JF Holmes Books in Order
Browse JF Holmes books in order, with quick summaries, series guides, and where to start across his zombie, military sci-fi, and fantasy novels.
Last updated: July 10, 2026
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Publication Order
29 books
Even Zombie Killers Get The Blues
by JF Holmes
2013
A few years after the zombie apocalypse, a rough team of irregular scouts works ahead of the U.S. Army's push into upstate New York. It is a tactical, boots-on-the-ground take on how a military might fight the undead.
Even Zombie Killers Need A Break
by JF Holmes
2013
The war against the undead keeps grinding on, and Nick's scouts do not get much time to breathe. Holmes follows another round of harsh missions, dark humor, and survival choices in a world that never really calms down.
Even Zombie Killers Can Die
by JF Holmes
2014
The original Zombie Killers arc reaches a grim turning point as Nick Agostine and his scouts are pushed toward a brutal showdown. In Holmes's world, skill helps, but nobody gets a guarantee.
GRUNTS
by JF Holmes
2014
This comic collection follows Corporal Thog and Specialist Roy through the absurd, exhausting, and very recognizable side of Army life. It is barracks humor, field humor, and military satire with mud on its boots.
Power Point Ranger FM 1.0
by JF Holmes
2014
The first *Power Point Ranger* collection gathers early strips into one volume. Expect jokes about boredom, bureaucracy, and the daily nonsense of military life, told with an insider's eye.
Power Point Ranger FM 2.0
by JF Holmes
2014
The second collection keeps the military-strip humor rolling with more pranks, petty chaos, and workplace absurdity in uniform. It is a quick, funny look at the side of service members' lives that rarely makes the recruiting posters.
Power Point Ranger FM 3.0
by JF Holmes
2014
This third volume leans into the stranger corners of Army culture, with more insider jokes, schemes, and deadpan military nonsense. Holmes keeps the humor sharp and recognizably lived-in.
Zombie Killers: Civil War
by JF Holmes
2014
Four years after the undead plague, survivors are trying to farm, raise children, and build something stable on a Hudson River island. The trouble is, the wider war has not ended just because they want peace.
Direct Action
by JF Holmes
2015
Holmes mixes military action with cyber conflict in a story where digital threats spill into the real world. Plans unravel fast when the enemy can strike through systems as easily as through gunfire.
Princess Wilma and the Pirate King
by JF Holmes
2015
Ten-year-old Princess Wilma splits her life between two kingdoms until treachery leaves her in the Pirate King's hands. To save her friends and her mother's throne, she must outthink an enemy backed by dark powers.
Under A Different Sun
by JF Holmes
2015
In a war-torn stretch of space between rival empires, Captain Nate Meric and the crew of the privateer *Lexington* fight for prize money and each other. Underneath every mission runs a bigger dream, restoring America among the stars.
Zombie Killers: AMBUSH
by JF Holmes
2015
Years after the plague, Nick Agostine heads back into the field when soldierly restlessness wins out over farm life. One patrol through rural New York turns into clashes with cannibals, supremacists, and other survivors gone bad.
Zombie Killers: Endgame
by JF Holmes
2015
The fight to rebuild America grinds on, and Nick Agostine's scouts are pushed toward another brutal turning point. Hard-won refuge, old enemies, and the undead all collide in a mission that could change everything.
Bad Company: Zombie Killers
by JF Holmes
2016
After a mission goes bad, Irregular Scout Team One is stranded and scattered in Florida. Nick Agostine must find his missing wife while the team struggles through a savage landscape where the living can be worse than the dead.
Black Rifle Security and Investigations: The Case of the Missing Trailer Park Girl
by JF Holmes
2016
A missing girl case sends a private security and investigations team into a rough, dangerous corner of everyday America. The search looks small at first, until the people behind it stop wanting questions asked.
Zombie Killers: HEAT
by JF Holmes
2016
Fighting rages around Washington, D.C. as rebels and undead close in from every side. A small scout team and a Regular Army captain race to secure a nuclear weapon before the wrong people reach it first.
Black Rifle Security and Investigations: The Case of The Gangster's Daughter
by JF Holmes
2017
A case involving a gangster's daughter pulls a private investigations outfit into dangerous criminal territory. What starts as a job quickly turns into a problem with sharp edges and no easy exit.
Falling
by JF Holmes
2017
As plague victims overrun his National Guard unit, Sergeant First Class Nick Agostine fights to protect the people he loves. This prequel shows the first awful days of the fall and the making of a survivor.
Invasion: Book 1: Resistance
by JF Holmes
2017
Earth has already lost the war from orbit, and humanity lives under alien occupation. When strangers arrive at General David Warren's farm, the quiet life he built in hiding starts to collapse.
Invasion: Book 2: Day of Battle
by JF Holmes
2017
After a decade in hiding, Earth's resistance comes into the open and gambles everything on liberation. Soldiers, tank crews, and special operators fight through one savage opening day that could end in freedom or extinction.
Sea Of Fire
by JF Holmes
2017
Privateer captain Brian Cumberland and his brother Tristan sail the four seas aboard the *Widowmaker* in search of freedom and adventure. Then a ghost from Brian's past sends them on a quest toward death itself.
