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Hunt For Reacher Books in Order

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Find Diane Capri's Hunt For Reacher books in order, with brief summaries, series background, and where to start this Jack Reacher-linked thriller series.

Last updated: June 30, 2026

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27 books

1

Don't Know Jack

by Diane Capri

2012

FBI agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar are ordered to build a secret file on Jack Reacher. Their search starts in Margrave, where the line between wanted man and necessary ally is anything but clear.

2

Jack and Kill

by Diane Capri

2012

A lead places Jack Reacher in New Hope, Virginia, and Otto and Gaspar move fast. The closer they get, the harder it becomes to guess whether meeting Reacher would solve anything at all.

3

Jack in a Box

by Diane Capri

2012

On their off-the-books assignment, Otto and Gaspar try to pin down the man no one can pin down. This short entry gives fresh clues about Reacher and the agents hunting him.

4

Get Back Jack

by Diane Capri

2013

Reacher's unfinished business from an old military case erupts into kidnappings and revenge. Otto and Gaspar track the fallout through a grudge war that keeps putting women and children in the crossfire.

5

Hit the Road Jack

by Diane Capri

2014

This collection gathers early Hunt for Reacher shorts, including Otto and Gaspar's first cases, and adds a pair of Hunt for Justice tales. It's a good sampler of Capri's connected thriller world.

6

Jack in the Green

by Diane Capri

2014

Back in Tampa, Otto and Gaspar join forces with Willa Carson, Jess Kimball, and Jennifer Lane when a retired colonel becomes an easy target. Capri smartly collides two of her series in one crowded, dangerous case.

7

Jack and Joe

by Diane Capri

2015

Sent to Fort Bird, North Carolina, Otto and Gaspar chase secrets Reacher left behind inside a military town with dangerous enemies. The mission looks simple only until bodies and buried loyalties surface.

8

Deep Cover Jack

by Diane Capri

2016

Otto and Gaspar head to Houston looking for Susan Duffy, one of Reacher's known associates. Duffy is already moving toward trouble, and the people hiding Reacher's secrets are prepared to kill to keep them buried.

9

Jack the Reaper

by Diane Capri

2017

After events tied to *The Hard Way*, Otto and Gaspar aren't the only ones hunting Reacher. A corrupt general wants payback, and Reacher's old friends may die first if the agents can't get ahead of him.

10

Black Jack

by Diane Capri

2018

When the FBI claims Reacher is the Green Paint Bathtub Killer, Otto and Gaspar call foul. Their hunt for the truth turns into a brutal game with a copycat, powerful players, and collateral damage waiting to happen.

11

Ten Two Jack

by Diane Capri

2018

Reacher may be gone, but the enemies from *The Midnight Line* aren't. Otto follows missing people and a dead body from Detroit to Mexico, chasing fallout from one of Reacher's good deeds.

12

Jack of Spades

by Diane Capri

2019

In the wake of *Past Tense*, Otto tries to use the perfect bait to draw Reacher in. Instead she gets dragged into a fight over stolen spoils, a real owner with a long memory, and a very bad bet.

13

Full Metal Jack

by Diane Capri

2020

Back in Carter's Crossing, Mississippi, another woman is dead where Reacher's military career ended years earlier. Otto finds local power brokers and Army officers determined to bury the truth all over again.

14

Prepper Jack

by Diane Capri

2020

A kidnapper's late-night message turns Otto's hunt personal. To save hostages caught between cartels and a prepper community, she has to improvise fast and accept that Reacher may be the partner she can't reach.

15

Jack Frost

by Diane Capri

2021

A ruthless gangster survives the slaughter tied to Reacher's South Dakota past and breaks out of prison. Otto and her new partner William Burke race across frozen country before he vanishes for good.

16

Jack of Hearts

by Diane Capri

2021

Otto follows a trail back to the women Reacher once saved from a brutal mob boss. As vengeance closes in, she and Burke have to find Reacher's path before innocent lives are crushed in Las Vegas.

17

Straight Jack

by Diane Capri

2021

A murder in a lonely New Mexico motel leads Otto into a wider crime wave and a pack of men on the move. With Frances Neagley filling in the missing pieces, the hunt races toward Chicago.

18

Jack Knife

by Diane Capri

2022

Major Susan Turner and Kim Otto team up when men hunting revenge target Reacher's nephew. The case pulls in old military history, fresh danger, and Otto's ongoing question of how far Reacher's shadow really reaches.

