Bobby Akart Books in Order
Browse Bobby Akart books in order, with series guides, short summaries, and simple where-to-start tips for his disaster, survival, and thriller novels.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
86 books
Cyber Attack
by Bobby Akart
2015
As daily life is disrupted by escalating cyber strikes, wealthy interests and political operators begin moving behind the scenes. Sarge and the Loyal Nine see collapse coming before most people will admit it.
Cyber Warfare
by Bobby Akart
2015
No bombs are required here, only keystrokes and vulnerable systems. Akart breaks down cyber threats in a direct, plainspoken way that matches the rest of his preparedness nonfiction.
Hellfire
by Bobby Akart
2015
Ashby Donovan, shaped by a childhood escape from Mount Pinatubo, sees trouble building beneath Yellowstone. The first book turns the park's beauty into a tense countdown to eruption.
Martial Law
by Bobby Akart
2015
After a vicious attack on critical infrastructure, the country tips into upheaval and emergency rule. The series shifts from warning to open crisis, with freedom suddenly looking very fragile.
Seeds of Liberty
by Bobby Akart
2015
A civics-minded nonfiction entry, this book looks at the beliefs and responsibilities that support liberty and self-reliance when institutions are under strain. It fits the broader preparedness theme without losing the political edge.
The Loyal Nine
by Bobby Akart
2015
Henry Sargent Winthrop IV sees America near economic and social collapse, and a secretive network with deep historical roots prepares to defend both itself and the country. It launches Akart's mix of conspiracy, politics, and survival.
36 Hours
by Bobby Akart
2016
Teenager Alex Ryman spots the warning signs of a catastrophic solar storm and gives her family just 36 hours to prepare. It is a grounded survival story about ordinary people racing the clock before the grid goes dark.
Choose Freedom
by Bobby Akart
2016
The Boston Brahmin storyline reaches its ideological and personal payoff as the fight becomes about what kind of country can survive. It is a political thriller that closes on principle as much as action.
Economic Collapse
by Bobby Akart
2016
This nonfiction book looks at the rise and fall of empires and asks what national decline looks like in practical terms. Akart approaches the topic through history, finance, and warning signs.
EMP
by Bobby Akart
2016
Akart lays out the threat posed by an electromagnetic pulse attack in clear, accessible terms. It is less about fictional drama and more about understanding how fragile modern systems can be.
False Flag
by Bobby Akart
2016
Government lies, conspiracy, and fear of foreign enemies all start to overlap. Sarge and his allies have to figure out whether the official story is cover, manipulation, or both.
The Mechanics
by Bobby Akart
2016
A desperate president uses the collapse to push beyond constitutional limits. This book leans hard into power plays, backroom strategy, and the machinery of control.
Turning Point
by Bobby Akart
2016
With the first shock over, the Rymans face the harder part, living day to day in a broken world. Scarcity, shifting loyalties, and painful choices push the family toward a true turning point.
Zero Hour
by Bobby Akart
2016
The storm has hit, power is gone, and the Rymans realize the blackout may be permanent. As neighbors panic and official help falters, the family must decide who to trust and how much to lead.
Axis of Evil
by Bobby Akart
2017
North Korea and Iran bring the threat straight to American soil, but Texas is not ready to fold. The first book sets up the EMP attack, the geopolitical tension, and the state's fierce refusal to be overrun.
Beginnings
by Bobby Akart
2017
Epidemiologist Mackenzie Hagan and covert operative Nathan Hunter collide while tracking an outbreak with terrorist roots. The first book blends medical suspense with action and the fear of a crisis nobody wants to admit is real.
Devil's Homecoming
by Bobby Akart
2017
In the final Blackout novel, the fight shifts from making it through collapse to imagining what comes after. The Rymans face war, rebuilding, and the question of what kind of society survives the ruins.
Hornet's Nest
by Bobby Akart
2017
The Rymans learn that surviving the disaster is one thing, surviving other people is another. Old conflicts explode, and one bad decision stirs up exactly the kind of revenge the title promises.
