Brian Freemantle Reading Order
7 series · 88 books
Brian Freemantle was a prolific English author celebrated for his contributions to the thriller genre, particularly in espionage fiction. Over his career from 1969 to 2016, he penned 88 titles across seven series, including the popular Charlie Muffin and Cowley and Danilov, along with standalone novels and short story collections. His most acclaimed work, "Charlie Muffin," remains a standout in the realm of spy literature.
Charlie Muffin Series
Complete16 books (1977–2013)
Start with Charlie Muffin / Charlie M, the first of 16 books in the Charlie Muffin series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  Charlie Muffin / Charlie M 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Here Comes Charlie M 1978Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin 1979Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Charlie Muffin's Uncle Sam / Charlie Muffin U.S.A. 1980Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  Madrigal For Charlie Muffin 1981Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 | Charlie Muffin and Russian Rose / The Blind Run 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  Charlie Muffin San / See Charlie Run 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  The Run Around 1988Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Comrade Charlie 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  Charlie's Apprentice 1993Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Charlie's Chance / Bomb Grade 1996Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  Dead Men Living 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Kings of Many Castles 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Red Star Rising 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  Red Star Burning 2012Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Red Star Falling 2013Buy 🇺🇸 |
Cowley and Danilov Series
Complete4 books (1992–2004)
Start with The Button Man / In the Name of a Killer, the first of 4 books in the Cowley and Danilov series.
Culture of the Land Series
Complete26 books (1970–2016)
Start with Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Strachan Donnelley,Ceara Donnelley,Bruce Jennings), the first of 26 books in the Culture of the Land series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Strachan Donnelley,Ceara Donnelley,Bruce Jennings) 1970Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence(By: Whitney Sanford) 1970Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics(By: Norman Wirzba,Vandana Shiva,Pramod Parajuli,Pankaj Jain,A. Whitney Sanford,Todd Levasseur,Mark H. Dixon,Ragan Sutterfield,Maximilian Abouleish-Boes,Yigal Deutscher,Leonor Hurtado,Tristan Reader,Eston Pembamoyo,Michael Lemons,Terrol Johnson,Jagannath Adhikari,Anna Peterson,Raymond F. Person) 1970Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 |  Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms(By: Jeffrey Bilbro) 1970Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 | Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place(By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker) 1970Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture(By: Albert Howard Sir) 1972Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 | The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics(By: Vandana Shiva) 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply(By: Vandana Shiva) 2000Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien(As: Jonathan Evans, With: Tom Shippey,John Elder,Matthew Dickerson) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture(By: Gary Holthaus) 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope(By: Eric T. Freyfogle) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 | The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse(By: Gene Logsdon) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Wendell Berry: Life and Work(By: Jason Peters) 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 | Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege(By: Craig Holdrege) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality(By: Gary Holthaus) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis(By: David L. O'Hara,Matthew Dickerson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge(By: Wes Jackson,Bill Vitek) 2008Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 |  Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life(By: Norman Wirzba,L. Roger Owens,Joel Shuman) 2009Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 |  Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Constance L. Falk) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics(By: Paul B. Thompson) 2010Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Laura Sayre,Sean Clark) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture(By: Vandana Shiva,A. Whitney Sanford) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 |  The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love(By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 |  The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton(By: Monica Weis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 |  The Vandana Shiva Reader(By: Wendell Berry,Vandana Shiva) 2014Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 |  Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change(By: Anthony Flaccavento) 2016Buy 🇺🇸 |
Non-Fiction Series
Complete5 books (1982–1996)
Start with KGB, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.
Sebastian Holmes Series
Complete2 books (2004–2005)
Start with The Holmes Inheritance and read in order.
Short Story Collections Series
Complete1 book (1990–1990)
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  The Factory 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
Standalone Novels Series
Complete34 books (1969–2015)
Start with The Touchables, the first of 34 books in the Standalone Novels series.
| # | Title |
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| 1 |  The Touchables 1969Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 2 |  Goodbye To An Old Friend 1973Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 3 |  Face Me When You Walk Away 1976Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 4 | The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 5 |  The November Man 1976Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 6 |  H.M.S. Bounty / Hell's Paradise / Hell's Fire 1977Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 7 |  The Mary Celeste 1979Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 8 |  Misfire / Target(As: Jonathan Evans) 1980Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 9 |  The Solitary Man / The Iron Cage(As: Jack Winchester) 1980Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 10 |  Chairman of the Board / Takeover / At Any Price(As: Jonathan Evans) 1982Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 11 |  Deaken's War(As: Jack Winchester) 1982Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 12 |  Midas Men / The Sagomi Gambit / Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) 1983Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 13 |  Monopoly /Kremlin Correction / The Kremlin Conspiracy(As: Jonathan Evans) 1984Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 14 |  Rules Of Engagement 1984Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 15 |  The Kremlin Kiss / The Lost American 1984Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 16 |  The Laundryman / Dirty White(As: Jonathan Evans) 1985Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 17 |  The Choice of Eddie Franks / To Save a Son(As: Jack Winchester) 1987Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 18 | The Bearpit 1988Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 19 |  Betrayals 1989Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 20 |  O'Farrell's Law 1990Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 21 |  Little Grey Mice 1991Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 22 |  A Mind to Kill(As: Andrea Hart) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 23 | Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 24 |  The Predators(As: Harry Asher) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 25 |  The Profiler / Mind / Reader(As: Harry Asher) 1998Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 26 | Takeover(As: Jonathan Evans) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 27 |  The Return(As: Andrea Hart) 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 28 |  Washington White 1999Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 29 |  Ice Age 2002Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 30 |  Two Women 2003Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 31 |  Dead End 2004Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 32 |  Time to Kill 2006Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 33 |  The Namedropper 2007Buy 🇺🇸 |
| 34 |  The Cloud Collector 2015Buy 🇺🇸 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- How many books has Brian Freemantle written?
- Brian Freemantle has written 88 books across 7 series. Their published works span from 1969 to 2016.
- What is the first book in each Brian Freemantle series?
- Here are the first books in Brian Freemantle's series: Charlie Muffin: Charlie Muffin / Charlie M; Cowley and Danilov: The Button Man / In the Name of a Killer; Culture of the Land: Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Strachan Donnelley,Ceara Donnelley,Bruce Jennings); Non-Fiction: KGB; Sebastian Holmes: The Holmes Inheritance.
- What order should I read Brian Freemantle's books?
- We recommend reading Brian Freemantle's series in publication order. Each series can be read independently.
- Are Brian Freemantle's series complete?
- Brian Freemantle has 7 completed series.