Carsten Stroud Books in Order

Stroud draws on a year accompanying Canadian police officers to describe daily life behind the badge. His reporting examines street encounters, sudden danger, boredom, and the loyalty and isolation experienced by officers working in demanding urban environments.

Stroud follows New York homicide detective Eddie Kennedy through a week of investigations. Encounters with victims, suspects, and colleagues offer a close account of police work, moving between busy squad rooms and the city's violent streets to explore the demands of the job.

NYPD sniper Frank Keogh becomes a suspect when murder victims prove connected to him and the crimes resemble a case solved by his father. Pursued by fellow officers, he heads toward the Southwest searching for whoever framed him.

Stroud critically examines Canada's criminal justice system, arguing that judicial decisions can obstruct police and favor offenders. Combining reporting with forceful commentary, the book questions how courts balance protection of individual rights with the demands of investigating violent crime.

Montana state trooper Beau McAllister responds to a confrontation at a truck stop and doubts the owner's account of an attempted robbery. Trying to establish what happened leads him into a concealed conspiracy and the path of a dangerous independent investigator.

Stroud follows First Sergeant Dee Crane as recruits train for service and face the Gulf War. Alongside this portrait of military life, he traces the history of the First Infantry Division and examines tensions between army traditions and changing demands.

This nonfiction account follows U.S. marshal Luke Zitto through the pursuit of dangerous fugitives. Stroud connects demanding law-enforcement work with Zitto's personal losses, presenting a portrait of a solitary officer whose professional resolve is inseparable from his troubled life.

Shipping executive Jack Vermillion informs on a client to help his imprisoned son, but a federal operation ends in deadly gunfire. Accused of the killings himself, Jack must unravel a frame-up threatening both his freedom and the business he built.

Former policeman Rick Broca rescues a pilot from a crashed plane while working on the water, then begins doubting the man's identity. An armed encounter pulls Rick into a struggle for survival involving intelligence agencies, military interests, and concealed international dealings.

Rick Broca's rescue of a stranded pilot turns dangerous when the survivor proves unreliable and an armed fishing vessel intercepts them. The former policeman's search for answers draws him into espionage and political intrigue, leaving little chance of a quiet retreat.

Cole Langan leads a covert CIA unit into the Philippines expecting to repair surveillance equipment, but the mission becomes a betrayal. As a disastrous encounter with peacekeepers threatens prosecution, Cole's senator father investigates the people manipulating events from afar.

A boy's inexplicable disappearance and a disastrous robbery unsettle the apparently peaceful town of Niceville. Detective Nick Kavanaugh and his lawyer wife Kate investigate events that cross into a shadow world where ordinary assumptions about time, death, and justice no longer hold.

Two plane crashes deepen Niceville's troubles while Nick and Kate Kavanaugh care for the changed child Rainey Teague. Further disappearances, including Kate's father, send them into historical records that reveal a long pattern of violence beneath the town's pleasant appearance.

Nick and Kate Kavanaugh believe they have reached a fragile stalemate with the strange force haunting Niceville. When ordinary residents begin experiencing an unsettling buzzing, the couple realize the entity called Nothing has resumed its efforts to manipulate people and time.

Florida officer Jack Redding pursues a fugitive who seems connected to a woman his grandfather hunted decades earlier. Tracking a killer able to move through time offers Jack a dangerous possibility: altering the accident that killed his wife and child.