David Lee Corley Books in Order

Algerian independence fighters change tactics as French paratroopers close in, sending trained bombers against crowded cafés in France. War correspondent Brigitte Friang and pilot Tom Coyle become involved in the search for the bomb maker amid escalating violence and political upheaval.

American pilot Tom Coyle expects a limited transport job supporting French forces in Indochina, but the battle for Dien Bien Phu traps him in a decisive siege. Paratroopers and Viet Minh forces gamble on strategies that leave an isolated airfield central to survival.

In 1945, OSS sniper René Granier joins Vietnamese guerrillas fighting Japan and forms bonds with men who will shape Indochina's future. As colonial powers return after the war, broken promises turn former allies against him and force a dangerous reckoning with divided loyalties.

French paratroopers search the Casbah for rebels while bombings continue in Algiers and Paris. Pilot Tom Coyle tries to protect journalist Brigitte Friang, whose investigation in the Algerian mountains uncovers information with consequences for the war and everyone around her.

During the 1956 Suez Crisis, invading forces and Egyptian resistance confront each other as Cold War tensions deepen. Pilot Tom Coyle and journalist Brigitte Friang face divided loyalties, while military and political leaders risk turning a regional conflict into a wider disaster.

As Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal, British leaders prepare a secret response aimed at restoring their influence. Journalist Brigitte Friang discovers a document exposing the conspiracy, forcing her to weigh the consequences of revealing it against the risk of approaching war.

After Vietnam is divided in 1954, rival intelligence services and local power brokers compete to determine Saigon's future. CIA operative Lucien Conein and communist leader Le Duan move through a struggle whose shifting alliances deepen American involvement in the country.

Congressman John F. Kennedy visits Southeast Asia in 1951 to assess America's role in the Indochina conflict. CIA officer René Granier accompanies him as adviser and bodyguard, returning to territory where former allies on both sides now want him dead.

Newly elected President Kennedy turns to intelligence officers, advisers, and special operations teams to contain overseas crises without expanding direct American involvement. In Vietnam, covert strategies and competing ambitions test whether an approaching civil war can still be prevented.

CIA sniper René Granier leads covert operations aimed at stopping communist advances in Vietnam and Laos. As sabotage and assassination become routine tools, attempts to manage South Vietnam's leadership deepen corruption and disorder, challenging the purpose and consequences of his mission.

Pilot Tom Coyle flies an unmarked CIA gunship against supply convoys on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. As North Vietnamese forces deploy heavier anti-aircraft weapons, his crew's effort to interrupt the war's lifeline becomes an increasingly dangerous contest over the mountains of Laos.

Political repression and Buddhist protests push South Vietnam toward crisis while the Viet Cong gain ground. Seeking a response, President Kennedy turns to CIA officer Lucien Conein, whose military and underworld connections offer influence at a dangerous moment for Saigon's government.

A covert rescue from a Hanoi prison risks exposing an American agent as intelligence teams escalate raids against the North. South Vietnamese confidence in American support meets a harsh test at Ap Bac, forcing Kennedy to reconsider where the growing conflict is heading.

A grieving American pilot develops a new gunship as events in the Gulf of Tonkin accelerate the Vietnam conflict. In Laos, covert operations and the struggle over enemy supply routes entangle American airmen with local forces, intelligence agencies, and an opium trade.

In 1966, CIA officer René Granier leads a ruthless campaign against Viet Cong leadership while American forces test new ways to interrupt enemy supplies. A young photojournalist witnesses the conflict's cost as both sides pursue strategies that push combat into new forms.

A sniper suspects a mole after an ambush casts doubt on a talented recruit, while a photojournalist investigates covert operations near Cambodia. Their searches for truth collide with threats to a pilot's family as secrecy and mistrust spread through the war.

CIA operative Granier discovers recordings warning of a major offensive but struggles to persuade American commanders. When attacks erupt across Vietnam, he fights in Saigon while a trapped photojournalist and a gunship pilot face their own urgent struggles to protect lives.

