Bradley Wright Books in Order
Browse Bradley Wright books in order with series lists, brief summaries, reading order help, and suggestions on where to start his fast-paced thriller series.
Last updated: January 13, 2026
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Publication Order
35 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.
Dead Zone
by Bradley Wright
2026
Set at the sharp end of the Adam Burke series, Dead Zone plunges Burke into a crisis where the usual playbook no longer works. Cut off, outnumbered, and facing an enemy who knows his moves, he has to keep his team alive long enough to stop a catastrophe.
Black Market
by Bradley Wright
2026
A prominent family’s daughter is kidnapped, and every hour that passes makes her fate less certain. The FBI has clues but needs someone willing to wade into the darkest corners of the black market, so Tom Walker takes on a criminal network unlike any he has faced before.
Zero Trace
by Bradley Wright
2025
In this later Adam Burke mission, the stakes shift higher than ever as a new enemy learns how to vanish from every camera and database. Burke and his team must hunt opponents who leave almost no footprint while trying to keep their own ghosts from catching up.
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.
Uncivil War
by Bradley Wright
2025
Army special operator Jake Maddox is home in Kentucky when he sees a man tear a boy apart in broad daylight, stripped of humanity by a new infection. As the outbreak spreads and his brother Colt fights to save his own family in Colorado, the brothers cross paths with a girl who might be humanity’s last hope.
The Wrong Man
by Bradley Wright
2025
On Honolulu’s sunlit streets, Tom Walker steps in when he sees a young woman being handled like property, not a person. That act of defiance puts him on a collision course with a ruthless crime boss who is about to learn he picked the wrong man to cross.
Reckoning
by Bradley Wright
2025
The final Uncivil War novel brings the Maddox brothers and Amy to the edge of what they can endure. As the infection tightens its grip and safe places vanish, they face hard choices about sacrifice, survival, and what kind of future is worth fighting for.
Evolution
by Bradley Wright
2025
Fresh from a narrow escape, Jake Maddox, Colt, and young Amy barely have time to breathe before disaster strikes again and their helicopter goes down. Stranded in a changed world where the infected grow smarter and more coordinated, they must rely on Amy’s mysterious gift to keep anyone alive.
Cold Front
by Bradley Wright
2025
A terrorist operation starts detonating bombs across American cities while a powerful, poorly understood weapon disappears into the shadows. Adam Burke has to identify who holds it, what they want, and how to stop their endgame before a major U.S. city is wiped off the map.
Blackout
by Bradley Wright
2025
London suddenly goes dark with no warning and no explanation, just fear. When a key government asset who is also family vanishes during the chaos, Adam Burke and his covert team race to uncover how the blackout and kidnapping connect before someone from Burke’s past takes him off the board.
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.
Moving Target
by Bradley Wright
2024
In the heat of Nigeria, former Air Force special operator Adam Burke is ordered to gather intelligence and never make contact. Discovering a horrific link between a corrupt president and a savage warlord, he breaks those rules and becomes the only thing standing between thousands and disaster.
Hard To Kill
by Bradley Wright
2024
A vengeful operator named Nico Wainwright wants payback for his brother’s death, while Adam Burke is chasing a ring that sells children into slavery. As their paths collide, Burke finds that politics can be just as lethal as war and that this time the fight is painfully personal.
Deliverance
by Bradley Wright
2024
After spending too long as prey, Tom Walker decides it is time to flip the script on the people hunting him. Deliverance follows his push to take the fight to his enemies, forcing them into the open and proving that chasing him was a very bad idea.
Breaking Point
by Bradley Wright
2024
In a volatile Middle Eastern war zone, a flash drive containing missile codes and the identities of American operatives falls into enemy hands. When the agents sent to recover it are captured, Adam Burke and his team have less than twenty-four hours to save them and stop a massacre.
Killer Instinct
by Bradley Wright
2023
Tom Walker returns to his hometown looking for a quiet visit and instead becomes a target for the covert program he once served. After a farmer named Leila saves his life and is dragged into a drug ring operating beneath her own land, Walker sets out to get her back, no matter the body count.
Holy Water
by Bradley Wright
2023
Hoping for a peaceful break, Tom Walker rents a cabin on a Tennessee lake and stumbles into a town full of secrets. When a young girl goes missing and the local stories do not add up, he digs into the darkness around Soddy Daisy, knowing the truth may get him killed.
Blind Pass
by Bradley Wright
2023
Stopping in St. Pete Beach to mind his own business, Tom Walker instead ends up fighting a local dealer to defend a woman named Taylor. When he learns she is an FBI agent chasing the dealer’s powerful father and a cartel connection, Walker is pulled into a storm only his skills can weather.
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.
Saint Nick 2
by Bradley Wright
2020
A year after inheriting Santa’s powers, Army Ranger Nick Campos and his crew have become the CIA’s favorite problem solvers. This Christmas he turns his all-seeing eye and high-tech sleigh toward dismantling a brutal human trafficking network that targets children.
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.