Even Zombie Killers Can Go To Hell
by JF Holmes
2018
Nick Agostine and his battered team head back into the ruins for another mission where old loyalties, fresh enemies, and the undead make every mile costlier. In this world, survival never stays simple for long.
Invasion: Book 3: Total War
by JF Holmes
2018
Earth's liberation war reaches its breaking point in a campaign fought on land, at sea, and in space. As losses mount, one last daring strike could decide whether humanity gets its world back.
Off World: Ragnarok
by JF Holmes
2019
Nuclear war on Earth strands an American colony near Alpha Centauri just as alien enemies attack. The U.S. Army's 9th Regiment must hold the line or watch humanity's first off-world foothold die.
Off World: Expeditions
by JF Holmes
2020
Cut off from Earth after the gate is destroyed, a stranded colony has survived the first assault. Now expeditions push into hostile territory, new allies are weighed, and one last message from home changes everything.
Patient Zero
by JF Holmes
2020
Nine months after the apocalypse, Irregular Scout Team One is sent deep into chaos to find the first infected. A possible cure is at stake, but hidden agendas may kill the team before the undead do.
The Irish Brigade
by JF Holmes
2020
With a war over and no clear future, Captain Iona Keely signs on with a private military company. Her first contract drops her into intrigue, violence, and fragile politics on a dangerous frontier world.
Onslaught
by JF Holmes
2021
A Delta team on a mission in Manhattan is caught in the first moments of a fae invasion. Modern soldiers must fight their way out of New York as portals open and magic turns the city into a war zone.
Overrun
by JF Holmes
2022
Five linked stories explore the chaotic aftermath of a fallen interstellar empire. Mercenaries, investigators, and tank crews fight through civil war, sieges, and revenge across the DMZ worlds.
Where should I start?
If you want military zombie action: Even Zombie Killers Get The Blues → Even Zombie Killers Need A Break → Even Zombie Killers Can Die
If you want alien invasion warfare: Invasion: Book 1: Resistance → Invasion: Book 2: Day of Battle → Invasion: Book 3: Total War
If you want post-imperial mercenary sci-fi: The Irish Brigade → Overrun
If you want stranded-colony military sci-fi: Off World: Ragnarok → Off World: Expeditions
If you want modern military fantasy: Onslaught
Author bio
JF Holmes writes the kind of fiction you can picture being passed from one veteran to another with a quick, you need to read this. His books move between zombie survival, alien invasion, space war, fantasy, and crime, but they tend to share the same backbone. Teams under pressure. Hard choices. Gallows humor. People trying to do their jobs while the world comes apart around them.
Holmes does not put much of his early life at the center of his public author story. What he does talk about, and what clearly shaped the work, is the Army.
He served for 22 years in both the Regular Army and the Army National Guard. Over that time he worked in roles ranging from artillery section leader to division-level planning staff, and his service included time in Cuba and Iraq. He was also part of the response in New York City after the attacks of September 11. That background shows up everywhere in his fiction, not as chest-thumping, but in the details of how people talk, plan, improvise, and hold together when things go bad.
Before a lot of readers found his novels, many knew him from Power Point Ranger, the military comic strip he wrote from 2010 to 2014. It poked fun at Army life, boredom, absurd orders, practical jokes, and the strange culture that grows up anywhere soldiers have too much time and too little sleep. That mix of dry humor and lived-in military detail carried over neatly into the fiction.
A lot of readers first meet Holmes through Even Zombie Killers Get The Blues and the larger Irregular Scout Team One world. Those books take zombie fiction and run it through a very military lens. The undead are dangerous, of course, but so are bad leaders, thin supply lines, frightened civilians, and the slow grind of trying to rebuild something that looks like a country. Nick Agostine and his fellow scouts feel less like action figures and more like tired, capable people doing ugly work because somebody has to.
He can shift gears fast.
In Invasion: Book 1: Resistance, Holmes turns to alien occupation and ground war, following soldiers and survivors after Earth loses the high ground. Off World: Ragnarok and Off World: Expeditions move the action to a stranded human colony near Alpha Centauri, where isolation and an assault by native enemies leave the U.S. Army's 9th Regiment trying to keep everyone alive. The Irish Brigade opens up his Fallen Empire universe, a rough-edged space opera of mercenary companies, collapsing power, and old soldiers looking for a place in the aftermath.
Then there is The Fae Wars: Onslaught, which drops a Delta team into Manhattan just as portals open and the Fae invade. It sounds wild, and it is, but Holmes grounds even that setup in logistics, tactics, and the confusion of people facing something they were never trained for.
In 2017, two of his books were Dragon Award finalists, a useful sign of how strongly his work connected with military science fiction and adventure readers. A year later he launched Cannon Publishing, adding editor and publisher to the list of jobs on his desk. That fits, really. His career has never looked boxed in.
What keeps readers coming back is not polish for its own sake. It is momentum, competence, and voice. Holmes writes about squads, crews, scouts, mercenaries, and operators, but the real through line is simpler than that. He likes stories about people under strain, still trying to do one decent thing before the next crisis hits.
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