CW Browning Books in Order
Browse CW Browning books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and help choosing where to start with her spy and World War II thrillers.
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CW Browning books in publication order
22 books
Next Exit, Pay Toll
by CW Browning
2013
Now branded a rogue agent and hunted by her own government, Alina Maschik goes after the traitor who brought a terrorist onto US soil. To protect the people she loves, she has to find the truth before it finds her.
Next Exit, Three Miles
by CW Browning
2013
After missing a terrorist in Cairo two years earlier, Alina Maschik gets one chance to finish the job. The hunt leads her back to her New Jersey hometown, where old ties and a new assassin make everything more dangerous.
Next Exit, Dead Ahead
by CW Browning
2014
A missing informant, a reputedly haunted prison, and a rising body count pull FBI agent Stephanie Walker back into Alina Maschik's orbit. What starts as a local horror show quickly opens into a much wider conspiracy.
Next Exit, Quarter Mile
by CW Browning
2018
Ordered to lie low after fleeing Syria, Alina returns to Medford and finds cartel cargo, strange deaths, and a plot far bigger than it first appears. Someone knows too much about Viper, and thousands of lives may depend on what she uncovers.
Next Exit, No Outlet
by CW Browning
2019
As Alina closes in on the traitor behind countless deaths, that same enemy moves to silence every witness. When Stephanie Walker becomes a target, Viper is pushed into the most personal and dangerous fight of her career.
Next Exit, One Way
by CW Browning
2019
Two terrorists are loose in Philadelphia, a traitor in Washington is covering tracks, and lethal assassins are hunting Viper. Forced into the open, Alina Maschik must uncover the truth before the people she protects run out of time.
Next Exit, Use Caution
by CW Browning
2019
After a mysterious assassin strikes too close to home, Viper wants payback. From Singapore to New Jersey, Alina Maschik hunts an unseen mastermind while old secrets turn everyone around her into a target.
Games of Deceit
by CW Browning
2020
After the US embassy in New Delhi is bombed, Mossad operative Kai Corbyn is sent after the world's most wanted terrorist. A rival mission, hidden agendas, and a deadly black op turn a clean capture into a brutal race.
Night Falls on Norway
by CW Browning
2020
Sent back to Oslo in spring 1940, Evelyn Ainsworth expects a difficult mission, not a full invasion. When German forces storm Norway, she must flee a city collapsing around her with the SS close behind.
The Courier
by CW Browning
2020
Paris, 1938. A simple favor for her father pulls Evelyn Ainsworth into the hidden war already spreading across Europe, where information is priceless and the wrong message can get people killed.
The Oslo Affair
by CW Browning
2020
Grieving her father and newly working for MI6, Evelyn Ainsworth is sent to Oslo to meet a double agent. Instead she lands between Soviet and Nazi operatives in a city where the war is only just beginning.
Close Target
by CW Browning
2021
Presumed dead and living off the grid, Kai Corbyn is ordered to kill CIA agent Dean Ryder, the man whose life she once saved. As a mole leaks agents' locations, both hunter and target race toward the same betrayal.
Into the Iron Shadows
by CW Browning
2021
With France collapsing, Evelyn Ainsworth tries to reach England carrying smuggled documents and dangerous secrets. Across roads packed with refugees and skies ruled by German bombers, survival is only the first challenge.
The Iron Storm
by CW Browning
2021
In May 1940, MI6 agent Evelyn Ainsworth heads to Brussels for a quick pickup and gets caught in the German invasion of Belgium. With stolen blueprints in play and enemies closing in, every route out becomes a gamble.
When Wolves Gather
by CW Browning
2022
During the Battle of Britain, Evelyn Ainsworth discovers traitors threatening England from within. While Miles Lacey and his fellow pilots defend the skies, the MI6 agent risks her career and life trying to expose a hidden conspiracy.
The Cuban
by CW Browning
2023
Retired assassin Alina Maschik returns as Viper when energy executives start dying and her husband becomes a target. Michael O'Reilly's hunt for an arms dealer brings them together in wartime Ukraine, where old wounds threaten a dangerous mission.
The Trouble with Enzo
by CW Browning
2023
Alina accepts a supposedly simple assignment from MI6, while Michael O'Reilly investigates a terrorist threat to a European refinery. Their paths converge around mercenaries and a smuggling network, drawing the operatives into criminal schemes that endanger their concealed identities.
