David Lynn Golemon Books in Order
Browse all David Lynn Golemon books in order, including Event Group and Supernaturals lists with summaries, series background, and guidance on where to start.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
17 books
Season of the Witch
by David Lynn Golemon
2019
Department 5656, the Event Group, learns that the grave of an old ally is empty just as a series of brutal attacks begins inside their hidden desert complex. A legendary, otherworldly entity has targeted the team, forcing Jack Collins to confront an enemy that turns their own history into a weapon.
Empire of the Dragon
by David Lynn Golemon
2018
In 230 BC, China's first emperor tries to kill his half brother Li Zhang and seize the elemental power that lets him command earth, air, fire, and water. Centuries later, a miraculous alien ore is found in Mongolia, and the Event Group joins a dangerous race beneath the Gobi to keep that power from igniting a new space age war.
In the Still of the Night
by David Lynn Golemon
2017
Years after being accused of faking their most famous case, the Supernaturals are called back together to help protect the President. Their search leads to Moreno, a California ghost town where something in an old theater vault pulls victims back to Halloween 1963, and the body count is rising.
Beyond the Sea
by David Lynn Golemon
2017
In the middle of a NATO exercise, a Soviet battlecruiser reported sunk in 1944 suddenly appears in the North Atlantic, intact and unclaimed. Colonel Jack Collins and the Event Group board the ship alongside Russian forces and uncover a deadly device that hurls both navies into a frozen alternate ocean they may never escape.
The Traveler
by David Lynn Golemon
2016
A soldier from the Event Group vanishes during a battle and reappears 267,000 years in the past, in a brutal world still ruled by prehistoric predators. To bring him home, Jack Collins must chase down experimental time travel technology and lead a rescue mission into a primeval jungle that was never meant for humankind.
The Mountain
by David Lynn Golemon
2015
In 1863, Union and Confederate leaders quietly cooperate on a secret mission to recover what may be the remains of Noah's Ark from a mountain inside the Ottoman Empire. In 2007, newly recruited security chief Jack Collins and the Event Group are sent to rescue a missing astronaut from that same peak and keep a biblical relic from triggering a modern war.
A Whiter Shade of Pale
by David Lynn Golemon
2015
In golden age Hollywood, the Sunset Detective Agency follows a trail of vanished starlets and finds evidence that an old world monster has come to Los Angeles. As legends of classic horror films bleed into reality, famous actors and hard used investigators are pulled into a fight against a predator hiding in the brightest spotlight on earth.
Overlord
by David Lynn Golemon
2014
Open war finally erupts between humanity and an ancient alien enemy that has been watching Earth for ages. While world alliances fracture and battles flare from the deep oceans to orbit, the Event Group and their small gray ally known as Matchstick Man search Earth's buried past for the one secret that might save the planet.
Carpathian
by David Lynn Golemon
2013
A strange fossil found at the ruins of Jericho suggests that the Hebrews once fielded impossible beasts against Pharaoh's army. The Event Group uncovers clues that lead from Middle Eastern battlefields to the misty Carpathian Mountains and the legacy of Vlad the Impaler, racing zealots and mercenaries to protect relics that could rewrite sacred history.
Ripper
by David Lynn Golemon
2012
In 1887 a British experiment to create super soldiers using a mutant gene births the killer the world knows as Jack the Ripper. Decades later, the formula resurfaces in a Mexican drug lord's cache, and when it is unleashed inside the Event Group's Nevada complex, Jack Collins must stop his own people from becoming unstoppable murderers.
The Supernaturals
by David Lynn Golemon
2011
Seven years after a disastrous investigation ruined his career, Professor Gabriel Kennedy is lured back to Summer Place, a sprawling mansion in the Pocono Mountains with a vicious reputation. A reality TV crew wants a live Halloween special, but Kennedy's new team of ghost hunters soon discovers that the house itself is hungry for them.
Legacy
by David Lynn Golemon
2011
A robotic probe on the moon uncovers a human skeleton sealed inside an ancient spacesuit, and tests date the remains at roughly a billion years old. As religious and political factions erupt over the discovery, Jack Collins and the Event Group journey into space to learn who died on the lunar surface and whether the war that killed them is truly over.
Primeval
by David Lynn Golemon
2010
A battered journal from the night the Romanov family was executed surfaces alongside a rare diamond, pointing toward a lost imperial treasure. The trail draws the Event Group into the wilderness of British Columbia, where colossal predators called They Who Follow may still stalk deep caves and see humans as prey.
