Christopher Farnsworth Books in Order

For his signature supernatural thrillers: Blood Oath → The President's Vampire → Red, White, and Blood
If you want a psychic tech chase: Killfile → Flashmob
For dark, nostalgic horror: Reunion
If you prefer straight crime: Buried Secrets → Big Shot
For immortality, history, and science gone wrong: The Eternal World

Christopher Farnsworth was born and raised in Idaho, and that western start still feels close to the surface in his work. He graduated from the College of Idaho before moving into journalism, which means his path into fiction was built less on workshop mythology and more on deadlines, reporting, and listening hard to how people talk when something has gone wrong.

He worked as an investigative and business reporter in Arizona and California, a background that shows up all through his novels. Even when the premise turns supernatural or speculative, there is usually an eye on institutions, money, bureaucracy, and the quiet ways powerful people protect themselves. His non-fiction later appeared in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, The New Republic, and Washington Monthly.

That reporting life gave him a useful habit. He likes stories with pressure in them, ticking clocks, official lies, and people who have to keep going after the ground has shifted under their feet. The details in his books often feel lived in for a reason.

He came to fiction by way of newspapers, then screenwriting.

After journalism, Farnsworth sold his first script, The Academy, to MGM and moved deeper into Hollywood work. One turning point came when he had an idea about a vampire bound to serve the president of the United States. His screen agents did not think it would fly as a movie, so he did something practical and stubborn: he wrote the novel anyway, mostly because it was the book he wanted to read.

That novel became Blood Oath in 2010 and introduced Nathaniel Cade, a centuries-old vampire sworn to protect the country from supernatural threats. The follow-ups, The President's Vampire and Red, White, and Blood, pushed the series further into White House politics, secret history, and horror with a spy-thriller engine under the hood. Readers who click with these books usually like the mix of strange ideas, clipped pacing, and a hero who is dangerous, useful, and never fully at ease.

Farnsworth likes big hooks, but he gives them practical consequences.

You can see that in the John Smith novels, Killfile and Flashmob, where a telepathic fixer moves through tech conspiracies, rich-client disasters, and the uglier corners of the internet age. You can see it again in The Eternal World, which turns the Fountain of Youth into a thriller about science, empire, and revenge, and in Reunion, where former child heroes are dragged back to their hometown to face the darkness they thought they beat years ago. Even when the setup bends toward horror or fantasy, the people at the center usually feel bruised, funny, overworked, and recognizably human.

Blood Oath and The President's Vampire were finalists for the Goodreads Choice Awards. Red, White, and Blood won an Audie Award, and Flashmob landed on a year-end best books list in 2017. Those facts matter mostly because they show he kept finding readers while moving between vampire espionage, psychic thrillers, standalone adventure, and straight crime.

In recent years, Farnsworth has taken on Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone series with Buried Secrets, followed by Big Shot and the forthcoming Lockdown. That move makes sense. His books have long had a reporter's eye for corruption and a screenwriter's sense of pace, and Jesse Stone gives him a grounded crime world to work those muscles in. Farnsworth now lives in Los Angeles with his family.