Patrol is a 1927 war novel by the British writer Philip MacDonald.

It is set in Mesopotamia during the First World War, focusing on the psychological strain on a patrol of British soldiers when they become lost in the desert and surrounded by the enemy.

The novel was directly adapted into films on two occasions: a 1929 British silent film Lost Patrol directed by Walter Summers and starring Cyril McLaglen,[1] and a 1934 American film The Lost Patrol directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff and Reginald Denny.

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