Author of the
Max Shaw
Spy Thriller
Series

Hi, I’m Australian Author Xavier Wallace!

I’m an Australian writer. My writing passion is for crime and spy thriller novels. I’ve published five books in the spy and crime genre with a sixth being edited - hopefully ready to be published later this year!

I grew up in country New South Wales, went to uni in Newcastle and for over 15 years I’ve lived in Canberra with a couple of stints in Sydney.

If you enjoy high action, espionage, crime, mystery and thriller type novels with an Australian protagonist, check out the Max Shaw spy thriller series!

Max is an Australian spy with books 1, 2 and 6 based right here in Australia - in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and regional NSW - with more adventures coming soon. Book 3 is based in Italy and the UK. Book 4 sees Max head to the United States, while Book 5 has Max race across the Netherlands, France and into Russia.

You can find out more about me here - Meet Xavier - more about Max here - Meet Max - and about the spy novels here - Max Shaw Spy Thriller Series.

The Max Shaw Spy Thriller Series

Let me introduce you to the world of Max Shaw - an Australian spy named after my great-grandfather.

Max is living the typical college life at uni when he is approached by General Patrick ‘Hulk’ Scott with an offer - join the Australian Intelligence Service and help protect the nation from foreign and domestic threats.

Max’s hopes and dreams of the future are challenged when confronted by the reality of service and sacrifice in the life of a spy on the very front lines of our national defence.

The series is a fast paced, high action mix of both the crime and spy thriller genres.

I hope you enjoy the ride!

All the best,

Xavier Wallace

  • Shaw Vengeance

    Willing to do what it takes.
    Ruthlessly determined.
    Burdened by the past.
    Agent Max Shaw is ready for vengeance.

    Book One - Shaw Vengeance is based in Australia, primarily in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Max is five years into his career with the AIS. He and his team are thrown into a series of escalating domestic terror attacks which they must overcome to protect the nation’s leaders and citizens. Max grapples with his complex feelings about terror, torture, love and loss in a non-stop action thriller.

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  • Shaw Initiation

    Eager to serve.
    Instinct to succeed.
    Failure: Biblical.
    Recruit Max Shaw’s Initiation has begun.

    Book Two - Shaw Initiation is the prequel. It’s set in Australia, primarily in Sydney and Canberra, and at the AIS’s training base, known as The Wool Shed, at an undisclosed location in regional New South Wales. It’s the story of his recruitment and training, and the thrilling and confronting first mission which makes him question whether he has what it takes.

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  • Shaw Confrontation

    Uncompromising.
    Unrelenting.
    Unstoppable.
    Agent Max Shaw confronts terror, confronts his past and confronts himself.

    Book Three - Shaw Confrontation takes place only six months after the events of Shaw Vengeance. Max is holidaying in Europe when a new lead sets him on a course across the continent from Italy to England as he hunts the international terror group behind the attacks on Australia in Vengeance.

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  • Shaw Intervention

    On the run.
    Judge, Jury, Executioner.
    The world at risk.
    Max Shaw must intervene.

    Book Four - Shaw Intervention is set nine years after Shaw Confrontation. Former Agent Max Shaw has gone rogue and has spent years as judge, jury and executioner, eliminating global threats while on the run from the very agencies he once served. Max is dragged back into the world of espionage as America comes under attack and a new threat emerges capable of taking down the world as we know it.

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  • Shaw Reclamation

    Locked up.
    Lies, deceit & corruption.
    A new age threat.
    Max Shaw must reclaim his freedom, his life & our world.

    Book Five - Shaw Reclamation is set only months after Shaw Intervention. Max has been subject of rendition and finds himself on trial in The Hague for war crimes. He receives a visit from a former colleague alerting him to a new age AI threat which has the potential to start World War III.

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  • Shaw Salvation

    Preview - Book Six - Shaw Salvation is almost finished. Max is returning home to lead a quiet life far removed from the world of death he has known until a terror cell targets those closet to him. He rejoins the AIS to help train the next generation of spies, before being dragged back into the action.

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