Duane Swierczynski Books in Order

A practical breakdown of how scams work, why people fall for them, and how to spot the warning signs. Useful, readable, and very aware that grifters evolve fast.

A brisk history of American bank robbery, told with crime-reporting detail and a feel for the larger mythology around heists. Swierczynski covers the crooks, the cops, and the legends they left behind.

Part reference book, part true-crime history, this volume traces the famous fugitives who landed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. It is packed with cases, context, and criminal oddities.

A cocktail guide built around mood, moment, and social situation instead of bartender snobbery. Swierczynski keeps it practical, playful, and easy to browse.

A quick, entertaining tour of spycraft, gadgets, trade secrets, and intelligence lore. It reads like a pocket briefing for readers who enjoy the idea of espionage as much as the facts.

A lively guide to beer that mixes styles, history, trivia, and drinking lore. It is written for curious readers who want useful information without losing the fun.

An investigative journalist dies and keeps moving, becoming something like a soul collector on the trail of the enemy who ruined him. Swierczynski mixes supernatural noir with wisecracks and momentum.

A getaway driver thinks a bank job will be simple until the plan cracks open into betrayal from every side. Lean and fast, the novel barely takes a breath once the wheels start turning.

A drifter kisses the wrong woman and learns he may die unless he passes on what she gave him. It is a nasty little hook, and Swierczynski runs with it at full speed.

Cable escapes into the future with infant Hope Summers, convinced she matters to the fate of mutantkind. Bishop is right behind him, turning the opening volume into a grim, time-jumping chase.

A routine corporate layoff turns lethal when a covert company decides its ex-employees know too much. One ordinary worker has a single night to outrun his own severance package.

Still on the run with baby Hope, Cable crosses one ruined future after another while Bishop refuses to quit. The appeal is the mix of mutant mythology, hard travel, and unexpectedly tender guardianship.

Special investigator Steve Dark hunts Sqweegel, a terrifying serial killer who seems to live outside every normal category of evil. The first Level 26 book is grisly, high-concept, and built to keep you off balance.

Danny Rand and the Immortal Weapons are trapped in a hidden city of monsters and need a prison break to survive. It is a mythic kung fu adventure with Davos waiting on the outside.

A ticking-clock thriller that gives its protagonist almost no time to solve the mess around him. Swierczynski keeps the pace brutal and the choices ugly until the deadline runs out.

Danny Rand faces a dark force tied to the long, deadly history of the Iron Fist. Martial arts action meets secret legacy as the book turns Danny's inheritance into a curse as much as a power.

For most of the month Jack Russell can pass for ordinary, but on day twenty-nine he becomes a bloodthirsty monster. This horror reworking leans hard into the curse, the marriage, and the body count.

Cable keeps dragging Hope through ruined futures while Bishop closes the distance. The series stays part mutant epic, part survival story, with every stop in time feeling like it might be their last.

Hope is older, the futures are harsher, and Bishop is still hunting. This stretch of Cable keeps the time-travel chaos focused on one hard question: can he protect the child who may save mutantkind?

Steve Dark is back on the trail of evil that feels bigger and stranger than ordinary homicide. The second Level 26 book widens the conspiracy and keeps testing how much of himself he can hold onto.

Mickey Wade returns to Philadelphia and stumbles into a bizarre underworld built around a strange drug and stranger people. Part noir, part fever dream, it turns a homecoming into a ticking-clock spiral.

This collection shifts the spotlight to the other great fighters in Iron Fist's orbit, from Fat Cobra to Bride of Nine Spiders. It deepens the mythology and shows how big the world around Danny Rand has become.

This anthology returns to 1940s Los Angeles with eight noir stories tied to the world of L.A. Noire. Megan Abbott's entry, The Girl, follows struggling actress June Ballard into a Hollywood party where glamour quickly gives way to danger.

Steve Dark is already fraying at the edges when a new wave of violence and conspiracy pulls him deeper in. The finale of the Level 26 trilogy keeps the series dark, graphic, and relentlessly tense.

