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Richard Prince Thrillers

The Richard Prince Thrillers follow a British detective recruited into wartime intelligence and sent through a succession of espionage crises in occupied and neutral Europe. Prince of Spies takes him to Denmark; Sea of Spies to neutral Turkey; Ring of Spies turns the failure at Arnhem into a counter-intelligence case; and End of Spies follows the hunt for Nazi fugitives in the unstable months after Germany’s defeat.

Richard Prince is fictional, but each novel is built around a specific historical setting and intelligence problem. Gerlis uses occupation, neutrality, airborne warfare and post-war Nazi hunting to move the series chronologically from 1942 into 1945 rather than treating the books as interchangeable spy adventures.

Reading order

Books in this series (4 books)

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1. Prince of Spies

Alex Gerlis

4.7(8,621)

In 1942 detective Richard Prince is drawn into British intelligence after a German agent is discovered on the Lincolnshire coast. His first major assignment sends him into occupied Denmark, where rumours suggest that Germany is developing a weapon capable of altering the course of the war.…

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2. Sea of Spies

Alex Gerlis

4.7(6,746)

Richard Prince is sent to neutral Turkey after a British agent disappears while investigating trade that may be supplying Nazi Germany with strategically valuable material. Posing as a journalist, Prince enters an Istanbul crowded with diplomats, merchants and spies and is soon cut off from the…

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3. Ring of Spies

Alex Gerlis

4.7(4,367)

After the Allied airborne disaster at Arnhem in 1944, a traumatised officer becomes convinced that German forces knew too much about the operation in advance. Richard Prince is drawn into an MI5 counter-intelligence investigation in London, where suspicion falls on the possibility that an enemy agent…

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4. End of Spies

Alex Gerlis

4.8(6,180)

Europe in 1945 is no longer at war but has not yet settled into peace. Richard Prince and Danish agent Hanne Jakobsen are sent after a Nazi war criminal connected with the deaths of British agents, and their pursuit uncovers a clandestine escape route supported by…