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Brian Freemantle Complete Bibliography

Browse books by Brian Freemantle in publication order, including standalone books, complete series lists, reading order, and publication years.

Updated 2026-07-11 / 88 books / 7 series

British author best known for the Charlie Muffin espionage series. A former journalist and crime novelist, Freemantle’s books have sold millions worldwide and earned critical acclaim for their realistic spycraft. This page provides the Brian Freemantle books in order, including both chronological order and series reading order.

Books by Brian Freemantle in Publication Order

1969 The Touchables POoSN / 1 Buy
1970 Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Strachan Donnelley,Ceara Donnelley,Bruce Jennings) POoCotLB / 1 Buy
1970 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) POoCotLB / 2 Buy
1970 Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence(By: Whitney Sanford) POoCotLB / 3 Buy
1970 Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place(By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker) POoCotLB / 4 Buy
1970 Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms(By: Jeffrey Bilbro) POoCotLB / 5 Buy
1972 The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture(By: Albert Howard Sir) POoCotLB / 6 Buy
1973 Goodbye To An Old Friend POoSN / 2 Buy
1976 Face Me When You Walk Away POoSN / 3 Buy
1976 The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow POoSN / 4 Buy
1976 The November Man POoSN / 5 Buy
1977 Charlie Muffin / Charlie M POoCMB / 1 Buy
1977 H.M.S. Bounty / Hell's Paradise / Hell's Fire POoSN / 6 Buy
1978 Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Here Comes Charlie M POoCMB / 2 Buy
1979 The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin POoCMB / 3 Buy
1979 The Mary Celeste POoSN / 7 Buy
1980 Charlie Muffin's Uncle Sam / Charlie Muffin U.S.A. POoCMB / 4 Buy
1980 The Solitary Man / The Iron Cage(As: Jack Winchester) POoSN / 8 Buy
1980 Misfire / Target(As: Jonathan Evans) POoSN / 9 Buy
1981 Madrigal For Charlie Muffin POoCMB / 5 Buy
1982 KGB POoNB / 1 Buy
1982 Deaken's War(As: Jack Winchester) POoSN / 10 Buy
1982 Chairman of the Board / Takeover / At Any Price(As: Jonathan Evans) POoSN / 11 Buy
1983 Midas Men / The Sagomi Gambit / Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) POoSN / 12 Buy
1984 Rules Of Engagement POoSN / 13 Buy
1984 Monopoly /Kremlin Correction / The Kremlin Conspiracy(As: Jonathan Evans) POoSN / 14 Buy
1984 The Kremlin Kiss / The Lost American POoSN / 15 Buy
1985 CIA POoNB / 2 Buy
1985 Charlie Muffin and Russian Rose / The Blind Run POoCMB / 6 Buy
1985 The Laundryman / Dirty White(As: Jonathan Evans) POoSN / 16 Buy
1987 The Fix POoNB / 3 Buy
1987 The Steal POoNB / 4 Buy
1987 Charlie Muffin San / See Charlie Run POoCMB / 7 Buy
1987 The Choice of Eddie Franks / To Save a Son(As: Jack Winchester) POoSN / 17 Buy
1988 The Run Around POoCMB / 8 Buy
1988 The Bearpit POoSN / 18 Buy
1989 Comrade Charlie POoCMB / 9 Buy
1989 Betrayals POoSN / 19 Buy
1990 The Factory POoSSC / 1 Buy
1990 O'Farrell's Law POoSN / 20 Buy
1991 The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics(By: Vandana Shiva) POoCotLB / 7 Buy
