| Cavanaugh, Sir Adam |
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Professor Perish (1979) Edward Creighton, super-spy, stops the mad Professor Perish and an insane plot to start Armageddon. (3 stars, New York Times) |
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The Manchurian Message (1980) MI-5 gets a mysterious message from an agent missing and presumed dead. (3.5 stars, New York Times, 1 week on the New York Times best seller list.) |
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The Antarctic Action (1981) Edward Creighton races with the Soviets to recover a sunken American submarine. (2.5 stars, New York Times) |
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A Harvest of Hydrogen (1982) Edward Creighton goes undercover into the Ukraine to stop a team of American terrorists from exploding a hydrogen bomb in the heart of the Soviet breadbasket. (4 stars, New York Times, 11 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Adapted into the movie of the same name in 1984.) |
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The Siberian Shuffle (1983) Super spy Edward Creighton is nearly caught extracting a defecting Soviet scientist from the submarine yards of Murmansk. (3.5 stars, New York Times, 4 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Adapted into the movie of the same name in 1985.) |
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Lebanon Layover (1984) Edward Creighton takes on Libyan terrorists in the midst of a hijacking of the Vice-President. (3 stars, New York Times, 2 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Adapted into the movie Flight into Terror in 1985.) |
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The Genocide Germ (1985) Edward Creighton barely survives the viral experiments of Japanese warlords hidden in the jungles of Brazil. (4 stars, New York Times, 16 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Adapted into the movie of the same name in 1987.) |
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A Transaction in Turkey (1986) Jet-setting model Sheila St. Charles gets involved with Soviet infiltrators at NATO radar stations in Turkey. (2.5 stars, New York Times.) |
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A Colombian Cruise (1987) Edward Creighton takes on Colombian drug smugglers who are using stolen high-tech cruise missiles to avoid detection. (4 stars, New York Times, 12 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. Adapted into the movie of the same name in 1989.) |
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Deceptions in Detroit (1988) Model Sheila St. Charles takes on the mob and their drug dealings in the Motor City. (1.5 stars, New York Times.) |
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Orbits in Opposition (1989) Edward Creighton flies into orbit to destroy an experimental particle-beam "Death Ray" weapon. (4 stars, New York Times, 17 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.) |
| Williams, T. R. |
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Deathsperation Moves (1984) Members of a dance company die on stage under suspicious circumstances. (3.5 stars, New York Times. Sayers Award for New Mystery Novelist of the Year.) |
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Dogged by Death (1985) Canines trained to kill have the police baffled in a series of murders at dog shows. (3 stars, New York Times.) |
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A Probability of Death (1986) Deaths at a posh Las Vegas resort appear to be random natural events until a clever detective looks at the odds. (4 stars, New York Times, 18 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.) |
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Death and Texas (1988) Murder stalks IRS agents investigating the high-finance world of a Texas oil baron. (3.5 stars, New York Times, 7 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.) |