Communist forces begin holding ground near South Vietnam's borders, tempting American commanders into a major battle. CIA officer René Granier doubts the apparent opportunity and uses covert intelligence networks to uncover the strategy behind fighting that could conceal a larger plan.

A pacifist physicist adopts the identity of a woman she despises to obstruct a Nazi weapons project. Working inside a world of deception, Elsa must confront the distance between her beliefs and the actions her wartime mission demands.

Retired CIA operative Granier, tracker Spitting Woman, and a young Cambodian document atrocities while evading Khmer Rouge patrols. Photojournalist Karen Dickson pursues the same evidence, risking her life to reveal violence that the wider world has failed to confront.

As American forces withdraw, Granier and Coyle continue covert efforts to interrupt communist supplies and support allied troops. Powerful gunships offer new possibilities, but failed operations in Cambodia and shifting military responsibilities leave them anticipating an offensive they may not be able to stop.

As North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops close on Saigon, civilians crowd the streets seeking escape. Helicopter evacuations, collapsing defenses, and desperate family decisions shape the final struggle of people trying to leave before the advancing forces take control.

Granier and tracker Spitting Woman scout ahead of Vietnamese troops advancing into Cambodia and uncover corruption that could compromise the campaign. Preventing further Khmer Rouge killings conflicts with exposing a dangerous conspiracy, testing the loyalties that have sustained their partnership.

During the fragile truce of 1973 and 1974, departing American soldiers navigate a Vietnam still marked by concealed enemies and unresolved violence. Their uncertain exit unfolds alongside a divided country's attempts to understand the war and the consequences of its policies.

In Vietnam's A Shau Valley, a reconnaissance team is trapped with wounded men beneath enemy guns. Pararescue leader Tom Archer attempts a helicopter extraction using a fast rope, with only seconds to recover the survivors before the exposed aircraft becomes a target.

Two Navy airmen eject over the jagged mountains of Laos after enemy fire destroys their Phantom. With one badly injured and hostile troops closing in, rescue specialist Archer attempts an extraction using an experimental device built for impossible terrain.

North Vietnamese troops assault a secret American radar station on a mountaintop in Laos. As technicians struggle to defend the collapsing installation, Archer and his rescue team must attempt an extraction under fire with little support.

Granier and Spitting Woman return from Cambodia hoping to live peacefully in their northern Vietnamese village. China's 1979 invasion shatters that refuge, forcing them to draw on a lifetime of combat experience to defend their community against an overwhelming force.

Frank Kane is ordered to stop a heavily armed militia led by the comrade who once saved his life. Preventing a national catastrophe forces him to confront a painful conflict between loyalty to country and an unpaid personal debt.

An Air America pilot crashes in the Golden Triangle carrying intelligence on North Vietnamese supply routes. Archer’s helicopter crew must reach him before rival armed groups converge, navigating hostile skies, ambushes and the region’s shifting alliances.

Weakened by a bioweapon, Frank accepts a protection assignment involving a young prince crippled by relentless expectations. When professional killers pursue them, both the damaged bodyguard and his anxious charge must overcome the limitations threatening their survival.

When Grace’s college roommate disappears from Standing Rock, Frank Kane investigates a pattern of missing Native American women. Corruption and an illegal fracking operation conceal a trafficking network protected by mercenaries whose advanced camouflage makes them formidable opponents.

Frank’s secluded life is interrupted by a mission involving an artificial intelligence system engineered to create civil unrest. Infiltrating its powerful sponsors forces him to abandon hard-won peace before manufactured conflict tears the country apart.

A stolen nerve agent draws Frank Kane from his coastal retreat into a trail of murdered intermediaries and concealed suppliers. Preventing an attack requires uncertain allies and confronting the shadow network manipulating both events and their public explanation.

Scarred veteran Frank Kane has found purpose restoring an abandoned lighthouse when his niece is kidnapped. Returning to the violent skills he hoped to leave behind, he pursues her captors while facing resistance from his wealthy twin brother.