Charlie Hardie is supposed to be quietly house-sitting in Los Angeles, not protecting a frightened actress from an army of killers. Swierczynski turns the setup into a wild, funny, bruising chase thriller.

Charlie Hardie wakes up in the hands of the secretive Accident People and learns the nightmare is only getting started. The sequel trades house-sit chaos for black-site paranoia without letting up on speed.

After a senator is seduced and murdered, his journalist son starts following the trail and runs straight into Black Widow. Natasha Romanoff moves through the case like a ghost, never fully ally or enemy.

When giant monsters start smashing cities around the world, bodyguard Boxer gets swept into a desperate counterattack. The hook is simple and satisfying: mercenaries, monsters, and a lot of things getting crushed.

Charlie Hardie has already survived killers and a secret prison, but the final book goes even bigger. Hurtling toward a showdown with the Accident People, he has to outlast the conspiracy that wrecked his life.

The Birds of Prey try to stop bombs from tearing through Gotham while old secrets make the team harder to hold together. Black Canary stays at the center of a story that mixes mission pressure with personal fallout.

The Birds of Prey face fresh enemies and new fractures inside the team as the New 52 run keeps turning up the pressure. It is a sharp, restless superhero thriller where loyalty never stays simple.

Bloodshot wakes as a superhuman weapon powered by nanites and haunted by memories he cannot trust. The more damage he survives, the more he begins to suspect the people who made him.

Now that Bloodshot knows his past may be manufactured, he turns on the program that built him. That makes every mission more personal, and every answer more dangerous.

Bloodshot is dragged into a wider Valiant conflict where corporate schemes, psiot warfare, and his own broken history collide. The action gets bigger, but the fight is still about who controls his life.

Boxer and his rough monster-response team keep chasing disaster from one kaiju attack to the next. The scale gets bigger, the alliances wobble, and nobody stays ahead of the monsters for long.

The global kaiju crisis reaches its loud, messy payoff as Boxer's team scrambles through one last round of giant-monster chaos. Big battles, bad odds, and very little room for subtlety.

Crime never sleeps in Mega-City One, and neither does Judge Dredd. This opening volume throws him through clone trouble, killer robots, and citywide menace while introducing the vicious logic of his world.

Technology starts failing all over Mega-City One, and the city spirals toward panic. Dredd has to fight his way through blackouts, explosions, and urban collapse with almost nothing going his way.

Black Canary's past comes crashing back when agents come after her for murder, and the Birds of Prey are caught in the blast. A fast team-book arc built on secrets, pursuit, and shaky trust.

Before their later history got complicated, Deadpool and Cable crossed paths in the worst possible way. Wade tears through time, X-Force chases him, and the whole thing plays as a violent retro romp.

After the devastation of The Long Fail, Dredd leads a team beyond Mega-City One and into the radioactive Cursed Earth. The mission is brutal, the enemies are worse, and the city needs something only the wasteland can provide.

Dredd returns to Mega-City One and finds the Justice Department under attack from within. With Judges dying in inventive ways, the book turns into a hard, fast hunt through a city already close to collapse.

The Dark Judges claw their way toward Mega-City One and aim to turn it into a city of the dead. Dredd has to fight monsters on one side and desperate official overreaction on the other.

This comic lives in the late-night space where crime, bad luck, and something weirder meet. What starts as ordinary trouble keeps sliding toward a darker, more dangerous kind of story.

In the ruined city of Arcadia, the masked vigilante X deals out lethal justice to criminals who think they own the streets. When blogger Leigh Ferguson gets too close, she is swept into his bloody private war.

X goes after the corrupt narcotics squad known as the Dogs of War, and Arcadia hits back hard. The deeper he cuts into the system, the clearer it becomes that this city protects its worst people.

Arcadia sinks further into chaos as old enemies resurface and new killers rise. While X fights through the wreckage, Leigh keeps digging into the secrets of who he was before he ever put on the mask.

