian Civil War and ends the sequence amid revolutionary fighting on the Mexican border.

The five novels combine coming-of-age fiction with a detailed history of early military aviation. Falconer’s growing experience exposes the contrast between the exhilaration of flight and the attritional reality of modern war, while the later books explore how trained combatants struggled to adapt to an unstable peace.