Cole Hunter Action Thriller Books in Order
Part ofJack Mars Books in OrderExplore the Cole Hunter action thrillers by Jack Mars in reading order, with short summaries, series background, and guidance on where to enter this global hostage‑rescue series.
Last updated: December 21, 2025
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Publication Order
11 books
Stealth Recon
by Jack Mars
2026
Sent in ahead of an official operation, Cole Hunter conducts deep reconnaissance on a shadow network planning a spectacular hostage grab. What he discovers forces him to act early, knowing he may have to fight his way out alone.
Stealth Mission
by Jack Mars
2026
A covert operation meant to last hours stretches into days as everything that can go wrong does. Cole Hunter must adapt on the fly, keeping hostages alive while navigating double‑crosses, shifting alliances, and a hostile city closing in.
Stealth Crisis
by Jack Mars
2026
Multiple hostage events erupt at once, overwhelming normal responders. Cole Hunter has to prioritize threats, redeploy limited teams, and keep calm as a manufactured crisis threatens to break a nation’s sense of security.
Stealth Control
by Jack Mars
2026
A sophisticated enemy seizes control of critical systems during a hostage standoff. Cole Hunter and Nova must fight both physical threats and remote sabotage, restoring control before panicked leaders trigger a disastrous overreaction.
Stealth Command
by Jack Mars
2026
Promoted to lead a multinational response, Cole Hunter suddenly has more politics than bullets to handle. As competing agencies vie for control, he has to hold the line on the ground before bureaucratic delays cost lives.
Stealth Combat
by Jack Mars
2026
During an extraction in Yemen, Cole Hunter uncovers a crystalline chemical weapon capable of petrifying victims. With cities at risk and temperatures rising, he and Nova race to neutralize the device before it is unleashed on a massive scale.
Stealth Attack
by Jack Mars
2026
Enemy fighters strike a supposedly safe location, trapping dignitaries and security alike. Cole Hunter moves from hunted to hunter inside the same complex, turning the attackers’ own plans against them in a brutal close‑quarters fight.
Stealth Asset
by Jack Mars
2026
When an undercover source goes dark inside a terror network, Cole Hunter and Nova are tasked with getting them out. Their rescue attempt uncovers a broader plot, forcing them to choose between saving one asset and stopping a much larger attack.
Stealth Assault
by Jack Mars
2026
When extremists overrun a strategic site, Cole Hunter plans a risky assault that depends on precision and trust. With civilians scattered through the target, one misstep could turn the rescue into a massacre.
Stealth Strike
by Jack Mars
2025
A high‑stakes hostage crisis erupts in a politically sensitive hotspot, and Cole Hunter is dropped into the middle of it. Working with Nova, he has to stage a surgical strike that frees captives without sparking an international incident.
Stealth Force
by Jack Mars
2025
Former Navy SEAL Cole Hunter and his ex‑SWAT partner Nova are called in when a prestigious university becomes the target of an assassination plot. As they race through campus, they must protect future leaders while unmasking a shadowy group behind the attack.
Series background & context
The Cole Hunter series follows a former Navy SEAL who has turned his skills toward the most delicate kind of crisis: high‑stakes hostage situations where failure would echo far beyond a single room. Cole Hunter is the person called when diplomats, students, or entire cities are one bad decision away from disaster.
In Stealth Force, the opening book, a seemingly secure private university becomes ground zero for an assassination plot aimed at the next generation of global leaders. Cole and his former SWAT‑officer partner, Nova, are dropped into the middle of the campus to untangle overlapping motives, neutralize attackers, and keep a massacre from unfolding on live feeds.
The series quickly broadens beyond that first mission. Later novels send Cole and Nova into unstable regions, onto extraction missions gone wrong, and into confrontations with shadowy groups bent on using hostages as leverage for political and economic chaos. Stealth Combat, for example, finds them in Yemen, stumbling onto a chemical weapon capable of turning entire populations into statues—an image that captures the series’ blend of grounded tactics with larger‑than‑life stakes.
At the core of these stories is the partnership between Cole and Nova. They bring different temperaments and backgrounds to the job: military precision on one side, urban assault experience on the other. Their trust in each other—earned over years of shared danger—is often the only stable element in situations where allies, informants, and local authorities may turn unreliable at any moment.
Mars uses the series to explore the nuts and bolts of crisis response: planning entries, negotiating under pressure, reading panicked crowds, and making impossible tradeoffs when there is no clean outcome. The politics are present, but the camera stays close to the team moving through hallways, tunnels, and city streets.
For readers, the Cole Hunter books deliver tightly focused, action‑driven thrillers that still leave room for character moments. Cole is tough but not invincible; Nova is resourceful and sharp‑edged, with her own scars. Together they give the series a human center amid the flash‑bangs and helicopter rides.
If you like stories where one wrong move could set off an international incident, and where the solution depends on small teams making split‑second decisions, Cole Hunter’s missions are an easy series to dive into.
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