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Brian Andrews Books in Order

Browse Brian Andrews books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and tips on where to start across his solo work and Andrews & Wilson novels.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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39 books

Ring of Flowers

by Brian Andrews

2012

This companion novella digs into the origins of the genetic mystery behind The Calypso Directive. It widens the emotional and scientific stakes while telling a shorter, tighter thriller story.

The Calypso Directive

by Brian Andrews

2012

Will Foster escapes a secret medical facility with a deadly sample and a body science wants to own. Hunted across Europe, he tries to expose a pharmaceutical conspiracy built around the extraordinary code in his DNA.

Beijing Red

by Brian Andrews

2016

Nick Foley heads to China looking for a reset, then stumbles into a lethal outbreak in a remote village. To stop a bioterror plot, he teams with microbiologist Dash Chen and races both disease and politics.

Black Sundown

by Brian Andrews

2016

This short standalone thriller is a compact dose of suspense from Brian Andrews. It moves fast, keeps the stakes close, and shows his taste for pressure, danger, and hard choices.

The Infiltration Game

by Brian Andrews

2016

A string of freak deaths among Fortune 500 CEOs pulls the Think Tank into a covert investigation. Analyst Sloane Keller follows the trail to Chinese financier Michael Sun and a conspiracy that reaches from Beijing to Washington.

Tier One

by Brian Andrews

2016

After a catastrophic terrorist attack ends his life as a Navy SEAL, John Dempsey is pulled into the shadow world of Task Force Ember. His first covert mission becomes a hunt for justice, revenge, and the next attack.

Crusader One

by Brian Andrews

2017

A devastating terrorist strike sends Dempsey and Ember into a mission that is part counterattack and part personal vendetta. Racing from Tel Aviv to Tehran, he hunts the mastermind who killed his old teammates.

Hong Kong Black

by Brian Andrews

2017

When a CIA operative turns up dead on a Hong Kong beach, former SEAL Nick Foley is pulled into a gruesome new investigation. Alongside Dash Chen, he uncovers an organ-harvesting conspiracy with roots deep in Chinese history.

War Shadows

by Brian Andrews

2017

Only months into life at Ember, John Dempsey faces an old enemy who has spent years preparing attacks on the homeland. The hunt carries him from Iraq to Guatemala as he learns just how messy shadow war can get.

American Operator

by Brian Andrews

2018

When terrorists kidnap undercover CIA officer Amanda Allen after an attack in Turkey, Dempsey heads into Syria to extract her. The rescue turns into something bigger when a deadly mercenary enters the field.

Reset

by Brian Andrews

2018

Army Sergeant Michael Pitcher survives contact with an impossible object, but nothing about him is the same afterward. As DARPA and the Pentagon circle, he becomes the center of a mind-bending threat with world-changing stakes.

Red Specter

by Brian Andrews

2019

Dempsey goes undercover in the Russian criminal underworld and walks straight into a trap set by Zeta. What follows is a ruthless cycle of strike and counterstrike as Ember takes the fight onto hostile ground.

Collateral

by Brian Andrews

2020

After assassinations in Kyiv threaten to ignite open conflict, John Dempsey and Ember are sent after Russian operatives across Europe. The mission is fast, political, and dangerously close to a wider war with Russia.

SCARS

by Brian Andrews

2020

Before he was John Dempsey, he was Jack Kemper, a young SEAL operating in Iraq. This origin novella shows his first clash with Mahmood Bin Jabbar and the moment he earned his serpentine scar.

Dark Intercept

by Brian Andrews

2021

On the eve of retirement, Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson returns home to help find a kidnapped girl. What starts as a missing-person case pulls him into a darker war where faith, visions, and violence collide.

Rogue Asset

by Brian Andrews

2021

When the U.S. Secretary of State is kidnapped in Cairo, the Presidential Agent program is revived. Charley Castillo guides a new team into a fast-moving hunt across hostile territory, trying to locate the hostage before diplomacy and violence collide.

