Event Group (David Lynn Golemon) Books in Order
Part ofDavid Lynn Golemon Books in OrderExplore the Event Group novels by David Lynn Golemon, with the books listed in publication order plus story summaries and help choosing your next read.
Last updated: December 25, 2025
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Publication Order
14 books
Season of the Witch
by David Lynn Golemon
2019
Department 5656, the Event Group, learns that the grave of an old ally is empty just as a series of brutal attacks begins inside their hidden desert complex. A legendary, otherworldly entity has targeted the team, forcing Jack Collins to confront an enemy that turns their own history into a weapon.
Empire of the Dragon
by David Lynn Golemon
2018
In 230 BC, China's first emperor tries to kill his half brother Li Zhang and seize the elemental power that lets him command earth, air, fire, and water. Centuries later, a miraculous alien ore is found in Mongolia, and the Event Group joins a dangerous race beneath the Gobi to keep that power from igniting a new space age war.
Beyond the Sea
by David Lynn Golemon
2017
In the middle of a NATO exercise, a Soviet battlecruiser reported sunk in 1944 suddenly appears in the North Atlantic, intact and unclaimed. Colonel Jack Collins and the Event Group board the ship alongside Russian forces and uncover a deadly device that hurls both navies into a frozen alternate ocean they may never escape.
The Traveler
by David Lynn Golemon
2016
A soldier from the Event Group vanishes during a battle and reappears 267,000 years in the past, in a brutal world still ruled by prehistoric predators. To bring him home, Jack Collins must chase down experimental time travel technology and lead a rescue mission into a primeval jungle that was never meant for humankind.
The Mountain
by David Lynn Golemon
2015
In 1863, Union and Confederate leaders quietly cooperate on a secret mission to recover what may be the remains of Noah's Ark from a mountain inside the Ottoman Empire. In 2007, newly recruited security chief Jack Collins and the Event Group are sent to rescue a missing astronaut from that same peak and keep a biblical relic from triggering a modern war.
Overlord
by David Lynn Golemon
2014
Open war finally erupts between humanity and an ancient alien enemy that has been watching Earth for ages. While world alliances fracture and battles flare from the deep oceans to orbit, the Event Group and their small gray ally known as Matchstick Man search Earth's buried past for the one secret that might save the planet.
Carpathian
by David Lynn Golemon
2013
A strange fossil found at the ruins of Jericho suggests that the Hebrews once fielded impossible beasts against Pharaoh's army. The Event Group uncovers clues that lead from Middle Eastern battlefields to the misty Carpathian Mountains and the legacy of Vlad the Impaler, racing zealots and mercenaries to protect relics that could rewrite sacred history.
Ripper
by David Lynn Golemon
2012
In 1887 a British experiment to create super soldiers using a mutant gene births the killer the world knows as Jack the Ripper. Decades later, the formula resurfaces in a Mexican drug lord's cache, and when it is unleashed inside the Event Group's Nevada complex, Jack Collins must stop his own people from becoming unstoppable murderers.
Legacy
by David Lynn Golemon
2011
A robotic probe on the moon uncovers a human skeleton sealed inside an ancient spacesuit, and tests date the remains at roughly a billion years old. As religious and political factions erupt over the discovery, Jack Collins and the Event Group journey into space to learn who died on the lunar surface and whether the war that killed them is truly over.
Primeval
by David Lynn Golemon
2010
A battered journal from the night the Romanov family was executed surfaces alongside a rare diamond, pointing toward a lost imperial treasure. The trail draws the Event Group into the wilderness of British Columbia, where colossal predators called They Who Follow may still stalk deep caves and see humans as prey.
Leviathan
by David Lynn Golemon
2009
Merchant ships and modern warships are vanishing without a distress call, torn apart by an invisible attacker in the world's oceans. The Event Group uncovers a link to a nineteenth century genius and a super advanced submarine called Leviathan, then races to stop its fanatical commander from using that vessel to punish a planet he believes is killing its own seas.
Ancients
by David Lynn Golemon
2008
Eons before recorded history, an advanced civilization learned how to weaponize the planet's own geology and then destroyed itself. When traces of that technology are unearthed in the South Pacific and hostile forces begin decoding it, the Event Group must follow the lost trail of the Ancients before earthquakes, tsunamis, and engineered disasters tear the modern world apart.
Legend
by David Lynn Golemon
2007
In 1533 a Spanish expedition finds a hidden valley in the Amazon that holds El Dorado and a monstrous guardian older than humanity. Centuries later, when a modern professor and her team vanish chasing the same legend, the Event Group follows their trail into the jungle, battling rival hunters and a primeval river beast to keep the secret buried.
Event
by David Lynn Golemon
2006
When another object crashes near Roswell, New Mexico, decades after the famous 1947 incident, two very different creatures emerge from the wreckage, one peaceful and one designed for extinction. Major Jack Collins is drafted into the ultra secret Event Group to hunt the Destroyer of Worlds across the desert while battling a ruthless rival agency that wants to turn the alien into a weapon.
Series background & context
Reading the Event Group series in order feels like tracking the classified history of an entire hidden agency. Golemon starts with a tight Roswell conspiracy in Event and then widens the lens until the books cover everything from Atlantis and El Dorado to ancient alien wars and time travel.
Department 5656 is officially part of the National Archives, which gives the team access to artifacts and records no one else ever sees. That lets the stories open with long, atmospheric prologues in far off eras, then jump to the present where Jack Collins, Niles Compton, and their staff dig through what is left behind and try to keep new disasters from unfolding.
For readers who like straight up adventure, many installments work as standalones built around a single mission. The group might chase a shape shifting sea weapon in Leviathan, duel with Romanov era assassins and primal predators in Primeval, or race rival archaeologists and zealots to save treasures tied to the Exodus in Carpathian.
If you prefer a longer arc, there is a thread that runs through the early books into the middle of the series. A small gray alien the team calls Matchstick Man appears first as a surprise ally in Event, then slowly becomes central to the questions raised in Legacy and answered, at least partly, in Overlord. Those novels push the fictional universe toward open conflict between species and show how much strain a secret organization can take before it starts to crack.
The later titles lean harder into science fiction. The Mountain mixes Civil War intrigue with the hunt for Noah's Ark and a missing astronaut. The Traveler is built around a rescue mission into deep prehistory. Beyond the Sea plays with the legend of the Philadelphia Experiment and a Soviet warship that refuses to stay sunk. Empire of the Dragon folds in the first emperor of China, hidden cities under the Gobi, and exotic ore that could power faster than light ships.
Through all of that, the tone stays grounded by the same core cast. Soldiers age, relationships get complicated, and the cost of keeping the Group secret becomes a recurring worry instead of background color. Battles are loud and cinematic, but the stories keep asking quieter questions about loyalty, belief, and how much truth ordinary people are ever allowed to see.
Taken together, the Event Group books offer a long, pulpy history of the twentieth and twenty first centuries where every strange rumor has a classified file and a team of tired specialists standing between humanity and whatever lurks behind the next myth.
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