Brian Garfield Books in Order

Based on a real frontier incident, seven guards escort an Overland mail coach into Apache country and end up in a brutal stand. Garfield builds the story around endurance, fear, and impossible odds.

Burt Mossman and the Arizona Rangers fight to tame a violent territory on the road to statehood. Politics, public opinion, and outlaw Augustin Chacon make lawkeeping feel like open war.

A team of American specialists volunteers for what looks like a suicide mission behind enemy lines in North Vietnam. Their target is a vital bridge, and getting there may be the easy part.

A brisk frontier western built around gunfighters, feuds, and the kind of trouble that grows faster than a town can contain it. It is one of Kelton's leaner, more pulp-driven tales.

Rancher Blair Bishop has enemies enough already when a man he sent to prison returns for revenge. Old grudges and disputed land drive the town of Two Forks toward a deadly showdown.

Self-made financier Mason Villiers plans a hostile takeover of a struggling family chemical company, but he wants more than stock control. Garfield turns boardroom ambition into a ruthless thriller about secrets and appetite.

Lawyer Carl Oakley hunts a gang of amateur kidnappers across the Southwest after Terry Conniston vanishes. The longer he tracks them, the more personal and dangerous the search becomes.

After a savage attack leaves his wife dead and his daughter broken, accountant Paul Benjamin loses faith in the police and takes a gun into New York's streets. Garfield makes the vigilante turn feel frightening, not triumphant.

In secret Siberia, the Soviets build a fake American town to train perfect infiltrators for life inside the United States. Years later, those sleepers are in place and their mission is ready to begin.

After a huge Arizona bank robbery leaves a guard dead, Navajo state trooper Sam Watchman goes after a gang too violent to bluff and too smart to underestimate. The pursuit never lets up.

A brisk crime collaboration that sends a risky plan spinning into confusion. Garfield and Westlake keep the pace quick and the complications coming.

Historian Harry Bristow chases a clue to the vanished Tsarist treasury and quickly learns that treasure hunting attracts greed as fast as it does curiosity. The search turns deadly before long.

Two former cavalrymen sign on with an old outlaw leader for one last score, seizing a huge gold shipment in the desert. The job promises fortune, but Garfield makes the blood cost clear from the start.

A skilled bomber strikes at the top of the U.S. government and throws Washington into a constitutional crisis. Garfield turns politics, procedure, and panic into a sharp-edged thriller.

Russian exile Alex Denilov has survived revolution and civil war, only to be pulled into a wartime plot against Stalin. A traitor inside the mission makes the whole scheme even deadlier.

Navajo state trooper Sam Watchman is sent after an Apache fugitive who knows the reservation better than any lawman does. The chase is hard enough before a darker threat begins to emerge behind it.

Paul Benjamin tries to start over in Chicago, but the habits of vigilante justice come with him. Garfield treats the sequel as a bleak look at what revenge has already done to him.

Retired CIA operative Miles Kendig refuses a desk job, writes a tell-all memoir, and dares both the CIA and KGB to catch him before the next chapter lands. It is fast, sly, and very funny in places.

A pilot in a World War II bomber circles Manhattan and threatens to drop bombs unless he is paid. Garfield tells the crisis through official interviews and documents, which makes the whole nightmare feel chillingly plausible.

Garfield's history of the Aleutian campaign brings the forgotten Alaska theater of World War II vividly to life. The enemy is not only the Japanese, but also cold, distance, and brutal weather.

After twenty-eight years on a Yuma chain gang, Zach Provo escapes with revenge still burning in him. Breaking out is only the beginning of what he has planned.

A lawyer who testified against the mob has spent years rebuilding his life in witness protection. When the gangster he helped convict nears parole, the hunt begins all over again.

Calvin Duggai escapes from a mental hospital on a rainy night with one goal, killing the men he blames for his confinement. Garfield turns his hunt into a grim, relentless revenge story.

An aging showman looks back on a life that has carried him through shooting contests, buffalo hunting, frontier fame, and more than a few tall tales. The result is part western adventure, part American self-mythmaking.

After Wyatt Earp kills Frank Stillwell and rides north, Arizona sheriff Jeremiah Tree gets the job nobody wants, bringing Earp in alive. History gives Garfield a tight, dangerous lawman chase.

When her son is kidnapped in Mexico and the government cannot bring him back, Carole Marchand decides to act for herself. Garfield turns grief and fury into a tense revenge thriller.

Lieutenant Thomas Sweeny is left holding Yuma Crossing with ten men, thin supplies, and no hope of quick rescue. Hundreds of Yuma warriors want the ferry back, and the fight is coming soon.

Set in the darkest years of World War II, this historical thriller follows a young operative drawn into Churchill's secret world of covert missions, deception, and impossible risks.

A wide-ranging guide to Western movies, packed with plot notes, criticism, and Garfield's clear sense of how the genre works on screen. It is reference book and strong opinion rolled into one.

This collection follows aging CIA operative Charlie Dark through a dozen missions full of odd angles, improvised tradecraft, and global trouble. Garfield keeps the stories light on glamour and sharp on puzzle-solving.

Ex-cop Simon Crane is limping through life until a mob boss vanishes and his former lover ends up in the middle of the fallout. To save her, he has to find the missing money before the underworld does.