Sons of Valor

by Brian Andrews

2021

Keith "Chunk" Redman leads a rebuilt Tier One team against a rising terror network armed with advanced drone tech. With analyst Whitney Watts spotting a bigger pattern, the mission quickly grows into a fight for regional stability.

Dark Angel

by Brian Andrews

2022

Jedidiah Johnson joins the Shepherds and steps into a world of covert missions, visions, and spiritual warfare. When the fallen Shepherd Nicholas Woland returns, Jed must lead an untested team against a plot built to spark chaos.

Dark Fall

by Brian Andrews

2022

A Peruvian village is burned to ash by a terrifying new weapon, and Jed Johnson's team is sent after the truth. Their chase leads to Hong Kong, Victor, and a threat aimed much closer to home.

Violence of Action

by Brian Andrews

2022

When a former teammate is ambushed, Keith "Chunk" Redman learns someone may be hunting SEALs. As taunts spread online and the attacks turn personal, Chunk's new team is forced into a brutal cat-and-mouse fight.

Dempsey

by Brian Andrews

2023

John Dempsey vanishes into Russia after a successful mission in Ukraine, leaving Ember to believe he is dead. In truth he is deep undercover, chasing a regime-change plot that could drag the world into war.

The Sandbox

by Brian Andrews

2023

When an AI-company CEO is murdered, new homicide detective Valerie Marks is assigned a case that makes no ordinary sense. Her search points toward Project Nomad, a Pentagon-linked AI that may have slipped its leash.

War Machine

by Brian Andrews

2023

Whitney Watts is pulled into danger while investigating a terror network that survived Dubai. As Chunk Redman races through London to find her, the enemy prepares to unleash an AI-enabled drone weapon.

Act of Defiance

by Brian Andrews

2024

A rogue Russian submarine carrying Poseidon torpedoes heads west, and Jack Ryan is suddenly back in Red October territory. With Katie Ryan on the inside, father and daughter race to stop a radioactive catastrophe.

Defense Protocol

by Brian Andrews

2024

China prepares to strike Taiwan, and only a terrified defense minister may hold the key to stopping it. Jack Ryan, John Clark, and Katie Ryan are pulled into a high-stakes plan that could trigger major war.

Ember

by Brian Andrews

2024

Back from Russia, John Dempsey returns to Ember changed by what he had to do to survive. As a new enemy moves into the vacuum, he and Kelso Jarvis face a fresh round of violence and political fallout.

Four Minutes

by Brian Andrews

2024

Tyler Brooks is recruited to lead a black-ops unit that uses glimpses of the future to stop attacks in the present. The catch is brutal: every mission window lasts only four minutes.

Dark Rising

by Brian Andrews

2025

Supposed to be on vacation, Jed Johnson instead stumbles into a string of child abductions in Santo Domingo. The case draws the Shepherds into murder, voodoo, and the rise of a new dark power.

Executive Power

by Brian Andrews

2025

When Kyle Ryan vanishes in an African nation sliding toward coup, the crisis becomes painfully personal for President Jack Ryan. He must decide how far he can bend state power to save his son.

False Flag

by Brian Andrews

2025

A royal murder in Saudi Arabia and a frame-up involving Mossad agents push the Middle East toward catastrophe. Chunk Redman's team must split up and uncover the truth before a manufactured crisis becomes a real war.

First Ranger

by Brian Andrews

2025

Set in 1776, this short historical thriller follows Thomas Knowlton as George Washington asks him to build a new kind of soldier. The result is a brisk origin story for American special operations.

New

Angel Heist

by Brian Andrews

2026

Burned-out former FBI hostage rescuer Barrett McCaffery takes one last job for life-changing money. The mission quickly turns strange and dangerous when the kidnapped girl proves far from ordinary.

New

Dark Horse

by Brian Andrews

2026

Eva Dasher works at a Hollywood think tank that secretly feeds the CIA predictive intelligence. When her colleagues are slaughtered and her fiancé disappears, she must outrun assassins and uncover the story someone wants buried.