A genetic researcher disappears after longevity science is transformed into a weapon that rapidly ages its victims. Frank must choose between protecting his fragile peace and returning to dangerous work as official institutions fail to stop the deaths.

Wyoming horse breeder Billy Gamble possesses an extraordinary ability to recognize faces despite disguises. When a dangerous operative heads toward America, his unwanted gift becomes essential to identifying the man before a planned attack can happen.

Two patrol boats escorting supplies through the Mekong Delta enter a canal prepared as an enemy trap. With one vessel crippled and the other losing mobility, Chief Miller must decide how to protect his crew while rescuing sailors under sustained fire.

With Kyoto burning, injured retainer Aoyagi Jinzaburo struggles to move his family despite orders forbidding departure without written permission. Each failed escape deepens the conflict between military obedience and household survival, until an enemy offers safe passage at a price.

Drone swarms disable a desert airbase's defenses while insiders feed its systems false information. With children stranded aboard a grounded transport, soldier Tessa Rourke relies on her falcon's instincts to detect what machines miss and find a way to evacuate them.

Nolan Brice's reconnaissance team must capture an enemy records clerk alive and escape with his documents without revealing the mission. Keeping the station intact prevents an easy assault, while moving a prisoner through hostile territory creates new risks at every step.

Carrying unfamiliar listening equipment and still recovering from earlier injuries, Nolan Brice's team infiltrates enemy territory. An uncharted supply route crosses their planned landing area, forcing an immediate choice between unreliable intelligence and a slower path through active hostile ground.

Mac Tanner discovers deliberate ignition points in an Everglades wildfire and nearly dies investigating. Presumed dead and cut off from help, he must evade armed pursuers while uncovering why someone is willing to destroy the wilderness he protects.

Calvin Bledsoe leads a small rescue team after a reconnaissance patrol misses every extraction window during monsoon weather. Their insertion immediately meets resistance, leaving limited supplies and a vanishing trail between them and the missing soldiers.

Rescuer Silas Kincaid responds to a plane crash on an Alaskan glacier, finding survivors and dangerous cargo. A separate intelligence operation involving a North Korean defector converges on the mountain as a storm threatens the only escape.

Shot down over Laos, gunship pilot Tom Coyle survives with cipher equipment that could expose covert operations. A newly arrived airman joins the rescue effort as enemy patrols approach, communications fail, and difficult terrain turns every delay into a threat.

Remaining in the Everglades during a hurricane, Mac Tanner witnesses a professional hit team murder its pilot. Armed with limited equipment and detailed knowledge of the swamp, he tracks them through the storm toward a target whose destruction could endanger millions.

Silas rescues three climbers from an ice cave, but their conflicting accounts leave questions about a missing companion. As lawyers and media shape the story, he must rely on the mountain evidence he saw before it vanished.

Salvage diver Jack Tolliver must free a deteriorating vessel from a reef before its fuel spills into the Great Lakes. The court-ordered job forces him to work with a hostile crew while his equipment and injured shoulder fail.

Surveying a sunken ferry, Jack Tolliver discovers an undeclared van and its concealed cargo among the wreckage. Others are preparing to recover it without scrutiny, leaving him a narrow window to uncover the truth before weather closes in.

A sniper's precise attacks on river patrol crews suggest knowledge of American routes and schedules. When a shot nearly kills his gunner, Chief Miller investigates a warning network and changes his boat's tactics to catch the hidden enemy directing the ambushes.

Medical examiner Erika Tsai discovers evidence that her sister was murdered, but a powerful drug dealer's influence blocks prosecution. Approached by a vigilante offering another kind of judgment, she risks becoming an accomplice in her pursuit of justice.

Bledsoe leads four men deep into hostile territory to observe a road and report its traffic. With little support and no margin for exposure, the patrol must preserve its mission as events make a quiet return increasingly unlikely.

Vehicles keep breaking through a private ice road, but diver Jack suspects more than accidents. Discoveries beneath the frozen lake point to an organized scheme, while approaching warm weather threatens to destroy both the evidence and his route to safety.

