Jack Sigler Books in Order
Part ofJeremy Robinson Books in OrderFollow the Jack Sigler books by Jeremy Robinson in order, with quick summaries, Chess Team background, and tips on where to start with the novels and novellas.
Last updated: June 29, 2026
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Publication Order
11 books
Pulse
by Jeremy Robinson
2009
When Manifold Genetics steals an ancient artifact and kidnaps archaeologist George Pierce, Jack Sigler and Chess Team go after them. The chase leads to regenerative soldiers, grotesque experiments, and a mythic predator with far too many heads.
Instinct
by Jeremy Robinson
2010
A weaponized genetic disease turns into a silent pandemic, pushing Jack Sigler and Chess Team into Vietnam's remote mountains. They need a cure fast, but the jungle is hiding an ancient threat of its own.
Threshold
by Jeremy Robinson
2011
After a devastating attack, Chess Team must protect young Fiona Lane while last speakers of ancient languages are hunted down worldwide. The search leads to living statues, engineered monsters, and a secret that could remake the world.
Ragnarok
by Jeremy Robinson
2012
Pieces of cities begin vanishing in flashes of light, and a scattered Chess Team scrambles to reunite. Their enemy is not merely human, and failure could turn Earth into a feeding ground for an extinction-level predator.
Omega
by Jeremy Robinson
2013
Jack Sigler's parents are kidnapped, his unknown sister appears, and the trail leads to a man calling himself Alexander Diotrephes. The truth is even stranger, because Robinson's Hercules is very much alive and making plans.
Prime
by Jeremy Robinson
2013
Before Chess Team became a legend, Jack Sigler had to build it in the middle of a crisis tied to the Voynich manuscript. Secret science, ancient history, and a biological nightmare make for a brutal origin story.
Savage
by Jeremy Robinson
2014
A stolen tactical nuke, a looming Congo civil war, and a century-old secret pull Chess Team into one of its ugliest missions. The deeper King pushes, the more he realizes not everyone can be saved.
Cannibal
by Jeremy Robinson
2015
A routine snatch-and-grab against a cartel spirals into a bloodbath when an old enemy resurfaces and a savage outbreak begins spreading. King and Chess Team are suddenly fighting both human killers and something much worse.
Endgame
by Jeremy Robinson
2015
Part guidebook, part bonus story, this companion volume gathers Jack Sigler summaries, character files, villain notes, and creature sketches. A new Deep Blue framing tale ties it all back into the series.
Empire
by Jeremy Robinson
2016
A dead sister may be alive, Deep Blue is missing, and the Dyatlov Pass mystery points toward a plan to topple the United States. Chess Team heads into the frozen Russian wilds to stop a new empire from rising.
Kingdom
by Jeremy Robinson
2024
Chess Team's search for Tom Duncan collides with prehistoric terrors, assassinated presidents, and a space-based weapon. King's latest mission ties global chaos to one final, deadly new kingdom.
Series background & context
The Jack Sigler books are Jeremy Robinson's purest action-adventure line. If you want black ops soldiers, ancient secrets, bad science, globe-trotting chases, and creatures that absolutely should not exist, this is the place to start.
At the center is Jack Sigler, callsign King, a Delta operator who ends up leading a covert team built to handle threats too strange, too dangerous, or too politically explosive for normal channels. His squad is nicknamed Chess Team, and each operative carries a chess-piece callsign, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, with Deep Blue acting as strategist and handler. They are not superheroes. They are highly trained people who keep finding themselves in situations where bullets alone are not enough.
That is the hook of the series. Every mission starts like a military thriller and then slides into something weirder. A bioengineered plague. A hidden underworld. monsters from myth. Lost languages. Giant conspiracies with roots in ancient history. Robinson likes taking modern special ops fiction and smashing it into science fiction, archaeology, horror, and pulp adventure.
The team dynamic is a big part of why the books work. Sigler is capable and stubborn, but he is never carrying the whole thing alone. Each teammate brings a different skill set, temperament, and wound to the mission, and the side books do a good job of filling them out. The novellas and side arcs are not just bonus material. They deepen the relationships, explain grudges, and give the wider Chess Team world more room to breathe.
The tone is fast and unapologetically big. These books move. Robinson rarely lingers when he can launch the next chase, reveal the next secret, or drop the team into the next impossible fight. But the series is not just noise. There is a real ongoing story about loyalty, loss, identity, and what it costs to keep doing this kind of work.
If you are reading for the first time, publication order works well, but many readers also like beginning with Prime, which backtracks to show how Chess Team was formed. After that, the main run builds cleanly through Pulse, Instinct, Threshold, and beyond. If you want Jeremy Robinson at his most kinetic, this is a very good lane to be in.
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