David Wiltse Books in Order

George Suggs heads to the city hoping to make it as a sportscaster, only to be worn down by ambition, bad choices, and loneliness. Wiltse's first play tracks a bright young man as fascination curdles into bitterness.

Back in Connecticut for his brother's wedding, Peter Stanhope narrowly survives a sniper attack and walks into a maze of family secrets, political intrigue, and hired killers. What begins as a celebration quickly turns into a fight to stay alive.

Peter Stanhope returns home and ends up in the sights of a professional killer during his brother's wedding. The thriller mixes family tension, espionage, and chase scenes as Peter tries to uncover who wants his family silenced.

New York homicide lieutenant Sandy Block is hunting a sadistic killer who targets pregnant women, and the case turns terrifyingly personal when his own wife is at risk. It's an early Wiltse thriller with a grim, relentless drive.

After a military war game goes horribly wrong, Sergeant Mark Stitzer becomes a hunted, damaged man bent on finishing the mission in his head. The result is a violent chase thriller about training, madness, and vengeance.

Set in a tennis club locker room, this comedy follows four middle-aged friends who trade jokes, grievances, and hard truths as they face aging, marriage, and friendship. It is a breezy, talky piece built on camaraderie and comic timing.

Burned out by violence, former FBI agent Peter Ketter returns to his Nebraska hometown hoping for a quieter life. Instead he finds adultery, family strain, and a murder case that drags him back toward the darkness he thought he'd escaped.

John Becker is drawn out of retirement to help investigate a string of missing men in a Connecticut town. To catch the killer, he has to think his way into the mind of a murderer who hides behind an ordinary face.

In this prequel, FBI agent John Becker tracks a gifted assassin who has slipped into New York to carry out a political killing. The hunt becomes a battle between two men who understand violence far too well.

Becker and Karen Crist hunt a pair of child kidnappers and killers who keep slipping past every standard FBI profile. The case is brutal, intimate, and deeply personal, with the investigators always a step behind.

While on medical leave, Becker starts receiving coded messages about two girls killed years earlier and is dragged back into official work. The trail leads through prison, revival tents, and a nightmare landscape where nothing is as simple as it looks.

A seductive killer who calls himself Captain Luv has been charming women, murdering some of them, and burying the evidence. When bones surface in Becker's Connecticut hometown, the case gets uglier and more personal by the page.

A bomber threatens New York City's bridges and tunnels, pushing the city toward panic and chaos. John Becker has to stop him before the extortion plot turns into mass destruction, but the bomber is volatile, smart, and hard to predict.

In Nebraska, an estranged husband returns just as Susan is caring for her difficult mother after a stroke. Dreamlike scenes from the older woman's past turn the play into a family drama about memory, regret, and the love people settle for.

On a Nebraska farm, a troubled married couple have turned seasonal labor into a murderous business. As a new worker arrives and old loyalties resurface, the wife starts looking for a way out before the next killing.

After a deadly disaster on a Secret Service assignment, Billy Tree heads home to Falls City, Nebraska, to recover. Peace doesn't last. Local violence, old loyalties, and buried resentments pull him into a murder investigation that cuts close to home.

Now back in Falls City and working as a deputy, Billy Tree is pulled into a case with roots in a decades-old lynching. A stranger, a tiny noose, and the town's long memory make this one personal fast.

In 1950s Cascade, Nebraska, a charismatic young man returns from the city and quietly unsettles the Hauser family. His pull on husband, wife, and teenage son turns a nostalgic memory play into a story about desire, shame, and damage.

Two married couples drift from flirtation to temptation to infidelity in this sharp, witty comedy. Wiltse uses fast dialogue and shifting loyalties to poke at romance, monogamy, and the stories people tell themselves about marriage.

Based on a true story, this political drama follows an innocent man swept up in World War I hysteria and accused of sedition. It asks how fear, patriotism, and public pressure can turn a legal case into a moral test.

Wiltse's historical drama stages the fatal confrontation between Crazy Horse and General Crook. The play looks at power, warfare, and the human cost behind the legends of the American West.

Set in the cramped office of a golf magazine facing a sale, this farce turns workplace nerves into romantic chaos. Six employees juggle ambition, lust, and mistaken identity as the power balance keeps shifting.