TIMELINE
156 Provost Company - 2000 to 2003
Lance Jack (Book 1) - Coming Soon
Nineteen-year-old Henry Knox arrives at 156 Provost Company determined to prove himself as a military policeman.
Working shifts across Colchester’s barracks, pubs, taxi ranks and guardrooms, he finds an ally in the experienced James Webster, who teaches him how the garrison really works—and warns him that being right will not protect him.
Then a female soldier reports a sexual assault involving members of 2 PARA’s forward party.
It should be Knox’s first proper investigation. Instead, witnesses close ranks, evidence proves difficult to secure and the chain of command becomes increasingly eager to make the allegation disappear.
With his career, reputation and judgement under examination, Knox must decide how far he is prepared to go for a victim the system has already begun to abandon.
Will he withstand the pressure, or discover that the Army protects its own in ways he was never trained to confront?
The Queen's Regulations (Book 2) - TBC
A soldier is left battered after weeks of rumours about his sexuality. His unit calls it drunken horseplay. The victim refuses to complain. The rules may have changed, but inside the barracks, the culture has not.
Ordered to keep the matter low-level and avoid anything that could become political, military policeman Henry Knox begins asking questions nobody wants answered. With Webster’s help, he uncovers a pattern hidden beneath routine discipline: anonymous notes, repeated inspections, destroyed kit, transfer requests and minor charges designed to wear one man down.
The assault was not an isolated attack. It was the final stage of a campaign.
But proving it means breaking through silence, fear and a chain of command more concerned with reputation than justice. Then an unexpected witness comes forward—frightened, compromised and carrying secrets of his own.
He may be Knox’s only chance to expose the truth.
And courage inside the Army can make a man a target.
Op PALATINE (Book 3) - TBC
Deployed on Operation Palatine, military policeman Henry Knox expects routine stabilisation work: thefts, assaults, weapons searches and the daily tensions of a country still living with war.
Then a local family approaches through an interpreter. A man linked to wartime disappearances is working near the Banja Luka metal factory under a new identity.
What begins as a minor investigation involving British personnel draws Knox towards the factory’s rusting machinery and echoing workshops, where buried evidence points to something far larger: a hidden war-crimes suspect, a smuggling route and men who have survived by ensuring the past remains undisturbed.
And among the buried dead of Bosnia, there are no neat endings—only the truth that survives and the people left behind to carry it.
150 Provost Company - 2003 to 2005
The Infantry Training School (Book 4) - TBC
A recruit is left fighting for his life after collapsing during military training. The Army calls it misadventure. A weak young soldier who concealed his symptoms and could not cope with the pressure. But Royal Military Police officer Henry Knox sees something else in the faces of the recruits who witnessed it.
As Knox begins asking questions, he uncovers a regime of punishment hidden behind the language of discipline: sleep deprivation, extra stag, forced exercises, public humiliation and threats designed to silence anyone who falls behind. Medical records have been softened, complaints buried and recruits separated before their stories can align.
Set against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, instructors claim they are preparing soldiers for war. Knox suspects they are using it to justify cruelty.
Class One (Book 5) - TBC
A stolen wallet. An ID card. A respirator. A handful of missing stores. The Army dismisses it as drunken stupidity, but military policeman Henry Knox sees something the victim cannot hide.
Fear.
Similar thefts have taken place across the barracks, usually targeting soldiers about to deploy, transfer or face disciplinary action. What begins with missing property leads Knox towards a blackmail operation built on stolen identities, compromising photographs and access to restricted areas. Local women are being deceived by men using soldiers’ names—and when one of them is assaulted after being lured to a meeting, a petty crime becomes something far more dangerous.
With Knox being a Class One Corporal, it is he who is the mentor now, will he teach his new charge the correct way or will he crumble under the pressure.
Op AGRICOLA (Book 6) - TBC
A fatal car crash near the border looks like reckless driving on dangerous roads. But Royal Military Police investigator Henry Knox is troubled by the victim’s fear, the vehicle’s hidden cargo and a search dog’s reaction to disturbed ground nearby.
The crash leads to a weapons-smuggling network run by former paramilitary figures who use nationalism to conceal profit, intimidation and murder. Working with a practical dog handler and a politically exposed local investigator, Knox uncovers evidence of torture and a mass grave men believed had been erased.
As unrest spreads and command urges caution, a frightened survivor becomes the key to exposing the network. During a night operation near the border, Knox must choose between pursuing the man responsible and protecting the witness who can reveal the truth.
