1. Billy Boyle
Billy Boyle has barely become a detective in the Boston police when family influence secures him what he expects will be a safe posting. He arrives in wartime Britain and discovers that his distant relative is General Dwight D. Eisenhower, who wants Billy to investigate a…
2. The First Wave
Billy Boyle accompanies Major Samuel Harding with the first Allied forces landing in Algeria during Operation Torch. Their official task is to help negotiate the surrender of Vichy French troops, but rivalries among the regular army, local militia and Charles de Gaulle’s Free French make every…
3. Blood Alone
Billy Boyle wakes in a Sicilian field hospital with no memory of how he arrived there. A yellow silk handkerchief marked with the initial L gradually leads him back to his mission: he was sent ahead of the Allied invasion to use a token from Lucky…
4. Evil for Evil
Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles disappear from an American base in Northern Ireland, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower orders Billy Boyle to recover them before they can be used in a German-backed uprising. The possibility that Irish republican militants are involved forces Billy to confront the sympathies…
5. Rag and Bone
General Dwight D. Eisenhower sends Billy Boyle to London to investigate the murder of a Soviet security officer at a moment when the alliance against Germany is already under severe strain. Evidence connected to the Katyn Forest massacre has enraged Polish officers, and Scotland Yard suspects…
6. A Mortal Terror
Two American officers are murdered near Allied headquarters at Caserta, each body left with a playing card that appears to predict the killer’s next target. Billy Boyle is sent to Italy to identify a murderer whose changing methods have concealed any obvious connection between the victims.…
7. Death’s Door
An American monsignor is murdered at Death’s Door, an entrance to Saint Peter’s Basilica, and Billy Boyle is smuggled into German-occupied Rome to investigate. The Vatican’s neutrality shelters diplomats, clergy, spies and political factions, but it also restricts what Billy can ask and whom he can…
8. A Blind Goddess
Newly promoted Captain Billy Boyle is drawn into two investigations in wartime England. His childhood friend Eugene “Tree” Jackson asks him to help an African American soldier who faces execution for a murder he did not commit, while British intelligence orders Billy to examine the unexplained…
9. The Rest Is Silence
A body washes ashore at Slapton Sands, a restricted stretch of the Devon coast being used for Operation Tiger, the secret rehearsal for the Normandy landings. Billy Boyle and Piotr Kazimierz are ordered to identify the dead man without revealing why thousands of American troops are…
10. The White Ghost
Billy Boyle is sent to the Solomon Islands after a native coastwatcher is murdered and suspicion falls on naval officer John F. Kennedy. Kennedy is recovering after the loss of PT-109, and his family wants the case resolved before the navy decides whether he should be…
11. Blue Madonna
Billy Boyle is convicted on fabricated black-market charges, stripped of his rank and offered a single way to avoid hard labour. He must parachute into occupied France immediately before D-Day and investigate murders at an Allied safe house in Chaumont. Working with a small team behind…
12. The Devouring
Billy Boyle and Piotr Kazimierz are sent through occupied France into neutral Switzerland, where the Office of Strategic Services is preparing talks intended to restrict Swiss trade with Germany and prevent Nazi assets from being hidden after the war. Their assignment becomes a murder investigation centred…
13. Solemn Graves
A month after D-Day, an American officer is murdered in a Normandy manor being used as an advance headquarters. Billy Boyle, Piotr Kazimierz and Big Mike investigate close to the front, where the victim’s unexplained presence threatens to expose a highly secret military unit. The nearby…
14. When Hell Struck Twelve
Billy Boyle is ordered to pursue a French collaborator known as Atlantik, who is carrying Allied plans to German officers in occupied Paris. The documents are deliberately false, intended to convince the Germans that Allied armies will bypass the city and drive directly towards the frontier.…
15. The Red Horse
After the liberation of Paris, Billy Boyle and Piotr Kazimierz are sent to Saint Albans, a secluded English hospital for personnel damaged by clandestine warfare. Kaz is being treated for a heart condition, while Billy is exhausted, dependent on stimulants and tormented by news that Diana…
16. Road of Bones
Billy Boyle travels to Poltava during Operation Frantic, the American shuttle-bombing programme that uses airfields in the Soviet Union. The deaths of one American and one Soviet intelligence officer threaten a mission already weakened by distrust between the allies. Required to work with a Soviet security…
17. From the Shadows
Billy Boyle is ordered to extract a British Special Operations Executive officer from Crete and escort him to southern France, where he will help identify collaborators after the failed Vercors uprising. The officer has accumulated enemies among resistance groups, intelligence services and men whose wartime conduct…
18. Proud Sorrows
Billy Boyle takes leave at Seaton Manor in Norfolk, hoping to spend a few quiet days with Diana. The discovery of a crashed German bomber off the coast ends the respite: a dead British officer is found in the pilot’s seat, and a nearby intelligence centre…
19. The Phantom Patrol
In liberated Paris, Billy Boyle recovers a valuable artwork after a gunfight in Père Lachaise Cemetery. The object appears connected to a network of Nazi sympathisers smuggling stolen art out of France, and evidence suggests that someone inside the British Army’s Phantom communications organisation is assisting…
20. A Bitter Wind
On Christmas Day 1944, Billy Boyle visits Diana Seaton at RAF Hawkinge, where German-speaking members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force are conducting Operation Corona. Many are Jewish refugees, and their broadcasts imitate German controllers in order to misdirect enemy night fighters away from Allied bombers.…
21. The Ninth Circle
In January 1945, Billy Boyle and Piotr Kazimierz are summoned to Havana after a United States naval intelligence officer is murdered. A bomb attack at a beachside meeting is followed by the killing of their Cuban informant, suggesting that both deaths are connected to information someone…