1914. Simon Fonthill, a fit 59-year-old, is visiting his farm in Northern Rhodesia when the Great War breaks out. With him, as always, is his wife Alice, but also his old comrade and former batman, 35...

Lieutenant John Pearce has managed to hold on to his freedom – but only just. Having been caught on smuggling charges, he escaped incarceration when two of his Pelicans ‘volunteered’ for service...

In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn’t have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross’s son racks ...