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This page lists novels that feature the security adviser Major Harry Maxim.

The Secret Servant

Gavin Lyall

1980

A Major Harry Maxim novel.

"A suicide at the Ministry of Defence. A hand grenade through the door of Number Ten. A Czech defector with a file worth killing for... The whole sequence of grisly incidents points the finger at John Tyler. Professor John Tyler. Nuclear strategist and insatiable lecher. The man who will state Britain's case when Europe's think tank on armageddon gathers in Luxembourg. Harry Maxim - SAS major on special assignment to Downing Street - in under orders to watch Tyler's back. The professor is a flawed man. Maxim knows just how flawed. If the KGB's specially-imported hit men don't know, they're certainly acting as if they do."

The Conduct of Major Maxim

Gavin Lyall

1982

A Major Harry Maxim novel.

"Major Harry Maxim, ex-SAS and special adviser to number 10 Downing Street, is about to get drawn into conflict on an international scale. An English corporal, a cabinet convulsion in East Germany, and a double murder in a small West German town all seem to be connected by a dark secret from the past, and it's down to Harry Maxim to uncover before it's too late."

The Crocus List

Gavin Lyall

1985

A Major Harry Maxim novel.

"The assassination attempt on the American president in London bore the hallmark of the KGB. But with Britain about to hold unilateral talks with the Russians over Berlin, why should Moscow Centre rock the boat? Major Harry Maxim smelled conspiracy. Trouble was, nobody wanted to believe him. So the Major goes hunting, taking with him his old mentor from Downing Street days, George Harbinger, and another colleague from former times, the not so old and much more attractive Agnes Algar, MIS. It's all highly unofficial. But that doesn't stop Maxim shooting and pistol-whipping his way from London to East Berlin via the Cotswolds, Eastbourne and Illinois, until he finally tracks down the Crocus List - a group of earnest patriots playing God and soldiers to open the country's eyes to the Russian menace."