Bob Hyslop: 25 books

The 11th Jonas Forbes thriller. Britain 1965 and the country teeters on the edge of racial unrest – encouraged by the ruthless plans of unknown forces. The life of a radical politician, Tom Cardew, is under threat so Anne Demas, a glamorous American hires Jonas Forbes to protect him. Immediately Jonas...

The 14th Jonas Forbes Thriller 1968. A British hitman is rumoured to have been hired to assassinate Robert Kennedy, then a favourite to be the Democratic candidate in the Presidential Election. Reluctantly the UK Foreign Office hire Jonas Forbes to investigate the rumour. He homes in on the Carter...

1973 The 16th Jonas Forbes Thriller March 1973 and the Watergate Scandal is drifting over into public outcry. President Nixon struggles to avoid exposure of a decade’s misdeeds. A tension-filled Washington may not be the best place to be. An English diplomat, Peter Northwood, is murdered - surely...

The 9th Jonas Forbes Thriller 1963 The British Establishment becomes rocked by the ‘sex-and-espionage’ scandal centred on John Profumo, Cabinet Minister, and Christine Keeler, a friend of Stephen Ward, an osteopath charged with living on her immoral earnings. Christine is linked with Eugene Ivanov,...

The 8th Jonas Forbes thriller. Martin Bormann, ex-Secretary to Hitler and fugitive war criminal, is rumoured to be alive and well in Uruguay. This awakes interest in various capitals – London, Washington and Tel Aviv – as, for differing reasons, Bormann is a very much wanted man. But Bormann has...

The 12th Jonas Forbes Thriller 1966. London is plagued by gangs led by the Kray twins and Charlie Richardson. Daniel Longcroft, the senior partner in a Tunbridge Wells legal practice has been working for the Morrisons, another London gang in a swindle gang exploiting the housing boom. That attracts...

The 13th Jonas Forbes Thriller 1967 A British rock band, HAVOK, are planning to drive across Europe to introduce Russians to rock-and-roll. Somebody is threatening VICE, the lead guitarist – and MI6 want a little job done for them so they persuade Jonas Forbes to accompany the group as a bodyguard....

The 15th Jonas Forbes Thriller 1969, Jonas Forbes, ‘Enquiry Agent’, is now a married man. After 14 years sorting out problems, chasing villains and upsetting certain members of the ‘good and the great’, he’s still not got rid of that restless streak. So Vanessa, long his Girl Friday and...

The 7th Jonas Forbes thriller. In Beijing the Chinese Government decides to disrupt international enemies by infiltrating the UK system.. They order the Chinese Embassy in London to infiltrate the CND Movement to change Labour Party Policy on nuclear weapons and so split UK and US Defence Policies....

The 3rd Jonas Forbes Thriller This is set in 1956 Egypt immediately after the Suez Crisis. The conflict, however, hasn’t been settled for Egypt, Israel and Britain and when a cypher key undermining Israeli espionage is reported hidden in Luxor, they all want to get their hands on it; but, for once,...

The 4th Jonas Forbes Thriller This is set in 1957 Cuba. Three UK diplomats have gone missing and the Foreign Office hire Jonas Forbes, ‘’Enquiry Agent’, to find out what’s happened. He quickly finds Cuba is a very troubled place: on one side is the corrupt regime of Batista with links to the...

The 1st Jonas Forbes Thriller This is set in 1954 Kenya, before Jonas became an ‘Enquiry Agent’. After serving in the Korean War, Jonas leaves the army and, bored with civilian life, becomes a Police Inspector in Kenya, then struggling in the Mau Mau Emergency. Police and army may have a high...

The 2nd Jonas Forbes Thriller Jonas Forbes, Enquiry Agent has been hired by the UK Foreign Office to help protect the Soviet leaders, Khrushchev and Bulganin, arriving at Portsmouth on a state visit to Britain in April 1956. However, Khrushchev has just publicly denounced Stalin and on board the cruiser...

1958 The 5th Jonas Forbes Thriller This is set in Western Europe during the summer months of 1958. In July 1958 King Feisal of Iraq was assassinated and the UK Foreign Office have discovered his cousin, Prince Abdullah, is in danger. They hire Jonas Forbes to escort the Prince from Rome to London....