Brian Callison: 21 books

Twenty years ago he'd been Captain Michael Crofts, Parachute Regiment - before the mercenary recruiters had bought him and his ideals had expired along with the blood of too many men. Now he's retired … or he thinks he's retired. So determinedly retired that he hasn't merely hung up his faithful...

For an ever-more bemused Lieutenant Miller, Royal Naval Reserve, the nightmares had begun during the Second World War - well, during Trapp's War as he bitterly recalled it: the one they'd fought aboard His Majesty's Coffin-ship Charon. And then had followed the Peace. But for Miller it wasn't to...

Having exploited the Royal Navy as a profit-making enterprise in 'Trapp's War', and instigated that homicidal clash between Arab and Chinese underworld oligarchs in 'Trapp's Peace', the Captain is back, as unrepentantly bloody-minded as ever, to embark on this, Brian Callison's third episode of his...

Captain Reitz is a lover of ships. His task as a U-boat commander is to destroy them - blow caverns in their hulls and send them to the ocean bed - but every time he strikes at an Allied convoy he feels a sense of waste … as if he has betrayed the very things he loves. It hurts him just as much...

The second of two Callison cliff hangers featuring Brevet Cable, reluctant hero of 'A Plague of Sailors' and the most irregular merchant seaman ever to sail during the Cold War, as he plunges yet again into a further calamitous adventure. Tension reaches breaking point in the Norwegian Sea...

Bill Walker is a veteran Royal Military Police staff sergeant: something of a legend within the Corps, albeit a tarnished one. But Walker carries a dual burden. The first is to maintain his hard-as-nails Redcap image; difficult enough considering he's a reluctant hero by instinct. The second, even...

Winter gale force ten off the North African coast. Tactician, a battered old deep-sea salvage tug with a fruitless trip behind her and the UK bailiffs waiting ahead, claws her way through mountainous seas. Now only a miracle, and a pretty profitable miracle at that, can prevent this from becoming...