Tweed & Co. Reading Order
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| Double Jeopardy | 1982 | Buy |
| Terminal | 1984 | Buy |
| Cover Story | 1986 | Buy |
| The Janus Man | 1987 | Buy |
| Deadlock | 1988 | Buy |
| The Greek Key | 1989 | Buy |
| Shockwave | 1990 | Buy |
| Whirlpool | 1991 | Buy |
| By Stealth | 1992 | Buy |
| Cross of Fire | 1992 | Buy |
| The Power | 1994 | Buy |
| Fury | 1995 | Buy |
| The Cauldron | 1996 | Buy |
| Precipice | 1996 | Buy |
| The Sisterhood | 1997 | Buy |
| This United State | 1998 | Buy |
| Sinister Tide | 1999 | Buy |
| Rhinoceros | 2000 | Buy |
| The Vorpal Blade | 2001 | Buy |
| The Cell | 2002 | Buy |
| No Mercy | 2003 | Buy |
| Blood Storm | 2004 | Buy |
| The Main Chance | 2005 | Buy |
| The Savage Gorge | 2006 | Buy |
Tweed and Co is a 24-book British thriller series written by Colin Forbes, beginning with Double Jeopardy in 1982 and running through to The Savage Gorge in 2006. The series follows Robert Tweed, a senior officer in British intelligence, and his team — Paula Grey, Bob Newman, and others — through international espionage and crime plots set across Europe and beyond. The combination of spy fiction and detective thriller elements gives the series a distinctive position in British genre fiction of the 1980s through the 2000s.
Colin Forbes was a prolific author who published a new Tweed and Co novel almost every year throughout the series’ run. The books are largely standalone plots within a shared cast framework, meaning most can be read independently, though readers who want to track character development will benefit from reading in publication order. Double Jeopardy is the natural starting point.
The series has a loyal following among readers who enjoy old-school British thriller fiction from the Cold War and post-Cold War period, comparable in tone to authors like Hammond Innes and Desmond Bagley.