1991 Little Grey Mice POoSN / 21 Buy
1992 The Button Man / In the Name of a Killer POoCaDB / 1 Buy
1993 Charlie's Apprentice POoCMB / 10 Buy
1994 No Time for Heroes POoCaDB / 2 Buy
1996 Octopus POoNB / 5 Buy
1996 Charlie's Chance / Bomb Grade POoCMB / 11 Buy
1998 The Profiler / Mind / Reader(As: Harry Asher) POoSN / 22 Buy
1998 The Predators(As: Harry Asher) POoSN / 23 Buy
1998 A Mind to Kill(As: Andrea Hart) POoSN / 24 Buy
1998 Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) POoSN / 25 Buy
1999 Washington White POoSN / 26 Buy
1999 Takeover(As: Jonathan Evans) POoSN / 27 Buy
1999 The Return(As: Andrea Hart) POoSN / 28 Buy
2000 Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply(By: Vandana Shiva) POoCotLB / 8 Buy
2000 Dead Men Living POoCMB / 12 Buy
2002 The Watchmen POoCaDB / 3 Buy
2002 Kings of Many Castles POoCMB / 13 Buy
2002 Ice Age POoSN / 29 Buy
2003 Two Women POoSN / 30 Buy
2004 The Holmes Inheritance POoSHB / 1 Buy
2004 Triple Cross POoCaDB / 4 Buy
2004 Dead End POoSN / 31 Buy
2005 The Holmes Factor POoSHB / 2 Buy
2006 From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture(By: Gary Holthaus) POoCotLB / 9 Buy
2006 Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien(As: Jonathan Evans, With: Tom Shippey,John Elder,Matthew Dickerson) POoCotLB / 10 Buy
2006 Time to Kill POoSN / 32 Buy
2007 Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope(By: Eric T. Freyfogle) POoCotLB / 11 Buy
2007 Wendell Berry: Life and Work(By: Jason Peters) POoCotLB / 12 Buy
2007 The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse(By: Gene Logsdon) POoCotLB / 13 Buy
2007 The Namedropper POoSN / 33 Buy
2008 The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge(By: Wes Jackson,Bill Vitek) POoCotLB / 14 Buy
2008 Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality(By: Gary Holthaus) POoCotLB / 15 Buy
2008 Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege(By: Craig Holdrege) POoCotLB / 16 Buy
2008 Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis(By: David L. O'Hara,Matthew Dickerson) POoCotLB / 17 Buy
2009 Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life(By: Norman Wirzba,L. Roger Owens,Joel Shuman) POoCotLB / 18 Buy
2010 Red Star Rising POoCMB / 14 Buy
2010 Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Constance L. Falk) POoCotLB / 19 Buy
2010 The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics(By: Paul B. Thompson) POoCotLB / 20 Buy
2011 The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton(By: Monica Weis) POoCotLB / 21 Buy
2011 The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love(By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger) POoCotLB / 22 Buy
2011 Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Laura Sayre,Sean Clark) POoCotLB / 23 Buy
2011 Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture(By: Vandana Shiva,A. Whitney Sanford) POoCotLB / 24 Buy
2012 Red Star Burning POoCMB / 15 Buy
2013 Red Star Falling POoCMB / 16 Buy
2014 The Vandana Shiva Reader(By: Wendell Berry,Vandana Shiva) POoCotLB / 25 Buy
2015 The Cloud Collector POoSN / 34 Buy
2016 Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change(By: Anthony Flaccavento) POoCotLB / 26 Buy

