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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.

Reading order

Books in this series (5 books)

The Fledglings cover

#1 – The Fledglings

Max Hennessy

Man against man. Face to face. One machine against another. It was shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Martin Falconer and his friend, Frank, were anxious to 'get into the scrap' as soon as possible, their youth blinding them to the real danger…

The Victors cover

#3 – The Victors

Max Hennessy

Martin Falconer had one big anxiety: would they let him fly again? Grounded in England at the beginning of 1918, it was a struggle, for escaped prisoners of war weren't generally allowed to return to the front, but Martin pestered the authorities and, at last, found…