Connor Cross Action Thriller Books in Order
Part ofJack Mars Books in OrderExplore the Connor Cross series by Jack Mars, with books in order, short summaries, and background on its lead character and international missions.
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Connor Cross Action Thriller books in publication order
12 books
Cross Agent
by Jack Mars
2026
Connor Cross must locate a terrified financial analyst before a wealthy adversary reaches her. An apparently simple relocation becomes a pursuit across Europe, where the secrets of a billionaire and the financing of an army are at stake.
Cross Command
by Jack Mars
2026
A failed extraction strands Connor Cross in a capital collapsing into chaos, surrounded by enemies and running out of options. Escaping requires another attempt at the mission, even as he realizes the disaster conceals more than he understood.
Cross Fire
by Jack Mars
2026
A maritime security job erupts into a pirate attack, sending Connor Cross after stolen intelligence. Tracking the raiders to their base reveals a more dangerous enemy ashore, complicating his effort to keep the information from changing hands.
Cross Protocol
by Jack Mars
2026
Connor Cross enters Moscow to extract a Russian aerospace engineer, but an interception turns the operation into a running battle. As details of the defection emerge, Connor questions whether the scientist was ever the mission’s true objective.
Cross Strike
by Jack Mars
2026
Hired to find a wealthy family’s missing daughter in Cyprus, Connor Cross discovers she has no wish to return. Protecting her means turning against his own employers and reconsidering what it means to rescue someone who never asked.
Cross Target
by Jack Mars
2026
Connor Cross escorts a UN weapons inspector out of a contested region after an attack on her convoy. As he fights to reach safety, signs suggest the ambush belongs to a larger scheme capable of provoking international war.
Cross Threat
by Jack Mars
2026
A doctor fleeing a collapsing West African country demands an unexpected detour, complicating Connor Cross’s extraction. The secret she carries turns the rescue into a struggle that may determine who gains control of the shattered state.
Cross Asset
by Jack Mars
2027
Stolen research in a remote Indonesian province draws Connor Cross into a threatened epidemic and a campaign to suppress its cause. He must recover an epidemiologist’s evidence and expose the truth before the approaching outbreak becomes unstoppable.
Cross Breach
by Jack Mars
2027
Connor Cross must extract a North Korean biochemist carrying evidence of an imminent biological attack from the Chinese border. Pursuers from three countries converge, making the scientist’s survival and delivery of his intelligence a potentially explosive international confrontation.
Cross Extraction
by Jack Mars
2027
Connor Cross infiltrates a Tehran prison to free an Iranian-American physicist, then fights toward the Turkish border. As the pair approach safety, mounting suspicions suggest the rescue was compromised before it began, threatening every step of their escape.
Cross Point
by Jack Mars
2027
After a militia ambush destroys an aid team in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Connor Cross must evacuate its lone survivor. Relentless pursuers resist their escape with an intensity that leaves him wondering what makes her so valuable.
Cross Zone
by Jack Mars
2027
Connor Cross transports a surviving Nazi war criminal to trial in The Hague while extremists try to free him and a Mossad team seeks his death. Crossing three countries forces Connor to weigh his mission against competing demands for justice.
Series background & context
Connor Cross carries out rescues the United States government wants handled quietly and without an official operation. The former Special Forces soldier moves into dangerous places to bring key people out, using experience and judgment when formal channels cannot do the work. In Jack Mars's action thriller series, the assigned rescue is often the beginning of a larger problem. Saving one person can put Cross near plans whose consequences reach well beyond the country he is trying to leave.
The briefing rarely contains the whole story.
Cross Target introduces the pattern through a mission involving a United Nations weapons inspector. Her convoy has been ambushed in a contested area, and Cross must escort her to safety. As he works to get her out, the attack begins to look like part of a scheme with a wider purpose. The immediate need to keep someone alive sits beside the possibility of an armed conflict involving several nations. Cross has to judge the larger threat while still completing the basic task that brought him into danger.
Cross Fire shifts the action to maritime security. A pirate attack interrupts what appeared to be a routine assignment, turning the operation into a pursuit of stolen intelligence. Tracking the people who boarded the ship leads Cross toward a different understanding of the enemy. The sea provides the setting for the initial violence, but the interests behind it extend elsewhere. That movement from visible attackers to less obvious organizers is central to the series, where recognizing who benefits can matter as much as defeating the people directly in his path.
In Cross Protocol, a planned extraction from Moscow involves an aerospace engineer prepared to defect. An intercept team disrupts the operation, leaving Cross to manage a running fight while the reasons behind the defection become less straightforward. The person he was sent to save may be only one part of what others are trying to obtain. Across these missions, Cross's usefulness also creates uncertainty. If other people choose the target and define the objective, he must consider whether completing their instructions will serve the purpose he believes he is working toward.
Start with Cross Target and continue in series order for the clearest introduction to Cross and the expanding operations around him. These are international action thrillers about extractions, stolen information, and missions with concealed stakes. The continuing question is whether a capable rescuer can remain in control of his choices when the people directing events know more than he does. Each setting provides a new practical challenge, while the possibility of being used as part of someone else's plan links the adventures.
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