Anselm Gunnar Books in Order

The Anselm Gunnar series is Evan Currie in thriller mode, focused on investigations that move across borders and into uncomfortable places where money, technology, and power overlap.

It’s smaller in scale than his space opera books, but it still has the same forward momentum.

At the center is Anselm Gunnar, an Interpol inspector who’s good at the unglamorous parts of the job, interviews that don’t go anywhere, paperwork that matters, and staying calm when the people around him want quick answers. He’s not a superhero, and that’s the point. The cases push him into rooms where someone is always trying to control the narrative, whether it’s a local official protecting a budget, a corporate fixer protecting a project, or a criminal who knows exactly how much the truth is worth.

The story kicks off with Thermals, which starts as a straightforward liaison assignment. Gunnar is sent to Australia to help track a notorious target, and the trail leads to Tower City, a community built around a massive solar power facility. It’s the kind of place designed to look clean and efficient from the outside, a modern oasis that also happens to be isolated, tightly managed, and full of people with reasons to keep strangers at arm’s length.

Once Gunnar arrives, the case stops behaving like a normal manhunt. The closer he gets, the more it becomes clear that “hiding” isn’t what the suspect has been doing, and that the real danger is tied to what the facility represents, who benefits from it, and what someone is willing to do to protect that advantage.

This series leans on real-world tension: private security versus public law enforcement, local politics versus international pressure, and the way a single piece of critical infrastructure can become a battleground. The technology is part of the plot, but it’s never magic. It’s the kind of near-future engineering and surveillance that feels just plausible enough to be unsettling.

Expect a pace that alternates between legwork and sudden, sharp bursts of action. Gunnar spends as much time trying to figure out what people want as he does chasing them, and the stakes rise because every answer creates a new set of consequences. You’ll see Currie’s comfort with systems and logistics show up in the background, how a city runs, how a security perimeter works, and how small decisions pile up into big failures. If you want to see Currie outside starships and power armor, begin with Thermals and settle in for an international techno-thriller built around motive, leverage, and the hidden costs of “progress.”