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Evan Tanner Books in Order

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Find the Evan Tanner books by Lawrence Block in order, with short summaries to help you choose where to start with the sleepless spy's adventures.

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Evan Tanner books in publication order

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8 books

1

The Canceled Czech

by Lawrence Block

1966

Sleepless spy Evan Tanner is ordered to infiltrate a Prague castle and rescue a condemned Slovak Nazi. His distaste for the prisoner complicates an already dangerous assignment, with torture and execution awaiting him if the secret mission fails.

2

The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep

by Lawrence Block

1966

Unable to sleep after a wartime injury, Evan Tanner travels to Turkey in search of hidden Armenian gold. Soviet and American intelligence mistake him for an enemy agent, pulling his treasure hunt into espionage and the possibility of revolution.

3

Tanner's Twelve Swingers

by Lawrence Block

1967

Evan Tanner agrees to smuggle a friend's beloved Latvian gymnast out of Russia, but she insists on bringing eleven teammates. Other fugitives join the journey, transforming one rescue into a crowded and dangerous crossing of Cold War borders.

4

A distraught mother asks Evan Tanner to find her daughter Phaedra, a former roommate abducted by traffickers in Afghanistan. Reaching her requires crossing hostile territory and surviving terrorists before he can attempt to bring her safely home.

5

Tanner's Tiger

by Lawrence Block

1968

Evan Tanner escorts a young Lithuanian royal heir to Montreal's World's Fair while investigating disappearances linked to the Cuban exhibition. Drugs and distractions complicate his assignment, but a terrorist plot against the visiting British queen makes quick action essential.

6

Disguised as a butterfly researcher, Evan Tanner searches Thailand for a missing singer turned jewel thief. Guerrillas capture him, and escaping with a young Thai ally sends him through a jungle threatened by bandits, soldiers and approaching war.

7

Me Tanner, You Jane

by Lawrence Block

1986

Sleepless spy Evan Tanner travels to Africa to track a missing ruler who has taken his country's treasury. Competing political forces and a jungle adventurer named Sheena complicate an assignment that puts his own life at risk.

8

Tanner on Ice

by Lawrence Block

1998

Evan Tanner awakens after spending twenty-five years frozen and struggles to adjust to a changed world. Sent to Burma on a new assignment, the sleepless operative encounters political schemes and danger before he's fully caught up with the present.

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