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See all Alex Shaw books in order with reading lists, brief summaries, series backgrounds and simple where-to-start advice for Jack Tate, Aidan Snow and more.

Last updated: January 13, 2026

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Wolf Six

by Alex Shaw

2025

Ruslan Akulov, a Ukrainian raised in Moscow and once part of an elite Russian unit called the Werewolves, now works as the feared contract killer known as Wolf Six. After he foils a Chicago bank robbery, he is pulled into a brutal struggle between the Russian mafia and US intelligence that takes him from America to Kyiv and Havana.

Kill Code

by Alex Shaw

2025

Legendary hitman Ruslan "Wolf Six" Akulov wakes on a crashing plane with no memory of how he got there and a kill team waiting below. Framed for murders he did not commit and hunted by a rival assassin from his past, he must unravel a web of double-crosses before it destroys him.

Total Control

by Alex Shaw

2022

MI6 agent and former SAS trooper Jack Tate is sent to capture elusive cyberterrorist Fang Bao, only to watch his target assassinated and realise he has been set up. Chasing the killers across Germany, the US and Myanmar, Tate must stop a plot designed to turn stolen military technology into open conflict.

Traitors

by Alex Shaw

2021

French intelligence officer Sophie Racine heads into war-torn eastern Ukraine to assassinate the Russian mole who destroyed her service from within. At the same time, ex SAS operative Aidan Snow is sent to extract a trapped civilian, and when their missions collide both become hunted targets in a shifting battlefield.

Total Fallout

by Alex Shaw

2021

A black op for MI6 turns personal when Jack Tate learns the Russian assassin who murdered his parents has resurfaced. From Monaco to Qatar and the United States, he hunts both his old enemy and a terrifying new weapon that could push the world towards all out war.

Total Blackout

by Alex Shaw

2020

On holiday in Maine, MI6 officer and former SAS trooper Jack Tate witnesses an electro-magnetic pulse attack that wipes out the US power grid. As chaos spreads and assassination squads move under cover of the blackout, he becomes the only operative positioned to stop a wider geopolitical catastrophe.

Cold East

by Alex Shaw

2015

MI6 agent Aidan Snow rescues a British hostage from Russian-backed insurgents in Ukraine just as a notorious Chechen terrorist escapes a Russian prison. When an al-Qaeda cell gains a portable nuclear device, Snow, MI6 and the CIA must connect the dots before the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.

Cold Blood

by Alex Shaw

2014

Ten years after a convoy ambush left him near death, former SAS trooper Aidan Snow teaches quietly in Ukraine, trying to forget the green-eyed soldier who spared him. When Taurus Pashinski resurfaces as a ruthless trafficker, Snow is dragged back into violence to confront the man who destroyed his old life.

Kyiv Rules

by Alex Shaw

2013

Aging Ukrainian security officer Gennady Dudka heads the SBU’s anti-corruption and organised crime directorate just as a wave of armoured-car robberies threatens an international conference in Kyiv. Pushed toward retirement by superiors and targeted by criminals, he is determined to prove he still knows how to fight back.

Hetman: Donetsk Calling

by Alex Shaw

2012

British expat Brian Webb is enjoying life in Kyiv until he is suddenly chased and shot at on his way home. With no one else he can trust, he calls old friend Aidan Snow, who flies in and goes off the books to discover who wants Webb dead and why.

Delta Force Vampire: Insurgency

by Alex Shaw

2012

Brad "Peter Pan" Black, a Delta Force operator guarding Taliban tunnel networks, is attacked by something in the dark and presumed killed. Awakening changed and hunted, he learns Cold War experiments have unleashed vampires in the Afghan mountains and must master his new nature to defend his comrades and stop the spread.

Cold Black

by Alex Shaw

2010

Now working for MI6, Aidan Snow is sent to find a missing SAS colleague whose intelligence could prevent an imminent al-Qaeda attack. The search drags him through covert funding networks and fragile alliances, tying together oil politics, terrorism and unfinished business from his past operations.

Where should I start?

If you want high-octane MI6 action: Total Blackout  Total Fallout  Total Control
If you prefer Ukraine-set espionage: Cold Blood  Cold Black  Cold East  Hetman: Donetsk Calling
If you like a female-led spy story: Traitors
If you want a supernatural military twist: Delta Force Vampire: Insurgency
If you enjoy assassin thrillers: Wolf Six  Kill Code

Author bio

Alex Shaw is a British thriller writer whose stories move between Kyiv backstreets, shadowy intelligence offices and front line flashpoints around the world. He grew up on the south coast of England and has long been drawn to travel and politics.

After university he trained as a teacher, combining a love of drama with an interest in how people behave under pressure. That mix of classroom work and storytelling would quietly shape the kind of fiction he later wrote.

In the mid 1990s he moved to Kyiv, at a time when Ukraine was still finding its post Soviet identity. He taught drama, started a business consultancy and discovered a city whose history, contradictions and resilience would anchor much of his work.

On those early trips he also met the woman who would become his wife, which turned a short posting abroad into real roots. Living in Kyiv gave him an insider’s view of everyday life, far away from the usual Cold War clichés.

Shaw was later headhunted by a major engineering company and spent years working across the former USSR, the Middle East and Africa. Long flights, hotel rooms and border crossings gave him a close look at the way politics, money and security services overlap.

When he started writing, he noticed how rarely contemporary thrillers treated Ukraine and its neighbours as more than backdrop. Earlier novels he read might mention Kyiv in passing, but often got details wrong. His response was to put characters on the streets he knew, speaking the languages he heard every day.

That decision led to the Aidan Snow novels, beginning with Cold Blood, Cold Black and Cold East, which follow an ex SAS soldier turned MI6 officer through bank heists, terror plots and shifting alliances in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Readers tend to come for the pace and stay for the grounded detail, from the bureaucratic headaches to the rough humour between operatives and the way old wars never quite end.

Shaw has since broadened his world with new series. The Jack Tate books, starting with Total Blackout, throw a British veteran into cyber attacks and covert operations that threaten the United States. Traitors introduces French intelligence officer Sophie Racine in a brutal Ukraine conflict zone, while Delta Force Vampire: Insurgency pushes military action into supernatural territory. More recently, Wolf Six launches Ruslan Akulov, a Ukrainian born assassin wrestling with the past that made him.

Across all of these stories he leans on his years living and working overseas, and on his connections inside the thriller community through organisations such as International Thriller Writers and the Crime Writers Association. The result is fiction that mixes big set pieces with an eye for how real institutions behave.

Today Shaw splits his time between homes in Ukraine, England and the Gulf region with his wife and two sons. When he is not drafting the next mission for Aidan Snow, Jack Tate, Sophie Racine or Wolf Six, he is often travelling, researching on the ground or simply walking city streets, listening for the small details that make his thrillers feel real.

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