Max-Catt Stories

Maximus Hainsworth-Catt was born into privilege, but turned his back on the life of the landed gentry. From a young age, danger and death follow him, shaping a man far removed from the comfortable future laid out before him. A family hostage crisis, blackmail and murder push Max towards a life of violence and covert…

Max-Catt is selected for the gruelling assessment programme to join the SAS, where only a fraction of candidates survive the physical and psychological punishment required to pass. The infamous Mountain Phase in the Brecon Beacons quickly exposes weakness — and reveals that one candidate has cheated. When the deception attracts a ruthless blackmailer, the consequences…

Max-Catt is now firmly embedded within the SAS, trusted to lead men on the most dangerous covert operations. When he is chosen to take a small team deep behind enemy lines on a high-risk sabotage mission, the stakes could not be higher. As the operation unfolds, Max discovers there is a traitorous double agent working…

After two successful operations — one deep behind enemy lines and another closer to home — Max-Catt comes to the attention of Scotland Yard. A senior detective believes Max’s unorthodox methods and instinctive decision-making could be the key to stopping a major criminal threat the police cannot tackle alone. DCI Barlow secretly admires Max-Catt’s willingness…

Maximus Hainsworth-Catt is headhunted from the SAS to join Bastion, a powerful new secret service organisation created to counter the escalating terrorist threat facing Britain. With billions invested and unprecedented authority, Bastion operates beyond the reach of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ — and Max is brought in to lead from the front. The danger has…

Max-Catt is summoned by his Bastion boss, Cordelia Fernsby, and sent to Paris to meet a rogue French intelligence agent. What she carries is explosive: secret film footage of a covert laboratory hidden in Yalta, Crimea. A breakaway Russian faction, the Progressive Russia Party, is attempting to develop a chemical warhead capable of shifting the…

An Iranian-fronted oil company has secretly funded the Islamic Republican Front, embedding six highly intelligent sleeper agents deep inside the British establishment. Groomed through elite universities and coded with river names, they now hold sensitive positions across MI5, MI6, GCHQ, and key government departments — giving the IRF access to classified intelligence at the highest…

A British government minister is assassinated in Regent’s Park, and the trail leads straight to Moscow. Intelligence reveals a covert operation to transfer nearly 2,000 Iranian military drones to Russia — a move that could decisively alter the balance of the war in Ukraine. Max-Catt is deployed on a high-risk mission to prevent the shipment…

Deep inside the Arctic Circle, a reclusive scientist perfects a weapon unlike anything the world has seen. A single “mother-drone” capable of releasing swarms of AI-controlled micro-drones — each lethal, invisible, and able to identify victims by scent alone. When an extremist Islamic terror group threatens to unleash the technology on London unless Tower Hamlets…

Some betrayals don’t just end careers—they create killers. When Max-Catt uncovers a leak at the heart of Bastion, the elite British intelligence unit he leads in the field, he makes a decision that seemingly costs him everything. Cast out and stripped of his identity, Max finds a new world waiting in the shadows. Freelance work.…