Henry Crabb goes into Sonora promising protection, then lets ambition turn that mission into conquest. Based on a true story, the novel tracks how quickly frontier opportunity can curdle into delusion and ruin.

A brooding western of hard country, old grudges, and danger that keeps closing in from the edges. Garfield treats the frontier as a place where the past never stays buried for long.

A woman fleeing her husband builds a new identity piece by piece and plans an audacious escape. One mistake could kill her, which makes every practical step feel loaded with danger.

Justin Harris heads into rough canyon country where old grudges, frontier violence, and survival all pull in the same direction. It is a taut western built on danger that keeps getting tighter.

Justin Harris rides into a frontier fight shaped by army duty, hard country, and divided loyalties. Garfield gives the cavalry setting real momentum while keeping the pressure personal and close.

After personal loss and political disappointment, young Theodore Roosevelt heads west to the Dakota Badlands. Garfield turns that chapter of his life into a frontier adventure about reinvention, land, and the making of a public man.

Garfield reexamines the celebrated life of Richard Meinertzhagen and finds a legend built on fraud, distortion, and self-invention. It is a biography that reads with the drive of an investigation.

Eight crime stories about people on the edge, drifters, schemers, con artists, and other men and women making bad choices under pressure. Garfield's eye stays fixed on the human behavior behind the trouble.

Spanish Flat expects the usual rough summer trouble until Ben Sarasen rides into town with danger at his heels. Marshal Jeremy Six respects the man, but he also knows only one of them may walk away from the showdown.

What begins as saloon trouble turns ugly fast when a blizzard traps killers, drifters, and desperate men inside Spanish Flat. If Jeremy Six cannot hold the town together overnight, there may be nothing left by morning.

Marshal Jeremy Six kills a bank robber and throws the robber's son in jail, which would be trouble enough. Then Ma Marriner gathers her clan and a small army of riders to come for his hide.

In 1890, a thousand desperate people build the town of Ocotillo on hard Arizona ground and trust Sheriff Farris Rand to keep order. Then a mistake from Rand's past rides in armed and ready for revenge.

Two ranchers claim the same herd, both sides are quick on the trigger, and somebody in the shadows wants the dispute to turn into slaughter. Jeremy Six has to move fast if Spanish Flat is going to survive the roundup.

Buck Madrid wants his herd to market, but that means crossing Vern Cotton's land and turning a boundary dispute into open war. Gunman Nat Stryker chooses a side, and the fight grows bigger and bloodier from there.

Jeremy Six takes off his badge and rides away from Spanish Flat, but trouble does not care whether he is on duty. An ambush on the road to Rifle Gap pulls him straight back into the fight.

Three brothers who rode different roads after outlaw life draws them back together in Arroyo Seco. With one a cowman, one a hired gun, and one trapped between them, family loyalty becomes a fight to the death.

A one-armed killer, a rich easterner, and a government gold payroll all arrive in Spanish Flat at the same time. Marshal Jeremy Six can feel the town sliding toward a deadly free-for-all.

Dan Sweet promises to drive four thousand head of cattle across the Arizona desert, through hostile country and against plenty of human resistance. Mutiny, sabotage, and one patient enemy turn the trail into a killing ground.

Hired gun Wes Marriner finally finds a job too ugly to take, but walking away may get him killed just as surely as taking the money. In Arizona Territory, every choice is a wager with his life.

The rustlers of Dragoon Pass have turned raiding into a business and made fools of every posse sent after them. Ben McCracken knows their tricks, but stopping them will take more than ordinary law.

Spanish Flat stays standing because Marshal Jeremy Six keeps its rival worlds in balance. When his new deputy starts using the badge to settle old scores, that balance breaks and every lawman becomes a target.

A blizzard strands seven men and a girl in a cabin where gold is hidden, tempers are raw, and a deputy is already dead. With feud, greed, and fear pressing in, the storm is only part of the danger.

Nora Parrott inherits a powerful ranch just as enemies gather to tear it apart. Foreman Clay Sebastian knows a new range war is coming, and he may have to stake both his life and the land on the outcome.

A blizzard cuts the mountain town of Aztec off from help just as a prospector is murdered and a notorious killer is trapped inside town limits. Sheriff Morgan's worst problem may be that the outlaw is his own brother.

Jason Hazard returns to Stinking Springs and finds the town ready to blame him for everything that has gone wrong. Cave-ins, robberies, and a missing foreman turn his homecoming into a fight to clear his name and stay alive.

After a cattle deal ends in ambush and murder, Tracy Chavis refuses to slink home beaten. In Spanish Flat he sets out to win back the money, his reputation, and control of a fight that is only getting deadlier.

Sam Calhoun reaches the Colorado boomtown of Mule Canyon hoping to settle down at last. Instead he finds road agents stripping its ore shipments and pushing the whole place toward ruin.

Eric Stratemeier comes to Arizona's high country as the new owner of the embattled Hatchet ranch, hoping his past is behind him. Instead he finds land-hungry enemies, no law to lean on, and sudden death closing in.

Professional gambler Chris McLean comes back to Arizona to protect his brother's ranch and finds himself beaten, robbed, and shut out by everyone he trusted. With nothing left but nerve and a gun, he fights to win his life back.

When Lodestar's leaders hire gunfighter Ethan Scott to deal with the thugs wrecking their town, they may be inviting in something even more dangerous. Scott is efficient, ruthless, and not easy to control once the shooting starts.