Patrick Ford: 17 books

Hans is an old soldier, a refugee from post-war Germany. Patrick Riordan befriends him and learns his story. When the old man is arrested and charged with war crimes in the camps of occupied Poland. Patrick and his father, Jack, set off for Europe to find Hans's missing sister, who can prove...

Patrick and Michael (Young Jack) Riordan go on a hiking trip in Europe with their girl friends. They stumble upon a lost cache of WW2 gold and set in motion a chase across Germany, where they uncover a blackmail attempt on the USA by a former Stasi General. Pursued by a former SS sergeant and...

Jack Riordan joins the British Army in Ireland in 1825 as a boy-soldier. It is either that or starve, His adventures are just beginning. He serves in Australia, India and New Zealand. In India, he becomes the Cplour Sergeant of his Regiment is decorated and wounded several times. Repatriated to the...

When Peter Andrews is called to British Columbia to identify the body of his brother, he finds himself embroiled in an international plot to greatly damage the United States. It was a plot that has been ten tears in the making, the brain child of a Middle East madman. Peter meets Lucy,...

From the humour surrounding a man and his car, through the remembrances of a dying man, from the world of stultifying bureaucracy, to the experiences of war veterance, and the danger and stupidity of political correctness. From the little quirks of history to the adventures of a naive traveller caught...

Occupied France is under the rule of the Nazis, but some will not accept this state of affairs. Dominique is one of these. She helps downed airmen escape to Spain, until she meets Jack Riordan, an Australian bomber pilot. They fall in love but are separated by the war. Dominique searches...

Jack Riordan grows up in the mountain country of New England in New South Wales. He is a skilled horseman and bushman. He craves adventure and sails off for the war in South Africa. Jack is promoted and decorated before a wound sees him go home, where he sets up a carrying business with a bullock...

George Gillepsie grows up in the wild New England ranges of Australia. He is his father's son, like him becoming a highly skilled hordeman. His ability to tame the wildest horse becomes the stuff of legends. In 1915, he and his brothers depart for Egypt with the Australian Light Horse to take...

A gold and emerald statue is seized by aSpanish Conquistador from its original owners in what is noe Colombia. The statue is taken to Spain, where it visits nothing but misfortune on the de Martinez family for more than four hundred years. Appropriated by a brutal military police colonel...

Reeling from a traumatic tour of duty in Vietnam and the dispossession of his inheritance by a crooked trustee and lawyer, Eamon Casey seeks refuge on a small island in the Torres Strait. Here he finds peace. But it does not last for long. He becomes involved in the rescue of passengers from...

This is the sequel to Drowning in Her Eyes. Jack and Susan return to the farm, where they tend the land, and their family increases. Jack still has an association with the army, and is involved in annual exercises with his battalion. Meanwhile, Muslim extremists plan to capture ships in the seas of south...

The story begins with a narrative of the early lives of the two main characters, jack Riordan and Susan Baker. Jack grows up on a farm in Australia, Susan in New Mexico, USA. Susans father is diagnosed with a terminal condition and decides to use his remaining time to take his family to Australia. Here,...

In Australia, the story of Jack Riordan, and his wife Susan, continues. Together, they build a farming dynasty, through drought, collapsing markets, and the threat of terrorist attack. The action-packed sequel to 'Drowning in Your Eyes' A story of love, danger, and hardship. Will Jack and Susan finally triumph? Or will the final twist in the story bring everything to an end

Eamon Casey is a young man from a cattle station in Northern Australia. He is conscripted and sent to Vietnam. Wounded and mentally scarred, he returns home to find that his mother has been murdered and his inheritance, the property Conemarra has been expropriated by a shady character who had married...