Level 6
by Bobby Akart
2017
What begins in faraway places now threatens the world at scale. This entry widens the outbreak into a true pandemic and leans hard into the cost of delay.
Patriot's Farewell
by Bobby Akart
2017
Sarge returns in a later standalone that mixes political intrigue with fast action. Familiar loyalties and old threats collide as he steps back into a dangerous national struggle.
Quietus
by Bobby Akart
2017
The series closes with humanity facing both patient zero and the idea of a last patient. It is a grim, forward-driving finale about extinction, endurance, and what might come after.
Shiloh Ranch
by Bobby Akart
2017
After the blackout, Madison Ryman and her family reach a harsher stage of survival. Fear, fire, and mounting danger test whether they can hold together in a world that keeps getting meaner.
The Innocents
by Bobby Akart
2017
The virus moves quietly, using ordinary contact and unsuspecting carriers to spread. Mac and Hunter race to understand the growing plague before the phrase patient zero stops mattering.
Beyond Borders
by Bobby Akart
2018
After America falls dark, new borders matter more than old maps. Texans defend what they can, while desperate Americans try to cross into the one state that still has a functioning edge.
Doomsday Apocalypse
by Bobby Akart
2018
America's internal divisions stop being rhetorical and start turning violent. The opening book treats social fracture itself as the disaster, then asks how quickly words can become bloodshed.
Doomsday Haven
by Bobby Akart
2018
Multiple coordinated attacks, EMP, cyber sabotage, dirty bombs, and public chaos show that doomsday has begun. It is the series' pivot from warning signs to national emergency.
Fallout
by Bobby Akart
2018
Once Yellowstone blows, the real scale of the disaster becomes impossible to ignore. Ash, ruin, and extinction-level consequences take center stage in a book that widens the catastrophe dramatically.
Fifth Column
by Bobby Akart
2018
Sabotage brews in the shadows as enemies prepare to strike from within. This entry leans into conspiracy, infiltration, and the fear that the next blow may come from neighbors.
Inferno
by Bobby Akart
2018
Yellowstone has moved past warning signs and toward eruption. Volcanologist Ashby Donovan realizes the caldera has reached a point where science can explain the danger but may not stop it.
Lines in the Sand
by Bobby Akart
2018
Survival now depends on who controls territory and who is willing to cross it. The series keeps its political stakes high while showing the human cost of hard borders.
Suicide Six
by Bobby Akart
2018
The final Lone Star book turns into a last stand shaped by sacrifice and grit. It is about what Texans and their allies are still willing to fight for after everything has been stripped away.
Survival
by Bobby Akart
2018
After fire, ash, and collapse, the series ends on the oldest question of all, who actually lives through an extinction event? It is the most stripped-down survival book of the four.
Texas Strong
by Bobby Akart
2018
A new nation rallies around survival, but strength brings its own pressures and enemies. The book balances state-level politics with family-level consequences.
Asteroid Destruction
by Bobby Akart
2019
The Asteroid trilogy ends with heaven and earth on a collision course. Gunner must see the mission through while the clock runs out for everyone below.
Asteroid Discovery
by Bobby Akart
2019
Gunner Fox, a U.S. Air Force test pilot and earth scientist, is pulled into a mission to stop an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. The book mixes military action, science, and planetary stakes.
Asteroid Diversion
by Bobby Akart
2019
The mission gets bigger and more desperate as Gunner tries to change the asteroid's path. He is carrying the weight of the world, and failure is not survivable.
Doomsday Anarchy
by Bobby Akart
2019
The country tips toward a second civil war as ideology gives way to open gunfire. Nobody is insulated from the damage once the powder keg erupts.
Doomsday Civil War
by Bobby Akart
2019
The finale asks whether civility can ever return after a nation tears itself apart. It is a dark closing act about power, revenge, and the cost of trying to win at any price.
Doomsday Minutemen
by Bobby Akart
2019
Patriotic militias, hard choices, and a nation already in ruin shape the fourth book. The question is no longer whether doomsday has arrived, but who will survive the fight over what comes next.
