Alexander King Books in Order
Part ofBradley Wright Books in OrderSee all Alexander King books by Bradley Wright in order, with plot summaries, series background, and tips on where to start this globe-trotting CIA thriller series.
Last updated: January 13, 2026
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Publication Order
9 books
Fallout
by Bradley Wright
2026
In this upcoming Alexander King thriller, a new crisis rises from the wreckage of earlier battles and pulls King back into the line of fire. Old enemies, fragile alliances, and the risk of global fallout force him to confront what his long war has really cost.
War Machine
by Bradley Wright
2025
During a presidential inauguration, an electromagnetic attack shuts down Washington, D.C., and armed teams move on the Capitol. Alexander King realizes the assault is only the opening move in a plan to rewrite America’s future, and he must decide if he has one more war left in him.
Spy Ring
by Bradley Wright
2024
Three cryptic clues left by an unseen enemy pull Alexander King and his team toward the future of modern warfare. As they follow the trail, they uncover a shocking new threat and a personal reason King was drawn into the game in the first place.
Smoke Screen
by Bradley Wright
2022
Alexander King is finally trying to live like a civilian with Natalie when an old enemy begins twisting his life into a maze of decoys. As his team chases misdirection from California to Europe, a hidden plot aimed at thousands of Americans moves into place.
Power Move
by Bradley Wright
2021
Now running his own off-the-books team, Alexander King agrees to help Sam Harrison confront a secret from her past. A trail of clues pulls them into the most dangerous operation of their careers and toward a catastrophic attack planned on American soil.
Most Wanted
by Bradley Wright
2021
On a mission in Mexico City, Alexander King finds an unexpected package in the trunk of his car that blows up his life. Framed and hunted, he has to uncover who set him up and why before his own agency decides he is expendable.
Enemy Lines
by Bradley Wright
2021
Sent to Haiti to quietly protect the president, Alexander King and his team are rejected, then framed when the leader is kidnapped. On the run in a hostile country and caught between rival cartels, they must rescue their client and clear their names at the same time.
The Secret Weapon
by Bradley Wright
2020
After a mission turns personal, elite operative Alexander King vanishes so completely that even his family thinks he is dead. Saving a young woman from a car bomb in London drags him back into a world of terrorists and politicians trying to seize control of the U.S. military.
Cold War
by Bradley Wright
2020
In this early Alexander King outing, a deadly new weapon pushes global tensions toward disaster. King and his team race to uncover who holds it, what they plan to do with it, and how to stop the countdown before it sparks a much larger conflict.
Series background & context
The Alexander King novels follow a covert operator the CIA keeps off the books and in the shadows. Alexander King is the man they call when polite diplomacy fails and the cost of getting it wrong is measured in cities, not headlines.
Before this series opens, a mission turns personal and King makes himself disappear to protect the people he loves. His family buries a body they believe is his. Washington’s enemies think the same. For a while he moves like a ghost, taking the odd job and trying to live a quieter life that never quite fits.
In The Secret Weapon that anonymity is shattered when King pulls a woman away from a car bomb in London. The rescue drops him into a knot of terrorism and politics that stretches all the way to a U.S. presidential campaign. A ruthless mastermind is not trying to topple America from the outside, but to gain control of the levers on the inside.
Each book pushes King and his small team into a different corner of that dangerous world. They chase bioweapon threats and viral outbreaks, race against kidnappers and cartel bosses in places like Mexico and Haiti, and hunt enemies who hide behind boardrooms and election stages instead of ski masks. More than once, King discovers that the people signing his orders may be part of the problem.
The series never stays in one place for long. One story might send King from the streets of Mexico City to back channels in Washington. Another throws him into a chaotic Haiti, where a missing president and a drug war collide. Later books find him trying to live like a civilian with Natalie, only to be dragged back in by an old foe, or standing in the nation’s capital when a crippling attack targets the president himself.
At its heart, though, the series is about a man trying to balance lethal skill with a conscience. King is smart, stubborn, and more than a little scarred by everything he has done in the name of security. His loyalty to his team, and to the people he has already lost too much to protect, is what keeps him moving when the odds are ridiculous.
If you like globe-spanning thrillers built around a tight-knit crew, moral gray areas, and big, cinematic set pieces, the Alexander King books give you a front-row seat to one crisis after another.
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