New

Fire House

by Brian Andrews

2026

After his wife dies in a fire, Chief Travis Quesada moves with his daughter to a small Virginia town for a fresh start. A new explosion suggests the past is not finished with him.

New

Insurgent

by Brian Andrews

2026

After a rescue mission in East Asia, Dempsey and Ember head to Yemen to target a Houthi drone engineer. At the same time, a master spy works inside Washington, pushing politics and covert war toward chaos.

New

Minotaur

by Brian Andrews

2026

Haunted by dreams of a labyrinth, Mina travels to Crete after inheriting her grandmother's medallion. There she learns the Minotaur never died, and escaping his maze may be impossible.

New

Portal

by Brian Andrews

2026

A Marine Raider and his team are recruited to test a portal built for instant travel. Instead of a shortcut, they find deadly alternate Earths and a weapon that could open the door to extinction.

New

Sledgehammer

by Brian Andrews

2026

Retired operator Mack Holland learns the daughter he buried five years ago may still be alive in Syria. He pulls together his old team for a desperate rescue that becomes personal from the first step.

New

The Equestrian

by Brian Andrews

2026

Mia Ledger wants a quiet life on her Montana ranch until she stops a kidnapping and draws the attention of a violent trafficking ring. When the attack comes home, she rides straight back into war.

Where should I start?

If you want hard-driving military thrillers: Tier OneWar ShadowsCrusader One
If you want a team-first spin-off: Sons of ValorViolence of ActionWar Machine
If you want supernatural action: Dark InterceptDark AngelDark Fall
If you want science-heavy thrillers: The Calypso DirectiveThe Infiltration GameReset
If you want international bio-thrillers: Beijing RedHong Kong Black

Author bio

Brian Andrews came to fiction from a world where mistakes are expensive. He served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer, later worked as a nuclear engineer, and brings that sense of pressure, systems, and consequence into his books. He studied psychology at Vanderbilt University and earned a master's degree in business from Cornell University.

He started writing young. He has said he published his first short story as a teenager, but the real push toward novels came later, after his first submarine tour, when he began to wonder if he should finally try writing a book.

That turn matters.

Andrews' early solo work already showed the lanes he liked best. In The Calypso Directive and Reset, he wrote science driven thrillers about bodies, brains, and institutions that want to control both. The science is big, but the stories stay personal. Ordinary people get trapped inside systems far larger than themselves, then have to think, improvise, and run.

A huge part of his career took shape when he teamed up with fellow Navy veteran Jeffrey Wilson. They met through the thriller world and began writing as Andrews & Wilson, bringing together Andrews' submarine background and Wilson's experience as a combat surgeon. Their breakout series, beginning with Tier One, follows John Dempsey from elite SEAL duty into the murkier world of covert intelligence work. Readers who like those books tend to come back for the team dynamic, the mission detail, and the way the action always carries a human cost.

He likes professionals under pressure.

That shows up across the rest of the bibliography. Sons of Valor widens the Tier One world through Keith "Chunk" Redman and a new generation of operators. Dark Intercept takes some of the same tactical energy and turns it toward spiritual warfare, following Jedidiah Johnson into a stranger and darker kind of fight. Under the name Alex Ryan, Andrews and Wilson also wrote the Nick Foley books, Beijing Red and Hong Kong Black, which mix biosecurity, espionage, and modern China. More recently, Andrews and Wilson were chosen to write new Jack Ryan novels and to continue W.E.B. Griffin's Presidential Agent line with Rogue Asset.

Even when the setting changes, a few things stay steady. Andrews writes about teams more than lone geniuses. He likes chain of command, tradecraft, emerging tech, and the moment when a clean plan meets messy reality. His books often ask what duty costs, what loyalty survives, and how much of a person can be bent by war, politics, or fear before something gives.

He has kept one foot in the larger writing community too. Andrews is a principal contributor at Career Authors, and he and Wilson also help lead the AWE imprint at Blackstone Publishing. That fits the shape of his career. He writes thrillers, yes, but he also seems interested in the larger machinery around storytelling, how stories are built, shared, and carried forward.

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