The Collapse
by Bobby Akart
2019
Government decisions meant to prevent the worst may trigger something even bigger, the collapse of the grid and the collapse of order. The Boone family must survive both natural upheaval and human panic.
The Flood
by Bobby Akart
2019
Ice melts, rain keeps falling, and the usual promise that floodwaters recede no longer feels safe. This installment turns Geostorm into a sweeping water disaster.
The Pulse
by Bobby Akart
2019
As the poles keep shifting, the weakened magnetic field leaves the planet more exposed to the sun. The Boone family fights through escalating disasters while the science becomes even more alarming.
The Shift
by Bobby Akart
2019
Meteorologist Chapman Boone begins to investigate bizarre weather as the Earth's magnetic balance starts to fail. The first book spreads the danger across the Boone family and turns strange science into immediate peril.
New Madrid Earthquake
by Bobby Akart
2020
Two hundred years after the historic quake sequence, the New Madrid fault wakes up again and tears through the American heartland. The Atwood and Chandler families are scattered across the region and must fight their way back toward one another.
Odessa Reborn
by Bobby Akart
2020
A doomed science expedition and a strange distress call pull Gunner Fox into a mystery tied to things thought lost in the Bermuda Triangle. What surfaces is older, darker, and far more dangerous than anyone expected.
Odessa Rising
by Bobby Akart
2020
Terrorist chatter spikes across the globe as old horrors seem to be returning. Gunner and his allies have to sort real threats from deliberate diversions before the next strike lands.
Odessa Strikes
by Bobby Akart
2020
The Odessa threat becomes openly global in a story built around bioterror, historical evil, and a ticking clock. Gunner is thrown into a fight where the danger is spreading faster than the truth.
The Pioneers
by Bobby Akart
2020
After weeks of loss, the country has become a patchwork of water and scattered refuge. The Boone family enters the endgame looking for a way to build something livable from a changed world.
The Tempest
by Bobby Akart
2020
Months of violent weather grind down the survivors as seas rise and land disappears. The Boone family keeps moving through a world that is becoming less recognizable by the day.
Virus Hunters 1
by Bobby Akart
2020
When people in Las Vegas begin dying from an unknown virus, CDC epidemiologist Harper Randolph is sent to find patient zero and keep panic contained. The medical mystery is tense from the start and only gets worse.
Virus Hunters 2
by Bobby Akart
2020
Disease does not care about race, age, or status, and Harper's team is forced to work inside that grim truth. The second book keeps the series global, clinical, and deeply personal at the same time.
Virus Hunters 3
by Bobby Akart
2020
Harper has spent her career chasing invisible killers, but now the investigation may be putting her in the direct line of fire. The trilogy closes with pressure from both the microbes and the people behind the chase.
Armageddon
by Bobby Akart
2021
Nuclear war is no longer theoretical. As the Albrights struggle across a ruined landscape, the series widens from crisis buildup to the terrifying first days after the bombs fall.
Black Friday
by Bobby Akart
2021
Terrorists target America on its busiest shopping and travel day, and the pressure builds across multiple fronts. This standalone brings the Boston Brahmin world back for a tight, timely crisis.
Black Gold
by Bobby Akart
2021
Environmental terrorists target the Texas oil industry with violence and cyberattacks, and the family behind Sterling Oil becomes a direct target. It is a hard-driving thriller about infrastructure, legacy, and people who underestimate Texans.
First Strike
by Bobby Akart
2021
War abroad edges toward the unthinkable while the Albright family begins to sense how exposed ordinary Americans really are. This opener sets up both the geopolitical danger and the survival story to come.
Nuclear Winter Desolation
by Bobby Akart
2021
At last the family has a chance to regroup, but even the air feels dangerous in the frozen aftermath. The final book asks what survival means when the world itself has been altered.
Nuclear Winter Devil Storm
by Bobby Akart
2021
The long-term horror arrives as soot blocks the sun and famine takes hold. This entry leans into the science and misery of a planet sliding into nuclear winter.
Nuclear Winter Whiteout
by Bobby Akart
2021
Fallout circles the globe, temperatures plunge, and the Albrights keep moving toward the Florida Keys. The journey grows harsher, and not everyone is guaranteed to make it home.
