The Quintrell series

1914. The Imperial German Army is sweeping through Belgium.

Quintrell, an English renegade freshly arrived from Africa and recently enlisted as a captain in the Belgian Army stumbles into the chaos of the British retreat after the fall of Mons.

While avoiding old enemies and making new ones, Quintrell is coerced into taking command of a...

October 1914: Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, arrives in the besieged city of Antwerp to bolsters its defence and ensure that the wealth of a nation does not fall into German hands.

After learning that a train packed with gold coins has been hidden behind enemy lines he gives orders for it to be retrieved. Captain John Quintrell,...

1876, Kamerun, West Africa: a German trading party stops on the outskirts of a tribal village. Their leader approaches it alone. Minutes later he stumbles back to them screaming, ‘burn it, burn it all!’

1915, The North Sea: HMS Bowman finds the German submarine, U-31, adrift in the water. All of the crew are dead. Every corpse is hideously...

1916. The First World War is at a crossroads.
The actions of Kurt Draxweiller, the leader of a proto-Nazi secret society called the Ultima Thule Verband, could tip the balance in favour of the Keizer’s Germany.
Two men must stop him: The Dragon, who is the Tsar’s most trusted assassin; and Captain John Quintrell.
To get to Draxweiller they will...