Jason Starr Books in Order

Bill Moss is a failed ad man stuck in telemarketing and eating through his own anger one miserable day at a time. Jason Starr turns workplace humiliation into a tight, nasty slide toward obsession and violence.

A broke gambler in Hell's Kitchen and a wealthy ad man on the Upper East Side become tangled in the same ugly web. Gambling debts, infidelity, and panic turn two marriages into a blackly funny disaster.

A serial killer is stalking summer New York, and every witness gives a different description of the woman tied to the crimes. Irish cop Martin Cleary thinks the answer lies in a secret that should have stayed buried.

Tommy Russo thinks a chance to join a horse-owning syndicate could be his way up. Instead, one lie about money he does not have sends him into a spiral of debt, betrayal, and violence.

Richard Segal's stalled Manhattan life starts to crack when someone from his past reappears and old humiliations come rushing back. Revenge starts as a fantasy, then becomes the only plan he can see.

In 1980s Brooklyn, Mickey Prada does a small favor for a local mobster and finds himself trapped in a much bigger game. Debt, loyalty, and panic keep tightening the screws.

After a casual pickup and a missing wallet, financial reporter David Miller slips into a Manhattan nightmare of extortion, blackmail, and murder. Every attempt to contain the damage only drags him deeper.

Stay-at-home dad Simon Burns falls in with a loose, magnetic group of fathers in Central Park and starts feeling alive again. Then the blackouts, blood, and strange new appetites begin.

Max and his secretary Angela think murdering his wife will buy them a better life together. Instead they unleash psychopaths, gangsters, and a chain of disasters far beyond their talent to manage.

Two men from Brooklyn took very different paths after their baseball days, then wound up drawn to the same woman. Old rivalry, bad timing, and a long dark weekend turn their reunion ugly.

Trying to stay ahead after an earlier catastrophe, Max and Angela stumble into bigger crimes, worse company, and a trail of bodies. Every grab for a clean escape only slides them deeper into the muck.

Katie Porter comes to New York looking for a fresh start, but someone from her past is already watching her. What begins like romantic interest turns into stalking, manipulation, and steadily rising dread.

Max lands in Attica while Angela winds up in a prison on the Greek island of Lesbos. Separate cells do not make their lives simpler, they just spread the chaos across two countries.

When Adam Bloom's daughter wakes him with news that someone is downstairs, one violent night tears open his family's comfortable life. Fear, suspicion, and fallout keep spreading long after the intruders are gone.

Jonathan Turner is thirteen, isolated, and constantly terrorized at school. When adults fail to protect him and his father steps in, the damage only gets worse.

Logan heads to Los Angeles hoping to start over and use his violence only when he has to. Instead, ghosts from his forgotten past and fresh trouble in the desert pull him into another savage reckoning.

After a plane crash shatters his memory, Logan follows a trail through Tokyo and back into the bloodiest parts of his past. Victor Creed, Mariko Yashida, and a terrorist plot make this a grim, adult Wolverine story.

Simon Burns is deeper inside the pack now, and leaving it is no simple thing. As a detective closes in and Simon's hunger grows harder to control, the pull between family, appetite, and violence becomes brutal.

These grim short stories circle Frank Castle's war from the edges, through criminals, victims, and unlucky bystanders. It is Punisher MAX at its harshest, less superheroics than raw urban fallout.

Logan is hiding outside Las Vegas, fighting for cash and trying not to think too hard about why he ended up there. A note, an ex-showgirl, and a mind-bending enemy drag him back into the wreckage of his past.

Scott Lang is trying to build a steady life in New York with his daughter Cassie, but his criminal past refuses to stay buried. When danger reaches Cassie, Ant-Man has to shrink the problem before it gets much bigger.

Karen Daily is trying to rebuild her life after divorce, but a troubled neighbor's fantasies about her grow darker by the day. In a tidy suburb full of gossip and secrets, obsession turns deadly fast.

In the near future, survivors of near-death experiences come back changed, paranoid, violent, and feared. When teen Beth survives the worst night of her life, even the people closest to her start looking at her differently.

Max Fisher and Angela resurface in Hollywood, a place every bit as crooked and hungry as they are. Sex, scams, and desperation turn their latest reinvention into another bloody mess.

With Hugo Strange's escaped monsters loose in Gotham, former detective Jim Gordon becomes the city's most effective bounty hunter. Fish Mooney and Selina Kyle chase power of their own as the city slides further into chaos.

A deadly break-in at Wayne Manor pulls Thomas Wayne into a maze of old secrets, corporate danger, and Gotham corruption. Harvey Bullock sees a burglary. Thomas realizes something much larger is closing in.

A Manhattan husband's online flirtation looks like a brief escape from his marriage, until it turns into blackmail, obsession, and real danger. The farther he pushes the fantasy, the less control he has over what follows.

Jennifer Ryan seems to have the perfect Manhattan life until one affair turns into stalking and threats. To protect her marriage and career, she has to figure out who her new lover really is.

Steven Blitz dies trying to stop an abduction, then wakes in a slightly different life where he has money, a happier family, and a much darker past. To survive, he has to solve a mystery built around his own missing self.

This volume gathers the early Max and Angela novels into one long run of murder plots, prison trouble, mob chaos, and awful decision-making. It is the pair's descent collected in a single ugly sweep.

Nineteen years after her fiancé vanished, Vanessa Rizzo finds her husband missing too. The new disappearance forces her to revisit old secrets and wonder how well she ever knew the men in her life.