David Slaton and Tru Miller Books in Order

The David Slaton and Tru Miller books pick up after years of Slaton working alone. Here he shares the stage with a new generation of operatives, starting with Truman Tru Miller, a rookie CIA Ground Branch officer who is talented, untested, and not yet sure how much of himself he is willing to give up for the job.

The first novel, Dark Vector, begins far from Washington. A prototype Russian fighter vanishes during a test flight over Siberia, and the pilot, Colonel Maksim Primakov, is secretly trying to defect to the West. Russian search teams are scouring the wrong patch of wilderness, while the CIA scrambles to reach Primakov before his own side hunts him down.

By this point in the larger saga, Slaton has become the chief of CIA clandestine operations. Instead of pulling the trigger on every mission, he is the one who has to choose which risks are worth taking. He identifies Tru Miller as the only operator who can plausibly reach Primakov, then watches from half a world away as Tru pushes deep inside hostile territory.

On the ground the story feels less like a boardroom thriller and more like a survival tale. Tru teams up with test pilot Kai Drake and a handful of Americans caught behind Russian lines, while a driven intelligence general closes in from the other side. Snow, broken terrain, and isolation matter as much as satellite feeds and encrypted radios, and each decision can mean the difference between extraction and a diplomatic nightmare.

The result is a bridge between the classic Slaton assassin novels and a fresh ensemble built to carry new stories.

Readers who already know David Slaton will recognize his habits and history, but newcomers can still follow the action without having read every earlier book. This page explains how the Tru Miller timeline fits alongside the main Slaton series, and helps you decide whether to treat Dark Vector as a capstone to the original run or as the starting point for a new chapter.