Andrew Warren Books in Order

Start with the main Caine arc: Tokyo Black → Red Phoenix → Fire and Forget → Code Green
For prequel context before Tokyo: Devil's Due → Cold Kill
For shorter, hard-hitting missions: Sandfire → Depth Charge → Lethal Action → Sidewinder
For the newest Thomas Caine run: Hell and Ice → White Tiger → Hunting Ground → Gold Dragon

Andrew Warren was born in New Jersey, studied film, English, and psychology at the University of Miami, and spent years working around screens before his books found their shape. His background in film and television included post-production, story producing, and writing, which helps explain why his thrillers often feel built in scenes. The camera is never very far away.

The movies left a mark.

As a child, Warren saw Goldfinger, and the spy-story machinery stuck with him: secret missions, hidden loyalties, cool nerve under pressure. He has also talked about reading old Ian Fleming paperbacks from his father’s shelf, a small detail that fits neatly with the kind of fiction he would later write. He liked the lone hero in the shadows, but he also liked the question behind that hero: who can you trust when the job itself is built on lies?

His first Thomas Caine novel began during a rough patch while he was working in entertainment. Warren had visited Japan years earlier and wanted to go back, but writing was the trip he could afford. One night of brainstorming gave him the bones of Tokyo Black: a burned CIA killer, a neon city, dangerous old contacts, and a past that would not stay buried.

That was the door opening.

Tokyo Black introduced Thomas Caine as a former CIA assassin hiding in Thailand until his old handlers drag him into a mission in Japan. Red Phoenix pushed the story into China and gave Caine a more personal reason to risk himself. Fire and Forget moved the danger to South Sudan, while Code Green brought Caine back toward the agency world he can never quite escape. Later books such as Hell and Ice, White Tiger, and Hunting Ground keep testing whether Caine can build a life outside the work.

Readers tend to come to Warren for pace, clear stakes, and international settings that feel chosen for a reason. His books return to betrayal, guilt, atonement, and the lonely work of deciding who can be trusted when every official answer sounds false. Caine is violent and capable, but Warren keeps coming back to the cost of being that kind of man.

He has also expanded Caine’s world through the Caine: Rapid Fire books, including Sandfire, Depth Charge, Lethal Action, and Sidewinder. Those stories fill in covert missions from Caine’s past and sharpen the series’ action-first side. Under the name A. A. Warren, he has written space fantasy too, so the spy shelf is not his only playground.

These days, Warren lives in Southern California with his wife and their dachshund, Loki. Travel still feeds the work, along with hiking, skiing, kickboxing, and his self-described shaky attempts at surfing. Even when he’s away from the desk, he seems to be looking for the next place to send Caine.