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Martin Walker Books In Order

Bruno, Chief Of Police Books In Publication Order

  1. Bruno, Chief of Police / Death in the Dordogne (2008)
  2. The Dark Vineyard (2009)
  3. Black Diamond (2010)
  4. The Crowded Grave (2011)
  5. The Devil’s Cave (2012)
  6. Bruno and the Carol Singers / Bruno and le Pere Noel (2012)
  7. The Resistance Man (2013)
  8. The Children Return / Children of War / Death Undercover (2014)
  9. A Market Tale (2014)
  10. The Dying Season / The Patriarch (2015)
  11. Fatal Pursuit (2016)
  12. The Templars’ Last Secret (2017)
  13. A Taste for Vengeance (2018)
  14. The Chocolate War (2018)
  15. The Body in the Castle Well (2019)
  16. A Birthday Lunch (2019)
  17. Oystercatcher (2020)
  18. The Shooting at Chateau Rock (2020)
  19. The Coldest Case (2021)
  20. Bruno’s Challenge and Other Stories of the French Countryside (2022)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. The Infiltrator (1978)
  2. The Money Soldiers (1980)
  3. A Mercenary Calling (1980)
  4. The Caves of Perigord (2002)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The National Front (1977)
  2. Daily Sketches (1978)
  3. Powers of the Press (1983)
  4. The Waking Giant: Soviet Union Under Gorbachev (1986)
  5. Martin Walker’s Russia (1989)
  6. The Harper Independent Traveller (1990)
  7. The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World (1993)
  8. Clinton: The President They Deserve (1996)
  9. America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives (2000)
  10. Makers of the American Century (2001)
  11. The Iraq War (2003)

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Martin Walker Books Overview

Bruno, Chief of Police / Death in the Dordogne

The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Beno t Courr ges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the caf still rule. Bruno as he is affectionately nicknamed may be the town’s only municipal policeman, but in the hearts and minds of its denizens, he is chief of police. Bruno is a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life living in his restored shepherd s cottage; patronizing the weekly market; sparring with, and basically ignoring, the European Union bureaucrats from Brussels. He has a gun but never wears it; he has the power to arrest but never uses it. But then the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army changes everything and galvanizes Bruno s attention: the man was found with a swastika carved into his chest. Because of the case s potential political ramifications, a young policewoman is sent from Paris to aid Bruno with his investigation. The two immediately suspect militants from the anti immigrant National Front, but when a visiting scholar helps to untangle the dead man s past, Bruno s suspicions turn toward a more complex motive. His investigation draws him into one of the darkest chapters of French history World War II, a time of terror and betrayal that set brother against brother. Bruno soon discovers that even his seemingly perfect corner of la belle France is not exempt from that period s sinister legacy. Bruno, Chief of Police is deftly dark, mesmerizing, and totally engaging.

The Dark Vineyard

In this riveting sequel to Martin Walker’s internationally acclaimed novel Bruno, Chief of Police, some of France s great pleasures wine, passion and intrigue converge in a dark chain of events that threaten the peaceful village of Saint Denis. Beno t Bruno Courr ges devoted friend, cuisinier extraordinaire and the town s only municipal policeman rushes to the scene when a research station for genetically modified crops is burned down outside Saint Denis. Bruno immediately suspects a group of fervent environmentalists who live nearby, but the fire is only the first in a string of mysteries centering on the region s fertile soil. Then a bevy of winemakers descends on Saint Denis, competing for its land and spurring resentment among the villagers. Romances blossom. Hearts are broken. Some of the sensual pleasures of the town a dinner of a truffle omelette and grilled b cas*ses, a community grape crushing provide an opportunity for both warm friendship and bitter hostilities to form. The town s rivals Max, an environmentalist who hopes to make organic wine; Jacqueline, a flirtatious, newly arrived Qu b coise; and Fernando, the heir to an American wine fortune act increasingly erratically. Events grow ever darker, culminating in two suspicious deaths, and Bruno finds that the problems of the present are never far from those of the past.A splendid mystery and a delectable serving of the pleasures of France.