Enemy Sighted
by CW Browning
2024
Evelyn Ainsworth investigates ominous documents left by her father while an enemy spy hunts her. As Miles Lacey's squadron struggles against overwhelming Luftwaffe attacks, she must reconcile loyalty with duty and uncover secrets concealed inside Whitehall.
A Deadly Few
by CW Browning
2025
Evelyn Ainsworth pursues the spy known as Henry after he nearly kills her. While Miles Lacey leads exhausted RAF pilots into the fiercest fighting, she must stop a traitor whose plans threaten Britain's chance of resisting invasion.
Forged Legacy
by CW Browning
2025
Dean Ryder seeks help from Kai Corbyn after an old friend is assassinated. Their investigation exposes nationwide corruption tied to Kai's past, forcing both operatives to decide whether to challenge powerful enemies who want the truth buried.
Lines Crossed
by CW Browning
2026
Evelyn Ainsworth returns to occupied France and encounters an enemy waiting for her arrival. With the Bouchard twins fleeing Paris and Miles Lacey fighting in the skies, survival demands difficult lies that strain Evelyn's conscience and relationships.
Loyalty Before Lies
by CW Browning
2026
A request from a Jersey crime family complicates Alina's attempts to keep Viper retired. Michael O'Reilly becomes entangled in her rogue operation, where ambushes and illegal arms deals force the operatives to weigh loyalty against dangerous secrets.
Where to start with CW Browning
If you want the main assassin series: Next Exit, Three Miles → Next Exit, Pay Toll → Next Exit, Dead Ahead
If you want World War II espionage: The Courier → The Oslo Affair → Night Falls on Norway
If you want a tighter international spy story: Games of Deceit → Close Target
If you want the war books at full speed: The Iron Storm → Into the Iron Shadows
CW Browning sub-series and character series
Exit books in order
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Kai Corbyn books in order
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Shadows of War books in order
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Standalone CW Browning books
Author bio
CW Browning grew up in Olathe, Kansas, where making up stories started early. She has said she was writing before she could spell, and as a kid she turned backyard play with her best friend into full adventures. By the time she was eight, she had written an eighteen-chapter novel and printed it on a dot-matrix printer. The urge to tell stories was there from the start.
She was serious about storytelling long before anyone could call it a career.
Like a lot of writers, she did not move in a straight line. Writing took a backseat for a while as life got busy. Later, after studying History at Rutgers University, she found her way back to it. She has described picking up an old manuscript, dusting it off, and returning to the thing that made her feel most like herself.
That background helps explain the books she writes now. Browning's fiction lives in the space where suspense, espionage, and personal history overlap. Her stories often follow highly capable women who know how to survive pressure, but who still have to wrestle with trust, loyalty, and the parts of themselves they thought they had left behind.
A lot of readers first meet her through Next Exit, Three Miles, the opening novel in the Exit series. It introduces Alina Maschik, a trained assassin whose work drags her back to New Jersey and back into the life she thought she had escaped. The later Exit books, including Next Exit, Pay Toll and Next Exit, Dead Ahead, keep building on that mix of black ops danger and hometown complications. Readers who like fast plotting, recurring allies, and conspiracies with a personal sting usually do well here.
Place matters in her books.
Her Shadows of War novels show a different side of her work. Starting with The Courier and moving through The Oslo Affair, Night Falls on Norway, The Iron Storm, and Into the Iron Shadows, the series follows Evelyn Ainsworth through the early years of World War II. These books keep the pace of a thriller, but they also pay close attention to setting, Paris before the fall, Norway under invasion, Belgium in chaos, and a Europe changing by the week. If you like espionage stories with real historical pressure behind them, this is probably the shelf to head for.
Then there is Kai Corbyn. In Games of Deceit and Close Target, Browning turns fully toward international spy fiction, with Mossad, CIA agents, covert missions, and orders that never mean only one thing. Kai is cool-headed, dangerous, and never as free of her past as she would like to be. These books have a sharper, more stripped-down spy feel, while still keeping Browning's interest in hidden motives and impossible choices.
These are action books, but they are not only about action. Again and again, Browning comes back to questions of identity, home, betrayal, and what happens when a person who has been trained to disappear is forced into old relationships or public danger. She likes big stakes, but she also likes the human mess that comes with them.
She now lives in Southern New Jersey. By her own account, she still makes up stories, just not for backyard play anymore. When she is not writing, she enjoys grilling steak and sipping red wine on the patio. That mix of grounded detail and restless imagination feels a lot like the books themselves.
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