Perfect Storm
by Bobby Akart
2022
New York turns out for a rare northern lights event, then watches civilization fail when a solar disaster drops the grid. The opening book traps the Cubbison family inside a city that becomes dangerous almost overnight.
Perfect Storm 2
by Bobby Akart
2022
The lights are still out and panic has fully arrived. In a collapsing New York, the Cubbison family fights through fear, flight, and fast-rising violence.
Perfect Storm 3
by Bobby Akart
2022
Food is scarce, water is unsafe, and medical help is disappearing as the powerless world hardens into something brutal. The Cubbisons face one crisis after another while the country slides deeper into lawlessness.
Perfect Storm 4
by Bobby Akart
2022
Betrayal hits close to home as the Cubbison family tries to protect what they have left. The final book turns the question from survival alone to whether anything can truly be defended.
ARkStorm
by Bobby Akart
2023
California's long-predicted megastorm finally arrives, bringing floods, landslides, and a modern inland sea. Akart grounds the disaster in real history while following families and responders through the chaos.
Fractured
by Bobby Akart
2023
The flooding from *ARkStorm* leaves behind a giant lake and dangerous new pressure on California's fault lines. Mac Atwood warns that the real disaster may be the earthquake coming next.
Mammoth
by Bobby Akart
2023
California's run of bad luck turns volcanic when the Long Valley Caldera begins to awaken. Mac Atwood and Taylor Reid return for a larger, hotter disaster with end-of-the-world overtones.
Aftermath 1
by Bobby Akart
2024
AI errors trigger a global nuclear exchange in under an hour, and the Bartlett family on Swan's Island suddenly has to live through the unthinkable. The book focuses as much on human shock as on the scale of the war.
Aftermath 2
by Bobby Akart
2024
The bombs may have stopped, but the real aftermath is only starting. With family members separated across sea and land, the Bartletts fight through a landscape shaped by fallout, fear, and failing systems.
Aftermath 3
by Bobby Akart
2024
In a world without power or easy communication, waiting becomes its own danger. The Bartlett family must hold Swan's Island while hoping loved ones still have a path home.
Aftermath 4
by Bobby Akart
2024
Soot blots out the sun, the temperature drops, and survival starts to depend on finding somewhere better than Maine. The Bartletts begin a perilous search for a true refuge.
Behind The Gates 1
by Bobby Akart
2024
Economic collapse stops feeling abstract when it reaches a gated community outside Los Angeles. Neighbors who once shared little more than sidewalks now have to decide how they will survive together.
Behind The Gates 2
by Bobby Akart
2024
Scarcity hardens positions inside the community as hope for a quick rescue fades. Trust becomes a resource almost as valuable as food or security.
Behind The Gates 3
by Bobby Akart
2024
Tension from outside the gates meets conflict within them. The series keeps asking whether a comfortable neighborhood can stay civilized once the wider country breaks down.
Behind The Gates 4
by Bobby Akart
2024
By the final book, survival depends on cooperation, defense, and a clear-eyed view of who the real threats are. It is the payoff to a series built on community pressure and fraying social rules.
Aftermath 5
by Bobby Akart
2025
Firestorms, smoke, and a spreading nuclear ice age make every delay more costly. The family keeps moving toward a possible safe harbor, unsure whether it will welcome them or reject them.
Aftermath 6
by Bobby Akart
2025
The Bartletts finally seem to have found a life they can rebuild, until war reaches them again. The closing book asks whether any refuge can stay safe in a planet-wide aftermath.
Axial
by Bobby Akart
2025
Volcanoes across the Pacific Rim ignite as the series heads toward extinction-level stakes. The Mercer family must act with almost no room left for error.
Cascadia
by Bobby Akart
2025
A Cascadia quake and tsunami are only the opening blow in a chain of Pacific disasters. Duke Mercer and the scientists around him realize the real story may be the awakening of Axial Seamount.
Ring of Fire Hawaii
by Bobby Akart
2025
With the team barely recovered from St. Helens, deep Pacific unrest points toward Hawaii. Duke Mercer and the volcanology team race to understand what is being hidden before paradise becomes the next front.
