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Jim DeFelice Books in Order

See all the Stephen Coonts books co-written with Jim DeFelice in order, with short summaries, collaboration background, and reading-order help for their Deep Black spy thrillers.

Last updated: December 19, 2025

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Swords of Lightning

by Jim DeFelice

2022

They Called Us "Lucky"

by Jim DeFelice

2021

West Like Lightning

by Jim DeFelice

2018

Act of Revenge

by Jim DeFelice

2018

After his first brush with covert work, Louis Massina is drawn back in when a wave of coordinated attacks threatens to ruin him and cripple key parts of America’s financial system. Using swarms of agile robots and sharp data skills, he hunts a revenge‑driven mastermind who knows his technology too well.

Puppet Master

by Jim DeFelice

2016

Robotics tycoon Louis Massina designs intelligent machines to rescue disaster victims and prevent nuclear accidents. When the FBI asks him to use his creations to track a vast financial scam tied to organized crime, Massina finds himself waging a high‑tech shadow war that turns his lifesaving robots into weapons.

Target Utopia

by Dale Brown

2015

Muslim extremists in Borneo are found operating a mysterious combat drone built with stolen Dreamland technology. Colonel Danny Freah, Turk Mako, and the Whiplash team chase the trail through jungles and power politics, trying to uncover the real backers before a regional conflict triggers something much bigger.

Drone Strike

by Dale Brown

2014

Intelligence shows Iran is days away from assembling a nuclear weapon, and diplomacy has stalled. Breanna Stockard sends young Air Force ace Turk Mako behind enemy lines to control a swarm of nano‑drones from inside Iran, racing Revolutionary Guards and fighter jets to destroy multiple hidden sites.

Curse of the Infidel

by Richard Marcinko

2014

Code Name

by Jim DeFelice

2014

Snake Eaters

by Jim DeFelice

2013

Fort Apache

by Jim DeFelice

2013

Death Wish

by Jim DeFelice

2013

The Helios Conspiracy

by Jim DeFelice

2012

Hog Down

by Jim DeFelice

2012

Going Deep

by Jim DeFelice

2012

Collateral Damage

by Dale Brown

2012

In the chaos after Libya’s revolution, Dreamland’s Whiplash team deploys a sophisticated new unmanned drone to support NATO strikes. A mission gone wrong causes devastating civilian casualties, putting Dreamland’s future and the alliance itself at risk as enemies and politicians move to exploit the tragedy.

Blood Lies

by Richard Marcinko

2012

American Sniper

by Scott McEwen

2012

This memoir, written with Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, follows his four combat tours in Iraq, his record-breaking sniper career, and the toll that years of urban warfare took on his family. It mixes battlefield detail with blunt reflections on fear, loyalty, and loss.

Raven Strike

by Dale Brown

2011

A top‑secret unmanned aircraft crashes in Sudan during an off‑the‑books CIA mission, and a dangerous new drone falls into hostile hands. As Danny Freah’s spec‑ops team fights through a brutal African conflict to recover it, Whiplash director Jonathon Reid uncovers a rogue clique inside the Agency itself.

Omar Bradley

by Jim DeFelice

2011

Domino Theory

by Richard Marcinko

2011

Black Wolf

by Dale Brown

2010

A legendary group of assassins known as the Wolves resurfaces with plans to attack a crucial NATO summit. Dreamland and Whiplash scramble to track the killers across Europe, using advanced surveillance and strike aircraft to stop a coordinated strike that could shatter the alliance.

Whiplash

by Dale Brown

2009

As US and Iranian leaders edge toward a historic peace deal, an Iranian fanatic hiding behind tribal wars in the Horn of Africa builds a network to deliver a nuclear strike. Born from the ashes of Dreamland, the covert Whiplash unit races to find and dismantle his hidden arsenal in time.

Seize the Day

by Richard Marcinko

2009

Soul of the Assassin

by Larry Bond

2008

Revolution

by Dale Brown

2008

An explosion along a key gas pipeline in Eastern Europe triggers unrest and energy panic across the continent. With NATO and the EU paralyzed, the Dreamland and Whiplash teams chase the shadowy insurgents behind the attacks and race to stop a manufactured crisis from sliding into a new cold war.

Rangers at Dieppe

by Jim DeFelice

2008

Dictator's Ransom

by Richard Marcinko

2008

Conspiracy

by Stephen Coonts

2008

A Secret Service agent's apparent suicide and the shooting of a presidential candidate point to a buried secret from the Vietnam War. Sent back to his old hunting grounds, Charlie Dean confronts a man he once thought he'd killed and a plot that links past battles to today's politics.

Retribution

by Dale Brown

2007

More than two dozen nuclear devices vanish into terrorist hands, and intelligence points toward a coordinated surprise attack on the United States. Short‑staffed and under pressure, Dog Bastian and the Dreamland team must reach deep into their arsenal and stop the plot before any warhead reaches American soil.

