Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pokerface | 1985 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 2 | The Baltic Business | 1988 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 3 | The Kimberly Killing | 1990 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 4 | The Cargo Club | 1990 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 5 | The Japanese Job | 1992 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 6 | The Azanian Action | 1991 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 7 | The Time Trap | 1993 | Peter Corris | Buy |
| 8 | The Vietnam Volunteer | 2000 | Peter Corris | Buy |
The Ray Crawley series is Peter Corris’s contribution to spy fiction. Crawley is an Australian intelligence agent whose missions take him around the world, from the Baltic states to the Kimberley region to Vietnam. The eight books were published between 1985 and 2000, running parallel to Corris’s more famous Cliff Hardy series.
Where Hardy sticks close to Sydney, Crawley travels. The books have a different energy than the detective novels — more action-oriented, with international settings and Cold War-era stakes. Corris brought the same clean, efficient prose style to these thrillers that he used in the Hardy books, keeping the plots moving fast across unfamiliar territory.