Bloodshot is still fighting to take back his life from the people who built him as a weapon. This volume blends hard sci-fi action with the series' central question: what does freedom look like for a man full of other people's lies?

When honors student Sarie Holland witnesses a mob killing, the police force her to work as an informant. Trapped between Philadelphia gangsters and people who say they are helping, she has to grow up fast or get buried in the case.

Fresh out of prison, Cody Pomeray wants a real second chance, but his past keeps dragging him back into costumed trouble. The comic mixes superhero noir with street-level crime and shaky redemption.

Judge Anderson is struggling to return to Mega-City One, while Dredd heads into the blacked-out ruins of Sector One. The city is still breaking apart, and the rescue mission only reveals how bad things have become.

Dredd escapes the worst of Sector One only to become prey inside his own city. With Judge Cal's surveillance state closing in, he has to stay alive long enough to turn the hunt back on his enemies.

Philadelphia cop Greg Hettinger survives a face-shattering shooting and kills the man behind the Black Hood mask. Then he starts wearing it himself, in a grim vigilante story about pain, addiction, and very bad decisions.

X has already torn through gangs and crooked cops, but the Archon and the Chosen are something worse. Betrayed and isolated, he has to face Arcadia's newest nightmare alone.

Leigh Ferguson is pulled into a new nightmare when her old friend becomes prey for the Skin Traders, a gang of surgically altered sadists. X answers with blades, blood, and a trip straight into one of Arcadia's sickest corners.

The Archon returns to Arcadia, and this time he brings the mysterious Mark with him. Their private war threatens to rip the city apart, leaving X to save a place that may already be too broken.

A short, unsettling piece about what remains after a life has been blown apart. Swierczynski keeps it intimate, uneasy, and more interested in aftermath than easy answers.

A Philadelphia man starts waking up in two different versions of his life, split by one choice from decades earlier. As danger builds in both timelines, he has to decide which self can live with the truth.

Greg Hettinger survived the shooting that made him the Black Hood, but survival is not the same as recovery. As painkillers, shame, and violent grudges pile up, his masked life turns even uglier.

A Senate investigation wants to know what really happened on one of Deadpool's messiest secret missions. The problem is Wade Wilson may be the least reliable witness on Earth.

Deadpool barrels through the Marvel Universe and turns every encounter into a wisecracking disaster. The fun is watching Wade make an already dangerous world even harder to survive.

After a damaged mind starts flooding with noise, memory and reality stop lining up cleanly. Swierczynski turns the setup into a strange, dark thriller about identity, obsession, and what a brain can no longer filter.

Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, and a desperate Rebel team race to steal the Death Star plans before the Empire can tighten its grip. This comics adaptation keeps the story moving and the stakes clear.

Greg Hettinger's life as the Black Hood keeps collapsing into addiction, guilt, and street violence. This volume pushes the series deeper into Philadelphia noir, where every masked decision makes the next disaster harder to escape.

Bartholomew Bean seems like the dullest kid around, until weird creatures and stranger secrets turn his ordinary life upside down. A funny middle grade adventure about a boy who learns being overlooked can be its own kind of superpower.

A desperate chase, a bad situation, and a trail of decisions that only make things worse, this graphic novel runs on pure momentum. Swierczynski writes it like a crime story with the gas pedal jammed down.

A strange piece of technology turns ordinary unease into full-blown paranoia. This short science fiction thriller builds dread fast and keeps the human cost close.

A sharp science fiction mystery about identity, pursuit, and secrets that do not stay buried. Swierczynski keeps the tone tense and the story moving, even as the answers get stranger.

A washed-up ex-cop becomes convinced he has finally identified the long-dormant California Bear, a serial killer who vanished decades ago. The hunt pulls in damaged allies, true-crime opportunists, and a case that refuses to stay buried.

A high-stakes kidnapping plot aims for an unimaginable payday and forces everyone involved into a brutal race against time. The hook is exactly what the title promises, only messier and deadlier.