Jack accepts a family’s request to investigate a sunken steamer despite restrictions protecting the wreck as a grave. With an injured shoulder and divided relatives watching, he must document what remains and confront the reason the vessel sank.

Falconer Tessa’s team confronts silent machines designed to lure birds into lethal encounters. Discovering her own training archive inside a downed drone turns the hunt personal, as her falcon Brim faces an enemy built to exploit his instincts.

A reconnaissance patrol is ordered to count traffic at a remote junction using outdated intelligence and limited equipment. Bledsoe must find safe extraction ground while discovering that the route carries much more than headquarters expected to see.

A helicopter extracting a defecting enemy pilot crashes in the Laotian mountains, stranding Americans and two opposing airmen together. Surrounded by an expanding enemy force, they struggle to repair the aircraft while a distant relief column races toward their position.

Following a covert raid that removes Venezuela’s ruler, a deniable American team targets the criminal intelligence network left behind. Hank Reyes and his operatives pursue a hidden registry while their adaptable enemies turn every intervention into a new risk.

Two airmen parachute onto opposite sides of a Laotian ridge without functioning emergency beacons. One cannot walk and the other's radio is destroyed, leaving rescue crews to interpret scattered signs while enemy searchers, worsening weather, and dwindling fuel narrow their chances.

Nolan Brice's covert team discovers a hidden supply road carrying far more enemy traffic than intelligence reports suggest. Transmitting the discovery brings pursuers, worsening weather, and an injured teammate, while a failing radio and unusable extraction point threaten their escape.

Sent to find a missing patrol, Nolan Brice leads his team into a valley far busier with enemy activity than their briefing indicated. Choosing safer routes costs precious time as tracks and abandoned equipment become clues to the vanished men's fate.

A routine wildlife call places Mac Tanner between a federal witness and eight trained killers. Outnumbered in the Everglades, he turns his knowledge of unstable ground and swamp waterways into the best chance of keeping the witness alive.

Chief Ray Miller's river patrol discovers a murdered village leader and evidence of an enemy supply network controlling communities through intimidation. Hunting the organizer draws his crew deeper into dangerous canals, where protecting civilians and rescuing a captured teammate become competing demands.

Assigned to protect minesweepers near Saigon, the River Hawks intercept cargo leading to a hidden sabotage network. Their pursuit takes a patrol boat into narrow mangrove channels as mines, shifting tides, and attacks on merchant shipping close the time available to act.

A downed pilot becomes bait when an enemy commander positions guns around the expected rescue route. After another airman is stranded with him, helicopter crews must attempt an extraction under tightening limits of fuel, daylight, and the wounded men's ability to move.

Medical examiner Erika Tsai finds evidence contradicting an apparent accidental drowning and pursues men protected from prosecution. A series of carefully targeted killings brings FBI agent Kate Harding onto her trail, testing both women's ideas about justice and the law.

A stolen military weapons platform places Billy’s estranged brother in danger and threatens Washington. With government agencies pursuing their own priorities, Billy has only days to locate the hostage and prevent a demonstration of the machine’s destructive capabilities.

Facing an invasion during heavy rains, minor retainer Aoyagi Tadayoshi is ordered to locate a passable road and verify the enemy commander's position. Flooding, failed encounters, and unreliable guidance turn a modest reconnaissance task into a test of honesty under pressure.

A ferry carrying medicine and wounded passengers prepares to cross a closed channel guarded by a warship ordered to fire on every contact. With her falcon injured and communications compromised, Tessa searches for the relay controlling an enemy drone swarm.

Billy tracks a mysterious woman who has stolen a device capable of breaking cryptocurrency encryption. As assassins pursue them both, he discovers his target is also fleeing the organization that trained her, complicating his duty to capture her.

Hyde is hired to extract a Dominican bank manager who has secretly redirected corrupt officials’ money to people in need. Competing security interests and dangerous border crossings complicate an escape where every apparent ally has something to hide.