The villain may escape.
The evidence must not.
Because the dead still need an investigator—and sometimes the truth is all their families will ever receive.
110 Provost Company - 2005 to 2008
Corporal Henry Knox (Book 7) - Coming Soon
Newly posted to 110 Provost Company, Corporal Henry Knox is determined to establish himself as an investigator. But Sennelager is a closed world of mess politics, married quarters, German police liaison and soldiers struggling to leave Iraq behind.
A series of assaults draws Knox towards a tight-knit PWRR section recently returned from combat. They intimidate witnesses, lie for one another and treat the garrison as another hostile territory where ordinary rules no longer apply.
As the violence escalates, the charming Michael Henley shows Knox how inconvenient casefiles can simply disappear. Then a routine investigation turns deadly, and Knox is forced to confront the cost of corruption, loyalty—and his own lack of preparation.
To expose the men responsible, Knox must challenge soldiers who believe surviving war has placed them beyond judgement.
But courage is not enough when you arrive without the equipment to save a friend.
Strike Ops (Book 8) - TBC
Iraq, 2006. after an attack on British personnel, Corporal Henry Knox is attached to an intelligence-led strike operation hunting an Iranian facilitator who supplies militia cells with money, weapons and bomb components.
The target never pulls the trigger himself. He hides behind couriers, family homes and local men willing—or forced—to take the risk for him.
When the first compound search finds nothing, the team prepares to move on. Knox does not. Fresh plaster, missing dust, concealed phone cards and a frightened child suggest the house is hiding more than its occupants admit.
The details expose a network of safe houses, money handlers and cross-border contacts, but the facilitator remains one step ahead. As the hunt closes around him, Knox must distinguish between those supporting the militia and those trapped beneath its control.
Knox cannot match the strike team’s speed or firepower. He earns his place by seeing what direct action misses.
Because kicking down the right door means nothing unless you understand what lies behind it.
CPERS (Book 9) - TBC
After a major operation, Corporal Henry Knox is assigned to process detainees inside a temporary holding facility. Property, photographs, injury records and handover notes seem routine—until one prisoner arrives with wounds that do not match the capture report.
Intelligence officers believe a detainee can lead them to an IRGC-linked facilitator and a hidden weapons cache. With British soldiers recently killed, patience is running out and pressure for answers is growing.
Then Knox finds altered timings, missing property, bloodstained cable ties and medical paperwork completed before a prisoner supposedly arrived.
One detainee may be responsible for serious attacks. Another appears to have been swept up by mistake. Knox must protect both the investigation and the men in custody without becoming blind to the threat they may pose.
When the records themselves are placed at risk, Knox is forced to secure a prisoner against his own side. He preserves the truth—but earns the hatred of soldiers who believe he has chosen the enemy over them.
Because once control of custody is lost, control of the truth goes with it.
Operation TELIC (Book 10) - TBC
Patrolling the border between Iraq and Iran, Corporal Henry Knox understands that raids, detainees, intelligence and evidence are all parts of the same war.
When his patrol uncovers proof of weapons being moved to Shia militia cells, the trail leads back to an IRGC-linked facilitator Knox has hunted before. Command wants the incident contained. Intelligence wants the network mapped without exposing its sources. A local JAM commander offers information—but every truth comes wrapped in a lie.
When a patrol goes wrong, Knox must move through hostile territory across the Iranian border. Cut off in hostile territory, their only protection is a battered Land Rover already pushed beyond its limits.
To get home, Knox must trust his preparation, protect a source wanted by every side and recover evidence powerful men would rather lose.
He may expose the route.
He cannot stop the network behind it.
Because borders are only lines on maps—and the cleanest briefing is often the first lie.
Make Safe (Book 11) - Out Now
A Rifleman is dead. A Sergeant stands accused. Corporal Henry Knox was the first Royal Military Police NCO on the scene.
Eight months later, Knox is pulled out of Iraq and sent back to Germany to give evidence at a court martial. He expects to speak only to the events of a live-fire exercise in Poland.
But once he is in the witness box, the case begins to widen. What he wrote down at the time no longer seems to be enough. What he missed matters just as much. And as the court turns over the days leading up to the shooting, Knox is forced to confront the limits of his own evidence — and the uneasy possibility that the death was never as straightforward as it first appeared.
Make Safe is a Henry Knox novella: a taut military story of duty, memory, and the weight of small details inside a system built to contain them.
