Jack Coughlin Books in Order

At a friend's funeral, Kyle Swanson survives a bomb that blows open the grave, then narrowly escapes a grenade attack in Berlin. Branded suspect in Washington, he is teamed with young operative Luke Gibson to track assassin Nicky Marks and a shadowy kingpin who is using cartel cash, Taliban fighters and corrupt CIA flights to build a global drug empire.

A top Russian intelligence officer defects and insists on dealing only with Kyle Swanson, the Marine sniper who once helped him at scout sniper school. The secrets he offers about Moscow's next land grab may be bait, and when Kyle's friend Calico is kidnapped in Estonia, he must uncover a traitor and take a decisive shot to stop an invasion.

Years after a violent mission in Mogadishu where a young Kyle Swanson first captured a brutal enforcer known as the Cobra, his old enemy escapes prison and begins staging attacks on American soil, including a strike on a huge shopping mall. Working alongside FBI agent Lucky Sharif, whom he once saved as a child, Kyle must return to Somalia's streets to break the new warlord before the blood feud consumes more civilians.

This nonfiction account follows American snipers in the war on terror, from the first push into Iraq to brutal urban fights in places like Ramadi. Coughlin and co author John R Bruning focus on how two man teams train, fight and shoulder the emotional cost of their work.

As Spain teeters on economic collapse, an alliance of Islamic financiers offers a no strings bailout that would pull the country away from its Western allies. After terrorists slaughter the Marine guard at the US consulate in Barcelona, Kyle Swanson and Beth Ledford are sent after the elite bankers behind the plot, racing from island villas to Madrid before a final shot decides the future of Spain and NATO.

When terrorists demolish the Sphinx, massacre Iran's national soccer team in Cairo and sink a warship in the Red Sea, Egypt and Iran edge toward open war. Kyle Swanson and Task Force Trident race to unmask a double agent called the Pharaoh and use pinpoint strikes to stop a conflict that could choke off the Suez Canal.

After a team of aid workers is massacred in flood stricken Pakistan, a single cellphone photo of a collapsed bridge reaches Coast Guard sniper Beth Ledford. Teaming up with Kyle Swanson and Task Force Trident, she follows the image into the border badlands, where a hidden terror complex and a compromised American diplomat could swing the war on terror.

On a black mission in Pakistan, sniper Kyle Swanson is thrown into prison and his CIA partner Lauren Carson is branded a traitor. The only man they think they can trust, Kyle's mentor Jim Hall, has gone rogue and is selling secrets to a warlord bent on building a nuclear armed political movement.

An historic peace summit at a Scottish castle ends in fire when missiles kill the Israeli foreign minister and nearly assassinate a Saudi prince. Pulled from covert work in Pakistan, Kyle Swanson must protect the survivors and trace the attack to oil hungry power brokers and his old enemy Juba.

Swanson, officially dead on paper so he can work off the books, is sent after Juba, a legendary terrorist sniper who murders a scientist inside Baghdad's Green Zone. Their duel stretches from Iraq to London, where a new chemical weapon threatens mass casualties.

Written by military author Hans Halberstadt with a foreword by Jack Coughlin, this book profiles modern American combat snipers from recruitment and training through missions in Iraq and beyond. Firsthand interviews explore how sniper teams think, plan, shoot and live with what they do.

An American general is kidnapped in the Middle East, and Marine sniper Kyle Swanson is sent on a rescue mission that explodes into an ambush. Stranded, he uncovers mercenaries and powerful officials inside Washington who plan to use the kidnapping to grab control of the military.

Part memoir and part field manual, Shooter recounts Jack Coughlin's twenty years as a Marine sniper, from learning to shoot in boot camp to long days on overwatch during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He describes more than sixty confirmed kills, the friendships that held his teams together and the quiet reckoning that comes after each mission.