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David Slaton Books in Order

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See the David Slaton books by Ward Larsen in order, with quick plot summaries, series background, and simple guidance on the best place to start this assassin thriller series.

Last updated: December 24, 2025

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10 books

1

Assassin's Mark

by Ward Larsen

2023

After a wave of high tech attacks, Marine One is blasted from the sky over Washington and the president barely survives. Slaton is sent after the group known as Trident, but as he hunts them he realizes a gifted rival assassin and a traitor inside the government are hunting him.

2

Assassin's Edge

by Ward Larsen

2022

A U.S. spy plane goes down near Russia and a Mossad officer vanishes in Central Asia, events that seem unrelated until a U.S. destroyer sinks in the Black Sea. Slaton leads a covert mission into the Arctic and Balkans to confront the mastermind known as Lazarus.

3

Assassin's Dawn

by Ward Larsen

2021

This prequel novella shows Slaton at the beginning of his career, still in training and driven by the loss of his family in a terror attack. A mission in Central Europe goes sideways and gives him one fragile chance to hunt the elusive killer who changed his life.

4

Assassin's Strike

by Ward Larsen

2020

After a secret meeting between the leaders of Russia and Iran, a Russian interpreter flees with knowledge of a planned chemical attack. Slaton is sent into war torn Syria to rescue her and unravel a plot designed to ignite the entire Middle East.

5

Assassin's Revenge

by Ward Larsen

2019

Returning to his family sailboat in Gibraltar, Slaton finds his wife and young son gone and a chilling demand in their place. To save them he must eliminate a nuclear scientist, drawing him into a deadly game that stretches from Vienna to North Korea and the open Pacific.

6

Assassin's Run

by Ward Larsen

2018

When a Russian oligarch is shot dead on his yacht off Capri, intelligence services blame a legendary Israeli assassin they believe is still alive. To clear his name, Slaton follows clues from Europe to North Africa and uncovers a scheme that could reset global power.

7

Assassin's Code

by Ward Larsen

2017

Slaton receives a memory stick bearing the image of France's incoming counterterrorism chief, a man he is certain he killed years ago as an extremist. As ISIS plots a massive assault on France, he chases the truth from Tel Aviv to Paris to the Syrian desert.

8

Assassin's Silence

by Ward Larsen

2016

Hiding under a false identity in Malta, Slaton survives a surprise attack and leaves a trail of bodies across Europe, while a derelict airliner in the Amazon is rebuilt into a flying bomb, forcing him and the CIA to race against an airborne terror weapon.

9

Assassin's Game

by Ward Larsen

2014

Years after disappearing, David Slaton is living quietly in suburban Virginia with his wife, Christine, when Mossad forces him back into service to stop an Iranian nuclear breakthrough, pushing him across Europe on a mission that may cost him his new life.

10

The Perfect Assassin

by Ward Larsen

2004

While sailing solo across the Atlantic, American doctor Christine Palmer rescues a half frozen man from the water, only to learn he is David Slaton, a legendary Israeli assassin, and that both of them are targets in a plot built around missing nuclear weapons.

Series background & context

The David Slaton novels imagine what happens when the world's most capable assassin tries to live like an ordinary man. The series opens at sea, with a half dead stranger pulled from the Atlantic and a young doctor who quickly learns he is anything but helpless.

David Slaton is a kidon, a Mossad trained operative who has spent years planning and executing missions in the shadows. He is methodical, patient, and lethal, yet Larsen gives him ordinary worries as well, a damaged past, a longing for family, and a conscience that never quite turns off.

That tension sits at the heart of the series.

In The Perfect Assassin and Assassin's Game, Slaton moves from hunted operative to reluctant husband, pulled back into service when an Iranian scientist and a compromised spy network threaten to trigger a nuclear crisis. Later books like Assassin's Silence, Assassin's Code, and Assassin's Run widen the canvas, sending him across Europe, the Middle East, and Russia to untangle terror plots, rogue states, and cyber enabled campaigns that feel uncomfortably close to real headlines.

As Slaton and his wife Christine build a life and raise a son, the stakes shift from abstract geopolitics to intensely personal survival. In stories such as Assassin's Revenge, Assassin's Strike, Assassin's Edge, and Assassin's Mark, Slaton works with and against agencies like the CIA, chasing missing weapons, high value defectors, and shadowy groups that want to drag the world toward war. The threats are big, but the stories keep circling back to one man trying to protect the few people he cares about.

Larsen draws heavily on his background as a fighter pilot and accident investigator. The books are full of real aircraft, plausible tradecraft, and details of how intelligence agencies actually move pieces around a global board. At the same time, the pacing stays lean, with clear action scenes and just enough technology to make the scenarios feel grounded rather than flashy.

Newer entries, along with the origin novella Assassin's Dawn and the linked Tru Miller books, fill in Slaton's early years and push him into new roles inside the intelligence world. Whether you read in strict publication order or dip in wherever a plot catches your eye, the David Slaton series delivers compact, high energy spy stories built around a single operative who can never quite escape the life that made him.

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