Complete Brian Freemantle Series Reading Order / browse all ->

Standalone Reading Order 34 books / 1969-2015
01 The Touchables 1969 Buy
02 Goodbye To An Old Friend 1973 Buy
03 Face Me When You Walk Away 1976 Buy
04 The Man Who Wanted Tomorrow 1976 Buy
05 The November Man 1976 Buy
06 H.M.S. Bounty / Hell's Paradise / Hell's Fire 1977 Buy
07 The Mary Celeste 1979 Buy
08 The Solitary Man / The Iron Cage(As: Jack Winchester) 1980 Buy
09 Misfire / Target(As: Jonathan Evans) 1980 Buy
10 Deaken's War(As: Jack Winchester) 1982 Buy
11 Chairman of the Board / Takeover / At Any Price(As: Jonathan Evans) 1982 Buy
12 Midas Men / The Sagomi Gambit / Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) 1983 Buy
13 Rules Of Engagement 1984 Buy
14 Monopoly /Kremlin Correction / The Kremlin Conspiracy(As: Jonathan Evans) 1984 Buy
15 The Kremlin Kiss / The Lost American 1984 Buy
16 The Laundryman / Dirty White(As: Jonathan Evans) 1985 Buy
17 The Choice of Eddie Franks / To Save a Son(As: Jack Winchester) 1987 Buy
18 The Bearpit 1988 Buy
19 Betrayals 1989 Buy
20 O'Farrell's Law 1990 Buy
21 Little Grey Mice 1991 Buy
22 The Profiler / Mind / Reader(As: Harry Asher) 1998 Buy
23 The Predators(As: Harry Asher) 1998 Buy
24 A Mind to Kill(As: Andrea Hart) 1998 Buy
25 Gold(As: Jonathan Evans) 1998 Buy
26 Washington White 1999 Buy
27 Takeover(As: Jonathan Evans) 1999 Buy
28 The Return(As: Andrea Hart) 1999 Buy
29 Ice Age 2002 Buy
30 Two Women 2003 Buy
31 Dead End 2004 Buy
32 Time to Kill 2006 Buy
33 The Namedropper 2007 Buy
34 The Cloud Collector 2015 Buy
Culture of the Land Reading Order 26 books / 1970-2016
01 Frog Pond Philosophy: Essays on the Relationship Between Humans and Nature(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Strachan Donnelley,Ceara Donnelley,Bruce Jennings) 1970 Buy
02 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) 1970 Buy
03 Living Sustainably: What Intentional Communities Can Teach Us about Democracy, Simplicity, and Nonviolence(By: Whitney Sanford) 1970 Buy
04 Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place(By: Jeffrey Bilbro,Jack R. Baker) 1970 Buy
05 Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms(By: Jeffrey Bilbro) 1970 Buy
06 The Soil and Health: A Study of Organic Agriculture(By: Albert Howard Sir) 1972 Buy
07 The Violence of the Green Revolution: Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics(By: Vandana Shiva) 1991 Buy
08 Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply(By: Vandana Shiva) 2000 Buy
09 From the Farm to the Table: What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture(By: Gary Holthaus) 2006 Buy
10 Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien(As: Jonathan Evans, With: Tom Shippey,John Elder,Matthew Dickerson) 2006 Buy
11 Agrarianism and the Good Society: Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope(By: Eric T. Freyfogle) 2007 Buy
12 Wendell Berry: Life and Work(By: Jason Peters) 2007 Buy
13 The Mother of All Arts: Agrarianism and the Creative Impulse(By: Gene Logsdon) 2007 Buy
14 The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge(By: Wes Jackson,Bill Vitek) 2008 Buy
15 Learning Native Wisdom: What Traditional Cultures Teach Us about Subsistence, Sustainability, and Spirituality(By: Gary Holthaus) 2008 Buy
16 Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineeringby Craig Holdrege(By: Craig Holdrege) 2008 Buy
17 Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C.S. Lewis(By: David L. O'Hara,Matthew Dickerson) 2008 Buy
18 Wendell Berry and Religion: Heaven's Earthly Life(By: Norman Wirzba,L. Roger Owens,Joel Shuman) 2009 Buy
19 Cultivating an Ecological Conscience: Essays from a Farmer Philosopher(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Constance L. Falk) 2010 Buy
20 The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics(By: Paul B. Thompson) 2010 Buy
21 The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton(By: Monica Weis) 2011 Buy
22 The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love(By: Fritz Oehlschlaeger) 2011 Buy
23 Fields of Learning: The Student Farm Movement in North America(By: Frederick L. Kirschenmann,Laura Sayre,Sean Clark) 2011 Buy
24 Growing Stories from India: Religion and the Fate of Agriculture(By: Vandana Shiva,A. Whitney Sanford) 2011 Buy
25 The Vandana Shiva Reader(By: Wendell Berry,Vandana Shiva) 2014 Buy
26 Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change(By: Anthony Flaccavento) 2016 Buy
Sebastian Holmes Reading Order 2 books / 2004-2005
01 The Holmes Inheritance 2004 Buy
02 The Holmes Factor 2005 Buy
Charlie Muffin Reading Order 16 books / 1977-2013
01 Charlie Muffin / Charlie M 1977 Buy
02 Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie / Here Comes Charlie M 1978 Buy
03 The Inscrutable Charlie Muffin 1979 Buy
04 Charlie Muffin's Uncle Sam / Charlie Muffin U.S.A. 1980 Buy
05 Madrigal For Charlie Muffin 1981 Buy
06 Charlie Muffin and Russian Rose / The Blind Run 1985 Buy
07 Charlie Muffin San / See Charlie Run 1987 Buy
08 The Run Around 1988 Buy
09 Comrade Charlie 1989 Buy
10 Charlie's Apprentice 1993 Buy
11 Charlie's Chance / Bomb Grade 1996 Buy
12 Dead Men Living 2000 Buy
13 Kings of Many Castles 2002 Buy
14 Red Star Rising 2010 Buy
15 Red Star Burning 2012 Buy
16 Red Star Falling 2013 Buy
Non-Fiction Reading Order 5 books / 1982-1996
01 KGB 1982 Buy
02 CIA 1985 Buy
03 The Fix 1987 Buy
04 The Steal 1987 Buy
05 Octopus 1996 Buy
01 The Factory 1990 Buy
Cowley and Danilov Reading Order 4 books / 1992-2004
01 The Button Man / In the Name of a Killer 1992 Buy
02 No Time for Heroes 1994 Buy
03 The Watchmen 2002 Buy
04 Triple Cross 2004 Buy

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