Tommy Hambledon goes undercover to break up a gang that specializes in helping prisoners escape from jail. Tommy goes flying, hiding, boating and as always, succeeding in his endeavours. Full of adventure and wry British humor, this one is even more funny and even more un-put-downable than usual and will definitely not disappoint Manning Coles fans!

It's the same Hambledon, but far from his usual European haunts. Plunked down in a Central American republic, Tommy finds himself trapped between hot Latin temperaments and cold "hostile powers". Full of page-turning suspense and intrigue, DANGEROUS BY NATURE is top-drawer Manning Coles to be sure!

Two unknown amateurs help Tommy Hambledon, a British Foreign Intelligence officer, track down Nazi spies in England.

Tommy is back, and again he’s in Germany, posing as a camera-toting tourist while trailing Fascists. The investigation starts in Cologne when a corpse is found hung out like a batch of wash from a ruined building. Then Tommy learns about two girls whose custom it is “to frolic among the ruins” late at night and finds that his buddies are on hand to help him unravel the mystery of the Silver Ghosts, the Nazi outfit he is after. After another man has died among the wrecked buildings, can Tom...

A Hambledon espionage story set in Central Europe behind the Iron Curtain. A 13-year-old princeling has been sent into Russia to a school for leadership and Hambledon is assigned to his rescue and spiriting him out of Russian hands to safety in England. Plenty of violence, quick thinking, fast talking and changes of identity before a plane is used to make a speedy getaway!

Drink to Yesterday was based on the early life of one of its two collaborators, Cyril Henry Coles, who left school, lied about his age and enlisted as a teenager in the British army during World War I. He was transferred to intelligence when his remarkable aptitude for conversational German was noticed, and he became the youngest member of Britain’s Foreign Intelligence Office (later MI6). Like Bill Saunders of the book, Coles spent much of the rest of war working behind enemy lines. Coles...

Tommy Hambledon, a British secret agent, investigates a case that includes stolen jewels, secret airplane plans, gangsters, and international assassins!

More adventures of Tommy Hambledon, that inconspicuous, deadly English agent who now goes to work on home territory to solve a series of English battleship explosions, followed by murder. Involved are a hairdresser, a governess, a wine merchant, and their affiliates. Close shaving for Hambledon, assisted by young Bellair, until the Nazi prime mover is qualified and nabbed...

British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon had the mistaken notion when he arrived at Innsbruck that he had left behind all connections with Herr Bastien, who had been shot in the railway compartment they shared on the Anglo-Swiss Express. But when he was commanded by a belligerent Austrian taxi driver to dis-robe, and then forced at gunpoint to hike barefoot over the Alps, Hambledon ruefully decided that his vacation was over. With the help of a horse-faced English tourist–and over the op...

Tommy Hambleton, a British Foreign Intelligence officer, impersonates the Deputy Chief of the German Police in order to pass on information about the Nazi regime...

An English businessman finds his life in danger when he accidentally receives secret information from a defector from East Germany.

Thomas Hambledon quicksteps from the Western Zone of Germany to the Eastern to locate the missing son of a man most important in atomic defense. His plottings are paralleled by the adventures of young Micklejohn who, escaping his Russian captors, is hidden by an underground group. Hambledon impersonates a Russian agent, and, across the frontier, picks up Micklejohn's trail but can they race back to safety?