Silent Night
by Bobby Akart
2025
Christmas Eve celebrations are shattered when a rogue missile detonates an EMP over America. The nation goes silent in a single flash, and separated families have to survive a holiday turned catastrophe.
St. Helens
by Bobby Akart
2025
Mount St. Helens erupts without warning, burying highways and choking cities under ash. It is a bigger, meaner second act that makes clear the chain reaction has barely started.
Black Swan 1
by Bobby Akart
2026
NASA thinks it has found a comet, but the data keeps getting stranger and the implications get darker. The first book launches a first-contact story that also feels like a disaster thriller.
Black Swan 2
by Bobby Akart
2026
The Pickett family is scattered across Texas as cities burn and satellites die. The supposed comet is no longer behaving like a comet, and the truth is much worse than the public has been told.
Black Swan 3
by Bobby Akart
2026
The object has passed, but the crisis deepens when strange metallic presences appear across the globe. Humanity starts testing them, and learns it is being watched just as closely in return.
Black Swan 4
by Bobby Akart
2026
The story shifts from survival to destiny as the Pickett family learns the approaching object was never simple or accidental. The stakes become deeply personal without losing the global scale.
Black Swan 5
by Bobby Akart
2026
Hidden powers step into the open as divided nonhuman forces turn one child into the most valuable person on Earth. The fifth book pushes the conspiracy and first-contact threads into a bigger, riskier game.
Where should I start?
If you want family survival fiction: 36 Hours → Zero Hour → Turning Point
If you want medical suspense: Beginnings → The Innocents → Level 6 → Quietus
If you want political collapse and conspiracy: The Loyal Nine → Cyber Attack → Martial Law
If you want natural-disaster spectacle: Hellfire → Inferno → Fallout → Survival
If you want his newer big-concept thriller: Black Swan 1 → Black Swan 2 → Black Swan 3
Author bio
Bobby Akart was born in Tennessee and grew up there, later staying close to home for college. He studied economics and political science at the University of Tennessee, then continued on for a law degree and a master's degree in business.
Before fiction took over, he spent years working as an attorney in banking, trusts, and investment banking. He also moved through other business ventures, and that background helps explain why money, power, fragile institutions, and bad political decisions show up so often in his novels.
Then he started writing thrillers full time.
His early fiction quickly showed what kind of storyteller he wanted to be. In books like The Loyal Nine and 36 Hours, he took big national threats and ran them through the lives of ordinary people, families, neighbors, scientists, and reluctant leaders. The disasters might be large, but the emotional focus usually stays personal.
That pattern has stayed with him. A solar storm drives the Blackout books. A deadly outbreak powers Beginnings. A supervolcano erupts in Hellfire. A California mega-flood hits in ARkStorm. And in the newer Black Swan books, he moves into first-contact territory without giving up the survival pressure that defines so much of his work.
That is the hook.
Readers who stick with Akart tend to like the blend of research and pace. He writes about EMP attacks, pandemics, cyberwar, earthquakes, volcanoes, pole shifts, and nuclear war, but he rarely treats them like abstract thought experiments. He turns them into practical problems, who has food, who has power, who tells the truth, who panics, and who keeps going when the rules stop working.
He has also written nonfiction on preparedness topics such as cyberwarfare, economic collapse, and EMP threats, and he has spoken publicly about those subjects. That side of his work gives his fiction a particular feel. Even when the setup is huge, the details often come back to systems, logistics, and the uncomfortable idea that modern life is more fragile than it looks.
By the mid 2020s, Akart had published more than eighty novels and built a readership that stretches across hundreds of countries and territories. Series like Blackout, Pandemic, Yellowstone, Geostorm, Gunner Fox, and Ring of Fire all show the same instinct, take a real-world risk, ask what happens if it turns catastrophic, and then stay close to the people trapped inside it.
These days, he is a retired attorney living in the Lowcountry with his wife and two English Bulldogs. He writes for readers who like fast-moving thrillers, grounded science, and that familiar feeling of saying just one more chapter.
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