Professionals Books in Order by Ken Blake and others
Professionals contains 15 books, published between 1978 and 1982. The first book is Where The Jungle Ends (1978) and the newest is You'll Be All Right (1982). Publication order is the reading order below.
Other series are also called Professionals: Professionals Books in Order: 2 Different Series.
- Books
- 15
- Published
- 1978–1982
- Pages on record
- 1,788 in 12 of 15 books
- Reading time
- 30–45 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,788 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 12 of 15 titles with a page count on record.
Professionals is a series of 15 books published from 1978 to 1982. Ken Blake is credited on 12 of the books and Kenneth Bulmer on 3. Where The Jungle Ends, Long Shot, Stake Out and Hunter Hunted all appeared in 1978. You'll Be All Right (1982) is the last listed title. Assassination is the one subject tag, and the series is listed as likely complete.
How many Professionals books are there?
Professionals has 15 books, released between 1978 and 1982.
Professionals Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 15 Professionals books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Where The Jungle Ends1978 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/419781591/4
- 2Long Shot1978 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/419781601/4
- 3Stake Out1978 · confirmed 1/41978–1/4
- 4Hunter Hunted1978 · confirmed 1/41978–1/4
- 5Blind Run1979 · 159 pages · confirmed 1/419791591/4
- 6Fall Girl1979 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/419791601/4
- 7Hiding to Nothing1980 · confirmed 1/41980–1/4
- 8Dead Reckoning1980 · 256 pages · confirmed 1/419802561/4
- 9No Stone1981 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/419811241/4
- 10Cry Wolf1981 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/419811601/4
- 11Spy Probe1981 · 121 pages · confirmed 1/419811211/4
- 12Foxhole1982 · 119 pages · confirmed 1/419821191/4
- 13Operation Susie1982 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/419821241/4
- 14The Untouchables1982 · 122 pages · confirmed 1/419821221/4
- 15You'll Be All Right1982 · 124 pages · confirmed 1/419821241/4
Do you have to read Professionals books in order?
You should read the Professionals books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Professionals book also stands alone.
Where to start with Professionals
Start with Where The Jungle Ends (1978), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Professionals book?
You'll Be All Right (1982) is the newest Professionals book released so far.
Is there a new Professionals book coming?
No next Professionals book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Professionals at a glance
- No recent titles
- The newest Professionals title on record dates from 1982, 44 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
- Release pace
- Professionals books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,788 pages across the 12 of 15 books with a recorded length, a median of 142 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Professionals books, 9 of 15, were published in the 1980s.
- Attribution
- Of the 15 titles, 12 are credited to Ken Blake and 3 to Kenneth Bulmer.
What the Professionals books are about
6 of the 15 Professionals books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: fiction in english is tagged on 4 of 6. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Fiction in English 4 of 6 books