Leviathan
by David Lynn Golemon
2009
Merchant ships and modern warships are vanishing without a distress call, torn apart by an invisible attacker in the world's oceans. The Event Group uncovers a link to a nineteenth century genius and a super advanced submarine called Leviathan, then races to stop its fanatical commander from using that vessel to punish a planet he believes is killing its own seas.
Ancients
by David Lynn Golemon
2008
Eons before recorded history, an advanced civilization learned how to weaponize the planet's own geology and then destroyed itself. When traces of that technology are unearthed in the South Pacific and hostile forces begin decoding it, the Event Group must follow the lost trail of the Ancients before earthquakes, tsunamis, and engineered disasters tear the modern world apart.
Legend
by David Lynn Golemon
2007
In 1533 a Spanish expedition finds a hidden valley in the Amazon that holds El Dorado and a monstrous guardian older than humanity. Centuries later, when a modern professor and her team vanish chasing the same legend, the Event Group follows their trail into the jungle, battling rival hunters and a primeval river beast to keep the secret buried.
Event
by David Lynn Golemon
2006
When another object crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, decades after the famous 1947 incident, two very different creatures emerge from the wreckage, one peaceful and one designed for extinction. Major Jack Collins is drafted into the ultra secret Event Group to hunt the Destroyer of Worlds across the desert while battling a ruthless rival agency that wants to turn the alien into a weapon.
Where should I start?
If you want the core Event Group arc: Event → Legend → Ancients → Leviathan
If you like big science fiction stakes: Legacy → Overlord → Empire of the Dragon → Season of the Witch
If you prefer haunted house horror: The Supernaturals → In the Still of the Night
If you want a one book supernatural mystery: A Whiter Shade of Pale
Author bio
David Lynn Golemon was born in Chino, California in 1955, in a family that talked about military history the way some families talk about sports. He grew up surrounded by stories that reached from the Civil War through Vietnam.
His father also handed him something quieter but just as powerful, a love of books. He told his son that the written word is the only kind of storytelling that lets the reader build the pictures in their own mind. Golemon took that to heart and started dreaming up stories of his own before he turned ten.
As a young man he joined the U.S. Army and served in Special Operations. The work was demanding and secretive, but it gave him an inside view of how missions are planned, how teams move, and what pressure feels like when lives are on the line. Years later, those details would seep into his fiction and help his thrillers feel like they were drawn from real operations.
After leaving the military he spent time in Colorado and raised three children, Shaune, Brandon, and Katie Anne. Writing was not an overnight leap. It grew alongside day jobs and family life, fed by stacks of history books and a steady diet of adventure and suspense novels. Influences like Clive Cussler, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tom Clancy, Larry Bond, and Stephen King helped steer him toward the kind of story where history, technology, and the supernatural all collide.
That mix came together in Event, the 2006 novel that introduced Department 5656, better known as the Event Group. In it, Major Jack Collins is pulled into a hidden government agency that investigates what really happened at Roswell and faces an alien threat aimed at wiping out life on Earth. The book launched a long running series that treats UFO lore, buried artifacts, and secret wars as problems for a small, very human team of soldiers and scientists.
Golemon kept pushing the concept outward with books like Legend, Ancients, Leviathan, and Primeval, sending the Event Group after El Dorado, Atlantis level technology, sea going superweapons, and prehistoric predators. Readers come for the big set pieces and strange creatures, but many stay for the running relationships between Jack Collins, director Niles Compton, and the rest of the department as they wrestle with trust, loss, and the cost of keeping secrets.
In Legacy and Overlord he leaned into full scale science fiction, tying lunar mysteries and billion year old skeletons to an ancient alien war and a modern invasion. Later entries such as The Mountain, The Traveler, Empire of the Dragon, and Season of the Witch play with Civil War conspiracies, time travel, lost Chinese empires, and mythic entities that feel as much like demons as aliens.
Alongside the Event Group books he created a separate horror line with The Supernaturals and its follow up In the Still of the Night. These stories follow Professor Gabriel Kennedy and a small team of paranormal investigators as they take on a brutally haunted mansion and, later, a ghost town tied to the President's past. A standalone novel, A Whiter Shade of Pale, shifts the focus to Hollywood, where an old world monster stalks aspiring actors against a backdrop of studio legends.
Across all of this work, Golemon comes back to a few simple ideas. History matters, even when it is hidden. Power without accountability turns ugly fast. Soldiers and scientists are most interesting when they are allowed to be scared, stubborn, and funny as well as brave. He still lives in New York, far from the deserts and jungles where his stories unfold, and continues to write the kind of high energy, history tangled thrillers he once searched for on the shelf.
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