Leopards Kill

by Jim DeFelice

2007

Jihad

by Stephen Coonts

2007

Deep Black plants a listening device inside a high-ranking terrorist, giving Charlie Dean and his team a direct line into Al-Qaeda's plans. Racing from Istanbul's back streets to American airports, they fight to stop a cascading series of attacks culminating in a strike on U.S. soil.

Holy Terror

by Richard Marcinko

2006

Fires of War

by Larry Bond

2006

End Game

by Dale Brown

2006

Radical jihadists set their sights on India, threatening to ignite a nuclear confrontation with Pakistan while China circles on the sidelines. From the Nevada desert, Dreamland deploys a revolutionary hybrid destroyer, robot drones, and a risky new weapon code‑named End Game to shut down the terror network in time.

Angels of Wrath

by Larry Bond

2006

Vengeance

by Richard Marcinko

2005

Threat Level Black

by Jim DeFelice

2005

Satan's Tail

by Dale Brown

2005

Extremist pirates, backed by a wealthy Saudi terrorist, begin hijacking ships in the Gulf of Aden. Dreamland answers with a futuristic littoral warship packed with automated weapons—dubbed “Satan’s Tail”—and backs it up with Megafortresses and drones when technical glitches and a fanatical enemy raise the stakes.

Payback

by Stephen Coonts

2005

Sent to Peru to quietly blunt a corrupt general's election grab, Charlie Dean must infiltrate an armored bank vault and unravel a staged nuclear scare. What begins as political meddling turns into a much wider threat when the general's gambit spirals out of control.

Negotiate and Win

by Jim DeFelice

2004

Larry Bond's First Team

by Larry Bond

2004

Dark Zone

by Stephen Coonts

2004

A stolen nuclear warhead and a mad plan code-named God's Revenge threaten to trigger an underwater explosion that could shift tectonic plates. As Deep Black operatives chase the weapon across continents, Charlie Dean must also root out a traitor inside his own operation.

Biowar

by Stephen Coonts

2004

When germ-warfare expert Dr. James Keegan disappears from his New York home, Charlie Dean and Lia DeFrancesca are sent to find him. Their search uncovers a centuries-old killer fever being weaponized, forcing the Deep Black team to stop a biological nightmare before it spreads.

Armegeddon

by Dale Brown

2004

While enjoying rare downtime as guests of the sultan of Brunei, Breanna and Jeff “Zen” Stockard are caught in an attempted kidnapping tied to a looming terror campaign. Training local pilots on the EB‑52 Megafortress suddenly turns into a fight to keep a small kingdom from being overrun.

Strike Zone

by Dale Brown

2003

Radar traces from an Asian crisis hint at a terrifying new aircraft nicknamed the “ghost clone,” a robot warplane as agile as Dreamland’s own drones. Dog Bastian’s crews must lure it into the open and capture or destroy it before a rogue nation fields a whole squadron.

Piranha

by Dale Brown

2003

Indian and Chinese fleets circle each other in the Pacific, edging toward war. Dreamland seizes the chance to test Piranha, a remote‑operated underwater probe, only to see Breanna Stockard shot down while rescuing civilians. Preventing a clash at sea suddenly becomes as important as proving the new system.

Deep Black

by Stephen Coonts

2003

After a U.S. spy plane probing a new Russian weapon is shot down, the NSA's covert Desk Three sends ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean to investigate. Teaming with Delta veteran Lia DeFrancesca, he uncovers a plot to assassinate Russia's president and topple its fragile democracy.

Cyclops One

by Jim DeFelice

2003

Razor's Edge

by Dale Brown

2002

US aircraft are being mysteriously shot down over Iraq with no trace of conventional weapons. From their Nevada base, the Dreamland and Whiplash teams deploy experimental planes and special forces to hunt a suspected energy weapon before it triggers a wider war nobody is ready for.

Nerve Center

by Dale Brown

2002

At Dreamland, Colonel Dog Bastian fights budget cuts by pushing ANTARES, a system that links a pilot’s brain directly to multiple aircraft. When a test pilot plugged into the network begins to lose track of reality, the team faces the nightmare of their own technology turning against them.

Dreamland

by Dale Brown

2001

A spy scandal puts the Nevada test base nicknamed Dreamland on the chopping block just as a crisis erupts in Somalia. Colonel “Dog” Bastian, his daughter Breanna, and a team of pilots and engineers must prove the value of their Megafortress bombers and drones in a very real combat zone.

Brother's Keeper

by Jim DeFelice

2000

The Sixth Sense

by Jim DeFelice

1999

Kill Grandma For Me

by Jim DeFelice

1998

Havana Strike

by Jim DeFelice

1997

The Golden Flask

by Jim DeFelice

1996

The Silver Bullet

by Jim DeFelice

1995

The Iron Chain

by Jim DeFelice

1995

War Breaker

by Jim DeFelice

1993

Coyote Bird

by Jim DeFelice

1992

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