Brian Freemantle Reading Order

1 book (2021–2021)

16 books (1977–2013)

The Charlie Muffin series comprises 16 complete spy thrillers by Brian Freemantle, published between 1977 and 2013. This spy fiction series should be read in publication order, beginning with Charlie Muffin and continuing through Red Star Burning and its companion volume. The novels follow a British intelligence operative through decades of Cold War intrigue and international espionage, with each installment building on events from previous entries.

Start with Charlie Muffin / Charlie M, the first of 16 books in the Charlie Muffin series.

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1	Charlie Muffin / Charlie M 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Here Comes Charlie M 1978Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Charlie Muffin's Uncle Sam / Charlie Muffin U.S.A. 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Madrigal For Charlie Muffin 1981Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	Charlie Muffin and Russian Rose / The Blind Run 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	Charlie Muffin San / See Charlie Run 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	The Run Around 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Comrade Charlie 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Charlie's Apprentice 1993Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Charlie's Chance / Bomb Grade 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Dead Men Living 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Kings of Many Castles 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Red Star Rising 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Red Star Burning 2012Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Red Star Falling 2013Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

4 books (1992–2004)

The Cowley and Danilov series is a four-book mystery and thriller collection by Brian Freemantle, published between 1992 and 2004. The complete series should be read in publication order, beginning with The Button Man (also released as In the Name of a Killer), followed by No Time for Heroes, The Watchmen, and Triple Cross. This finished series follows the partnership between its two protagonists through interconnected cases spanning over a decade.

Start with The Button Man / In the Name of a Killer, the first of 4 books in the Cowley and Danilov series.

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1	The Button Man / In the Name of a Killer 1992Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	No Time for Heroes 1994Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Watchmen 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Triple Cross 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

26 books (1970–2016)

The Culture of the Land is a 26-book nonfiction series edited by Brian Freemantle that explores the intersections of agriculture, spirituality, sustainability, and human relationships with the natural world. Published between 1970 and 2016, the series brings together essays, philosophical works, and critical analyses from leading thinkers including Vandana Shiva, Wendell Berry, and Albert Howard. The books should be read in publication order to follow the development of ideas across the collection. The series is now complete.

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.

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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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence(By: Whitney Sanford) 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
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 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms(By: Jeffrey Bilbro) 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place(By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker) 1970Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture(By: Albert Howard Sir) 1972Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics(By: Vandana Shiva) 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply(By: Vandana Shiva) 2000Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien(As: Jonathan Evans, With: Tom Shippey,John Elder,Matthew Dickerson) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture(By: Gary Holthaus) 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope(By: Eric T. Freyfogle) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse(By: Gene Logsdon) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Wendell Berry: Life and Work(By: Jason Peters) 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege(By: Craig Holdrege) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality(By: Gary Holthaus) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis(By: David L. O'Hara,Matthew Dickerson) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge(By: Wes Jackson,Bill Vitek) 2008Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life(By: Norman Wirzba,L. Roger Owens,Joel Shuman) 2009Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Constance L. Falk) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics(By: Paul B. Thompson) 2010Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Laura Sayre,Sean Clark) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture(By: Vandana Shiva,A. Whitney Sanford) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love(By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton(By: Monica Weis) 2011Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Vandana Shiva Reader(By: Wendell Berry,Vandana Shiva) 2014Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change(By: Anthony Flaccavento) 2016Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

5 books (1982–1996)

Brian Freemantle's non-fiction series comprises five books examining espionage and crime, published between 1982 and 1996. The complete series consists of KGB, CIA, The Fix, The Steal, and Octopus, and should be read in publication order. Each book stands as an independent investigation into its subject matter, blending thriller-like narrative with documentary research across mystery and international crime themes.

Start with KGB, the first of 5 books in the Non-Fiction series.

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1	KGB 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	CIA 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	The Fix 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Steal 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	Octopus 1996Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

2 books (2004–2005)

Brian Freemantle's Sebastian Holmes series comprises two mystery thrillers published between 2004 and 2005. The complete duology should be read in publication order, beginning with The Holmes Inheritance and continuing with The Holmes Factor. These standalone yet connected novels blend suspense and intrigue in a concise two-book arc.

Start with The Holmes Inheritance and read in order.

#	Title
1	The Holmes Inheritance 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	The Holmes Factor 2005Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

1 book (1990–1990)

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1	The Factory 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible

34 books (1969–2015)

Brian Freemantle wrote 34 standalone novels between 1969 and 2015, completing his output in this collection of mystery and thriller works. Though each book functions as an independent story, readers should approach them in publication order beginning with The Touchables to experience Freemantle's evolving craft across his career. The series encompasses various aliases including Jonathan Evans and Jack Winchester, under which several titles were published with alternate names. This complete collection spans nearly five decades of the author's fiction writing, offering diverse plots within the mystery and thriller genres.

Start with The Touchables, the first of 34 books in the Standalone Novels series.

#	Title
1	The Touchables 1969Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
2	Goodbye To An Old Friend 1973Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
3	Face Me When You Walk Away 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
4	The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
5	The November Man 1976Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
6	H.M.S. Bounty / Hell's Paradise / Hell's Fire 1977Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
7	The Mary Celeste 1979Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
8	Misfire / Target(As: Jonathan Evans) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
9	The Solitary Man / The Iron Cage(As: Jack Winchester) 1980Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
10	Chairman of the Board / Takeover / At Any Price(As: Jonathan Evans) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
11	Deaken's War(As: Jack Winchester) 1982Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
12	Midas Men / The Sagomi Gambit / Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) 1983Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
13	Monopoly /Kremlin Correction / The Kremlin Conspiracy(As: Jonathan Evans) 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
14	Rules Of Engagement 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
15	The Kremlin Kiss / The Lost American 1984Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
16	The Laundryman / Dirty White(As: Jonathan Evans) 1985Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
17	The Choice of Eddie Franks / To Save a Son(As: Jack Winchester) 1987Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
18	The Bearpit 1988Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
19	Betrayals 1989Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
20	O'Farrell's Law 1990Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
21	Little Grey Mice 1991Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
22	A Mind to Kill(As: Andrea Hart) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
23	Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
24	The Predators(As: Harry Asher) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
25	The Profiler / Mind / Reader(As: Harry Asher) 1998Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
26	Takeover(As: Jonathan Evans) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
27	The Return(As: Andrea Hart) 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
28	Washington White 1999Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
29	Ice Age 2002Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
30	Two Women 2003Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
31	Dead End 2004Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
32	Time to Kill 2006Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
33	The Namedropper 2007Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible
34	The Cloud Collector 2015Buy 🇺🇸🎧 Audible