Service Police Crime Bureau - 2008
DEMETER (Book 12) - TBC
At SPCB, Henry Knox trades border patrols and battlefield investigations for intelligence-led raids on soldiers absent without leave. Operation DEMETER begins with phone records, family connections, old girlfriends and dawn arrests. Working alongside James Webster again, Knox learns that finding a fugitive depends less on force than on recognising the habits people leave behind.
Then one case refuses to fit.
The missing soldier has vanished too carefully. His mother is lying, his possessions have been sold, and every trace suggests a man hiding from more than deployment. Following a trail of prescriptions, debts and missed appointments, Knox uncovers an allegation his unit chose not to investigate.
The arrest team wants the soldier detained and processed. Knox wants to know what made him run.
To expose the truth, he must look beyond the offence of absence and confront the crime concealed behind it.
Because the raid is only the final sentence of a story written in data, fear and silence.
The Cashe (Book 13) - TBC
A cache of child abuse images is discovered inside the military unit responsible for investigating serious crime. Everyone had access. Every suspect understands procedure. Files can be copied, drives exchanged and digital records manipulated. As investigators turn on one another, senior officers become as concerned with containing the scandal as identifying the offender.
Henry Knox is experienced enough to recognise a lie, but unprepared for a case that contaminates every familiar face. He accepts one technical explanation too easily and places his trust in the wrong person. Even James Webster, his closest ally, cannot be placed beyond suspicion.
With the obvious suspect beginning to look like a diversion, Knox searches beyond usernames and timestamps. Someone knew about the evidence before they should have. Someone steered the investigation away from the truth. And someone inside SPCB understands the system well enough to defeat it.
To expose the offender, Knox must distrust the expertise surrounding him—and accept that evil can sit inside the office created to investigate it.
One crime scene. Two deadly secrets. Forty-eight hours of total isolation.
In the brutal winter of 2013, in Fallingbostel, Germany, six feet of snow has done more than just bury the Royal Military Police station, it has cut off all backup. When a young soldier is found dead in his room, Staff Sergeant Henry Knox is the only man on the ground to handle the investigation.
The victim, Corporal John Reynolds, was the unit’s recent Army Sports lottery winner. At first glance, it looks like a simple case of greed turned lethal. But as Knox and a local SOCO navigate the icy silence of a regiment closing ranks, they uncover a web of blackmail reaching into the highest echelons of the unit’s leadership.
Knox quickly learns that in the Army, truth is often a casualty of reputation, whereKnox must act as investigator, patrol, and judge. In a world where loyalty is a weapon and everyone has something to hide, Knox must decide how far he’s willing to overstep the mark to catch a killer before the snow thaws and the evidence vanishes forever.
An old soldier. A frightened street. A gang that picked the wrong house.
When Henry Knox is called to Kipling Street, he expects a damaged door, a scared pensioner, and another case that has slipped between police, social services, and everyone else who was supposed to help.
What he finds is George Alderson: seventy-eight years old, recently widowed, living alone with early dementia, and trying to hold on to the last pieces of his life. His home has been robbed. His wife’s jewellery has been taken. His door has been kicked in more than once. And the men responsible are coming back.
As the threats close in and the street watches from behind curtains, Knox makes a decision that will protect George for one night and put himself on the wrong side of almost every rule that matters.
Because Kipling Street has learned to stay silent.
Henry Knox has not.
Protegimus: Latin for “We Protect.”
It’s the motto of the Royal Military Police Close Protection Unit. But for former RMP officer turned private investigator Henry Knox, those words have become a warning.
When his closest friend is found dead under suspicious circumstances, Knox is drawn into a lethal conspiracy reaching deep into the military ranks he once served. The deeper he digs, the clearer the truth becomes: someone is preparing to turn Britain into a war zone.
Henry Knox is back, having survived Protegimus.
Trying to step out of the spotlight cast on him after York, Knox takes what should be a routine surveillance job, only to find himself in the wrong place at exactly the wrong time. Two detectives are discovered executed on an industrial estate, drugs planted to tarnish their names, while a covert investigation into the abuse of teenage girls is already being quietly buried.
As the official story closes in and the real killers remain at large, Knox is drawn into a brutal conspiracy of trafficking, corruption, and murder. To uncover the truth, he’ll have to work off the books, trust all the wrong people, and risk becoming the next body left behind.
For readers who like their thrillers tense, emotional, and sharply realistic, Knox Investigations delivers a wounded hero, a ruthless conspiracy, and a case that cuts far closer to home than Knox can afford.
