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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Publication Order
61 books
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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