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Alan McDermott Books in Order

Explore Alan McDermott books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and simple advice on where to start with Tom Gray, Eva Driscoll, and more.

Last updated: July 2, 2026

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18 books

Gray Justice

by Alan McDermott

2011

After a career criminal destroys his family and slips through the system, ex-soldier Tom Gray declares war on repeat offenders. His vigilante campaign becomes a national spectacle and pulls him into something even bigger.

Gray Redemption

by Alan McDermott

2012

Still living under an assumed name, Tom Gray tries to make his way back to Britain and clear his name. Government enemies and a patient nemesis shadow every move as hunters and hunted close in.

Gray Resurrection

by Alan McDermott

2012

Believed dead, Tom Gray is hiding in the Philippines under a new identity when a mission goes wrong and militants seize him. Old enemies, shifting loyalties, and a rescue bid turn exile into another fight for survival.

Gray Retribution

by Alan McDermott

2014

Tom Gray wants family time, not another war. But when local thugs threaten relatives and his friends face a brutal warlord in Africa, Gray is forced into two crises at once, with devastating personal consequences.

Gray Vengeance

by Alan McDermott

2015

A new terrorist campaign brings Britain to its knees, and Tom Gray is pulled into the hunt for whoever is behind it. The chase stretches from Britain to Africa and Cuba, with Gray’s daughter caught in the danger.

Gray Salvation

by Alan McDermott

2016

When an MI5 operative turns up dead in the Thames, Andrew Harvey uncovers a plot that could trigger an international crisis. To stop an assassination and survive the fallout, he may need Tom Gray back in the fight.

Trojan

by Alan McDermott

2017

MI5 agent Andrew Harvey is sent after a terrifying weapon before it reaches Britain. With only a frightened refugee mother as a lead, he and fellow operative Sarah race to stop a devastating attack.

Run and Hide

by Alan McDermott

2018

After her brother’s death is staged as suicide, Eva Driscoll joins ex-soldier Rees Colback to find out why Special Forces veterans are being targeted. With powerful enemies hunting them, running soon stops being enough.

Seek and Destroy

by Alan McDermott

2018

Eva has a new name and stolen cash, but the shadowy ESO is not finished with her. When her scattered allies are found and threatened, she pulls the team back together for another brutal showdown.

Fight to Survive

by Alan McDermott

2019

Hiding in Australia, Eva is forced by the ESO into a dangerous mission to extract a defector from North Korea. When the job collapses and she is imprisoned, survival means turning captivity into resistance.

Gray Genesis

by Alan McDermott

2020

In Afghanistan, Sergeant Tom Gray leads SAS missions against Taliban targets as the war grows darker and stranger. Protecting a virologist and facing a new kind of enemy, Gray is pushed toward the secret history behind his fall.

Motive

by Alan McDermott

2020

A disgraced soldier, an arrested detective, a damaged survivor, and a woman who kills for pleasure seem unconnected at first. DI John Latimer must untangle the links before a brutal killer strikes again.

Fifteen Times a Killer

by Alan McDermott

2021

Journalist Jess Duffey receives chapters from what looks like a bad serial-killer novel, then finds the crimes are real. Teaming with FBI agent Corrina Stone, she must stop a murderer who wants his story published.

When Death Strikes

by Alan McDermott

2021

Eva Driscoll and Sonny Baines believe they have vanished for good, until a bar fight puts them back on the map. A cartel boss, a relentless tracker, and the ESO close in from all sides.

The Sokolov Agenda

by Alan McDermott

2022

MI6 operative Alex Mann is exposed in Moscow and faces a brutal Russian prison. With a terrorist threat aimed at London and only Mann holding the key, the race to get him home turns desperate.

Empires Will Fall

by Alan McDermott

2023

Still marked by the ESO’s reach, Eva and her allies try to live quietly while a scientist’s family is pulled into a deadly conspiracy. To end the threat for good, Eva has to take the fight back.

Ocean of Wrath

by Alan McDermott

2023

Caught in a mass shooting, Eva spots a pattern the FBI is missing. What looks like a single attack opens into a larger plot, and thousands of lives depend on her finding the mastermind first.

End of Times

by Alan McDermott

2025

Forced to work one more mission for the US government, Eva must rescue a kidnapped hacker before he rebuilds a devastating program. The clock is brutal, the stakes are global, and she cannot do it alone.

Where should I start?

For vigilante thrillers with military grit: Gray JusticeGray ResurrectionGray Redemption
If you want a ruthless spy heroine: Run and HideSeek and DestroyFight to Survive
For darker serial-killer suspense: MotiveFifteen Times a Killer
If you prefer espionage and counterterror plots: TrojanThe Sokolov Agenda

Author bio

Alan McDermott writes the kind of thrillers that move fast and hit hard. His books are full of soldiers, spies, criminals, and ordinary people pushed into impossible situations, but they also have a grounded feel that keeps the danger close to home. He lives in the south of England with his wife and twin daughters.

He did not come to writing by the neat, early-planned route.

McDermott was born in West Germany to Scottish parents, and he spent part of his childhood moving around the United Kingdom as his father was posted to different Army units. That military background helps explain why his fiction feels so at home with team banter, fieldcraft, and people who keep going long after the plan has fallen apart.

Before writing took over, he did a bit of everything. He worked on cruise ships in Hong Kong and Singapore, where he met his wife, and later moved into software development, creating clinical applications for the NHS. He began writing in 1990 while he was between jobs, and for a long time it was something he fitted around the rest of life rather than the other way round.

The full-time writing life came later.

His breakout novel was Gray Justice, the first Tom Gray thriller, published in 2011. It introduced readers to a grieving ex-soldier who decides the justice system has failed too badly to trust. More Tom Gray books followed, including Gray Resurrection, Gray Vengeance, and Gray Salvation, and the series grew from a very personal revenge story into a wider run of action thrillers about loyalty, power, and the cost of taking matters into your own hands. After building that readership, McDermott left his software job in December 2014 to write full time.

He did not stay in one lane for long. Trojan spun Andrew Harvey into his own MI5-led story and was shortlisted for an ITW Thriller Award. Then Run and Hide launched Eva Driscoll, a colder, sharper kind of lead, an ex-CIA assassin who gave McDermott room to lean harder into conspiracies and covert operations. Outside the series work, books like Motive, Fifteen Times a Killer, and The Sokolov Agenda show that he is just as comfortable with serial killers, police investigations, and straight espionage.

What readers usually come to him for is pace, pressure, and competence. His heroes and antiheroes tend to be people with training, scars, and just enough stubbornness to keep moving. Again and again, his stories circle questions about justice, surveillance, state power, terrorism, and what happens when decent people decide the rules are no longer doing the job.

His daily routine sounds a lot steadier than the lives he gives his characters. He has described early starts, coffee, exercise, the school run, and long hours at the keyboard. It is a simple rhythm, but it seems to suit him.

And it fits the books too. They are lean, direct, and built by someone who clearly likes getting to work.

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