After an oligarch is imprisoned for ordering American tourists’ deaths, he offers a fortune for his freedom. Eighteen trained mercenaries accept the job, leaving Billy Gamble to identify them before they can carry out the rescue.

A boy’s swift abduction across the border sends recovery specialist Daniel Hyde into Juarez. The missing child’s case lacks the usual signs of a ransom operation, forcing Hyde to uncover the kidnappers’ real purpose before rescue becomes impossible.

Hiding at a Maine lighthouse, Frank Kane learns that a powerful official plans to manufacture a civil war and seize emergency powers. With a private army approaching his refuge, exposing the conspiracy becomes inseparable from surviving the assault.

Assigned to protect a defecting Russian officer, Frank faces a collapsed extraction and a determined assassin. Forced into snowy mountain country with his charge, he must use the dangerous terrain to survive opponents who believe he is merely fleeing.

Mac Tanner discovers that official wildlife records are being altered to erase evidence of a surviving panther and enable a lucrative land deal. With a survey deadline approaching, he must find physical proof while powerful opponents try to silence him.

Daniel Hyde breaks his usual rules to search for a missing human rights lawyer in Argentina. A guarded client, persistent intelligence operative and trail toward remote Patagonia make finding her as dangerous as the disappearance itself.

After documenting a concealed enemy crossing, Bledsoe’s team begins the difficult return toward extraction. Growing traffic, injuries and changed trails threaten the five men and the fragile evidence they must carry back through increasingly active country.

A Takeda officer conceals a fallen messenger's family crest while two armies confront each other across a river plain. Across the lines, a related Uesugi officer challenges an official record, drawing family history into the uneasy demands of military loyalty.

Tessa and her team hunt the signal directing an enemy network while protecting civilians escaping a valley. With transport lost and their radio damaged, the bond between her falcon and the adversary's trained birds offers a dangerous route toward their target.

A prototype weapon disappears after an expertly executed convoy ambush, leading Frank toward a concealed government facility. As an escaped enemy drives toward a catastrophic target, Kane pursues without support and with little equipment beyond his battered car.

A vigilante movement targets a federal judge whose lawful ruling freed a dangerous criminal. Frank Kane comes to Chicago to protect him, confronting armed avengers whose grief and belief in violent justice uncomfortably resemble his own.

An attack exposes hazardous waste hidden beneath a Pennsylvania town, followed by illness, deaths and disappearing records. Frank investigates the corporate and official corruption behind the disaster while a private armed force tries to silence him.

A foreign ship introduces powerful firearms to a southern Japanese shore, provoking immediate competition and violence. Ordered to carry a copied matchlock and its maker inland, Aoyagi Masanobu faces damaged equipment, treacherous conditions, and an enemy who always arrives ahead of him.

A murdered craftsman leaves coordinates pointing toward a long-abandoned mountain basin and a snowbound aircraft. Frank investigates, encountering an armed crew determined to protect its secret while failing machinery and incoming weather shape his chances of escape.

An aid worker is abducted and imprisoned on a secret offshore interrogation platform run for profit. Frank is sent to rescue her without official support before a scheduled strike destroys the structure and everyone left aboard.

Gabriela Collins is abducted from a coastal highway in a carefully executed operation. Given five days to find her, Daniel Hyde follows the kidnappers toward evidence that someone close to the missing woman enabled the crime.

A distress call draws mountain rescuer Silas toward a crashed plane carrying encrypted financial records. Protecting the survivors from a ruthless mercenary becomes as urgent as surviving Denali’s extreme cold, approaching whiteout and lack of backup.

A reduced reconnaissance team must photograph an enemy road junction without disrupting its traffic or exposing its position. Nolan Brice rejects air support and offensive action, leaving four men to gather convincing evidence with limited equipment while remaining unseen.

A corporate whistleblower flees into Denali’s backcountry with incriminating evidence, unaware a professional hunter is already following. As a storm grounds rescue aircraft, Silas Kincaid stands between the fugitive and a cover-up he has yet to understand.