Dalton Fury Books in Order

If you want the real-life mission first: Kill Bin Laden.
If you prefer to start with the Delta Force novels: Black Site → Tier One Wild → Full Assault Mode.
If you want Kolt Raynor's later high-stakes battles: One Killer Force → All Lines Black → Execute Authority.
If you plan to read everything in order: Kill Bin Laden → Black Site → Tier One Wild → Full Assault Mode → One Killer Force → All Lines Black → Execute Authority.

Dalton Fury was the pen name of Major Thomas Greer, a former Delta Force commander who turned more than two decades in uniform into a second life as a storyteller.

Born in 1964 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, he grew up in a military family and moved often, surrounded by soldiers, training areas and the rhythms of Army life. That environment made service feel less like a choice and more like the natural next step.

He enlisted as a young soldier in the elite Army Rangers in the mid 1980s, later earning his commission and working as an instructor. From there he moved into the shadowy world of special operations, joining the unit formally known as 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta, better known simply as Delta Force.

Over roughly fifteen years in special operations, Greer deployed to conflict zones that ranged from the Balkans to Afghanistan. In late 2001 he served as the senior special operations ground force commander during the Battle of Tora Bora, helping lead the early hunt for Osama bin Laden in the mountains along the Afghanistan and Pakistan border region.

That experience became the backbone of his first book, Kill Bin Laden, a detailed, first person account of the Tora Bora campaign. The book walked readers through the planning, the firefights and the hard truth of watching the target slip away, and it quickly landed on bestseller lists.

Greer wrote under a pseudonym to keep the spotlight off his family and his former teammates. He also directed the proceeds from Kill Bin Laden to a charity that supports the children of fallen special operators, a decision that fit his quiet reputation inside the community.

After retiring from the Army in the mid 2000s, he shifted into civilian security work while beginning to write fiction. Drawing on years of raids, briefings and long flights to distant airfields, he created Delta operator Kolt "Racer" Raynor and launched the Delta Force novel series with Black Site, followed by Tier One Wild, Full Assault Mode, One Killer Force, All Lines Black and Execute Authority.

Readers come to these books for the action, but many stay for the small, specific moments that feel lived in. Fury wrote about team rooms, aircraft, radios and weapons with the easy confidence of someone who had carried them, yet he spent just as much time on the strain of leadership, the pull of home and the cost of getting decisions wrong.

Outside of publishing, he shared his expertise as a military consultant, including work on the blockbuster video game series Call of Duty. It was another way of translating real world tactics and decision making into stories ordinary players could experience.

Thomas Greer died in 2016 after a battle with cancer, at only fifty two years old. His books remain a bridge between the classified missions he once led and readers who want to understand, in plain language, what it feels like to stand in that world and shoulder the weight of those choices.