The Caves of Perigord

In a brilliant and ambitious thriller that combines elements of Jean Auel’s The Clan of the Cave Bear and Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth into a riveting, multifaceted tale of love, art, courage, and war, Martin Walker brings to life the creation of an extraordinary work of prehistoric cave art and the struggle to possess it in our own time. Walker’s richly interwoven novel opens with the arrival of a mysterious package for a young American woman working in a London auction house. Brought by a British officer, it contains a 17,000 year old fragment of a cave painting left to him by his father, a former World War II hero. The fragment, significant and stunning in itself, is also the key to the existence of an un known cave that may be more important in the history of art and human creation than the world famous one at Lascaux. It triggers a storm of publicity and commands the attention of the French authorities all the way up to the President of the Republic, who seems to know more about the painting’s origins than anyone else…
As the young American woman, the British officer, and a French government art historian explore the ancient province of P rigord to determine the painting’s origins, their search serves as backdrop for three compelling stories. There is the tale of the British officer’s father who lands in Na*zi occupied France in 1944 to organize the Resistance, culminating in a series of battles to prevent the SS Das Reich Panzer Division from reaching the Normandy beaches in time to repel the D Day invasion, which leads to an account of the subsequent discovery and cover up of the lost cave and its paintings. And there is also the moving story of the young artist who painted them, the woman he loved, and the ancient culture that produced the first recognizable human art but required the sacrifice of its own creators. Filled with vivid, historically accurate details and imaginative re creations of prehistoric life, The Caves of P rigord blends a complex plot and richly diverse characters into a seamless narrative of romance, tragedy, and heroism from past to present.

The Cold War and the Making of the Modern World

In this history of the Cold War, award winning political commentator Martin Walker explains it as an economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of the modern global economy. Using recently opened Kremlin archives and his own experience as ‘The Guardian”s bureau chief in Moscow during perestroika and in Washington during the Bush years, Walker analyzes what, more than any other single strategic conflict, has shaped the modern world.

America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives

Here is the story of America in the twentieth century as told through the lives of twenty six of its most remarkable and historically crucial men and women. The people Martin Walker has chosen to portray are presidents, industrialists, artists, thinkers, entertainers, soldiers, spies, criminals, and evangelists, among others, and he makes the life of each individual serve as a framework for a discussion of the nation as a whole in a century when it was reinventing itself. Through Theodore Roosevelt, Walker examines America’s ambition; through Woodrow Wilson, our idealism; through FDR, our triumph on the world stage; through Richard Nixon, our retreat into cynicism; through Bill Clinton, globalization and controversy about the right way to use America’s unprecedented power. In Henry Ford he finds the creator of both the mass market product and the mass market consumer, and in Walt Disney, the revolutionizer not only of America’s entertainment but also of the world’s. William Boeing is the innovator who spurs the behemoth of American aviation; Walter Reuther defines labor’s struggles; George C. Marshall represents the spread of America’s economic genius in a war ravaged Europe. In the lives of Duke Ellington, Frank Lloyd Wright, Katharine Hepburn, and John Steinbeck, Walker traces America’s far reaching cultural influences. Babe Ruth leads to a consideration of the role of sports in our society; William F. Buckley, Jr., to a discussion of conservatism; Martin Luther King, Jr., to matters of race; Betty Friedan to the shifting role of women; Billy Graham to an examination of religion; Emma Goldman to minority viewpoints and dissent; Black Jack Pershing to the place of the military; Lucky Luciano to crime and corruption; Albert Einstein to immigration; Richard Bissell to spies and the intelligence network; Alan Greenspan to finance and banking; and Winston Churchill to the American diaspora. At once intimate and wide ranging, America Reborn is an altogether engrossing work of narrative history.

The Iraq War

Washington Post publisher Phillip Graham famously remarked that ‘journalists write the first rough draft of history.’ Martin Walker, United Press International’s chief diplomatic correspondent, has collected some of the best writing on the events leading up to The Iraq War, detailed descriptions of combat operations of each day of the war, and firsthand accounts of the conflict s immediate aftermath. Walker presents the war precisely as it was reported by the world renowned UPI correspondents. Illustrated with world class photojournalism, this volume will preserve forever the drama of this historic undertaking.

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