The Complete Simon Shard Series: Books 1-12

Simon Shard #1-12

by Philip McCutchan

Simon Shard is a sharp-witted, tough-as-nails British Intelligence operative during the height of the Cold War. A former Metropolitan Police investigator, he now works undercover as a stamp dealer in London’s Charing Cross. Although he works for the Foreign Office, Shard’s assignments often overlap with MI6 and Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, taking him on dangerous missions across Europe and beyond.

Unlike the refined, chess-playing spies of MI6, Shard gets his hands dirty — whether tailing a suspect through Moscow’s murderous backstreets or confronting a double agent in Sydney. He’s resourceful, fearless, and driven by a burning sense of justice — but his biggest enemy might be the very system he serves . . .

From the misty moors of Cornwall to the bleak streets of East Berlin, Simon Shard faces deadly conspiracies, tangled cover-ups, and lethal enemies who will stop at nothing to protect their secrets.

2470 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 28, 2025

About the author

aka Robert Conington Galway, Duncan MacNeil

Philip McCutchan (1920-1996) grew up in the naval atmosphere of Portsmouth Dockyard and developed a lifetime's interest in the sea. Military history was an early interest resulting in several fiction books, from amongst his large output, about the British Army and its campaigns, especially in the last 150 years.

Reviews

[Kim Campbell · Rating 2 out of 5]

I started off okay, but only finished books 1-3. I realised that these aren't for me. I could never really picture Simon Shard and therefore found it quite hard to really get into the books. When I'm reading, a book has to almost play like a film in my mind and these didn't. Almost all of the people were just flat, they had no character, no personality and therefore I found it difficult to empathise with them. So, I stuck it out to read three but gave up after that.