Bureau Books in Order

During the rise of America's public enemies and the approach to World War II, Declan O'Hara pursues bandits in Chicago. Federal agents, crime families, and a Soviet secret policeman navigate criminal investigations, expanding surveillance, and increasingly dangerous international politics.

Between 1925 and early 1933, Declan O'Hara pursues criminals while Aloysius Gantt cultivates Hoover's favor and their friendship fractures. Greg Jordan faces Mafia warfare, and Isaac Sawyer fights smugglers after racial discrimination drives him from the Bureau.

The Cold War brings anti-communist investigations and foreign subversion into the lives of the Bureau's intertwined families. Declan O'Hara returns from Latin America, Colby Gantt enters the CIA, and a Soviet operative plans a sleeper agent's infiltration of the FBI.

From 1965 to 1973, war protests, civil rights struggles, and covert FBI operations reshape the O'Hara and Gantt families. New recruits enter the Bureau while organized crime and the approach of Watergate expose conflicts between official authority and personal loyalty.

World War II sends Declan O'Hara into intelligence work in Latin America and his son into the Pacific fighting. At home and abroad, the Gantts, Sawyers, Giordanos, and Babins confront narcotics cases, organized crime, secret policing, and wartime loyalties.

In 1917, J. Edgar Hoover offers three law school classmates jobs in the Justice Department as an alternative to the trenches. Their different choices lead into wartime service, domestic investigations, and the raids that target suspected radicals after the war.

Between 1956 and the aftermath of Kennedy's assassination, the Bureau's families confront civil rights conflict, Cold War crises, and organized crime investigations. Their children pursue paths in policing and crime as national upheavals challenge loyalties across the generations.

From 1984 to 1992, Erin O'Hara's suspicions about an FBI mole deepen while the Gantt cousins investigate their fathers' deaths. Mafia drug trafficking, resurgent racist violence, and the Iran-Contra scandal intersect with the families' competing duties and ambitions.

Between 1974 and 1983, congressional investigations expose abuses by federal intelligence agencies while covert campaigns against perceived subversives persist. Nolan O'Hara leaves the Bureau to assist Senate investigators, and the families confront changing politics and new conflicts abroad.

Erin O'Hara pursues evidence against an FBI colleague while the Gantt cousins continue intelligence careers amid domestic and international terrorism. Mafia struggles and Payton Sawyer's efforts in Harlem intersect as the families approach the upheaval of September 11.