Shooting Star
by Bradley Wright
2019
Former FBI detective Lawson Raines moves to Hollywood hoping for a fresh start, but a bad job choice drops him into the city’s darkest corners. When a woman is shot on his property, he and his partner Cassie must navigate producers, cartel bosses, and lies to stay alive.
Saint Nick
by Bradley Wright
2019
When the real Santa dies of a heart attack, he passes his powers to battle-hardened Army Ranger Nick Campos. Nick uses his new abilities, from an all-seeing eye to a cloaked sleigh, to hunt the terrorist who killed his closest friend before the man can strike again.
When the Man Comes Around
by Bradley Wright
2018
Once a rising FBI star, Lawson Raines lost his wife, his daughter, and ten years of his life to a frame-up that put him behind bars. Pardoned but far from free, he digs into the conspiracy that destroyed him, trading safety for a shot at revenge and truth.
Scourge
by Bradley Wright
2018
A bitter man with too much money is building a weapon that could change the world in all the worst ways. As bodies pile up to keep the project secret, Xander King is sent to track down the device and the people willing to unleash it.
King's Reign
by Bradley Wright
2018
South of the border, seven young American girls have been kidnapped and are about to be sold into slavery. Xander King, a former special operations legend with money and muscle to spare, launches a rescue that pits him against compromised agents and ex-military mercenaries.
Vendetta
by Bradley Wright
2017
This Xander King prequel shows the vigilante before the spotlight, sharpening his skills in the shadows. When a mission offers a chance to hurt the people tied to his parents’ murder, Xander steps into a bloody game that shapes the ruthless man he will become.
King's Ransom
by Bradley Wright
2017
After Natalie is kidnapped and his prize racehorse is slaughtered, Xander King heads to Paris with revenge on his mind. The ransom demand is simple, his life for hers, but a deeper plot against America forces Xander and his team to fight on two fronts at once.
Whiskey & Roses
by Bradley Wright
2016
The world knows Xander King as a charismatic young businessman, but the CIA knows him as a legendary soldier turned vigilante assassin. When a violent attack shatters a night with actress Natalie Rockwell, he finally unleashes the war he has been planning against his parents’ killer.
Vanquish
by Bradley Wright
2016
What should have been a celebratory yacht trip from Las Vegas to the Virgin Islands ends with Xander King waking up in a hospital with a week missing. Hunted by Russia’s most feared assassin and pressured by the CIA, he must untangle who wants him dead and why before they succeed.
Where should I start?
If you want high-octane CIA action: The Secret Weapon → Cold War → Most Wanted → Power Move.
If you like billionaire vigilantes out for revenge: Whiskey & Roses → Vanquish → King's Ransom → King's Reign.
If you prefer gritty crime with a noir edge: When the Man Comes Around → Shooting Star.
For a holiday twist on action thrillers: Saint Nick → Saint Nick 2.
If you want his newer lone-wolf drifters: Killer Instinct → Holy Water → Blind Pass.
Author bio
Bradley Wright grew up in Kentucky, surrounded by rolling hills, horse farms, and a steady supply of stories.
As a kid he split his time between the ball field and the page. He played every sport he could, then went home and wrote songs, poems, and little scenes for his friends, often performing spot-on impressions from his favorite movies. That mix of competition and imagination never really left.
Baseball took him to Marshall University on a scholarship, where he discovered that crushing home runs came a lot easier than passing higher math. College made it clear that numbers were not his future, but the pull toward storytelling kept getting stronger.
After leaving school he went into the restaurant world, learning how to work long hours, juggle chaos, and listen closely to people. Those late nights paid the bills while he chased a quieter dream, turning the “voices in his head” into characters with full lives and serious problems.
In 2016 he published Whiskey & Roses, the first Xander King novel, and suddenly one of those voices stepped into the spotlight. Readers connected with the idea of a charming businessman who was also a legendary soldier, driven by the murder of his parents and a need for justice that never really cools. That book opened the door to a whole universe of connected stories.
From there Wright expanded outward. The Alexander King series, beginning with The Secret Weapon, shifts the same larger‑than‑life operator into the heart of modern espionage, taking him from London car bombs to high stakes in Washington. With When the Man Comes Around, Wright introduced Lawson Raines, a former FBI star whose life is blown apart by a wrongful conviction, and in Saint Nick he handed the role of Santa Claus to an Army Ranger who uses North Pole magic to hunt terrorists.
More recently he has launched new leads like Tom Walker, a bruised product of a covert government program who has a talent for finding people in trouble, and Adam Burke, a former Air Force special operator cleaning up his agency’s worst mistakes around the globe. Co-writing projects such as the Adam Burke and Uncivil War series with J.D. Dudycha let him blend military thrills with survival horror and family drama.
Across all of these books, certain threads repeat. Wright likes broken heroes who still get back up, conspiracies that reach a little higher than they should, and action scenes that move like a movie in your head. He keeps the pace quick, the chapters tight, and the focus on what his characters are willing to risk for the people they care about.
Today he splits his time between Kentucky and California, enjoying bourbon, ballgames, good cigars, and the chance to write full time. He often describes his job in simple terms: entertain the reader, keep the pages turning, and make it feel like time well spent. The growing community around his thrillers suggests he is doing exactly that.
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