David Morton Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Deadly Perfume | 1992 | Buy |
| Godless Icon | 1992 | Buy |
| Voices in the Silence | 1994 | Buy |
| Organ Hunters | 1994 | Buy |
| Poisoned Sky | 1996 | Buy |
Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Day the World Ended: The Mount Pelée Disaster: May 7, 1902 | 1969 | Buy |
| The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster | 1971 | Buy |
| Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle | 1972 | Buy |
| Voyage of the Damned | 1974 | Buy |
| Issels: The Biography of a Doctor | 1975 | Buy |
| The Day Guernica Died | 1975 | Buy |
| Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima | 1977 | Buy |
| The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929 | 1979 | Buy |
| Bed of Nails: The Story of the Amazing Blondini | 1981 | Buy |
| Anatomy of an Epidemic | 1981 | Buy |
| Pontiff | 1983 | Buy |
| The Operation | 1984 | Buy |
| The Year of Armageddon: The Pope and the Bomb | 1984 | Buy |
| Desire and Denial: Celibacy and the Church | 1986 | Buy |
| The Jesus Conspiracy: An Investigative Reporter’s Look at an Extraordinary Life & Death | 1987 | Buy |
| The Trial | 1987 | Buy |
| Journey into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control & Medical Abuse | 1987 | Buy |
| Enslaved | 1989 | Buy |
| Chaos Under Heaven: The Shocking Story of China’s Search for Democracy | 1991 | Buy |
| Trespass into Temptation | 1997 | Buy |
| Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad | 1999 | Buy |
| Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America | 2001 | Buy |
| Robert Maxwell, Israel’s Superspy | 2003 | Buy |
| Human Beings: The Weird and the Wonderful | 2005 | Buy |
| Secret Wars: One Hundred Years of British Intelligence Inside MI5 and MI6 | 2009 | Buy |
| Operation Exodus: From the Nazi Death Camps to the Promised Land: A Perilous Journey That Shaped Israel’s Fate | 2009 | Buy |
| Secret Wars / Inside British Intelligence | 2009 | Buy |
| Prisoners in Rabaul: Civilians Surviving Japanese Captivity, 1942-1945 | 2012 | Buy |
| The Pope’s Jews: The Vatican’s Secret Plan to Save Jews from the Nazis | 2012 | Buy |
| Magdalene: Jesus and the Woman Who Loved Him | 2014 | Buy |
| Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE | 2017 | Buy |
| Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule | 2019 | Buy |
Gordon Thomas was a Welsh-born investigative journalist who produced over 30 non-fiction books between 1969 and 2019. His subjects ranged from natural disasters to intelligence agencies, from the Catholic Church to World War II resistance movements. Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad (1999) became his most well-known work and went through multiple updated editions.
His earlier books focused on disaster history: The Day the World Ended (1969) covered the 1902 Mount Pelee eruption, Enola Gay (1977) documented the Hiroshima bombing mission, and Voyage of the Damned (1974) told the story of the SS St. Louis and its Jewish refugees. Journey into Madness (1987) investigated CIA mind control experiments.
Thomas also wrote the David Morton fiction series, five thrillers published in the 1990s featuring intelligence and espionage themes. His later non-fiction continued to focus on espionage and military history, with Secret Wars (2009) covering British intelligence and Shadow Warriors of World War II (2017) profiling women of the OSS and SOE.