19

Lone Star Jack

by Diane Capri

2022

Otto's boss drags her to Dallas to lure Reacher out, but a funeral riot exposes a larger assassination plot. Michael Flint joins the chase as old Texas bloodshed spills into the present.

20

Bet on Jack

by Diane Capri

2023

Four military veterans are dead, and one of them was supposed to be under Reacher's protection. Kim Otto teams up with Jake Reacher to figure out whether the deaths were random, or the start of something bigger.

21

Bulletproof Jack

by Diane Capri

2023

A stranger is executed on Kim Otto's doorstep before he can deliver Reacher's message. An encrypted phone, a hidden identity, and Michelle Chang send Kim from Detroit to Niagara Falls after killers who aren't nearly as invisible as they think.

22

Jack On A Wire

by Diane Capri

2024

A lead in Reacher's old bank records takes Kim to Key West, where other hunters are already waiting. They know Reacher better than she does, which makes every move in this cat-and-mouse game more dangerous.

23

Tracking Jack

by Diane Capri

2024

After an airport attacker and a former NYPD detective are both murdered, Otto follows the breadcrumbs Reacher left behind. The trail runs from North Carolina to Washington as revenge and mass destruction close in.

24

Jack Rabbit

by Diane Capri

2025

Kim's only informant is gunned down in an Arizona dive bar, pushing her into a conspiracy of mercenaries, black money, and government ghosts. Out of allies and out of time, she may have to trust Reacher's shadow.

25

Jumping Jack

by Diane Capri

2025

When Jake Reacher's ex-girlfriend becomes the target of a coordinated kill team, Jake calls Kim Otto for help. Otto and Gaspar race against sunrise to keep Valerie alive and crack the black-ops force behind the hunt.

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Shadow Jack

by Diane Capri

2026

A stranger arrives with a message that Reacher wants Kim Otto. That pulls her into a fight between criminal empires, diverted weapons, and a mission where Reacher may finally step out of the shadows.

27

No Way Jack

by Diane Capri

2027

Kim Otto's hunt for Reacher takes another dangerous turn when every route forward is blocked by hidden enemies. Capri keeps the pressure high as old loyalties and fresh threats collide around Reacher's shadow.

Series background & context

The Hunt For Reacher books ask a simple question and build a whole thriller engine around it: what happens after Jack Reacher leaves town? Diane Capri answers that by putting FBI agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar on an off-the-books assignment to build a secret file on a man who is never easy to track and rarely easy to understand.

That is a great setup.

From Don't Know Jack onward, the series works by following the wake Reacher leaves behind. Otto and Gaspar are not chasing a normal fugitive. They are chasing a story made of old military cases, revenge plots, frightened witnesses, dead bodies, and enemies who have not forgotten what Reacher did to them. Sometimes Reacher is physically absent. Sometimes he is close enough to feel. Either way, his shadow drives the action.

Kim Otto is the real center of gravity. She begins as a by-the-book FBI agent, but Capri keeps pushing her into situations where rules alone will not get the job done. Gaspar gives the early books balance, skepticism, and a strong partner dynamic. As the series grows, the cast expands in useful ways, bringing in figures such as Susan Duffy, Frances Neagley, William Burke, Jake Reacher, and Michelle Chang. That keeps the books from feeling static even though the hunt itself never fully ends.

The structure is clever too. Many entries pick up after specific Reacher adventures and explore the fallout those books leave behind. But you do not need to treat them like homework assignments. What matters most is the pattern. Otto keeps walking into the aftermath of somebody else's war, and the survivors, enemies, and loose ends are often more dangerous than the original event.

These are fast road thrillers. Capri moves Otto through Georgia, Texas, Chicago, South Dakota, Key West, Arizona, Washington, and plenty of other places, usually with at least one determined killer not far behind. The tone is leaner and more kinetic than the Hunt For Justice books. There is less courtroom maneuvering here and more pursuit, surveillance, hidden motives, military history, and hard choices made under time pressure.

Still, the series is not just action for action's sake. Capri is interested in what Reacher means to other people. Is he a problem, a protector, a myth, a weapon, or a man who leaves impossible messes for others to clean up? Kim Otto keeps asking versions of that question, and the books stay lively because the answer keeps shifting.

If you want to start at the beginning, go with Don't Know Jack, then Jack in a Box, Jack and Kill, and Get Back Jack. If you already know you like the setup, later books such as Prepper Jack, Jack Rabbit, Jumping Jack, and Shadow Jack show how large and dangerous Otto's hunt can become once Reacher's orbit starts pulling in governments, cartels, mercenaries, and family.

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