Johnny Fedora is a fictional British secret agent who was the protagonist of 16 novels written between 1951 and 1974 by Shaun Lloyd McCarthy , under the pseudonym of Desmond Cory. His mother was Spanish and many of his adventures take place in Latin America or Spain, where his command of Spanish is a useful asset. The debonair Fedora was always a tough and competent agent, but his first adventures were written in a more light-hearted manner than the latter ones. The final books in the series were much more serious and did, in fact, become rather grim upon occasion.

Novels

1. Secret Ministry (1951)
2. This Traitor, Death (1952)
3. Dead Man Falling (1953)
4. Intrigue (1954)
5. Height of Day (1955)
6. High Requiem (1956)
7. Johnny Goes North (1956)
8. Johnny Goes East (1958)
9. Johnny Goes West (1959)
10. Johnny Goes South (1959)
11. The Head (1960)
12. Undertow (1962)
13. Hammerhead (1963)
14. Feramontov (1966)
15. Timelock (1967)
16. Sunburst (1971).