Burke Wilkinson: 6 books

One night in December 1941 a young Italian sat shivering on a buoy in Alexandria Harbour. Four hours later two British battleships blew up and settled on the muddy bottom. Luigi De La Penne had successfully completed one of the most fantastic surprise attacks of the war. This and many other...

First published in 1953, this book is the second in author Burke Wilkinson’s trilogy, Adventures of Geoffrey Mildmay, and follows on from the 1948 bestseller Proceed at Will. In Last Clear Chance, the reader is introduced to Mongoose, who follows a thin, dark thread of treason and the game...

“Erskine Childers, one of the unsung heroes of Ireland’s struggle for independence, was born in England, spent his boyhood in Ireland, then went to Cambridge University. He fought for England in the Boer War and as an aviator in World War I, publishing his widely praised novel The Riddle of the...

HE COURTED DANGER TO WIN A WOMAN. WAS HE HERO OR HELL? Daredevil Geoffrey Mildmay’s war record gave no clue. The man who knew him best wasn’t sure of him. The women he loved were too blinded, or too bitter, to judge him fairly. “To bloody red hell with the job, I say! Everyone...

An upstart Jamaican rebellion, some key international interests in bauxite, an Englishman who follows trouble like a terrier, and an American engineer, Bill Stacy, who reluctantly runs him a close second…Interested in the cause of Gregorius, who has a massive Christopher-complex and wants to be...

LOVE AND DANGER COLLIDE IN THREE NEW AMISH NOVELLAS Fall from Grace by Marta Perry When one of her students witnesses a crime, Sara Esch gets too close to the truth, and widower Caleb King must risk it all for the woman who's taught him to love again. Dangerous Homecoming by Diane...